Don't use email, use sockets. Have all the scripts connect to each other and send
status updatessay every 2 minutes. If a connection closes or if a script detects
that shutdown is coming, it updates a message. Any connection will immediately detect
if the TCP connection on the other side
You might take advantage of any of the Perl modules that provide access to
the Scheduler and use that to schedule the task on the other machine. The
other machine could then watch the primary box and when it comes back up
self-terminate.
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Benjamin D. Wiechel
Xerox Global Services, Inc.
[EMAIL
I have a script that I would like to run no matter what during the day. Of
course, if there's a power outage or storm, equipment or network problems,
that script isn't *always* going to run. Since my computer is on a UPS, I am
thinking that somehow I would be able to find out when the server is
