on 19/3/03 10:36 pm, David Vaughan wrote > I saw that you were discussing with Dar using Open in Rev, as your > spare machines are OS 9, but if you have an OS X machine a low overhead > way to do this is to write a very short shell script in OS X to ping, > append the output to a log file and sleep for half to one minute. Run > that in background at low priority and it will be unnoticeable in any > circumstance. A cron job or the next sentence's Rev app can keep the > log to a day's data. On a spare OS 9 machine, write your Rev app which > parses the host's log, analyses and presents events. I personally would > find this simpler, given your resources, compared with fiddling with > open, close and timeouts, as everything is short to write and will work > immediately.
David, Thanks for your input. If I had an OS X machine running 24/7 I'm sure you're right that this would be the best solution - unfortunately right now the only OS X machines we have are a couple of powerbooks, frequently out of the office etc. Whereas ancient 68K and PPC machines are ten a penny in our hovel. However, a dodgy server may be transitioning to OS X shortly, so I might see if we can hang on for that - simpler and spending less time fiddling on this rocker cover problem is definitely an advantage. I'll probably try a short period of fiddling, and if I'm not getting anywhere, will take your advice. regards, Ben Rubinstein | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cognitive Applications Ltd | Phone: +44 (0)1273-821600 http://www.cogapp.com | Fax : +44 (0)1273-728866 _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
