On Thu 13 Nov 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote: > >> The challenge: monitor a page every 5 months. [...] > My machine is unplugged and cold most of each day, probably including > the vital moment when month 5 arrives, also maybe this would only do > May, Oct, May, Oct, also the machine making a special call behind my > back would make me think it had been infected by daemons and would be > an inefficient use of phone dollars.
How about creating a script to do the monitoring AND to schedule the next monitoring? Save this as /usr/local/sbin/fetchnerd or so: #!/bin/sh wwwoffle -F http://nerdclub.bla/login echo /usr/local/sbin/fetchnerd | at now +5 months chmod +x the script, and bootstrap it by running it once. From then on, it'll run every 5 months. Of course, don't run it by hand more than once, otherwise there will be multiple at jobs queued... Paul Slootman
