Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Last night, before going to bed (that'd be 4-5AM), I figured that I should add to the chorus of sadfaced people with LUG withdrawal and email'ed Brian. Turns out that we were all too polite to tell him for probably 24 hours even though everyone must have kept hitting that refresh button to wait for the next great LUG post. What we need is the equivalence of a watch dog timer. In embedded systems, systems cannot just crash and die (blue screen of death), so a proper last-chance strategy is to set up a hardware timer such that the application code must tell the watchdog timer that everyone is still OK periodically. This is known as feeding the dog (some people use the word kicking but they shall not be invited to our house). Is someone running their own mail receive server on Linux or Unix? It should be pretty easy to set up to send out a message to Brian automatically after, oh lets say 12 hours without a LUG message. -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>