Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Richard, After being busy with other things, I finally realized after about 16 hrs of no LUG messages, that something was amis. I alerted Brian at that time. Without his feedback, I had no idea whether or not it was my problem or his. I considered trying a direct email to another LUGGER, to see if it was widespread. This might be a simple way to check on the problem without taking Brian's time. I would be happy to answer such an inquiry, and I think most of us can come up with someone's email address. I am reluctant to add to the pressure on Brian to keep the LUG mail uninterrupted. An occasional email from one of us should serve, as it did yesterday. Jim Nichols Tullahoma, TN USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Man" <richard at richardmanphoto.com> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 2:09 PM Subject: [Leica] You lots are way too polite > 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> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >