Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/03/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You know, as much as I love my daily LUG fix (I take several a day), I did not actually notice that it was down--I was out having a life :-) Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu http://www.greatpix.eu http://www.nathanfoto.com PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ YNWA On Mar 1, 2012, at 9:09 PM, Richard Man wrote: > 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 >