Re: Automatic paging

>my system will be moving to a 24x7 environment, and within recent times my >logical logs filled up without adequate notice (I have a cronjob which >emails me if my logs are 50% full, but i'm not there at 1:00 a.m.! a pager >would ensure that i'm notified even when i'm on the road, away from my >email). can anyone think of another way to be adequately notified of the >status of my system, without having to have personnel on-site 24x7? If you have a GSM (Global Standard) digital mobile phone, there are several email to SMS (Short Message Service) gateways - I would imagine a similar system exists for pagers (similar technology). We have a shell script run daily by cron that sends the previous days sales figures to marketing/management type people. This scripts checks if each user is in the building by pinging their PC - if the PC is up and running, the figures are sent by email, if not the figures are sent to that user's mobile as SMS via email. The details of which PC to ping, and the mobile phone number are stored in the comments section of /etc/passwd. The list of users to which the figures are sent is the members of a unix group set up for this purpose. Total cost to my company - about a day of my time to write and test the shell script (which they would have paid for anyway!!). HTH, Richard Richard Thomas -------- The Music Store -------- Brentford, UK OnLine 5.03.UC2 / SCO Openserver 5.0.2 / Twin P133 with SCO SMP 3rd party mail order application (4GL). In house reports (SQL/ACE/sh.) Plan: learn 4GL, Java and Omnis (now what shall I do next week?)