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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!imci4!imci5!pull-feed.internetmci.com!news.internetMCI.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!xara.net!agate.xara.net!zynet.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!myrddin.demon.co.uk!dom From: dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk (Dominic Mitchell) Newsgroups: demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: batch/mail finger server Date: 19 Jun 1996 21:45:41 GMT Organization: Radio Gnome Invisible Lines: 30 Message-ID: <slrn4sgt85.ds.dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> References: <835206029.5881.3@diltd.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-NNTP-Posting-Host: myrddin.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.1 UNIX) On Wed, 19 Jun 1996 17:40:28 GMT, Ric Harwood <ric@diltd.demon.co.uk> wrote: > I have long wondered about a batch/mail finger server. > > If I want to finger a dialup customer I have to be lucky to be > online at the same time. It would be useful to be able to send a > mail to finger@area51, [currently running freebsd] which would > finger the address every 3 mins for 24hrs or until a response is > recieved, then mail me the response or a failure. > > Does anyone know of, have or even fancy writing a script or program > that could do this? Alternatively is there any machine running this > kind of thing already? > > As area51 already runs an anon ftp site I can't see why this should > not be a public service if we can get it running. > > Any ideas anyone? > MTIA Sounds like a SMOP to me! However, what with moving up to London & the exam tomorrow. I think that I'll have to pull out of that one for the moment. Ask me again in a week. The basic idea doesn't sound to hard, just keep opening the socket while you get ENETUNREACH, then pause a short while. Right, back to the revision now! -Dom