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From: fletcher@techcenter.paccar.com (Arlen Fletcher)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pager program
Date: 2 Jan 1996 16:06:57 GMT
Organization: PACCAR Technical Center
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In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.951223141104.9303B-100000@elaine32.Stanford.EDU>,
extant@elaine32.Stanford.EDU says...
>
>> A perl/sh script called from a crontab that checks your conditions
>> regularly and calls write(1) will solve your problem.
>> If you intend to use a real pager, you can use hylafax, i think it has a
>> module to call real pagers ...
>
>Oh I meant a real pager. As in a beeper by Motorola or AT&T.
>
Have you tried tpage? I don't know if it's been ported to FreeBSD
or not but it might be worth looking at.
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Arlen Fletcher
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