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From: ric@diltd.demon.co.uk (Ric Harwood)
Newsgroups: demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: batch/mail finger server
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 17:40:28 GMT
Organization: Discovery International Ltd
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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



Ric
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