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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.fido.net!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!diltd.demon.co.uk 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 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <835206029.5881.3@diltd.demon.co.uk> Reply-To: ric@diltd.demon.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: diltd.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: diltd.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 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 -- _____________________________________________________________ <irl://thereis.nothing.that.agood/days/surfing/can't/cure.exe> ______________________________________________________________ PGP: 0766ABE5 | Homepage http://area51.upsu.plym.ac.uk/~ric/