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Originally Posted by Damien
A week? What if the computer breaks? How does the script run if the computers off? Or is it on sleep?
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Doesn't have to be his computer. It can be any he is using.
There are many ways of doing it, here is one. Have a page on his linux website (that's private) that logs the time and date when its loaded in a MySql DB. Every day, a cronjob (a linux scheduler) runs a script to check the last date logged. if its more than a week old, it assumes Richard has died. What happens is his homepage on his browsrt points to that page, and then after logging the date/time, forwards onto his chosen front page.
If his computer died, he could go around to his mate's house and visit the page there. Or from work.
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Originally Posted by scuzz
What a brilliant idea! But how is it done, Richard M? I can't script but my daughter can.
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See above
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Originally Posted by Gareth
Talking of which, haven't seen Rich around for ages  |
That's a point, where's our emails? Maybe it crashed or something