Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 07:57:03 -0400 From: Branson Matheson <branson@widomaker.com> To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca Cc: Leonard@pacbell.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pager Program? Message-ID: <199608201157.HAA10730@garion.hq.ferg.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Aug 1996 17:10:38 EDT." <199608192110.RAA28202@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>
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-------- hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca uttered with conviction: >In Email, Leonard Chung <Leonard@pacbell.net> wrote: > >> Does anybody know if there is a pager program available on FreeBSD? A >> pager program is supposed to monitor a phone line for RINGs via a spare >> modem and then after a certain delay, dial a numeric pager to signal a >> possible message on the answering machine. > >I don't know if one exists or not, but... One does.. you can get it from the May 1996 SysAdmin Mag. check: ftp://ftp.mfi.com/pub/sysadmin and look for somthing like May96.tar.Z. In that file you will find asap. Which is some perl/bash/kermit stuff to do paging.. I use it here with great amounts of success. -branson -- ============================================================================= Branson Matheson | Ferguson Enterprises | If Pete and Repeat were System Administrator | W: (804) 874-7795 | sittin on a fence and Pete Unix, Perl, WWW | branson@widomaker.com | fell off, who is left?
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