From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 20 04:57:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA24601 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 04:57:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from garion.hq.ferg.com (pm1-25.wmbg.widomaker.com [204.17.220.125]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id EAA24596 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 04:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.hq.ferg.com (localhost.hq.ferg.com [127.0.0.1]) by garion.hq.ferg.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id HAA10730; Tue, 20 Aug 1996 07:57:05 -0400 Message-Id: <199608201157.HAA10730@garion.hq.ferg.com> X-Authentication-Warning: garion.hq.ferg.com: Host localhost.hq.ferg.com didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96 From: Branson Matheson To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca cc: Leonard@pacbell.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Pager Program? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 19 Aug 1996 17:10:38 EDT." <199608192110.RAA28202@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 07:57:03 -0400 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk -------- hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca uttered with conviction: >In Email, Leonard Chung 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?