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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 22:57:31 -0700 (MST)
From: Dave Gilinsky <dave@gaspra.pd.com>
To: William Walter Ford <bford@soulcage.inmind.com>
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Subject: Re: Utility Needed
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On Thu, 23 Feb 1995, William Walter Ford wrote:
> My office is fully wired to the net as is my personal machine....
> I was thinking a simple script - maybe get LW to write to a datafile the
> last frame rendered, how long it took, and the time it wrote it....one
> thing it'll have to be able to do is write over to another machine on the
> net in our office, since when my machine renders or locks up - it can't
> be accessed via ftp or telnet. I'm justed looking to in some way be able
> to decide if my machine is rendering still or if it has crashed...
>
I believe that Interworks has some software that will call your
alpha-numeric pager with rendering statistics at intervals or in the event
of rendering machine failure.
Our solution to the mid-night rendering machine crash problem is a shell
script running on one of the Unix boxes that pings every machine on our
local network every 60 seconds. If a machines doesn't respond, the
script uses a free modem line to dial either a cell phone or a pager.
You don't get any fancy rendering stats, but you do get alerted within 60
seconds of a crash, so you can come in and mop up.;)
Dave Gilinsky (DG75)
Pixel Dust, Inc.
dave@gaspra.pd.com
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