Re: Auto-email upon restart?

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2001


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texte = >On 9/7/01 7:47 PM, Kenneth Grome wrote: > >> WebCat does not offer an option to activate a trigger automatically >> when the program is restarted. Does anyone have an idea (or >> existing code) for how to make this happen? I simply want to receive >> an email message when webcat is restarted ... but I do not want to >> receive this message at any other time. > > >My winNT runs all the daily triggers whenever the machine starts up. >In fact I had to set things up so that it ignored everytime webcat crashed >and restarted itself. I was getting 3-5 crashes everyday and it would run >specialized routines that should have only run at 1 in the morning. > >You could set the trigger to run at 1:01 and then do a hideif [time] is >between 101 and 103. Its not perfect, but, its within 3 minutes a day. Thanks for the ideas, Bob. Given the fact that triggers should execute on time -- within the second -- the following code seems like it should work with a trigger set to run at 00:00:01 am every day (* * * 0 0 1). This code increases the precision of the messages being sent to a range of about 3 seconds.When webcat's trigger system sends a request for this file at 00:00:01, the first set of showif's allow the nested sendmail message to be sent, because the time is between 00:00:00 and 00:00:03. At the same time, the second set of showif's prevent the second message from being sent.But when this file is requested by a restart of webcat -- at any time except the few seconds during which the trigger requests this file -- the second message will be sent and the first one will not.This is just what I need: a system that tells me every day that the trigger is still working, and when the server is restarted at a time that's not within a few seconds of the trigger time, I will receive a different message telling me exactly when the server was restarted.Presumably the only time this solution will not work perfectly is when webcat is restarted during the few seconds between 00:00:00 and 00:00:03, because at this time it will not send me a 'server restart' message. But my need is not so critical that I have to be concerned about those few seconds.[showif [time]>00:00:00] [showif [time]<00:00:03] [sendmail to=owner@kengrome.com&from=Ken's Server&subject=Daily trigger activated at [time] --> emailOnRestart]This message confirms that the trigger I refer to as emailOnRestart is actually working every day like it is supposed to.[/sendmail] [/showif] [/showif][showif [time]<23:59:59] [showif [time]>00:00:02] [sendmail to=owner@kengrome.com&from=Ken's Server&subject=Server restarted at [time]]This message confirms that the server has restarted at some time of the day which does not fall between 00:00:00 and 00:00:03.[/sendmail] [/showif] [/showif]---------------------------------------------------- Kenneth Grome & Associates web: http://kengrome.com email: owner@kengrome.com mobile: +63 917 254-1494 office: +63 32 262-8164 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Auto-email upon restart? (Bob Minor 2001)
  2. Re: Auto-email upon restart? (Kenneth Grome 2001)
  3. Re: Auto-email upon restart? (Dale Therio 2001)
  4. Re: Auto-email upon restart? (Kenneth Grome 2001)
  5. Re: Auto-email upon restart? (Kalin Mintchev 2001)
  6. Re: Auto-email upon restart? (Bob Minor 2001)
  7. Auto-email upon restart? (Kenneth Grome 2001)
>On 9/7/01 7:47 PM, Kenneth Grome wrote: > >> WebCat does not offer an option to activate a trigger automatically >> when the program is restarted. Does anyone have an idea (or >> existing code) for how to make this happen? I simply want to receive >> an email message when webcat is restarted ... but I do not want to >> receive this message at any other time. > > >My winNT runs all the daily triggers whenever the machine starts up. >In fact I had to set things up so that it ignored everytime webcat crashed >and restarted itself. I was getting 3-5 crashes everyday and it would run >specialized routines that should have only run at 1 in the morning. > >You could set the trigger to run at 1:01 and then do a hideif [time] is >between 101 and 103. Its not perfect, but, its within 3 minutes a day. Thanks for the ideas, Bob. Given the fact that triggers should execute on time -- within the second -- the following code seems like it should work with a trigger set to run at 00:00:01 am every day (* * * 0 0 1). This code increases the precision of the messages being sent to a range of about 3 seconds.When webcat's trigger system sends a request for this file at 00:00:01, the first set of showif's allow the nested sendmail message to be sent, because the time is between 00:00:00 and 00:00:03. At the same time, the second set of showif's prevent the second message from being sent.But when this file is requested by a restart of webcat -- at any time except the few seconds during which the trigger requests this file -- the second message will be sent and the first one will not.This is just what I need: a system that tells me every day that the trigger is still working, and when the server is restarted at a time that's not within a few seconds of the trigger time, I will receive a different message telling me exactly when the server was restarted.Presumably the only time this solution will not work perfectly is when webcat is restarted during the few seconds between 00:00:00 and 00:00:03, because at this time it will not send me a 'server restart' message. But my need is not so critical that I have to be concerned about those few seconds.[showif [time]>00:00:00] [showif [time]<00:00:03] [sendmail to=owner@kengrome.com&from=Ken's Server&subject=Daily trigger activated at [time] --> emailOnRestart]This message confirms that the trigger I refer to as emailOnRestart is actually working every day like it is supposed to.[/sendmail] [/showif] [/showif][showif [time]<23:59:59] [showif [time]>00:00:02] [sendmail to=owner@kengrome.com&from=Ken's Server&subject=Server restarted at [time]]This message confirms that the server has restarted at some time of the day which does not fall between 00:00:00 and 00:00:03.[/sendmail] [/showif] [/showif]---------------------------------------------------- Kenneth Grome & Associates web: http://kengrome.com email: owner@kengrome.com mobile: +63 917 254-1494 office: +63 32 262-8164 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Kenneth Grome

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