On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 03:45:22PM -0800, Daevid Vincent wrote: > The advice below is sound, however your logic needs to be inverted. The idea > is to think in terms of negatives or "not"s. What I mean is, think of how a > 'watchdog' works. You want the script to be ready to "kill stuff" all the > time UNLESS it is told not to. Your flaw here is that you rely upon the > connection to be alive to shut the system down, when in reality, someone is > likely to pull the plug. I think you didn't understand all of my suggestion. The "ET-phone-system" is great, if it works. All the other stuff I suggested running is "Die if ET doesn't phone." Cheers, -- Dave Ihnat ignatz@xxxxxxxxxx -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
