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- Short: keeps AmiTCP & servers online for you
- Uploader: vancej@kiimbal.dyn.ml.org (Jim Vance)
- Author: vancej@kiimbal.dyn.ml.org (Jim Vance)
- type: comm/misc
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-
- PURPOSE:
-
- This program is intended to help those of us trying to run servers on our
- Amiga computers. I ran into the problem of trying to keep my computer
- online when I wasn't physically in front of (it does get boring just
- sitting there sometimes... really). So I decided to write a program
- to take care of the mundane task for me.
-
- IDEA:
-
- The idea of this program was to keep my computer online, along with the
- task of helping me figure out which port was causing crashes. I called
- it "Movelog" because it was originally intended to move the amitcp.log
- file to a more permanent storage location, so that when my computer would
- crash, I would have a log to look at and see which program was the faulty
- one.
-
- Once I got the program to do that, I decided that it could examine each
- line in the file for the signal that the modem was offline and reset it.
- I will probably add a config file to allow users to determine what they
- want to watch for along with a command to be executed when the
- line is found.
-
- REQUIREMENTS:
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- any AmiTCP version that uses the file "t:amitcp.log"
- any Amiga computer that is running AmiTCP.
- a knowledge of your commands that you use to bring your computer online
- and take it offline again.
-
- The programs used by Movelog internally are:
-
- askhost (to keep the link active by requesting data across the
- link every 25 minutes)
- copy (to copy needed commands to T: so that it doesn't need
- to access the hard drive during run-time)
- status (to check for another copy of itself running)
- say (pretty much only if you have the "realms" MUD running
- on the default port of 4563, AND you have logging turned
- ON in your inet.access file)
- delete (to clean up any files it moved to T: during the run)
-