Re: [ProgSoc] Auto SMS Sender

["Eliseo d'Annunzio" <dannunzio@nospam.hotmail.com>]

Okay then, well... how about the possibility of automating such a process, I 
know that a number of things can be done with things like "cron" and "lynx" 
perhaps setting up a regular cron job to activate lynx to perform certain 
tasks (once the appropriate URL has been worked out) to perform them? I 
remember there being an option to perform an automatic link to simply 
connect to a specified URL without going into the actual lynx interface.

How possible could this approach be?

PS: While I'm at it, what's the latest on the Coke Powered Web Server? or 
for that matter brick.progsoc.org ?

Eliseo
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Well Mobemail is the go! simple and easy, free and thus far unlimited! Well
you have to clear out your inbox on the site every now and then but it its
well worth it!

Redrock seems to be a fantastic allin one solution, unfortunately their
MessageNet is a bit pricy.  The FreeSMS is well.. free which is great!  But
it's web based and uses cookies to tell who's logged in, thus who's sending
the SMS.  Out of curiosity, how would I set this up in a command line
fashion?  the site uses asp pages, which shouldn't make too much difference
right?

Thanks for all the help.

Gonz

At 12:03 AM 20/03/2001 +1100, jedd wrote:
>On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 17:03, David Gonzalez wrote:
>  ] While we're on the topic of SMS, does anyone know how to set up the
>  ] functionality to automatically send an SMS to a phone given a certain
>  ] event.  That is, if (computer spontaneously combusts) { send SMS to 
>phone
>  ] }   ?????
>
>  I do this with netsaint and a couple of small bash scripts.  Netsaint
>  comes complete with a bunch of plugins that include just about
>  every type of monitoring, including the monitoring of cpu / users / etc
>  on other machines.  You need to write some as-simple-as-you-want
>  scripts to generate the pages.  For that, I use the redrock (.com.au)
>  service - all you do is send a message to <number>@nospam.<theiraddress>,
>  and away it goes.  From my netsaint box at work, it's about 15 seconds
>  from when a problem is picked up, to when my phone starts to beep.
>
>  Jedd.
>
>--
>  jedd == jedd at progsoc dot org
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