[BLUG] ILF Speakers announced, win valuable prizes!

That's right folks we have announced a promotion for supporter passes.
Every 50th person to register for a supporter pass will receive there
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Also we have announced the Schedule and Speakers for the show. Visit
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[BLUG] Indiana LinuxFest Call For Papers closes tonight!

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(3AM EST - hey we may be EST folks but we know not everyone is). Please
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Re: [BLUG] Bad Weather? Geek Play Time

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 03:45:21PM -0500, Kirk Gleason wrote:
> Aside from the obvious, I'm trying to come up with creative ways to
> let me know if we lose power at work. No external Nagios for me, so if
> my mail server or firewall goes down before anything else, I get no
> notice.

Kirk,

Pingdom (http://pingdom.com) is a pay service, but they "also offer a
free account that lets you monitor one website and includes 20 SMS
alerts."

I use it for monitoring my personal web server (via ICMP) and it works
wonderfully.

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Re: [BLUG] Bad Weather? Geek Play Time

Actually, the weather is pretty clear where I am, and I'm fixin' to spend the lunar new year with Chinese friends. I'm in Shanghai, so... :D

I have lot's of friends and family stormed in doors there in Indiana, so best wishes to you!

Matthew

Re: [BLUG] Bad Weather? Geek Play Time

IIRC, ping is pretty easy to script. It supports a -c option to ping a certain number of times, and the return code is an indicator of success.

This means you should be able to do something like:

while true ; do
    if ! ping -c 1 $YOURHOST > /dev/null ; then
        mail -s "host $YOURHOST is down" $YOUREMAIL << /dev/null
    fi
done

This was just off the top of my head. YMMV. I've not double-checked man pages or tried running it.

I don't know about people with free time due to the weather. I mean, if we work with computers we can keep working as long as the power is up and if the power is down it means it is time to start eating the contents of the fridge...

Cheers,
Steven Black

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Kirk Gleason <kgleason@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, I used to try the positive verification thing, but it is enough
try drive you to drink (now there's an idea ...)

Once when the power went out, I wrote a script (on an OS X system) to
say "X.X.X.X is now responding to a ping", and put it into an infinite
loop and then went to bed. Maybe what I should do is to write the
opposite of that script (have it do something when ping errors out),
and then have it make a call to Google voice to ring my cell phone if
the power goes out at work. Course it doesn't do any good if the power
at home is out.

Maybe something with Skype in a remote office ....

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, dosman <dosman@packetsniffers.org> wrote:
> You could use "positive verification" by having a system mail you
> every hour or 30 minutes that every thing's ok, but that gets annoying.
>
> I have a personal system that emails me each time it powers on so I
> know if it's been rebooted, but that only works because it is more
> likely to be rebooted than just powered off.
>
> -Nathan
>
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Kirk Gleason wrote:
>
>> Aside from the obvious, I'm trying to come up with creative ways to
>> let me know if we lose power at work. No external Nagios for me, so if
>> my mail server or firewall goes down before anything else, I get no
>> notice.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Lord Drachenblut
>> <lord.drachenblut@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> so with the bad weather alot of people are at home today.
>>>
>>> So my question is what geek project are you working on today in
>>> this weather?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mettle not in the Ways of dragons for thou art crunchy and taste good
>>> with ketchup
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Re: [BLUG] Bad Weather? Geek Play Time

Yeah, I used to try the positive verification thing, but it is enough
try drive you to drink (now there's an idea ...)

Once when the power went out, I wrote a script (on an OS X system) to
say "X.X.X.X is now responding to a ping", and put it into an infinite
loop and then went to bed. Maybe what I should do is to write the
opposite of that script (have it do something when ping errors out),
and then have it make a call to Google voice to ring my cell phone if
the power goes out at work. Course it doesn't do any good if the power
at home is out.

Maybe something with Skype in a remote office ....

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, dosman <dosman@packetsniffers.org> wrote:
> You could use "positive verification" by having a system mail you
> every hour or 30 minutes that every thing's ok, but that gets annoying.
>
> I have a personal system that emails me each time it powers on so I
> know if it's been rebooted, but that only works because it is more
> likely to be rebooted than just powered off.
>
> -Nathan
>
> On Feb 1, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Kirk Gleason wrote:
>
>> Aside from the obvious, I'm trying to come up with creative ways to
>> let me know if we lose power at work. No external Nagios for me, so if
>> my mail server or firewall goes down before anything else, I get no
>> notice.
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Lord Drachenblut
>> <lord.drachenblut@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> so with the bad weather alot of people are at home today.
>>>
>>> So my question is what geek project are you working on today in
>>> this weather?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Mettle not in the Ways of dragons for thou art crunchy and taste good
>>> with ketchup
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> BLUG mailing list
>>> BLUG@linuxfan.com
>>> http://mailman.cs.indiana.edu/mailman/listinfo/blug
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>>
>>
>>
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Re: [BLUG] Bad Weather? Geek Play Time

If you have something to ping, I can setup a nagios check that can
email you if it goes out. I find that a cheap solution is to give a
print server or an extra broadband router and IP address that your
external router forwards icmp too. Then don't put that device on a UPS
and that should give you a good idea of if the power is out.

I actually have a domain bloomingtonnetworks.com that I was working on
setting up for this kind of thing. I don't have a public side to that
yet, but its already monitoring Suso, IU, City Govt., Smithville, Kiva, etc.

Mark

On Tue, Feb 01, 2011 at 08:45:21PM GMT, Kirk Gleason [kgleason@gmail.com] said the following:
> Aside from the obvious, I'm trying to come up with creative ways to
> let me know if we lose power at work. No external Nagios for me, so if
> my mail server or firewall goes down before anything else, I get no
> notice.
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Lord Drachenblut
> <lord.drachenblut@gmail.com> wrote:
> > so with the bad weather alot of people are at home today.
> >
> > So my question is what geek project are you working on today in this weather?
> >
> > --
> > Mettle not in the Ways of dragons for thou art crunchy and taste good
> > with ketchup
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>
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Re: [BLUG] Bad Weather? Geek Play Time

You could use "positive verification" by having a system mail you
every hour or 30 minutes that every thing's ok, but that gets annoying.

I have a personal system that emails me each time it powers on so I
know if it's been rebooted, but that only works because it is more
likely to be rebooted than just powered off.

-Nathan

On Feb 1, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Kirk Gleason wrote:

> Aside from the obvious, I'm trying to come up with creative ways to
> let me know if we lose power at work. No external Nagios for me, so if
> my mail server or firewall goes down before anything else, I get no
> notice.
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Lord Drachenblut
> <lord.drachenblut@gmail.com> wrote:
>> so with the bad weather alot of people are at home today.
>>
>> So my question is what geek project are you working on today in
>> this weather?
>>
>> --
>> Mettle not in the Ways of dragons for thou art crunchy and taste good
>> with ketchup
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Re: [BLUG] Bad Weather? Geek Play Time

Aside from the obvious, I'm trying to come up with creative ways to
let me know if we lose power at work. No external Nagios for me, so if
my mail server or firewall goes down before anything else, I get no
notice.

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Lord Drachenblut
<lord.drachenblut@gmail.com> wrote:
> so with the bad weather alot of people are at home today.
>
> So my question is what geek project are you working on today in this weather?
>
> --
> Mettle not in the Ways of dragons for thou art crunchy and taste good
> with ketchup
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Re: [BLUG] Bad Weather? Geek Play Time

I'm working on a dictionary database project, but I'm worried about
the power going down. sshfs doesn't like it when it loses
connectivity (to the point that it causes my netbook not to return
from sleep if I don't disconnect my sshfs mounts before putting it to
sleep).

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On 1 February 2011 15:35, Lord Drachenblut <lord.drachenblut@gmail.com> wrote:
> so with the bad weather alot of people are at home today.
>
> So my question is what geek project are you working on today in this weather?
>
> --
> Mettle not in the Ways of dragons for thou art crunchy and taste good
> with ketchup
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Re: [BLUG] Bad Weather? Geek Play Time

I'm teaching myself Clojure.

----- Original message -----
> so with the bad weather alot of people are at home today.
>
> So my question is what geek project are you working on today in this
> weather?
>
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> Mettle not in the Ways of dragons for thou art crunchy and taste good
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[BLUG] Bad Weather? Geek Play Time

so with the bad weather alot of people are at home today.

So my question is what geek project are you working on today in this weather?

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with ketchup
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