This could be turned into a very useful shell script. Actually, this could be two very useful shell scripts; one to create the status message, and one to do the notification. Another approach could be to modify syslog to update a new file in /var/log/ and then use inotify to monitor that file. inotify could then use the notification script from above... Chuck ---- nor thern <zboson2003@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/gnokii-smsd > http://wiki.gnokii.org/index.php/User's_Guide > echo "This is a test message" | gnokii --sendsms +12345678 > > http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3345/send-a-signed-and-encrypted-email-from-the-command-line > > echo "SECRET MESSAGE" | gpg -e --armor -s | sendmail USER@xxxxxxxxxx > > cron job . > netstat every 60 seconds; cut field and grep for network down message to > be sent to gnokii and sendmail using tee. > > > --- On Tue, 5/18/10, Ken Allen wrote: > > From: Ken Allen > Subject: [ncolug] Remote network monitoring > To: "ncolug" <ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tuesday, May 18, 2010, 8:45 PM > > My dad and I have a wireless network that recently had a major issue and the > network was completely down. I am looking for an open source program that > can run in linux or windows to check the status of the network and if it is > down, then send email and sms alerts. Does anyone know of a program that can > do this for us? > > Thanks, > > Ken > #yiv831240576 #avg_ls_inline_popup {padding:0px > 0px;margin-left:0px;margin-top:0px;width:240px;overflow:hidden;word-wrap:break-word;color:black;font-size:10px;text-align:left;line-height:13px;} To unsubscribe send to ncolug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.