--------------------------------------- AutoNotification v1.0 Release A: README --------------------------------------- Release Date: 27th of March, 1999 Introduction ------------ This code was developed for a need personally to know 'externally' what is happening on a mud I run. Whether that by what time it rebooted, or if a certain character logged in, etc. What follows is the *bare* basic skeleton to develop some more complex system. What this does -------------- This code will send an email to an address you define indicating what time (server time) the mud rebooted. Further versions of this will contain more information a coder may require. This can be used as a good paging service. Restrictions ------------ This code uses elm. If you don't have this, you can use the default *NIX mailer, "mail". Simply replace "elm" with "mail". This code was tested on a Sun system, as well as Slackware Linux. With customizations, this may indeed be able to be implemented into a Win9x mud, but that will be a project for someone else. Installation ------------ I have not done this in "patch" form. Simply read "auto_notif.code" and follow the instructions there. It does NOT take a degree in rocket science to put this into your mud. Credits & Disclaimer ------------------- This code was developed from Brian Gray 's "email_reg" code. You are free to improve, upgrade, destroy or whatever this code in anyway you see fit to. Any queries relating to this code or parts herein may be forwarded to me. Thanks to the CircleMUD Mailing List for help with the command line call with elm/mailx. Any improvements that you'd like to let me in on, I'd be grateful. Have fun with it! -Caniffe (caniffe@cyberdude.com) Enclosures: 1. auto_notif.readme (1.9 Kbytes) 2. auto_notif.code (1.5 Kbytes)