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A much more robust script...
Authored by: jshaw on Jan 30, '02 11:57:34PM
I've seen a few "Phone Home" scripts recently posted, but they've either lacked robustness, or require Sendmail to be running all the time as a daemon. Hostreg is a Perl script that "phones home" when connected to a network not "ok'd" by the user. It is designed to be run from cron as root, and launches Sendmail on a per-alert basis. It tries to be robust when dealing with possible firewalls and utilizes alerts via email, www, and ftp. It grabs the current network-connected IP address. If the IP address does not match the user-specified list of "good" IP addresses (this list can include partial IP addresses for those with DHCP), it sends out alerts. For more information, go to: http://www.sps.lane.edu/~jshaw/code/hostreg/

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A much more robust script...
Authored by: greghil on Aug 21, '02 03:02:04AM

I suggest looking at www.pcphonehome.com
They have a Mac and Windows product that does just what is being described here. The difference is that the PCPHONEHOME withstanfs a complete format and re-install on your hard drive. Works with OSX as well
$30.00



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Authored by: Lectrick on Oct 08, '03 07:28:30PM

http://www.sps.lane.edu/~jshaw/projects/hostreg/

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