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Some perl scripts to help track stolen computers
I guess it depends if the stolen computer is powered down or just sleeping (notebook lid closed). It's probably easier to set up a script that only runs each time the system is powered on (though you might want to add a delay to give time for a machine to find/join a network).
Some perl scripts to help track stolen computers
Cron has an onwake mode. So it launches any scrip set to launch onwake.
Some perl scripts to help track stolen computers
I couldn't find anything about an on wake mode in crontab (5). Just an 'on system startup' tag.
This looks like the ticket: http://www.radiotope.com/writing/?p=71 (random article on interacting with configd events). I can't work on this right now but perhaps someone who is almost there can finish this up so it sends an isight pic / network coordinates on startup via a script.
Some perl scripts to help track stolen computers
I think making the event when the network comes up with be good enough, and more reliable than a delay after startup, aside from occasional networking flapping issues. On Debian this was pretty easy to work with, but I'm not in Kansas anymore. I hope you can work something up.
Some perl scripts to help track stolen computers
&tkbradnam said:
I'm not sure how to trigger something when waking from sleep ... If anyone has any better information on doing this then I will gladly include that in my scripts. Check out SleepWatcher, as mentioned here: Switch to login window upon sleep |
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