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Speaking of your brother, how's he doing on the Linux version of your monitor?

It's actually complete. I'm in the process (between pesky real-life work) of genericizing it (is that a word), and coming up with a list of requirements and instructions.

Unfortunately, Linux doesn't come with a built-in scripting language powerful enough to handle what I need, so we had a choice of PHP or Perl. My brother chose PHP because it's more likely to be part of the wider install base and, where it isn't, requires less additional modules/customizations to implement.

As it is, he's come up with the following list of prerequisite modules:

PHP 4.x (or higher-- also must be able to run apart from Apache-- i.e. be able to call PHP from crontab)
curl support
libcurl

I may be mangling these requirements, so go by the help file as gospel, not the above list.

I'll be working on tweaking the script, and updating the help page this evening.

"I'm in the process (between pesky real-life work) of genericizing it (is that a word), ..."

genericizing ??? - ROTFLOL - hey, when you work for free and do neat things like you do, then, you can make up any word you want, heheh.

PHP 4.x (or higher-- also must be able to run apart from Apache-- i.e. be able to call PHP from crontab)
curl support
libcurl

huh? - sorry, that's all Greek to me. I'll need step-by-step if possible. I don't even know where to look to see if I have those things. My install is a standard install for MEPIS 3.3.1

Ping me when you're done with the script. I hope you can tell me how to find out if I have the minimum requirements.

Thanks for all your hard work, and your brother's hard work, too.
RT ;^D