Re: [NTLK] [NPDS] Automatic reboot?

Hi Andreas.

>Having (re-)discovered NPDS, I put up two Newton servers (MessagePad
>2100, eMate 300), which are proudly present in the tracker list:
>
>...
>
>(unless they're down :-)

That's the trick isn't it. I have to say thought, with NPDS Watcher
clipping along, my server will stay online for weeks at a time. It's
pretty rare that it cannot recover from a freeze or NPDS crash.

>Is there a package around that will reset the Newton on programmable
>moments, without human intervention?
>Something like the 'Reboot!' package, but with a schedule.

Tat would be a very useful package - or an addition to the watcher
module. Unfortunately, I'm not aware of anything that does timed reboots
for the Newton. I wonder of it would be possible to use the interval
'uptime' ping found in the Tracker Client to perform scheduled reboots
via the Watcher... or pull it out into another package altogether?

Hmmm....

g.

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