graham@DRCVAX.ARPA ("Daniel J. Graham") (04/27/87)
Greetings and Hallucinations, I was wading through a dusty old archive file and discovered the gentleman who wrote Nanny offering it. I tried to send him a message, buy it seemes that that node is no longer in the nic's host table (xhmeia.caltech.edu). I wonder if he, or somebody who has the source(s) to Nnny could mail them to me. We have a highly hacked version of Watchdog, which doesn't work well with programs which must maintain long term, but inactive subprocesses such as Allin1 and EDTCAI. My thanks to anybody who can help, Dan Graham GRAHAM@DRCVAX.ARPA ------
zar@HAMLET.CALTECH.EDU (Dan Zirin) (04/30/87)
In responce to Graham@drcvax.arpa, I'll be sending him my source code for Nanny. For those of you who don't know, Nanny is a multi-functional detached process for VAX VMS V4+ sites that offers the following: 1) Idle process termination 2) Disk error detection and freespace watch 3) Memory management: if all processes are asking for more CPU than avail, suspend low prio (background) batch jobs until demand goes away. 4) Wake-up calls (request a message to be send to a specified user at a specified time). 5) Semi-annual time change for daylight savings (programmed for PST to PDT and back). 6) Process priority hack to discourage interactive computing. 7) Many more options... All of the above can be enabled or disabled. Space is also reserved for new functions/commands. Send source requests to ZAR @ CITCHEM (Bitnet) ---> preferred method ZAR @ XHMEIA.CALTECH.EDU [192.12.19.15] (Arpanet) XHMEIA::ZAR [area 5 node 920] (Span/HEPNet) From The Great Zar
graham@DRCVAX.ARPA ("Daniel J. Graham") (06/16/87)
Yesterday, (Monday), the Zar of Nanny posted a message asking for votes as to placing the sources on the net. He requested that responces NOT be placed on the net, but sent to him directly. Well, I have tried since yesterday to get a mail message to XHMEIA.CALTECH.EDU with no success. No matter how I route it, I get timeout errors. After over 100 attempts, I give up! Sorry about this, but I have to place my vote here in front of VAX and everybody. PLEASE POST THE SOURCES. I've been wanting this code for weeks (months?). Sorry to trash the net with this, but I didn't see any other choice. Dan Graham GRAHAM@DRCVAX.ARPA P.S. I AM A MILNET SITE, IF ANYONE HAS A GOOD ROUTE TO XHMEIA.CALTECH.EDU, I.E. THE 192.12.19 (CIT-NET) NETWORK, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. ------