[comp.os.vms] NANNY

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

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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.
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