README WMServices v0.4.2

Author: Georgios Vasilakis (gvasil@gmail.com)

General

WMServices is a dockable app which intends to make checking for server availability a bit easier. The app,given up to five server IP's or hostnames and ports continuesly checks whether they are up and informs the user accordingly(using green or red font).A log file can also be created. See the "tips" section for more.

Thanks

Martijn Pieterse (pieterse@xs4all.nl),
Antoine Nulle (warp@xs4all.nl) For creating the wmgeneral.c which is used in this app.
Brian "Beej" Hall (beej@pirateheven.org) His "Guide to network programming" helped me a lot.

Installation

To install simply try :
make
make config
su -
make install

Then you simply edit the ~/.wmservices file the app creates and type wmservices& to run the application.

Tips

More instances of the application can be run using more than one configuration files and the '-c' parameter.
A log file can be kept, the log will report the time a service went down and when it went up again (see the config file for more information).
Run 'wmservices -h' for help on command line parameters.

Contact