Re: [OpenVerse] signal to server to send a message?

["Brandon L. Griffith" <brandon@debian.org>]

This could be accomplished in any scripting language really
I could write one in perl or tcl that would parse a file that listed each
server/room then connect to each one broadcasting a message like that.
Could prolly do it in about 10 minutes too. (if that)
If this is the kind of thing you are talking about let me know and I'll
whip one up as soon as I get home.

: As someone who used to run lots of Palace servers, let me say that this is
: a very useful feature.  It is very annoying to have to start up a client
: and go to many rooms announcing that the server is going down and will be
: up shortly.  A stripped down OV client that would broadcast to all the
: OpenVerse servers running on a box would eliminate this problem.  A small
: config file could list the server ports to which the announcements should
: be made.
: 
: --Tony Basile

: > Is there some way to tell an OV server to send a message to everyone
: > connected to it without also being connected to the server?  For instance,
: > say I'm going to take my machine down in 10 minutes for maintenance.  I want
: > to be able to say something like
: >
: > OV_out_of_band_message "madison.dynip.com going down for in 10 minutes.
: > Back up in 20 minutes."
: >
: > or
: >
: > OV_out_of_band_message -file message_file
: >

-- 
Brandon L. Griffith       |  Give me liberty or give me something
brandon@debian.org        |  of equal or lesser value from your
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