Article:		Scheduling Tasks in Panther
Subject:		G5 Status report while I'm away . . .
Date:		2004-03-07 16:35:16
From:		rbannon@mac.com
I have a G5 at work and I'd like to leave it on 24/7. However, I turn it off each night before I leave and restart in the morning because I am afraid that something may go wrong when I am gone. Is there anyway that I could use a scheduling task to alert me via email (or cell phone) that my system is in trouble? I have the processors saturated at 100% (all the time, but nice-ed) and I am basically afraid that my machine will overheat. No troubles yet, but I hate to have my system go into TURBO FAN mode while I am out of the office -- it would certainly draw attention to the only Mac in the building. email me at rb838 (at) columbia (dot) edu

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• G5 Status report while I'm away . . .
  2004-03-07 21:47:18  James Duncan Davidson | [View]
  
  
  Sure, you can have a cron job execute every 5 minutes, do a temperature check, and email you if it's outside of bounds. A quick google search seems to turn up a few utilities that will help you get temperature from the command line. I don't use any of them so I'm unable to give a recommendation.
  
  A better solution would be to stop whatever is that's saturating your processors while you are gone...