Hobbit help

["Giorgio Volpini" <vorpini (at) gmail.com>]

Dear Mr.Storner,
my name's Giorgio Volpini, I'm a Computer Science student of the university of Pisa.

I need some help about your program : Hobbit. Few months ago I used Hobbit during my stage and now I'm writing a thesis about it. I'd like to complete my report with a dimostration of Bash-script to use in the program; my problem is that i don't know Bash-scripting and I have not enought time to learn it. If I don't give you too much trouble, I needa script to control the time of presence rivelators connected in Lan with Hobbit server.

I also have a general idea about the script:
    - ping the rivelator
    - compare the time of the answer packet with Hobbit system time
    - decide if it's all ready or not
    - warn the administrator with e-mail, sms or only with Hobbit web interface
I need only a dimostrative script to add an my report, so is not important that it works perfectly, but only that bash-script has right syntax.

Your help is very important for me and I think it is an work for you.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Your faithfully.

Giorgio Volpini.