[hobbit] acks through email

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 01:46:50PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 10:54:30AM, Kevin Grady wrote:
> > Does hobbit support acks through email? Thanks
>
> I am using it. You should be able to use the same shell script that was
> in Bigbrother.
> 
> The only thing different is the following line in shell script
> 
> Bigbrother: $BB $BBPAGE "ack ack_event ${ACKCODE} ${DELAY} ${MESSAGE}"
> 
> Hobbit: $BB $BBPAGE "hobbitdack ${ACKCODE} ${DELAY} ${MESSAGE}"

Actually, it should work even without this change. The "ack ack_event"
command is recognized by hobbitd. I didn't see any reason why I should
break existing scripts, when it was so simple to just make it work.


Regards,
Henrik