Does anyone have any useful advice/hints/tips/etc on this subject? I'd like a data collection/service monitoring script to run constantly in the background, firing off email alerts whenever necessary... I've not really considered trying to do this before, so I don't really know if there might already be some kind of utility available.

Answers on a postcard to the usual address, please...(!)

Thanks in advance,

Breaker

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