[Xastir] practicle aprs

[BobDonnell at arkalmus.com]

Do you actually need to copy the file to another system?  Can the web page be pointed at the file, or can the underlying operating system have a link created to point to where the file can be accessed as needed?

73, Bob, KD7NM

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>From: xastir-bounces at xastir.org [mailto:xastir-bounces at xastir.org]On
>Behalf Of vic
>Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 9:10 AM
>To: Curt Mills, WE7U; k4gps at arrl.net
>Cc: xastir
>Subject: Re: [Xastir] practicle aprs
>
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>On Wednesday 07 May 2003 08:56 pm, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
>
>okay I have been looking at docs all morning and cannot seem 
>to find how to 
>SEND a file with wget... everything talks about getting only...
>I need a hint....
>Thanks, VIctor
>
>
>> On 7 May 2003, Rich Garcia wrote:
>> > NOW that is a feature idea that makes me drool.. I have a 
>weather web
>> > page up for our cert team. If Xastir could grab a shot and 
>then FTP it
>> > to the correct place that would be Sweeet!
>> >
>> > A few static file names could be set for the shots you 
>intend to save so
>> > that the html code could stay the same all the time.
>>
>> Perl is your friend.  So is cron.   You could set up a Perl5 script
>> to run every few minutes and check the timestamp on the snapshot
>> file in /var/tmp.  If it has changed, use wget to send it up to
>> some web site automatically.  You could even rotate through a set of
>> filenames automatically that way, like snap00.png through snap99.png
>> and then rotate back to 00.
>>
>> Another thing you can do is to set up Apache on the same box, and
>> server up the 5-minute snapshot directly from you own web pages
>> there.  Works great, and I'm doing that at work for internal use.
>>
>> Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo.com
>> http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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