electr0n

Joe L. Thanks for the info - I'll give it a try. It's funny but I just heard about awk recently at work so I may have a chance to check it out. I have been playing with TCL and wrote something that can get the info off of the html //tower page to do what I want. It's not elegant but seems to work ok for me - and it's a good learning experience for getting to know what TCL can do. I haven't programmed in many years but it's fun to get back into it a bit. Thanks again and I appreciate your advice! electr0n

Joe L., I put this on my machine and it works great - I'm a big fan of your email program too. I may switch over to using YAC exclusively since it suits my needs fine. One question though, could you tell me how to add the used/free disk space info? I assume it's similar to the email program but I don't feel comfortable enough with my programming skills to do it. BTW - I don't know if the YAC window has a limit on the amount of info and this would be a lot of info (if it's like the email program). For me it would be fine if it just said something like "unRaid is OK. Space Used 497G Free 566G." Or something like that (% would be cool too). I set YAC up to write to the log file and I'm just running it once daily, so I really don't even see the actual YAC message. So I'll just check the log every day to make sure it looks fine. Thanks for another great program! electr0n

Joe is right that's what I did. It's been working great for weeks but I just got an email from ATT/Yahoo saying that I should start using SSL port 465. So it may stop working one day...

Yes, thanks to you I know more about smtp authentication than I ever cared to know...

I just wanted to thank Joe L. and kenshin for posting their work. I know virtually nothing about linux but was able to follow the thread to get my email notification up and running. I only had two problems - both minor. One was having to translate the wordpad edited version of my script to take out the bogus characters. The other was finding out how to login through my sbcglobal.net account to get my email sent. Anyway - it's working great now. I just got my UnRAID server up and running and I felt that email notification of the server status was the only thing lacking. Not any more! Thanks again for sharing your hard work!

Actually the ASUS P5B-VM DO looks like a good board too and is a little cheaper - will this one work too?

I am new to Unraid so these may be silly questions - if so forgive me. ;-) I'm interested in building a raid 5 type media server for movies and music. I have another machine that is running the front end (Xlobby running on Win XP Pro) and I'm pretty happy with that. I'm looking to add a large network attached storage drive(s) that have some form of protection (hence RAID/Unraid) and I would ideally like to break through the 2TB limitations in Win XP. So I would like to know if you think this will work: I would like to use a Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R with 6 500 GB SATA drives for 2.5TB of storage. I don't know anything about Unraid but I assume that you are not limited to the 2TB like Windows is. Also I can upgrade at a later date to 750 GB drives when they drop in price to increase it to 3.75 GB total. Am I on the right track? Is anyone using that motherboard with Unraid? I understand I would have to buy Unraid server plus, which is fine. If there is a more appropriate motherboard that is fine too - I just would like to have at least 6 sata ports. Also one final question since I don't know anything about Unraid/Linux. I will still be ripping my movies and cd's on my media machine running XP but I will just map the Unraid server as a network drive. That way I shouldn't have to manually be transferring ripped files back and forth. Is that the way it works? I assume it doesn't matter to Windows if the mapped network drive is windows or linux but I wanted to check. As long as the ripped directory (from iTunes for example) can be on the Unraid server I'm all set. Thanks for your help.