From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 15 11:18:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from supai.oit.umass.edu (supai.oit.umass.edu [128.119.175.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 053AF37B408 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:18:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by supai.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #38130) id <0GL900701EQTIL@supai.oit.umass.edu> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:16:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from lessing.oit.umass.edu (lessing.oit.umass.edu [128.119.166.128]) by supai.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #38130) with ESMTP id <0GL9005H8EQT3G@supai.oit.umass.edu> for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:16:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (gp@localhost) by lessing.oit.umass.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA22629 for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:18:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 14:18:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Greg Pavelcak Subject: Making Appointments By Computer X-Sender: gp@lessing.oit.umass.edu To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Authentication-warning: lessing.oit.umass.edu: gp owned process doing -bs Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello all, I'm posting to chat because this is not particularly FreeBSD related. I was just hoping to dip into the knowledge pool here. I work in an undergraduate advising office. We want to handle freshmen advising in groups of 10 and let them sign up for the times themselves. Our first thought was to make a web page, add a form, and have it count down from 10, letting the students know how many spaces were available at each time, or, at the very least, stopping the sign-ups when the limit was reached. I have found many counter scripts on-line, but I am not in charge of our web-server, and although I'm running FreeBSD 4.3, I don't think I can learn Apache in the next couple days and get a web-server running (or can I?). My other thought was to create a freshmen login account on my computer that basically does nothing other than run a script that gives them info on available times and allows them to sign up, but I'm worried about the accuracy of the information if several people log in to make appointments simultaneously. Any pointers/advice/recommendations would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message