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Date:      Sun, 10 May 1998 12:23:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        kf7nn@kf7nn.com
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cqcam script
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980510122241.4464T-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.980510104433.kf7nn@kf7nn.com>

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On Sun, 10 May 1998 kf7nn@kf7nn.com wrote:

> I use cqcam to take a picture from my connectix
> quickcam every minute via cron job but i would 
> like to make a script that does it via a web page.
> 
> what would be the easiest way to do this?

Make your script a cgi-bin.  You will want to use a lockfile so you don't
have five or six of these trying to take pictures at once, which could
have some .. interesting .. results.

Also watch for DoS attacks by repeatedly hitting the button -- grabbing
from qcams taxes the system pretty hard (at last check and using the
kernel qcam driver).

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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