Ghariyal is a large Indian crocodile, that is fast becoming extinct in India. It is seen in the rivers of North India and Bangladesh.

Our version of the Ghariyal can be made to move around the vast rivers of web-pages and it will send a notification email to any number of email addresses.

This is an open-source utility. You would require to install Rebol on your computer to use it as this utility is being distributed in source form

Download Ghariyal from the downloads page

Read about the real Ghariyal at the Wikipedia

Why?
Sometimes we put up a post on some discussion board somewhere and forget about it. We then realize that someone else has answered it, and we weren't even aware of it. Ghariyal should help out in sending you a reminder of changes happening anywhere on the Internet

Setting up Ghariyal on a server

  1. Install Rebol at your server. Even in most shared web-hosts also it should be possible but first check whether it violates your license
  2. Upload Ghariyal to some folder on your server. It is not necessary for the folder to be accessible from the web (unless you want it to be that way). Set the file-permissions for ghariyal.r so that it is executable
  3. Make all the changes to ghariyal.txt and gsettings.r as explained in the readme.txt file
  4. On a Linux Machine, the first line of ghariyal.r should be a "hash-bang" line for Linux to load the appropirate program (Rebol) in order to run Ghariyal. So if you had installed Rebol at /usr/local/rebol then the first line in ghariyal.r should be:

    #! /usr/local/rebol/rebol

  5. On a Win2k or WinXP machine, you wouldn't need to set any permissions. Just make sure the .r extension is processed by the rebol executable
  6. On Linux machine there is a neat Cron server that can run any program at a specified schedule. Setup Cron so that ghariyal is invoked at the required time interval -- whatever that suits you

    Most shared web-space give a control panel such as CPanel which will allow you to control your own Cron. However, sometimes it may not be available on your own server. In such a case you would need to put ghariyal.r on a part of your website so that it can be triggered by a Cron running on some other site (This is a kludge and would need a small modification of ghariyal.r for it to work)

  7. On Windows machines, there should be something equivalent to the Linux Cron... though I am not sure. winCron perhaps?

Enjoy

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