Perform a quick and dirty check of the Seti@home stats and data servers.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

my $address = $ARGV[0] || 'muskrat@mindless.com';
my ($data,$cgi);
$data = $cgi = "down";
my $doc = get 'http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/fcgi-bin/fcgi?email=
+'.$address.'&cmd=user_stats_new';
if ($doc =~ m/$address/is){
 $cgi = "up";
}
$doc = get 'http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/sstatus.html';
if ($doc =~ m/up and running/is){
 $data = "up and running";
}
if ($doc =~ m/dropping connections/) {
  $data .= " but dropping connections";
}
my $gmt = gmtime();
print "As of $gmt, the stats server is $cgi and the data server is $da
+ta.";

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