Tupd is a trustworthy daemon that reports uptime statistics via HTTP. Tupd is designed to be small, simple, and secure. These features make tupd suitable for use on critical servers and firewalls where a full HTTP server and script installation would pose an unacceptable security risk.
Tupd is Free software available for download under version 2 of the GNU General Public License.
Here is the tupd source distribution:
Obsolete versions of tupd are also available in a variety of formats:
Tim Fraser's homepage at the WPI alumni site
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