I'm on os2008 and AFAICT it has no cron daemon. Nor have I seen one in the repos... Additionally, I'm trying to reduce/remove dependencies as much as possible to prevent users from having to do gainroot and xterm backflips to install and configure the program. (Hence libcurl instead of wget.)

Besides, I'm well into coding my daemon at this point.

Speaking of that, Progress Report-

I've got all the libraries I need (I think). I'm using libcurl for downloads/uploads and gpgme for crypto. (Since osso-gnupg bites on os2008, I'm targeting the first *real* release of this for Diablo which looks to have a real version of gnupg...) I do have that newer SVN versions of gnupg and osso-gnupg (which is just a wrapper to keep dependencies from breaking.) compiled and running on os2008. Which is nice in and of itself. Also, since Diablo has aGPS support, fixes should be fast enough that the thief shouldn't notice any battery drain or other weirdness...

As far as the daemon goes, the framework is there, though a lot of the data-gathering functions are empty. I'm coding the check-in/gnupg stuff now and hope to have it working against a (test) webserver fairly soon. After that will be the put/upload code, then the data gathering.

Once I've got a basic daemon built, I'll release the source for review/comment/contribution. At that point I'll be starting work on the server end.

Cheers,
kernelpanic