alertManager-v1.00
05/24/2007
This version has very minor changes from RC5.  It is a stable release, but
1.1 series is coming soon and will have many more features.
 - Reverted the change to SIGCHLD in RC5 - it caused a failure when trying
   to read the output exit status of children commands!

alertManager-v1.0-RC5
06/29/2004
 - Fixed a bug in configuration file parsing that would cause alertManager to 
   process some commented lines when it should have ignored those lines.
 - Add support for passing the "message" in via STDIN.  Just use a "-m stdin"
   and pipe some text to alertManager.
 - Set SIGCHLD to IGNORE so children can exit on their own without waiting for
   the parent to reap them or exit.

alertManager-v1.0-RC4
01/29/2003
 - Updated the syslog() function to log to the correct facility/priority
 - A patch from Jared Cheney that allows pound symbols in alert commands.
   Just prefix the pound with a back-slash (i.e. \#)  This is useful when
   you need to run a sed or awk alert command with a pound symbol in it.
 - Various textual updates in comments

alertManager-v1.0-RC3
10/22/2002
 - Added a new parameter "success-alert" to the configuration file.  This
   will allow for "success-chains" which has turned out to be *very* useful 
   in certian situations.


alertManager-v1.0-RC2
10/17/2002
 - Made printmsg() not log to the log file if the mode isn't "alert"
 - Fixed a lot of possible configuration parsing errors
 - Added support for user definable variables in the configuration file
   that can be used in commands.  This should make large configuration
   files much simpler and easier to maintain.
 - Added some more debugging


alertManager-v1.0-RC1
10/14/2002
Initial release to production