checkin of completed hackish script
Merge pull request #1 from kdmurray91/master

Hackish implementation of conviron (only) control via telnet
Merge branch 'dev'
Merge branch 'dev', solves issue 2 on github
remove debug from conviron.ini
Merge pull request #5 from kdmurray91/master

Implement enhancements in issue #2
Merge branch 'dev', fix issue #3 on github
Merge pull request #6 from kdmurray91/master

Fix issue #3
Merge pull request #8 from kdmurray91/dev

__main__ now handles errors more transparently, solves #7
removed hackish implementation
Merge pull request #9 from kdmurray91/rm-hack

removed hackish implementation
Merge pull request #10 from kdmurray91/dev

ensure sleep() in main() is not given a negative value
Merge pull request #11 from kdmurray91/dev

Email alerts and database logging
made monitor.ini
tested, working version of monitor.py
generalised the error emailing function
added email alerts in monitor.py