Is there an app that will display a weather warning like how pidgin and empathy display prompts when someone logs on, I would like to be immediately informed if there is a severe weather alert from the weather station in me city.
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How to get weather alerts with conky.
I'm using the following bit of code:
This (correctly) display a message to the effect "There are no weather alerts for ...." when there are no weather alerts. However, when there is an alert, it simply displays a message like "Short-term forecast for ..." with no further information.
How are other people getting weather alert info in their conkys?
Is there a Linux Live Weather Radar Application for an InFocast Internet Media Display?I would like to receive live weather radar for area code 205 or 35125 zip code.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm using Icecat (aka Gnuzilla a Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13 ) When I select "open containing folder" it prompts "Choose an application" rather than defaulting it to the system's file management system (which in this case is Nautilus from Gnome desktop system).
Ubuntu 10.10 is the system I'm using. Does anyone know how to fix this so it will function normally?
I am running Ubuntu 9.10. When I open Evolution, it prompts me for a password to the default keyring. I am not sure what this is, but I would like to not have to do this. I looked around in Evolution and did not see a way to have this password entered automatically. I searched this forum and it found no results. So I don't know if my problem is unique or not.
View 3 Replies View RelatedWonder if someone out there can help me.
First, a small back-story. I upgraded my Mythbox to 9.10 last year, and as a backup path, I left the original HDD (sda) intact, and chucked a spare drive (sdc) in for the install. I just changed the boot order in the BIOS to boot from the spare drive, and all my data (/var/lib/mythtv/) is on a separate drive (sdb). The original drive is redundant, I just didn't get round to pulling it.
Now, I got a new 1TB drive today, transferred all my data onto it and swapped it for the old data drive, and at the same time pulled the unused old install drive. So I just have the new 9.10 (spare) install drive, and the new drive.
I changed my fstab with the correct UUID's of the drives, but at boot, I get 'gave up waiting for root filesystem on sdc1' and the intramfs prompt. Listing the drives by UUID, I have sda(1&2) and sdb(1&2).
I can get the system bootable again by putting the unused old install drive back, so that I have an sdc, but this is far from ideal, as I have a drive spinning away nearly 24/7 that is not needed.
Now, I thought that using UUID's got away from the whole sda/sdb/hda ... business, but it seems that the kernel is still looking for sdc1 to boot off.
FWIW, my fstab: The old and new data drives, and the boot drive are there, the redundant drive doesn't have an entry.
Code:
mythbox@mythbox-desktop:/$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
code....
So I guess I need to point grub to the correct location. Now I know I'm not supposed to edit grub.cfg, but I can't see how I can successfully boot the system in a state where running update-grub will pull the correct drive in. My thinking is that what I need to do is edit the
Code:
linux/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=/dev/sdc1 ro quiet splash hpet=disable
line to read
Code:
linux/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=4a5599f5-d409-42b5-a74f-0c689f15d73d ro quiet splash hpet=disable
Shutdown, pull the redundant drive, boot (hopefully anyway), then run update-grub.
I'm using a small "expect" script to automate password entry for some file copying.The automation works fine, but the "Password: " prompt still displays on the screen. How do I hide the prompts so the user doesn't see "Password: " on the console?Here's the relevant section of my script:
Code:
expect -c "spawn /usr/bin/scp -q $2 user@$1:$2
set timeout 60
[code]....
I know, I know, its a security feature. That doesn't make it any less annoying. I find the constant asking for my password to be every bit as irritating as Windows's UAC. When I want to use the terminal, or when I want to download something, I don't want to have to enter my password every time. I don't care that someone could theoretically do something to my computer in some way. I managed to stay out of harms way in windows with UAC off, I'm sure I can do it in ubuntu without the constant nagging of the password prompts. Its annoying and I am tired of dealing with it. Anyone know how to turn it off? I am really not looking for reasons to leave it on. Its the same with UAC: Yeah, it can keep you out of trouble. No, I don't want it on.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI'm relatively new to ubuntu and linux and for convenience I choose to surrender to the "ME" set-up by ubuntu, when it comes to using Empathy over my preferred Pidgin (I still use Thunderbird though without integration). The thing that annoys me is that the alert sounds, when I get chat massages and so on, are really low! Lot's of times I missed chats from friends because I didn't hear them. I've looked on the internet and I've tried different sound settings in the main preferences, but nothing. How to turn up the alert volume for Empathy?
View 1 Replies View RelatedWhen configured to save and restore running applications (System, Preferences, Start-up Applications, Options) the restoration of Firefox instances prompts for profile.
In my case Firefox was running with several different profiles. Each one was started with "-no-remote" and "-P [profile-name]".
Any ideas? Would it be possible to auto-close only Firefox windows?
How to fix the problem that is happening with gksu. It prompts me for the administrative password. I don't (for advised security reasons) have a password associated with the root account.
The sudo works fine and accepts my sudo password. Gksu fails with "incorect password... try again." error.
This is a new install of the Ubuntu Server 10.10 x64 Maverick edition.
Story: i use Fedora9 and i want to set up a FTP server whithout creating a home dir for each and every user, i want them to share 1 home dir. All users are in one group.Problem: i write the following:
Code:
root# useradd -d /home/ftp_home -g ftp_users -M user1
root# useradd -d /home/ftp_home -g ftp_users -M user2
[code]...
I have a server running ubuntu 8.10. I have monitoring software to monitor cerain devices on our LAN & WAN. However I need to set up e-mail on the server to mail me alerts for when something goes down. However this is where the problem comes in. I have never set up any mail clients on ubuntu server and am also not sure which one to use in this case. I have done some reading on squirrel mail and fetchmail. I am also aware there is roundcube and a few others available.
Here's my scenario: We have a mail server located off site. We use XP with Outlook on all our work machines. Outlook connects to the mail server using https with basic ntlm auth. So what I am trying to do is set up mail software to allow my server to send me an e-mail (using the above mail server) to my mail address so I get a mail whenever there's a problem with any of the devices being monitored.
how to send a message alert from the terminal?
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo I needed to remove linux from a dual boot, single drive setup I had going. Without thinking I was in Windows XP and formatted the linux partition I had created. After trying to reboot the computer I receive a Grub 1.5 Error 17 rightfully so.
I am having a hard time finding a solution... All I need to do is get the machine back to being able to boot into Windows without any prompts.
Kubuntu live CD prompts me for user name password, what is it? I've tried all obvious blank, kubuntu etc, none worked.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have set up an ssh server for myself and a friend to work on a project. It is configured to use password authentication, but I am somewhat uncomfortable giving him my password to get the files. I was wondering if there was any way to have a script that logs him on, filling in the password at the prompt. So that when "ssh xxxx@xxxxx" is run, the script fills in the prompt for the password rather than him filling it in.Of course he still could find the file within the script before it is run, but knowing his somewhat ADD nature it seems unlikely.
View 1 Replies View RelatedNot sure exactly how to explain it. My command prompt screens are appearing messed up.the resolution appears to have squeezed the command prompt vertically to just a few pixes at the top of the screen. The command prompt appears to also repeat several times horizontally. This is also the case with boot-up.I'm still in the experimental phases of learning how linux works, messing with GDM, and installing/installing some boot screen tweaks here and there to see what would happen.I can't quite remember exactly WHAT I did.
View 6 Replies View RelatedBasically I'm trying to create a bash script that'll ask for a folder name and then change into that folder.
Code:
Not real code but bare with me!
echo "Enter the desired folder and press [ENTER]
read $folder
cd $folder
pwd
/home/<user name>/<whatever the user entered>
Is this possible with bash or am I chasing a pipe dream?
How can recive nagios alerts via SMS,via SMS gateway XML API.
I have a sms gateway xml api & had writte a script in perl
NAGIOS SETUP
Can I have to install gateway module
I get no sound for anything, I am running Ubuntu Lucid-amd64. Pulseaudio detects my sound card, and appears to be playing to it when I look at pavucontrol. But I get no sound for anything, not even alerts. I don't eve know how to debug it, because everything I have looked at looks like it should be working. I have checked every mute button I can find, and nothing is muted that I can see. The relevant information for my sound card from lspci -v is:
View 6 Replies View RelatedDoes anyone know of any software that can monitor the Apache logs for certain phrases or keywords then send an alert when found? For example I know an attempt to hack has been made when I see log entries like this....
/admin/
/admin/phpadmin/
/phpadmin/
But by the time I see it, the attempt has long since failed or succeeded. What I need is a way for my server to alert me WHILE someone is entering these phrases. I realize there may be a "hit" to performance but my server is not that busy anyway (except for hackers).
I recently setup a server running subversion. It is working well and all, but I am curious as to how to make it send out email alerts to my team when a commit occurs.Also, are their any good GUI tools to manage a subversion server in Ubuntu. The command line is fine since I made some scripts but a nice GUI would be great! Maybe that could be a fun project to work on.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently installed Avant Window Navigator and worked fine. My problem is that I don't have on any preferences tab the option to Alert me when Window receive updates. It seems the new version does not have it as previous versions.I was wondering how can I enable the Alerts when Updates are received in windows.PS. I checked all tabs and seems this option is missed.I forgot to mention that I am also new at GNU/Linux.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have a standard home set-up for my Ubuntu OS, and I would like to know whether its possible to cut out the repetitive prompts to enter the password, as when you connect to the internet or access files on a partition that's not home, or install new software.
View 1 Replies View RelatedWas just wondering if there was a way to disable the password prompts that pop open every time I try to install something. Is there a way to do that?
View 3 Replies View RelatedIt's been awhile since I've been on here. I suppose that can be considered a good thing, since I made the completely transfer to Ubuntu three months ago and everything's been running completely smoothly. Anyway, security is a pretty big thing to me. I usually change the root password, take sudo off (and default gksu, not gksudo), encrypt my hard drives, etc... One thing I also do is create a separate password for my login keyring. I don't mind having to enter one extra password at login, but it started prompting two times, and now three. It's the same password every time, so my question is..
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have configured Nagios on SLES 10 SP2. I could configure nagios but 2 things are not working correctly.
1.It doesnt show correct disk utilization for /local partition.
2.It doesnt send Alerts.
I have installed NAGIOS (nagios-3.2.0-11.1, nagios-plugins-1.4.14-11.1 and few other which are required to remove dependency) on server and I have installed nagios (nagios-plugins-1.4.14-11.1, nagios-nrpe-client-2.12-11.1 and few other packages to remove dependency) on client.
Configuration files from NAGIOS server: nagios.cfg (Since this file is big, I have copied the relevant portion only. Let me know if any specific info is required from this file)=>
log_file=/var/log/nagios/nagios.log
cfg_file=/etc/nagios/objects/commands.cfg
cfg_file=/etc/nagios/objects/contacts.cfg
cfg_file=/etc/nagios/objects/contactgroups.cfg
cfg_file=/etc/nagios/objects/timeperiods.cfg
[Code].....
I'm seeing a problem on RHEL5, whereby all users can receive mail (/var/spool/mail/<user>), but only root gets a new mail alert when logging in.
The relevant bash variables ($MAIL, $MAILCHECK) seem to be set for all users.
I have ubuntu 9.10 and i have mailx and smtp installed and getting them running so I can get this script to send email alerts. I been trying to get smtp running with my isp stmp server but I been having problems with it. getting this running with a stmp server. and if a good stmp server for sending mail let me know what it is. I have heard of postfix and I like to know if I should use it instead of smtp.
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