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Setting default monitor for Ubuntu
When using dual screen the gnome panels automatically get attached to the default monitor. If you have something like nvidia x-config you can easily change this using their software, but what if you don’t? Open up a new terminal window and enter: xrandr –prop | grep "[^dis]connected" | cut –delimiter=" " -f1 This will display [...]
Automatic Website Screenshots
I wanted to make an archive of certain sites at a regular interval. But how to get a screenshot of a website automatically? I found this http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/413 which was almost there but not really what I was looking for. I have adapted the script to closer meet my requirements. #!/bin/bash SITE="http://www.hackthis.co.uk" FILE="hackthis-$(date +%F).jpg" vncserver :1 [...]
Connect to SSH with bash script
sudo nano /bin/connect #!/usr/bin/expect -f spawn ssh user@example.com match_max 100000 # Wait for password prompt expect "*password:*" send — "password\r" send — "\r" interact #expect eof Changes need to be made on these lines: spawn ssh user@example.com send — “password\r” Now allow the script to be executed by all users on your system sudo chmod [...]
Checking if a file has been modified using Bash and Crontab – Part 2
After reading the first part you should already know I have a fully working bash script. That will launch a screened PHP script if a file has not been edited for the previous 15 minutes. This part we will be looking at automating the script using crontab. A crontab file contains instructions to the cron [...]
Checking if a file has been modified using Bash and Crontab – Part 1
I needed to check if a file had been edited in the last 15 minutes. This seemed like the simplest way to check if a PHP script was still running. I started off by creating a bash script the, hopefully, would compare the current time and the last modified time stamp on the file. I [...]