I don't know if notify-osd is available for LTS but if it is I believe it (or maybe it was libnotify) has a command line util to display popups. You could display a "sticky" message, i.e. it doesn't go away, warning of this.
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 23:28 -0500, Robert Citek wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Theresa Kehoe <[email protected]> wrote: >> > So Robert, if you're reading this thread, and if you're bored, how >> > *would* one go about writing a simple cron script to run once-daily, to >> > check the file size of every file in ~/.evolution/mail/local/ and give >> > the user a warning if any file is larger than 1.5GB? >> >> Yup, reading thread. Nope, not bored, just need a break from other >> stuff. Cron job: >> >> $ crontab -l >> >> SHELL=/bin/bash >> >> # field allowed values >> # ----- -------------- >> # /----------- minute 0-59 >> # | /--------- hour 0-23 >> # | | /------- day of month 1-31 >> # | | | /----- month 1-12 (or names, see below) >> # | | | | /--- day of week 0-7 (0 or 7 is Sun, or use names) >> # | | | | | >> * * * * * date > /tmp/date.log >> >> Find files that exceed 1.5 GB in size: >> >> $ find /home/rwcitek/.evolution/mail/local/ -size +1500M -ls | >> head -1 | >> grep -q . && >> echo yes >> >> The question is, how do you want to be warned? > > > > Not by email :) > > If I'm willing to go through some hoops, I can sudo apt-get install > linpopup, tweak the system to start it up at login, take your script's > output (as a .txt file), and: > > cat output.txt | smbclient -M shiny > > So long as I'm willing to always have linpopup minimized. Otherwise, if > it's not running, it will store the messages but not display them. > > I can't assume there will be a terminal, so sending a message that way > won't work, either. > > What would you suggest? I haven't really found any easy way to do this. > > Theresa > > -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > To post: [email protected] > To subscribe: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
