My question is, why don't you use Gmail & then use Evolution to access Gmail through IMAP so you never have to worry about this crap again? Or better yet, just use the Web interface?
Scott -- R. Scott Granneman [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books "My job is a decision-making job. And as a result, I make a lot of decisions." ---George W. Bush, 3 October 2007 On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:04 AM, Nathan Nutter <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- 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
