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pseudomonas) wrote2011-08-18 10:41 pm
pseudomonas) wrote2011-08-18 10:41 pm
checking I'm at home and online
Just for my own reference, and in case anyone else wants to do this:
I have jobs on my laptop that I want to run at home, but not automatically on someone else's network (might be bandwidth intensive, for instance). I also wanted the script to notify me that it's started running.
I have them in a bash script that I can run manually with ./script.bash or in a cron job as /path/to/script.bash cron
Within the scripts, the relevant lines are:
I had to fiddle and web-search a bit to work out how to get things working. /sbin/ not being in path for cron jobs was a bit of a gotcha. I run Xubuntu 11.04 FWIW.
I have jobs on my laptop that I want to run at home, but not automatically on someone else's network (might be bandwidth intensive, for instance). I also wanted the script to notify me that it's started running.
I have them in a bash script that I can run manually with ./script.bash or in a cron job as /path/to/script.bash cron
Within the scripts, the relevant lines are:
test "$1" != "cron" || (/sbin/iwconfig wlan1 | grep 'ESSID:"PSEUDOMONAS_ESSID"') || exit DISPLAY=:0.0 XAUTHORITY=~/.Xauthority notify-send "Notification" "Starting jobs"
I had to fiddle and web-search a bit to work out how to get things working. /sbin/ not being in path for cron jobs was a bit of a gotcha. I run Xubuntu 11.04 FWIW.