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Folder Monitoring Script using Inotifywait
Posted by on March 13, 2012
Though it is not failsafe nor flawless, but currently it is working great for me. Here’s a script that enables to monitor the events from a specified folder/directory.
First install the inotify-tools:
apt-get install inotify-tools
Here’s my current code, feel free to enhance.
#!/bin/bash # monitor file changes in a target directory if [ "$*" = "" ]; then echo "File Monitoring" echo "USAGE: $0 <target directory>" | sed "s/.\///g" echo "" exit 0 fi LOGDIR="$HOME/.log" if [ ! -d $LOGDIR ]; then mkdir -p $LOGDIR fi TARGET_DIR="$*" LOGNAME="$LOGDIR/`date -I`.log" inotifywait -m -r --format '%T %e %w%f' --timefmt '%F %T' -e modify -e move -e create -e delete $TARGET_DIR | while read line do echo "$line" >> $LOGNAME done exit 0
Converting Multiple Images via BASH Script
Posted by on February 21, 2012
Previously, I posted a flawed script that be able to convert images and lower their resolution as well, though it works for me, but found it very problematic sometimes. Here’s another script I made to perform same purpose: Convert the image to either jpg|png|pdf|tif and has an option to modify the quality [1% to 100%].
example:
converting all images in /home/user/Desktop/rawimg to PDF with 50% quality
$> convert2.sh /home/user/Desktop/rawimg pdf 50
Here’s my script:
#!/bin/bash
TARGET_LOCATION="$1"
TARGET_TYPE="$2"
QUALITY="$3"
if [ "$1" = "" ] ; then
echo "$0 <image location> <image type> [quality] "
echo "convert a specific folder that contains images to different format and quality"
echo "[imagetype] - can be either pdf jpg png tif"
echo "[quality] - from 1 to 100%, default is 100%"
exit
fi
if [[ $2 =~ jpg|png|pdf|tif ]] ; then
MODE=1
else
echo "please select image type from jpg,png,pdf or tif"
exit
fi
if [ "$3" = "" ]; then
QUALITY="100"
fi
find $TARGET_LOCATION -maxdepth 1 -type f > /tmp/tmpfile
cat /tmp/tmpfile | \
while read FILENAME; do
# echo "convert '$FILENAME' -quality $QUALITY '$FILENAME.$TARGET_TYPE'"
BARENAME=$(echo "$FILENAME" | cut -d'.' -f1)
EXTENSIONNAME=$(echo ${FILENAME: -4} | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]')
if [[ $EXTENSIONNAME =~ jpg|png|pdf|tif ]]; then
convert "$FILENAME" -quality $QUALITY "$BARENAME.$TARGET_TYPE"
fi
done
rm -f /tmp/tmpfile
exit 0
keyboard: can’t emulate rawmode for keycode 240
Posted by on December 3, 2011
Installing fresh Ubuntu 11.10 and check out what Unity and Gnome-shell has to offer, everything works great until I found something..syslog error message appears very frequent: “keyboard: can’t emulate rawmode for keycode 240“. I remember having this problem in my previous Ubuntu 11.04 installation on my Lenovo z370 laptop, thought it’s gone back then..but to the point on installing newer kernel which is Linux kernel 3.1.
As I’m going to compile Linux kernel again to make everything work. I found a much simplier solution. Here’s how:
1. Install dkms (Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework)
$> sudo apt-get install dkms
2. Download the ideapad-laptop package which supposed to be fore natty narwhal but still working greate on oneiric.
$> cd ~/Downloads $> wget https://launchpad.net/~lexical/+archive/ideapad/+build/2529783/+files/ideapad-laptop-dkms_0.1-1ubuntu1~foshan2_all.deb $> sudo dpkg -i ideapad-laptop-dkms_0.1-1ubuntu1~foshan2_all.deb
3. Reboot for everything to work in effect.
4. Done.
Change Gnome3 Background via script.
Posted by on October 26, 2011
Previously using gconftool-2 to replace the current desktop wallpaper via a script (normally a starting bash script). But with Gnome3 its not working anymore. As an alternative or should I say the proper way to do it in Gnome3 is via dconf-tools. Here’s the sample command via console:
$> gsettings list-recursively
will list all known schema and keys
$> gsettings list-keys org.gnome.desktop.background
will list all keys under the defined schema.
$> gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri
to change the value, enter this command:
$> gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file:///path/filename"
Done.
Lxpanel freeze after closing LibreOffice document.
Posted by on September 5, 2011
As of Ubuntu 11.04, the package lxpanel 0.5.6 and Libreoffice 3.3.x, the bug still exist, freezing lxpanel after saving and closing current ODF files. I suspected lxpanel bug, looking it over the Internet and haven’t found any confirmation that it actually does the freezing. While seeking answers over the Internet I’ve found this bug thread: (click here), which fixes my problem, I’m not 100% sure it will work on all cases though, but good enough to give it a try.
1. Install the necessary libraries and tools to compile the lxpanel 0.5.8 from source.
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev libmenu-cache1-dev intltool
2. Download the lxpanel 0.5.8 source from here, of check the newest version here.
3. Compile the source code. Go to the folder of lxpanel source and perform the following command:
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
4. Logout the current session or reboot your machine to confirm.
5. Done.
Mount All Available CIFS Shares using GVFS
Posted by on August 17, 2011
Here’s a bash script that will automatically mount all available SAMBA shares that has access permission for the current user. The script composes of two part: (1) The script itself and (2) the user’s credentials.
But current problem is that the user must store the password to access the SAMBA shares in the keyring before the script runs smoothly. It requires the user to access the any of the permitted shares and store the password permanently to the keyring, then add the script to the Startup Applications(System Settings -> Startup Applications)
Autfile is a simple text file contain the following:
username = myuser password = mypass domain = localdomain servername = localserver
Here’s the code:
#!/bin/bash
ARGS="$*"
BASEDIR="/home/rnartos/.scripts/uicsmb"
OPTYPE=""
CMDTYPE=""
FILTERARGS=`echo "$ARGS" | sed 's/ /#/g' | sed 's/-/ -/g'`
AUTHFILE="$BASEDIR/authfile"
NETBASENAME="WinShares"
if [ ! -f $AUTHFILE ]; then
echo "ERROR: neither default or user-defined authfile not exist."
exit 0
fi
for CMD in $FILTERARGS; do
MCMD=`echo $CMD | sed 's/#/ /g'| awk '{print $1}' `
#umount
if [ "$MCMD" = "-u" ]; then
OPTYPE=" -u "
fi
#help
if [ "$CMD" = "-h" ]; then
echo "GFVS WinShares - rnartos"
echo "$0 -u -a <authfile> -h"
echo "-u umount current shares"
echo "-a process authentication file"
echo "-h this help message."
exit 0
fi
#authfile
if [ "$MCMD" = "-a" ]; then
PCMD=`echo $CMD | sed 's/#/ /g'| awk '{print $2}' `
if [ "$PCMD" = "" ]; then
echo "ERROR: parameters for -a <authfile>"
else
if [ -f $PCMD ]; then
AUTHFILE="$PCMD"
else
echo "$PCMD authfile not exist."
exit 0
fi
fi
fi
done
SERVERNAME=`cat $AUTHFILE | grep servername | sed 's/=//g' | awk '{print $2}'`
DOMAINNAME=`cat $AUTHFILE | grep domain | sed 's/=//g' | awk '{print $2}'`
USERNAME=`cat $AUTHFILE | grep username | sed 's/=//g' | awk '{print $2}'`
PASSWORD=`cat $AUTHFILE | grep password | sed 's/=//g' | awk '{print $2}'`
CHECKMOUNT=`gvfs-mount -l | grep "smb:"`
GETIP=`nmblookup $SERVERNAME | grep -v "query" | awk '{print $1}'`
GETSHARES=`smbclient --debuglevel=0 -A $AUTHFILE -L $SERVERNAME -I $GETIP -g 2>/dev/null | grep "Disk" | sed 's/|/ /g' | awk '{print $2}'`
WINSHARENAME="$HOME/$NETBASENAME/$DOMAINNAME/$SERVERNAME"
if [ ! -d $WINSHARENAME ]; then
mkdir -p $WINSHARENAME
fi
for NAMES in $GETSHARES; do
CHECKSHARE=`smbclient //$SERVERNAME/$NAMES -A $AUTHFILE -c '' 2> /dev/null | grep 'DENIED'`
if [ "x$CHECKSHARE" = "x" ]; then
if [ "$OPTYPE" = "" ]; then
if [ "$CHECKMOUNT" = "" ]; then
CMDTYPE="mounting"
fi
else
CMDTYPE="umounting"
fi
if [ "$CMDTYPE" = "" ]; then
echo "Shares Already mounted."
exit 0
else
echo "$CMDTYPE $NAMES"
if [ "$OPTYPE" = "" ]; then
gvfs-mount $OPTYPE smb://$SERVERNAME/$NAMES 2> /dev/null
GVFSNAME=`echo $NAMES | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`
ln -sf "$HOME/.gvfs/$GVFSNAME on $SERVERNAME" $WINSHARENAME/$NAMES
else
gvfs-mount $OPTYPE smb://$SERVERNAME/$NAMES 2> /dev/null
fi
fi
fi
done
exit 0
Novell iManager workstation on Ubuntu 11.04
Posted by on July 19, 2011
Currently unning a Novell eDirectory LDAP service and wonder how to use iManager on your Ubuntu workstation.
Here’s how:
1. Download the latest iManager Workstation for Linux in Novell Download Center
2. Extract the package (for me usually in $HOME/Desktop)
3. Install the necessary packages and libraries for alien (alien, libstdc++5, gcc), installing alien package also includes rpm in the requirements.
4. Prepare NICI for installation.
$> cd $HOME/Desktop/imanager $> cd NICI/linux $> sudo alien -d --scripts nici.i386.rpm $> sudo dpkg -i nici_2.7.3-1.01_i386.deb
5. Modify the current iManager.sh in the bin folder ($HOME/Desktop/imanager/bin) and remove the word ”function” in every functions of the script.
example:
function CHECK_PERMISSIONS() { echo "Test permissions" > $IMANAGER_BIN_NATIVE_DIR/perm.txt .... }
should be
CHECK_PERMISSIONS()
{
echo "Test permissions" > $IMANAGER_BIN_NATIVE_DIR/perm.txt
....
}
5. In the STARTMANAGER() function, remove the CHECK_NICI;
6. Save the script and do some test run.
$> cd $HOME/Desktop/imanager/bin $> ./iManager.sh
7. Done.
Ubuntu 11.04 Shutdown and Restart Problem with CIFS
Posted by on June 30, 2011
UPDATE(07/29/2011): The GRUB thing didn’t work at all, back to basic trapping signal via upstart scripts in /etc/init/dbus.conf. I tried it before using /etc/init/network-manager.conf but on Ubuntu 10.10, it’s not working anymore. Here’s another test and works for me.
1. Modify the current /etc/init/dbus.conf.
$> sudo vi /etc/init/dbus.conf
2. Add a pre-stop script, which looks like this:
pre-stop script trap "TERM signal" TERM /bin/umount -a -t cifs -l -f trap - TERM end script
3. Save the script and have a test.
4. Done.
UPDATE(07/28/2011): Found a better alternative via GRUB, link here. Mainly you just need to modify the /etc/default/grub. Here’s the details:
1. Edit the /etc/default/grub
$> sudo vi /etc/default/grub
2. Add “reboot=pci” on the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX line, it should look something like this:
... GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="reboot=pci" ...
3. Update the grub
$> sudo update-grub
4. Done
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It’s an ancient bug (here), which still exist in Ubuntu 11.04, or even in other distros. When you got a mounted samba shares before the shutdown or restart process, the machine waits for around 10 minutes before it complete the operation. Very troublesome that’s why I tried various workaround but none of them works with Ubuntu 11.04. Not even the /etc/rc6.d/K* or the upstart /etc/init configurations, nor the old python script I posted before (here’s the link).
After few considerations, I made a desperate workaround, creating a script that triggers before the /sbin/shutdown, /sbin/reboot and /sbin/restart commands.
1. Rename the current shutdown, reboot and restart commands in /sbin.
#> mv /sbin/shutdown /sbin/shutdown2 #> mv /sbin/reboot /sbin/reboot2 #> mv /sbin/restart /sbin/restart2
2. Then create scripts with names of the previous commands in /sbin, which contains the following:
#!/bin/sh umount -t cifs -a -f -l /sbin/shutdown2 $@ exit 0
3. Make similar script for reboot and restart command which also points to /sbin/reboot2 and /sbin/restart2.
4. Until the dbus implementation of stop on deconfiguring-networking comes to Ubuntu 11.04, which I think working with
Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric. I think this is the least workaround that works for me.
5. Done
Ubuntu 11.04 Missing Indicators or System Tray Items
Posted by on June 28, 2011
GMail Notifier and Vuze are some of my mostly used application, and when I upgraded my previously 10.04 to 11.04 system (Ubuntu), I noticed that some of my currently running application that has system tray icon or indicator gone in the Unity side panel and in the system tray area. Googled it and found this link: Ubuntu 11.04 Fix: Show All Icons/Indicators Notification Area.
The quickest way to deal with it is the following:
1. From console:
$> gsettings set com.canonical.Unity.Panel systray-whitelist "['all']"
2. Then refresh the Unity. Press Alt-F2 and type:
unity --replace
3. Done.
