[ILUG] Slashdot New Story Notifier ;)

[Guest, Ken]

Heh,
http://www.linux.ie/backend/ also springs to mind.


#-----Original Message-----
#From: McDaid, Aaron [mailto:Aaron.McDaid at compaq.com]
#Sent: 03 May 2000 17:02
#To: Ilug (E-mail)
#Subject: [ILUG] Slashdot New Story Notifier ;)
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#
#Thought some of you might like this:
#Should I GPL it ;) Maybe I could generalize it
#to check a few others sites (including kuro5hin.org,
#segfault.org etc.)
#It's a bit messy but then again I don't claim to
#be a shell scripting expert (I'll have a look at
#http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/programming/introbashscript.html
#mentioned in recent days)
#
##!/bin/bash
#cd ~hoss10/checkslash
#cp new old
#wget -O - slashdot.org|./firststory.pl>new
#if (test ! -s new) then
#  cp old new
#fi
#if !(diff new old) then
#  cat new|smbclient -M dcsu_2000
#fi
#
#It's run by cron every 5 minutes on a Linux machine
#in a server room here in work. It there's been a
#new story since the last time it ran it uses
#smbclient (part of samba) to pop a message on any/most
#Windows boxes. ie. my win2k box
#
#The firststory.pl is a perl script that reads the
#first story title from STDIN and puts it on STDOUT
#
#The first if statement is in case there was an error,
#which would leave new empty and then notify me about
#the same story twice!
#
#Saves me refreshing www.slashdot.org every 5 minutes
#when I'm bored
#
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