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This is a test of the TomboyBlogposter plugin

  • June 25th, 2008

TomboyBlogposter plugin

It’s a plugin that allows simple posting of a Gnome Tomboy note to a Wordpress, Blogger or LiveJournal blog (or anything else that supports the Atom Publishing Protocol). It doesn’t allow setting of Wordpress tags, categories or basically anything else except the title and the body text. But it is a convenient way to quickly get a draft post written and put it on the queue … so if you are already using Tomboy, it’s worth a try.

You can get it at: http://flukkost.nu/blog/tomboyblogposter/
Ubuntu packages at: https://launchpad.net/~hanno-stock/+archive

A visual guide to the crontab file

  • June 19th, 2008

I sometimes need to remind myself how to edit that crontab file … today I found a great little graphic on the Linuxconfig wiki that sums it up nicely:

The values in the crontab file

Sometimes, I also pipe the stdout and stderr somewhere (like “/usr/local/sbin/backup.sh >>/var/logs/backups.log 2>/var/logs/backups.err“) if I want to avoid getting emails with the output from cron … (although in the example above, which looks like a backup script, I’d probably rather be emailed with a warning that my backups were succeeding or failing).

Thanks Linuxconfig !

Update:

After some FriendFeed discussion, it was noted that the crontab above is a “system crontab”, not the typical “user crontab” you would edit by typing “crontab -e” at the command line. For the “user crontab”, you don’t specify the user (the blue field, “root” in the example above).