Hacks of the Week

[papoanaya]

All quiet

After the noreastern it seems that we dodge most of the snow, unlike those in the midwest of the US. Those guys got hammered really bad. By the time we got out of bed, the snow already melted.

i3

I'm giving i3 another go in my Linux netbook. I use wmii daily, but it is being deprecated by the Suckless team. I like wmii because it is easier to compile and I have wrote a newLISP driver for it. But being that wmii is no longer being maintained, I am giving i3 a try because of its similarities to wmii.

Status.Net Xymon = Status Logs

I have a couple of small systems at home in which I monitor using Xymon to keep tabs on it. It provides a dashboard on the status on their health. This works well, but there is no way I can have like a small scrolling window that alerts me when there is something wrong on the system. That's where I thought of using status.net for that.

I have an installation of status.net which I used to test the port of the identica-mode.el to S/XEmacs. To get those alerts into status.net, I coded a small script in newLISP that xymon will use to add a post every time a change on the monitored systems is detected by xymon.

The message provides a very basic statement on with the system name, the affected service and the detected status. Those posts are stamped into a dedicated group in status.net. This allows me to get a list of those changes in a single place.

So far it has worked well, let's see how it goes.