With Arch Linux switching to using systemd I needed a systemd.service file for node.js and there didn’t seem to be one. Or at least I couldn’t find one. So I wrote one.
It requires forever to daemonize node.
3dgo.net
Life, the Universe, and Everything
Init Script for Calibre Server
I use the very excellent Calibre to make my ebooks accessible to all of my devices anywhere I am. It has a very useful server component that many ebook readers can use to download content. What I was missing was a way to automatically start/stop calibre-server. For that,I put together this rc script for Arch Linux.
#!/bin/bash
. /etc/rc.conf
. /etc/rc.d/functions
CONTENT=/mnt/miscellaneous/Books/Literary
PORT=8080
DAEMON=calibre-server
PIDFILE=/var/run/$DAEMON.pid
ARGS="--auto-reload --with-library=$CONTENT --pidfile=$PIDFILE --port=$PORT --daemonize"
case "$1" in
start)
stat_busy "Starting $DAEMON"
[ -z "$PID" ] && $DAEMON $ARGS &>/dev/null
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
add_daemon $DAEMON
stat_done
else
stat_fail
exit 1
fi
;;
stop)
stat_busy "Stopping $DAEMON"
PID=`cat $PIDFILE`
[ -n "$PID" ] && kill $PID &>/dev/null
if [ $? = 0 ]; then
rm_daemon $DAEMON
stat_done
else
stat_fail
exit 1
fi
;;
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac
SmugMug Upload
A while back I created a set of scripts to upload files to SmugMug using php. I have recently rewritten that uploader and made it available on BitBucket. It should work almost exactly the same but it is generally better organized.
Pull info from Pithos for Conky
I switched from pianobar to Pithos as pianobar didn’t work as well with conky as I would have liked. The script below lets me get information from Pithos that I can use in pianobar.
#!/usr/bin/php
< ?php
$song=`dbus-send --print-reply --dest=net.kevinmehall.Pithos /net/kevinmehall/Pithos net.kevinmehall.Pithos.GetCurrentSong`;
$matches = array();
switch($argv[1]) {
case 'album':
$pattern = '~"album".*?"(.*?)".*~s';
break;
case 'title':
$pattern = '~"title".*?"(.*?)".*~s';
break;
case 'artist':
$pattern = '~"artist".*?"(.*?)".*~s';
break;
default:
exit;
}
preg_match($pattern, $song, $matches);
if($matches) {
echo $matches[1];
}
Conky Config
Conky is a program for Linux that allows you to display things in a seriously configurable way. This is the config I put together. It is based pretty heavily off of one I found somewhere.
Files and such are here: http://min.us/mVl9vnJGN
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