sheepy.org - sheepy goings on...

Another site that I've just added to my feed list.

Quite a few things on here I wasn't aware of such as:

find . -name 'file-*' -delete

is much faster than

find . -name 'file-*' -exec rm {} \;

although I need to test how it compares to:

find . -name 'file-*' | xargs rm


BASH Cures Cancer

Apparently the Drupal 6.0 passed me by completely..

Will look at upgrading soon to see what's new

Drupal 6.0 released | drupal.org

So first we have the BT Voyger that gave out your username and password if you asked it nicely.

Then, yet again, BT ship a router which another flaw in it.

I've always had this gut feeling that UPnP was bad. It allows machines on your network to modify, for example, settings on your router without any authentication.

So I've been playing with conky again and wanted it to check all my email accounts for new mail.

I found this script but I wanted to check multiple accounts and show the total mail count in my inbox.

After some hacking here is what I came up with... and yes I've removed the base64 encoding as it doesn't add any security what so ever!

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require "optparse"
require "net/imap"
#
# Parse options
#
def parse_options(args)

  # Hash to hold options
  options = Hash.new

  parser = OptionParser.new do |opts|

    opts.on('-H host', '--host host', 'Host') do |v|
      options[:host] = v
    end

    opts.on('-u user', '--user user', 'User') do |v|
      options[:user] = v
    end

    opts.on('-p password', '--password password', 'Password') do |v|
      options[:password] = v
    end

    opts.on('-h', '--help', 'Displays usage information') do
      puts opts
      exit 1
    end
  end

  # Parse Parameters
  begin
    parser.parse!(args)
  rescue OptionParser::ParseError => e
    puts "Parse Error: " + e
    puts parser.to_a
  end

  # Check for required params
  if (options.has_key?(:host) && options.has_key?(:user) && options.has_key?(:password))
    #
    # Return options
    #
    options
  else
    puts parser.to_a
    exit 1
  end

end
options = parse_options(ARGV)

#
# Lets check some mail!
#
imap = Net::IMAP.new(options[:host])
imap.login(options[:user], options[:password])

#
# Get total mail
#
status = imap.status("inbox", ["MESSAGES", "UNSEEN"])
puts "#{status['UNSEEN']}/#{status['MESSAGES']}"
imap.disconnect