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Tuesday March 04, 2003

Moblogger enabled for this blog

I enabled Russ's Mobblogger for this site this evening. In fact, I'm typing this post in an e-mail (complete with HTML). I found a couple of issues and I have a couple of questions:

Issue #1: The FTP doesn't seem to support symlinks. I wanted to create a symlink so the <ftpDir> would point to my /repository/images directory. No dice. It wouldn't recognize the symlink as a directory. As a workaround, I put a symlink in /repository to point to ~/moblog/media.

Issue #2: Moblogger uses a relative path for it's URLs in images and other media. Right now, it's hard-coded to do <img src="media/filename.ext" .../> I altered the MailProcessor.java class to use a path for my media assets of "/repository/media" so that the above symlink would work. Since Roller uses /page/username for its sites, a relative path wouldn't work. Maybe this could be a configuration parameter - hint, hint ;-)

Issue #3: The script to run mobblogger on *nix didn't have quartz.jar in the classpath. And for some reason, I had to remove "#!/bin/sh" from the top of the file in order for it to run on my RedHat 8 machine. And it also only runs while I'm logged in. Does anyone know how to set this up to run constantly? Should I do it as a cron job or something? It's just a java -cp ... command.

I might set this up on the server where this site is hosted, but it seems to work fine on my local machine right now, so I'll just leave it there. I doubt I'll even ever use it. For one, I don't have a camera for my phone, and that'd be the only really cool thing to use it for. Maybe I'll post an e-mail everyone once it awhile, but most of the posts I want to write are pretty long. That might take a while, even with T9. Oh well, it's still cool software and I dig it. Thanks Russ!

Posted in General at Mar 04 2003, 10:29:28 PM MST 1 Comment
Comments:

<cite>"Does anyone know how to set this up to run constantly?"</cite>

If you'd like to run a command and keep it running even after you log out, you could either use <code>nohup command</code> (nohup is "no hang up", so command does not terminate after you log out), or make it a "system" service (<code>/etc/init.d/ script</code>).

If you want to run a command periodically, you could use <code>crontab</code>; <code>man crontab</code> should help.

Posted by Greg Klebus on March 05, 2003 at 07:08 AM MST #

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