Posted by
alj on
13 March 2010, 1:45 pm
Just a quick note to let you know that www.nowhere.dk is now accessible through IPv6
$ host -t AAAA www.nowhere.dk
www.nowhere.dk CNAME coredump.nowhere.dk
coredump.nowhere.dk AAAA 2001:2010:0:2:0:0:0:DEAD
The only thing I had to do was to enable IPv6 in Lighttpd, enable IPv6 in ufw (done in /etc/default/ufw) and then re-add any rules to ufw that affect IPv6 (like web and ssh). The last part is crucial and not very well documented.
Posted by
alj on
6 March 2010, 3:21 pm
After completing my script to deliver Irssi notifications to the Linux desktop using Perl (IPC::Message::Minivan and Desktop::Notify), I wondered if this framework could be extended to Windows (since I have a Windows desktop at work).
I have previously looked at Growl (on Linux) and think it is cumbersome to get the notifications across the network – but ended up using it anyway since it’s an easy way to display notifications in Windows (and probably in MacOS as well). There is a another Growl script for Irssi but I wanted to make my own that plugs into Minivan because I wanted the pop ups to look the same on all computers (at least the wording).
On Windows
- Download Grow for Windows and install it.
- Download MyEnTunnel and install it.
- If you haven’t already (which I am guessing you have) then download Putty SSH client and install it
- Configure MyEnTunnel to match your configuration, create a remote tunnel: <random port number>:localhost:23053 – The random port is important and will be used later
On the server running Irssi
- Install the Minivan – See this article
- Install Growl::GNTP
$ sudo apt-get install libcrypt-cbc-perl libdata-uuid-perl
$ sudo perl -MCPAN -e 'Growl::GNTP'
- Install the script
#!/usr/bin/perl
# The IRC icon is from here: http://aurls.info/4o
use strict
;
use warnings
;
use IPC
::Message::Minivan;
use Encode
;
use Growl
::GNTP;
use Data
::Dumper;
if ($#ARGV != 0
) {
print "Usage: irssi-notify-growl.pl <port number>\n";
exit;
}
my $port = $ARGV[0
];
my $van = IPC
::Message::Minivan->new(host
=> 'localhost');
$van->subscribe("#irssi");
my $growl = Growl
::GNTP->new(
AppName
=> "Irssi",
PeerHost
=> "localhost",
PeerPort
=> $port,
Password
=> "",
AppIcon
=> "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/262048/www.nowhere.dk/files/irc.png"
);
$growl->register([
{ Name
=> "irssi", },
]);
$growl->notify(
Event
=> "irssi",
Title
=> "Minivan",
Message
=> "Connection established"
);
while (1
) {
if (my $cmd = $van->get(5
,[])) {
if ($cmd->[0
] eq '#irssi') {
my $c=$cmd->[1
];
my $message = $c->{msg
};
my $summary = $c->{summary
};
$growl->notify(
Event
=> "irssi",
Title
=> $summary,
Message
=> $message,
);
}
}
} Copy the script to ~/bin/irssi-notify-growl.pl.
- Make the script executable and run it as
irssi-notify-growl.pl <port number>
The port number is the one you chose on the Windows machine for your remote tunnel – You need to run an instance of the script for each Growl-client.
Just a quick note to let you know that www.nowhere.dk is now accessible through IPv6
