New subject: [trinity-users] "Arbitrary changes to their UI"

10 Dec 2016

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On 16-12-09 09:47 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
...
     I made a
workaround for this problem when gkrellm weather plugin
 stopped working.
 It is only a Perl script (native to the plugin) to modify.
 If   you are interested I can send it with instructions to this
 list.

 Cheers.  Please, send away!  And thank you, as a perl geek I am not. I speak
 just enough C or assembly(on a 6x09 platform), to be dangerous.  Here is  the Perl
script in attachment :-)
 The problem is that the URL to fetch the weather data changed and the
 data format too...

 The script name is: GrabWeather
 To install it, replace the existing one in /usr/share/gkrellm/:
 sudo cp GrabWeather /usr/share/gkrellm/
 make sure it is executable:
 sudo chmod 755 /usr/share/gkrellm/GrabWeather

 Then restart gkrellm.
 That's it!  I didn't kill the old one, but renamed it, And made all the
rights &
 owners match the old one. Stopped gkrellm & restarted it several times
 but no difference.  The url address in the old one had been patched
 once, and that is still that address in the "get your station ID at"
 box.

 Running as root ./GRabWeather KCKB returns nothing, and as me:
 ./GrabWeather KCKB
 Cannot specify both -k and -O if multiple URLs are given, or in
 combination
 with -p or -r. See the manual for details.

 Usage: wget [OPTION]... [URL]...

 Manual? I doubt if the old one applies to this code.

 Call me puzzled. Sorry it did not worked the first time, BUT...

Could you try the new script in attachment?

Execute it at the command line with your city code as an argument.
ex: ./GrabWeather KCKB

  If the script worked properly, there should be 2 files in 
~/.wmWeatherReports/ directory:
KCKB.dat
KCKB.txt
Their timestamp must reflect they were just created.

When I execute it, ls -l ~/.wmWeatherReports/ gives me:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal  98 Dec 10 07:10 KCKB.dat
-rw-rw-r-- 1 pascal pascal 601 Dec 10 07:10 KCKB.TXT

If so the script worked as expected and you can install it safely in 
/usr/share/gkrellm/

Hope it will be OK this time :-)

midi-pascal

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