Detect new upgrades graphically (XFCE and others DE)

[JRD]

The sudo idea does not sound good for me, either. sudo is somehow a security leak, especially then without password requirement configured. We should not start the "Ubuntu way" ( ) of doing things, nevertheless Ubuntu asks for user's password, it is cached for a period of time. Setting suid flag for update-process-notifier or using a little daemon script will be the nicer way of doing such a watch job. What if you run on a server, i would not suggest such things, but what if the user likes it?

You will learn that sudo could be used in a better and more sure way than Ubuntu does.
About suid a daemon script, you must know that it won't work. suid is only working on ELF files and it's not a secure way to do things...

[damNageHack]

Sorry also from me. I do not want to criticize your well done job. I am very glad to be an user of such a linux distribution with a little team because the chance to get some benefit is better according to my opinion.

But these are *two* different configuration files having influence to the behaviour of s-u-n
/etc/cron.hourly/slapt-get-update - default 1 hour
/$HOME/.config/salix-update-notifier - default 2 hours
or /etc/salix-update-notifier.conf - default 2 hours

There is a physical law by the way that the sampling rate should be the half of the update rate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_rate

The Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem states that perfect reconstruction of a signal is possible when the sampling frequency is greater than twice the maximum frequency of the signal being sampled,[4] or equivalently, when the Nyquist frequency (half the sample rate) exceeds the highest frequency of the signal being sampled. If lower sampling rates are used, the original signal's information may not be completely recoverable from the sampled signal.

I want only to help if I can.

[gapan]

Don't worry damNageHack, there's no conflict, we're all just chatting.

But these are *two* different configuration files having influence to the behaviour of s-u-n
/etc/cron.hourly/slapt-get-update - default 1 hour
/$HOME/.config/salix-update-notifier - default 2 hours
or /etc/salix-update-notifier.conf - default 2 hours

/etc/cron.hourly/slapt-get-update is not a configuration file. There is nothing to configure in that file. It's a script that calls slapt-get and is run by cron every hour. You can't change that interval, unless you move the script to a different directory.

Files /etc/salix-update-notifier.conf and $HOME/.config/salix-update-notifier configure exactly the same thing: the interval the notifier uses to check for updates. The first one is system-wide, the second is user-specific.

There is a physical law by the way that the sampling rate should be the half of the update rate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_rate

That has nothing to do with what we're talking about. It's about sampling rate in digital audio (or other digital signals) engineering.

[thenktor]

That has nothing to do with what we're talking about. It's about sampling rate in digital audio (or other digital signals) engineering.

Just wanted to note the same. It's only needed to have the slapt-get-update interval shorter than s-u-n checks for updates.

[damNageHack]

What about that?

http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel- ... tpm-plugin

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git clone http://git.xfce.org/git/panel-plugins/xfce4-smartpm-plugin/

[thenktor]

What about that?

http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/panel- ... tpm-plugin

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git clone http://git.xfce.org/git/panel-plugins/xfce4-smartpm-plugin/

Only works with XFCE

[damNageHack]

Sure, it works only with XFCE. Should be only a hint that there is something already available. Maybe some features can be ported or so.

"My fridge works only with power."

Then you have to change the thread title "Script to detect new upgrades graphically on XFCE"

[JRD]

That was my first post and my first script is about a script under XFCE. Afterwards, gapan developped and provided a package more generally.
I will change the topic, yes.
Thank you for the link, I may test it

[caitlyn]

Why not just incorporate slapt-notifier into Salix? I've used it in Vector Linux and it works well.

[gapan]

Why not just incorporate slapt-notifier into Salix? I've used it in Vector Linux and it works well.

Because I have tried and tried to get it work, but it never did. The daemon it runs just disappears into thin air without even a trace of debug info.

And welcome!