[Xastir] practicle aprs

vic ke4lkq at shentel.net
Thu May 8 12:10:27 EDT 2003


On Wednesday 07 May 2003 08:56 pm, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:

okay I have been looking at docs all morning and cannot seem to find how to 
SEND a file with wget... everything talks about getting only...
I need a hint....
Thanks, VIctor


> On 7 May 2003, Rich Garcia wrote:
> > NOW that is a feature idea that makes me drool.. I have a weather web
> > page up for our cert team. If Xastir could grab a shot and then FTP it
> > to the correct place that would be Sweeet!
> >
> > A few static file names could be set for the shots you intend to save so
> > that the html code could stay the same all the time.
>
> Perl is your friend.  So is cron.   You could set up a Perl5 script
> to run every few minutes and check the timestamp on the snapshot
> file in /var/tmp.  If it has changed, use wget to send it up to
> some web site automatically.  You could even rotate through a set of
> filenames automatically that way, like snap00.png through snap99.png
> and then rotate back to 00.
>
> Another thing you can do is to set up Apache on the same box, and
> server up the 5-minute snapshot directly from you own web pages
> there.  Works great, and I'm doing that at work for internal use.
>
> Curt, WE7U.				archer at eskimo.com
> http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
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