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| brolin_empey | Low priority but interesting/novel problem to solve: Is it feasible to programatically insert the output of a shell command into a cell in a spreadsheet in Google Sheets? My use case: I have a table (spreadsheet in Google Sheets) for tracking the resources of servers of a company. One of the columns is for the amount of disk space actually used in the container as opposed to the maximum size/allocated size. Currently I manually run df in a shell and copy | 07:31 |
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| brolin_empey | and paste part of the output into the table but it would be neat to automate this process so it could run regularly, such as every week or month. | 07:31 |
| Oksana | Just make sure Google Sheets does not take over your computer ;-) | 07:43 |
| brolin_empey | Oksana: Care to explain? I do not try to use Google Sheets on the N900 with only 256 MiB of main memory. :-P | 07:44 |
| Oksana | As in, if Google Sheets can execute command in a shell on a server, then Google Sheets could potentially take over the computer? | 08:24 |
| KotCzarny | using spreadsheet instead scripting+db to get automated data gathered seems like something done by someone completely computer illiterate | 08:34 |
| KotCzarny | 'oh, hey, just run this vbs in your excel, dont worrry, it's a completely safe and harmless' | 08:36 |
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| brolin_empey | Oksana: I was thinking of having a scheduled task on a computer I control run a script/command that runs df on the containers, filters the output, and somehow updates the cells in Google Sheets. | 08:39 |
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| brolin_empey | I think it may be possible but I have not researched it because the priority is too low but this problem interests me so I took the time to ask here. | 08:41 |
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| KotCzarny | why not cacti? | 08:41 |
| brolin_empey | KotCzarny: cacti? | 08:42 |
| KotCzarny | data monitoring software | 08:42 |
| KotCzarny | with big flexibility and plenty of features | 08:42 |
| brolin_empey | Actually, I think we are already using NewRelic on at least some servers; maybe that is relevant here? | 08:43 |
| KotCzarny | might be, if it does similar thing, dont rewrite the wheel | 08:45 |
| brolin_empey | I do not use BSD so I do not use wheel. ;-) | 08:45 |
| KotCzarny | monitoring software usually use snmp to gather standard data instead of running random things | 08:46 |
| brolin_empey | df is standard in *nix, not a random thing. | 08:46 |
| inz | snmpd can be made to run random things on request :) | 08:48 |
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| rhombus | I keep losing data on my N900 when I mount the device | 23:34 |
| rhombus | as USB mass storage | 23:34 |
| rhombus | and I thought I was doing everything properly | 23:34 |
| sicelo | 'losing data' - how? | 23:35 |
| rhombus | sicelo: I write notes using the Notes app | 23:35 |
| rhombus | sicelo: I try to remember to save regularly | 23:35 |
| rhombus | sicelo: but sometimes I just close the app | 23:35 |
| rhombus | sicelo: normally, when I open it again, I see all my recent entries | 23:36 |
| rhombus | but even if I close everything, attach the device, mount it as mass storage... | 23:36 |
| rhombus | 1. I don't see the most recent version | 23:36 |
| rhombus | and 2. when I unmount it and try and look at the notes file again, I get a message saying the file could not be restored | 23:37 |
| rhombus | I just lost another day's worth of notes :( | 23:37 |
| rhombus | Is there any way for me to recover this data? | 23:38 |
| sicelo | no idea. that has never happened to me. i close the application without ever saving, and have never lost anything. | 23:39 |
| sicelo | maybe you should consider a different application, e.g. Xournal? | 23:39 |
| rhombus | sicelo: are you routinely mounting the N900 as a USB mass storage device, or do you move everything over the network? | 23:40 |
| rhombus | I recall someone mentioning -- perhaps Jörg -- that you have to be very careful here or you can damage files | 23:41 |
| sicelo | i don't mount usb storage much lately, but i've done that lots of times in my 7 years of ownership. never lost a note. yes, i probably don't use them as much as you do | 23:41 |
| rhombus | hmmm | 23:41 |
| rhombus | sicelo: where are the files stored? I have a directory called .documents, but that seems to contain old versions of the files | 23:42 |
| sicelo | Notes seems to save in the last directory you opened something from. | 23:43 |
| rhombus | not in some default? | 23:43 |
| sicelo | no | 23:43 |
| sicelo | you can see the current save directory like so: | 23:44 |
| rhombus | but Notes saves backup files somewhere, and those must be automatic... | 23:45 |
| sicelo | gconftool-2 -g /apps/osso/osso-notes/default_folder | 23:45 |
| sicelo | i am no expert, but from what i've seen, there's no separate backup. Notes just (tries to) cleanly save to the actual file each time. i could be wrong | 23:47 |
| rhombus | Ok -- so clearly is something wrong here | 23:47 |
| rhombus | *there | 23:47 |
| rhombus | Notes is saving in a hidden directory -- is that normal? | 23:47 |
| rhombus | .documents | 23:47 |
| sicelo | yes. normal | 23:47 |
| sicelo | it is what you see as MyDocs/Documents in File Manager :) | 23:48 |
| sicelo | and since you mount it to USB a lot, you would have notice. what is the host OS? | 23:48 |
| rhombus | But in Filemanager there is no MyDocs | 23:48 |
| rhombus | just Documents | 23:48 |
| rhombus | and it contains different files | 23:49 |
| rhombus | Just now it was Windows | 23:49 |
| rhombus | but it has happened with Linux also | 23:49 |
| sicelo | ok. scratch out MyDocs. N900/Documents in File Manager | 23:50 |
| rhombus | do you mean Nokia N900? | 23:51 |
| sicelo | i wonder if you're not guilty of saving to Documents while it's mounted via USb, which is probably what may have been meant by Joerg | 23:51 |
| rhombus | sicelo: I thought that's why he warned me to close everything before mounting via USB | 23:51 |
| rhombus | which is what I just did | 23:51 |
| rhombus | but then I couldn't find the most current state of the file on the host machine | 23:52 |
| rhombus | and when I unmounted and tried to open it again with Notes, it gave me an error message saying the restore had failed | 23:52 |
| rhombus | something can't be right here | 23:52 |
| sicelo | if you write to Documents (or anywhere else that's accessible via File Manger) while the drive is mounted via USB, you will of course end up with a tricky situation | 23:52 |
| rhombus | sicelo: I have the following files | 23:53 |
| sicelo | here's a page you might want to get familiar with: https://wiki.maemo.org/N900_filesystem | 23:54 |
| sicelo | and, https://wiki.maemo.org/MyDocs_folder | 23:55 |
| rhombus | thanks | 23:56 |
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| rhombus | can I change the default folder with gconftool-2? | 23:58 |
| sicelo | i don't know how Notes will like that. you could try. | 23:59 |
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