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mauilion on 09/12/06


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desktopearth on linux script

 / Published in: Perl
 

URL: codefromthe70s.org

this is a perl scrip that downloads the most recent on demand image and sets the background to it. I know that exec is insecure but I figure it's secure enough inside the box.

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  1. #!/usr/bin/perl
  2.  
  3. require LWP::UserAgent;
  4.  
  5. my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
  6. $ua->timeout(10);
  7. $ua->env_proxy;
  8.  
  9. my $response = $ua->get('http://codefromthe70s.org/bin/desktopearthgen.exe?width=1920&height=1200&height=1200&bars=1&center=1&clouds=1&utc='.time);
  10.  
  11.  
  12. open (current,">/home/dcooley/.fluxbox/backgrounds/current.png") || die ("Could not open file\n");
  13.  
  14. if ($response->is_success) {
  15.         print current ($response->content);
  16. } else {
  17.         die $response->status_line;
  18. }
  19.  
  20.  
  21. close current;
  22.  
  23. exec '/usr/bin/fbsetbg /home/dcooley/.fluxbox/backgrounds/current.png';

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