Comments on: Update Your Linux Box Status to Twitter

By: Kunal Gautam

Kunal Gautam — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:46:34 +0000

append with >/dev/null 2>& to crontab, if u don't want to receive system mail on cron job execution

By: Kunal Gautam

Kunal Gautam — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:29:53 +0000

@Andrew Thanks for noticing it
Kindly change the shell script as follows

#!/bin/bash
curl -u user:pass -d “status=$*” http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:57:30 +0000

Good day – I am trying to get this running —
I have the script – and it it firing at the correct interval, however on my twitter account – all I get is ?My

Nothing else – Running Simply Mepis 8 any suggestions?

Thanks

By: I am tweeting : with luv my Ubuntu Server - www.crankup.net

I am tweeting : with luv my Ubuntu Server - www.crankup.net — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:47:03 +0000

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By: Shoban

Shoban — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:30:13 +0000

Winderful article…. Now I am going to monitor my ubuntu server using a twitter account. Thank you very much

By: Kunal Gautam

Kunal Gautam — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:40:45 +0000

@Sajal Kayan Nice sharing Bro

By: Sajal Kayan

Sajal Kayan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:32:19 +0000

Neat way….
my contrib :p

on fedora/centos mysql becomes mysqld

By: Kunal Gautam

Kunal Gautam — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:59:44 +0000

@Sathya Thanks :-*

By: Sathya

Sathya — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:38:40 +0000

Nive, will link this on my blog, maybe tomorrow or day after

By: Reeteshinator

Reeteshinator — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:12:03 +0000

Thats really nice! we can use that in many other ways too.

Thanx for the heads up