Comments on: conky

By: ethan vizitei

ethan vizitei — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:51:47 +0000

@crache

that error indicates that gmail does not support an IMAP command that you're trying to use. I can see from your stack trace that you are using the “authenticate” method in this script, and it uses commands that the gmail server doesn't support. Try using the “login” method of net/imap rather than “authenticate”, that should take care of it.

Hope that helps.

By: crache

crache — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:58:43 +0000

tried changing the server line to:
imap = Net::IMAP.new('imap.gmail.com', 993, true)

that gave me:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/imap.rb:983:in `pick_up_tagged_response': TODO (not supported yet) 20if1910406wfi.0 (Net::IMAP::BadResponseError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/imap.rb:974:in `get_tagged_response'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/imap.rb:1032:in `send_command'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/monitor.rb:242:in `synchronize'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/imap.rb:1017:in `send_command'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/imap.rb:361:in `authenticate'
from check_mail.rb:21

This is my first time looking at ruby.. i'm not a programmer :-/

By: crache

crache — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:48:32 +0000

Maybe he is trying to use gmail. Is there a way to specify the port number? Thank you for these scripts and config, Simple, yes but very useful.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:41:05 +0000

I think it means it can't resolve your mail server's domain. You may have a typo in the server name?

By: Bananas

Bananas — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:27:03 +0000

Hey, trying to get the mail script working

heres the error i get

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/imap.rb:886:in `initialize': getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (SocketError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/imap.rb:886:in `open'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/imap.rb:886:in `initialize'
from /usr/local/bin/check_mail.rb:21:in `new'
from /usr/local/bin/check_mail.rb:21

Whats the problem?
Thanks

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:37:54 +0000

You may have to tell Ruby how to find the gem. Export the environment variable RUBYOPT=”rubygems” would do it. That's my first thought.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:39:55 +0000

I like your conky file. I'm trying to get your weather.rb working but every time I start conky, I get the error /home/eric/weather.rb:3:in `require': no such file to load — xmlsimple (LoadError)
from /home/eric/weather.rb:3

I've got xmlsimple install via ruby gem. Do you have any suggestions?

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:22:34 +0000

You need Ruby for all of these. And you need the xmlsimple Ruby gem for the weather script. I don't think xmlsimple is in any repos, it would have to be installed via rubygems.

By: Athanasius

Athanasius — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 17:51:08 +0000

I am using Ubuntu Edgy. How do I make this work in my .conkyrc file? Is there something that I am supposed to download to make the script work?