November 2009
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Dropbox and automatic scripts
A few days ago I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10. While at work, I needed to SSH to my home computer, but I had forgotten to install SSH server. I happened to be renewing my love for Dropbox at the time and I decided to write a program that would monitor a Dropbox directory on my computer for scripts, and execute them. That way I can run arbitrary commands remotely, even if I forgot to install SSH. There...