A while ago, I had written about some problems I had encountered while trying to send notification messages with libnotify to the logged-in users’ desktops from a cronjob. Although I haven’t made any progress with that issue, I just noticed a very useful comment under that post, submitted by Aleksei. According to the tip, sudo [...]

This post is not an article about how to receive email notifications from your system, but rather a tip about what should be your very first (No.1) action after a clean installation of a Linux system. It is well known that Linux – and obviously many other *nix systems, if not all – are pre-configured [...]

There are several methods that can be used for text message exchanging between different non-privileged users. Usually, when the sender of such a message is a service and the recipient, who is supposed to see the message, is a human, that message is called a “notification“. The method used by many services that run within [...]