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Sparky Online checks your web site to tell you does it online and display a pop up message on your dekstop.

It is not moved to Sparky repos, but can be installed manually from Sparky’s GitHub repo.

1. Install dependency:

 sudo apt update
 sudo apt install cron iputils-ping wget yad

2. Download ‘sparky-online’ and ‘sparky-online-cron’ files from the GitHub repo:

github.com/sparkylinux/sparky-online

3. Modify ‘sparky-online’ – place your web site address to WEB section, then:

 sudo cp sparky-online /usr/bin/
 sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/sparky-online

4. Modify ‘sparky-online-cron’ – it is set to check a web site every 1 hour, so change the valvue to your (in hours), and ‘pavroo’ to your user name, then:

 sudo cp sparky-online-cron /etc/cron.d/
 sudo chown root:root /etc/cron.d/sparky-online-cron
 sudo systemctl restart cron