News, views, and rants (Feb 07 archive)
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Have you arrived via a search engine after searching for /etc/motd? If so, head over to /etc where there is information about adding colour to your /etc/motd file!
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17/02/07 - I have uploaded a few new scripts to the
Shell Script Repository.
check_spamhaus.sh checks the Spamhaus real-time
blacklists for an IP you specify - useful for monitoring whether your outbound SMTP
relays have been blacklisted for some reason. This scripts requires the
common_functions.sh library, which I've also
uploaded.
Another useful script is fix_html.sh - a script that I use to pre-process HTML destined for the script repository on the site, to convert <, > and & to the appropriate HTML entities.
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11/02/07 - I decided that the search page (/usr/bin/find) was a little light on
functionality so I re-implemented it using AJAX. Now, search results are returned "live" as you type your query.
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04/02/07 - Three new tips uploaded tonight. Recompiling a 2.6.x kernel
shows, step-by-step, how to recompile the Linux kernel. This is taken from a session on a SUSE server, but the principles
can easily be applied to any Linux system running a 2.6.x kernel.
Moving a file tree into a single directory shows how an entire tree
of files can be moved to a single directory, with their filenames changed to reflect their original location in the
file tree. And finally Changing load average queue limits shows the
sendmail.cf options that need to be modified in order to queue or reject mail based on system load average.
- 01/02/07 - I have uploaded a new script, wwwadmin.pl tonight. I wrote the script to aid deployments of new files via FTP to zazzybob.com. My remote hoster does not have rsync (grrr...) so I cannot just rsync as I do between my staging and test enviroments - thus, this script was created to automate the process of FTP-ing a lot of files regularly between my test server and my hoster. This script has various smarts built in to create directories if they do not exist on the remote server.
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