Script to Watch for Ubuntu 9.10 Launch – can be used in other scenarios.

2010-02-10 1 min read Linux

I know ubuntu is out already but this is something that you can use to monitor a webpage.

This script will run check a for the Ubuntu 9.10 launch once every 5 mins and let you know when it’s available:

while [ 1 ]; do if [ -z \"`curl -I \"http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.10/release/\"|grep \"404\"`\" ]; then kdialog --msgbox \"9.10 Released\"; exit; fi; sleep 300;  done

bash script with sql to get the number of records from multiple tables.

2010-02-10 1 min read Bash Database Learning Linux Solaris

Here is the bash script:

#!/bin/sh
names[1]=errorlog
names[2]=amit1log
names[3]=amit2log
names[4]=amit3log
names[5]=amit4log
j=1
echo $1
for i in $( sqlplus amit/passwd@tns @get_count.sql |sed -n ’/COUNT/,/Disconnected/p’|sed ’/COUNT/ d’|sed ’/—/ d’|sed ’/Disconnected/ d’|tr ’n’ ’ ’ )
do
temp=${names[$j]}
let count=30-${#temp}
for ((I=1; I <= $count ; I++))
do
printf ” ”
done
echo ”${names[$j]} : $i”
# echo $j
let j=j+1
done
echo
echo

and the required sql script:

select count() from errorlog;
select count() from amit1log;
select count() from amit2log;
select count() from amit3log;
select count(*) from amit4log;
quit;
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x-marks saving lives.

2010-02-04 1 min read Firefox

Couple of days back my TeraByte HDD crashed and I lost almost everything, including my homedir. I will tell you my experiences and how my measures helped me lose not much data. So I will begin with one of the most important aspects. My BROWSER.

I have all my passwords stored in the browser and I rely on them so it is not stored anywhere else. Also, I have lot of bookmarks which help me do lot of stuff. Meaning, all these are very important for me. So, I had a backup plan for my passwords and bookmarks.

PackageKit error File \”/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py\”, line 1215, in _get_depends_not_installed – Resolved

2010-02-04 1 min read Fedora

In packagekit, if you getting the error below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File ”/usr/share/PackageKit/helpers/yum/yumBackend.py”, line 1215, in _get_depends_not_installed
rc, msgs = self.yumbase.buildTransaction()
File ”/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/__init__.py”, line 719, in buildTransaction
self.plugins.run(’postresolve’, rescode=rescode, restring=restring)
File ”/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/yum/plugins.py”, line 179, in run
func(conduitcls(self, self.base, conf, **kwargs))
File ”/usr/lib/yum-plugins/remove-with-leaves.py”, line 71, in postresolve_hook
if opts.remove_leaves or remove_always:
AttributeError: ’NoneType’ object has no attribute ’remove_leaves’

then you can resolve it. The solution to the problem is there in the traceback, luckily this time.

How To Build A Self-hosted WordPress Blog For Free

2010-02-04 1 min read Linux

A blog is a layman-friendly variation of a website, and having a blog is one of the many ways to state your presence in the virtual world. While there are many hassle-free blog services out there that will take care of everything except automatically blog for you – like <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/blogger">Blogger and <a href="http://www.makeuseof.com/tags/wordpress">WordPress, nothing can beat a self-hosted blog in the terms of customization and self pride.

The problem is, the process of building your own self-hosted blog is (almost always) not free and is considered complicated. So most newbies will choose the easier path and never give themselves a chance to experiment.

Splitting strings with IFS

2010-02-04 2 min read Bash Linux

Today I want to discuss splitting strings into tokens or “words”. I previously discussed how to do this with the <a href="http://bashcurescancer.com/reading-a-file-line-by-line.html">IFS variable and promised a more in depth discussion. Today, I will make the case on WHY to use IFS to split strings as opposed to using a subshell combined with <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/awk" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk or cut.

I wrote this script which reads the /etc/password file line-by-line and prints the <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/user" title="User (computing)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_%28computing%29">username of any user which has a UID greater than 10 and has the shell of /sbin/nologin. Each test function performs this task 10 times to increase the length of the test:

Kill processes that have been running for more than a week

2010-02-04 1 min read Linux

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$ find /proc -user myuser -maxdepth 1 -type d -mtime +7 -exec basename {} ; | xargs kill -9

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