automation
Send history of current host to some other host over ssh
2018/02/26
Sometimes I want to save the history of current host on another host. This is to ensure that I can use copy/paste on other host to run the commands. To this, I found a simple solution – history| ssh …
send mail using telnet from script
2017/12/25
If you have no other option but to use telnet with authentication to send mail 🙂
ansible with docker dynamic inventory
2017/01/09
So, I have a few dockers. Every now and then I want to run some command on all of them. Doing ‘docker exec’ is tiresome. I found this neat solution with ansible that I thought I should share with you. …
Executing commands on multiple hosts
2015/09/21
If you have to execute the same command in multiple hosts, then you can use mussh: […] First install mussh with the following command dnf install mussh Now to run this for multiple hosts, you …
script to get hard disk health in fedora/ubuntu
2014/12/01
First, put this in a script. #!/bin/bash #Change as appropriate HDD=sda export sub="SmartCtl data for HDD" echo 'To: <Your Email> Sub: [Cron] $sub MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html …
Quick tip on zipping logs in real time.
2010/10/13
Sometimes, some small things that we don’t actually think can be useful are such useful. I faced this couple of days back when I was working on something and the amount of logs getting generated and …
Delete Files older than 14 days
2010/06/25
Taken from Dzone. […] @echo on setlocal set srcDir=. […] Read more: <a href="http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/10441">http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/10441
bash one liner to change/remove test pattern from config file or text file.
2010/06/25
Problem: I had a directory with a lot of config files in the ini file format, i.e. name and value separated by equals. Some/all of these contained some directory names and other values which had to be …
Script to add all the partitions to the fstab.
2010/06/24
I wrote a simple script today to get all the partitions on all the disks and then create <a class="zem_slink freebase/en/fstab" title="Fstab" rel="wikipedia" …
bash script to change icon theme to check out all the installed themes (personal)
2010/05/19
I am really annoyed with the time that is required and the number of clicks that it takes to change the gnome icon theme. So here’s a small script that I wrote to quickly check out all the …
bash script to periodically change the cursor theme.
2010/05/07
#!/bin/bash [[ ”$1” == ”” ]] && time=5 || time=$1 [[ ”$2” == ”” ]] && ( cd ~/.icons …
Bugzilla Automation with perl — add, update or query any bug in Bugzilla using perl and www series modules for perl.
2010/04/11
Today I was trying to do some queries and see if I could create a new bug or update a existing bug in the Bugzilla. The one that I was trying to access was on version 2.0 and not on 3.0. This being …