A colleague of mine, Mahlon Anderson, wanted to revisit the FTP Using a Shell Script post. Here is what he had to say... Here is a creative way to put an FTP command on a single line. Why one line? The short story is I needed to do an ftp in a crontab without calling another script. Three things to note: 1) I have only tested this with Solaris 8. 2) This works in the one true shell, Bourne shell. 3...

Previously, I was having issues displaying HTML tags within a Blogger post. To get around that pesky issue, I used an underscore, e.g. ,, , etc, or generated a jpg image of the example to demonstrate the use of a particular tag. But this action made it inconvenient to simply cut and paste without the arduous task of retyping or modification. Now I am using the textarea tag and it seems to be workin...

We recently purchased a new network application/appliance.As part of my normal practice, I wanted to configure theappliance to duplicate its logs to our centralized syslog server.With standard syslogd, you add one line to your configurationfile (syslog.conf) and restart the daemon.But this appliance uses syslog-ng, an enhanced and morepowerful syslog application.The syslog-ng configuration file (sy...

After reviewing my statistics today, I found a couple referrals from this website, goosh.org. At first, I did not think much of its Spartan appearance (like I have room to talk). But after tinkering with it awhile, I realized it was pretty darn functional. As you can see below, it behaves similar to a UNIX shell.By the way, the author of the utility states this is NOT an official Google product! As...

I had a few (actually more than a few) in-house complaints regarding my personal workstation's uptime schedule. The complaints were legitimate since the box goes largely unused. With today's ($137/barrel) spiraling energy costs, I can understand the concern. So to quell the incessant complaints, I decided to better manage its power consumption - modified the /etc/power.conf file.Here is an example....