Introduction For a system administrator it is important to have an efficient and comfortable interface to all your servers. GNU Screen is an excellent utility to be able to have a single terminal connected to multiple servers that won’t disappear when you close the window. I have a set up that allows me to spawn… Continue Reading
Update: David Harding pointed out in his comment to this post that the column utility does exactly this. Therefore, the following is really just an academic exercise. In my last post I showed how to get columns outputted in the command line to line up using python. In this post I am going to show… Continue Reading
I created a solution for a program I am writing that makes columns line up when outputted to the command line. I am new to Python, and am hoping I might get some input on this topic. In the text file that the program reads, the fields (columns) are delimited by ‘$’ and the records… Continue Reading
System administration is often about seemingly mundane tasks, but each task can provide an interesting puzzle to solve and there are many ways to solve it. I want to share a typical task in depth. I don’t intend to present every step of the task, but I will examine some of the steps in detail…. Continue Reading
Basics Thunderbird messages can be composed from the command line, and the syntax is pretty basic (field=’value’). For Example: admin@box:$ thunderbird –compose “to=’foo@bar.com,bar@foo.com’,subject=’nice tip’,attachment=’file:///home/admin/tip.txt’,body=’Check out this neat command line tip’” Caveats: Values don’t have to be in single quotes. However, if you have multiple values or characters that might be interpreted by Thunderbird, as actually… Continue Reading