Archive for the 'shell' Category

Fall through code to a success…

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

I found a piece of code in a nagios alerting script that returns “success” matter what is happening with the jboss application it is checking. This script had been perpetuated as a service alerting script for years in the environs I work in, edited and passed on as working. It reads: if [failure code here]; [...]

eclipsed

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

      I’ve been working with Remote System Explorer (RSE), a terminal and ssh session manager that runs in the Eclipse SDK. This is very cool – the thing is, eclipse runs on Solaris, Linux, Windows, MAC OSX, IBM AIX (of course – IBM created the eclipse framework). It as close to an OS-agnostic [...]

TERM=vt220

Friday, August 29th, 2008

  console2 with cygwin bash shell and ssh behind it (and a lot of other UNIX commands too, like ls, and find and grep and awk and gpg…) has turned out to be a good solution. I discovered that cygwin sets the terminal as TERM=cygwin. That plays hell with vi on SUN servers. I found [...]

stupid shell (and UNIX) tricks

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

I love using abobe photoshop C2′s automation – especially when resizing a series of images for the web. I would love to run linux entirely – but linux keeps falling short in graphics programs (yes, I use gimp – sorry, but Photoshop is better) and printer drivers – linux still can’t run my Canon Pixma [...]

doug munsinger

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