Archive for February, 2009

a free alternative to wireshark’s pilot

So I have been put in charge of using the wireshark program called pilot in order to mimic results of a network test that we did. But alas! pilot wasn’t working on me, and while waiting for tech support to get back to me; I figured I would take matters into my own hands and [...]

Debugging a shell script

I have been scripting various ‘programs’ in bash for nearly 10 years now, so there is not much that I don’t know when it comes to bash shell programming. But alas! while looking for some code snippits on how to use calc to add a decimal point to a number, I came across a very [...]

Print queue check script

So on Thursday I was manually cleaning out the print queue on a CUPS print server, 40+ jobs one at a time, and it came to me! Just whip up a quick sys-admin script that polls, the data from a column and just deletes it from there. What I didn’t think to do, was READ [...]