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- Create a simple reminder system with cron
- Ever wished you had your own personal secretary, who wouldremind you of important eventsyour boss' birthday, your anniversary, thedeadline for your tax returns? Well, wish no morewith a little creativity andsome *NIX glue, it's easy to create an automated system which sends youreminders of important events by e-mail. The core...
- Tags: reminder, Contributor Melonfire, crontab
- Technical articles 2005-11-02
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- shutdown linux automatically?
- Hi all, I am a tech at a small library. We have been using Windows forever and I am looking to add Linux to the mix. The one thing that I need to do is to find a way to shutdown the computers at actually just before closing...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, willda@..., computer, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-07-30
- Tech Tip: Schedule tasks with cron
- Scheduling application execution is useful in several ways. It allows you to execute a script at certain times of the day, define what day to execute it, run a program to perform a certain task if the conditions are right, and more. ...
- Tags: Guest Contributor, Linux Tips Newsletter, Cron
- Technical articles 2003-12-08
- Free network uptime alarms with Linux
- Are your administration/management duties getting to the point where you can't even check your network for uptime? If that's the case, don't hire another employee; let this simple Linux bash script do the monitoring for you.Let’s face it; as a network administrator, your most critical job is keeping your network...
- Tags: NETWORKING, OPEN SOURCE, Jack Wallen, Jr., network, ping, Linux, uptime
- Technical articles 2001-08-17
- Automating common tasks with cron
- Look under the hood of any modern Linux distribution, andyou'll find an assortment of gems hidden inside. There's the Vi editor for all ofyour text processing needs; the SSH shell for secure connections; the Apache server for Website publishing; the Samba suite of tools for file sharing...the list goes onand...
- Tags: Linux, OPEN SOURCE, Guest Contributor, Cron
- Technical articles 2004-08-03
- NWCron type tool
- What I would like to do is be able to change entries in the crontab file of several hundred servers same cron job scheduled on all servers. I have looked at the Wingrep type of tools but the ones I've looked at lack the ability to run search and replace...
- Tags: server, Hockeyist, tool, SlapShot, software
- Q&A 2005-02-12
- Creative time management
- In this Daily Feature, Larry Mintz shows you how the crontab file can increase your efficiency, whether you're a sysop or a user.In this Daily Feature, I’ll show you how to use crontab and at to help automate your computer to make it more efficient. I’ll also look at how...
- Tags: Larry Mintz, time management, crontab file, sysop
- Technical articles 2000-10-19
- manage cron entry via script
- Hi,i am building a custom rpm which i also want to do the following:1. install a crontab entry for 11pm, to run a script daily2. automatically remove the cron entry when removing the rpm3. upgrade the cron entry if changed when upgrading the rpm.I know a bit about shell scripting,...
- Tags: support@..., linux, rpm
- Q&A 2006-07-31
- Anyone know of a cpan module for Perl and threading?
- Here is my problem. I am rewriting a security log parsing routine. When I encounter intrusion attempts, after firewalling the ip's I want to send an notification email. This script is quick except for the email part and that is just because it is sendmail. So what...
- Tags: E-mail, Scripting languages, Programming languages, Development tools, DanLM, Perl
- Discussion threads 2007-07-07
- Never miss another appointment with this cron reminder system
- Take advantage of cron's built-in capabilities to create a system that sends you e-mail reminders on particular dates. With a little cron creativity and some UNIX or Linux glue, it's easy to create an automated system which sends you reminders of important events by e-mail. The core...
- Tags: TechRepublic Inc., E-mail, Recruitment & Selection, UNIX, Linux, Operating Systems, Online Communications, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software
- Download resources 2005-11-02
- Restrict users' access on Linux systems
- This looks really useful!Wow, Thanks for posting this great info! I just logged into my machine and read /etc/security.time.conf file. The format seemed really weird. The concept is very similar to crontab entries. I'm really excited about having just learned about this but since their just me on local system;...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, adambrown29@..., service name, Linux system, Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-10-11
- IP2Country Free (zip)
- IP 2 Country Geo Database Builder Perl Script Totally Free. Runs from your computer or your server, Perl script which crawls the Internet registries databases afrinic , apnic, arin, iana, lacnic, and ripencc, then process the latest updated files in the format you want in less than 5 to 15...
- Tags: Perl, Detection, Credit Card, Scripting Languages, Sales Channel, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Financial Services, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Sales, Software Development, Security
- Software downloads 2008-02-06
- Converting XML file to a TEXT file
- I receive XML format files in a HP-UX Unix Server.How can I convert these XML format files in TEXT files!!??.Thank you for your help!Hi thereThere are plenty of third party XML convertors...try this onehttp://www.processtext.com/abcxml.htmlGood LuckGaryThat recomendation really worked fine, but something I did not comment:I need to convert this XML...
- Tags: avazquez65@..., linux, Text File, Unix, XML, XML file, XML-format
- Q&A 2006-07-20
- Linux + X10 + cron = cheap and simple automation
- It's amazing the kind of things that you can automate if you use Linux! In fact, as Jack Wallen argues, complete automation of our most mundane daily tasks may not be too far off. To illustrate this point, he offers a very interesting example.Complete automation is something that many IT...
- Tags: Jack Wallen, Jr., automation, BottleRocket, X10 Wireless Technology, BottleRocket software, software, Linux
- Technical articles 2000-06-26
- Unix data to excel
- I am receiving flat text files on a monthly basis on to a unix aix system. I would like to create an automated process script to transfer these data files to an excel spreadsheet on my PC. Unfortunately I have no idea how to do this ?You need to either...
- Tags: linux, Microsoft Excel, PC, Perl, stevelil, Unix, workstation
- Q&A 2005-08-02
- 10 tips for PHP scripts: Maintain your file system with PHP
- By Julie Meloni(2/6/01)PHP has numerous functions relating to your file system, allowing you not only to open files, but also display the contents of directories, move files around, and much more. Many people even write Web-based file explorers in PHP. First, a note regarding file paths: On Windows, you can...
- Tags: Scripting languages, file system, Julie Meloni, PHP, Lynx
- Technical articles 2003-10-06
- task scheduler
- which periodic command scheduler do you use?what strengths does it have over the others?what areas could it use improvement?at or cronI use "at" and "cron", both are execelent tools you can program task to run hourly, a specific day and time month, for a period for example every 2 hours,...
- Tags: Jaqui, job, linux, scheduler
- Discussion threads 2005-07-13
- Check network status with this Perl script
- Can't keep watch over your network 24/7? Here's help. Vincent Danen provides a simple Perl script that monitors the state of your internal and external network connections and alerts the administrator when a problem arises.For net admins, network downtime means more than just a problem with the network; it means...
- Tags: NETWORKING, Vincent Danen, network, e-mail, Perl, administrator
- Technical articles 2002-03-25
- Housekeeping
- I would like to write a script to housekeep large files that are not currently accessed/used and this script is to be put in cron. (These files are actually temporary and will be deleted once processing is complete. However, due to some application problem, the files are not removed,...
- Tags: aloymark@..., sys
- Discussion threads 2007-01-04
- Security news roundup: October 31
- Here's a collection of recent security vulnerabilities and alerts covering the release of Wordpress 2.3.1, which is a bug-fix and security release; multiple vulnerabilities in AIX; and a code injection vulnerability discovered in McAfee E-Business Server. New version of WordPress released WordPress 2.3.1 is...
- Tags: Vulnerability, McAfee E-Business Server, IBM AIX, Wordpress, Buffer-overflow, Security, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-10-31
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