Posts tagged sysadmin
Mailman and Googlemail -> Gmail: A three step approach…
Jun 2nd
I thought other listadmins might be having fun with gmail now being available in the UK (rather than “googlemail”, as it has been for a while (despite ‘gmail’ originally being available, back in the days of invitation only)), and thought I’d share my hackish way around this, so listfolks can post from their gmail.com addresses.
It’s not pretty, but works for me — pre-requisite, Mark’s very useful “non-members” script: http://www.msapiro.net/scripts/non_members
- find who you need to work with:
mkdir ~/tmp/gmail && list_lists -b | while read L; do list_members ${L} | grep googlemail > ~/tmp/gmail/${L}; done
- Zap annoucement lists from the files, remove empty files, too.
- Let them post!
/var/lib/mailman/bin$ ls -1 ~/tmp/gmail | while read L; do sed 's/@googlemail.com/@gmail.com/' ~/tmp/gmail/${L} | while read X; do ./non_members --list=${L} --filter=accept --add ${X} --verbose; done; done
(nb: the path (/var/lib/mailman/bin) is from a Debian machine — Mailman installed via packages — and in my case /var/lib/mailman/bin being in
my ${PATH} — so replace those as appropriate in your cases.)
Which seems to have done the trick.
arpinfo
May 20th
Ever wanted to know who the OEM/Supplier/Manufacturer of network devices attached to a machine were?
I did. And couldn’t see anyone else’s script to steal, so here’s a really ugly way to do it 
# arpinfo:
# pull hardware info from the arp() table
#
# Copyright (c) 2010 Adam McGreggor. Some rights reserved.
# Email:
#
# $Id:$
#
WEBSOURCE=http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/oui/oui.txt
DOC=/usr/local/doc/oui.txt
curl --silent ${WEBSOURCE} -o "${DOC}"
arp | awk '{print $3}' | awk -F: '{print $1"-"$2"-"$3}' | while read ARP
do
grep $ARP ${DOC}
done
arp
Works for me… although it could do with a tidy-up. As a quick and dirty thing, mind…
Dell Order Checking: via cron
Jul 31st
Ok. So let’s start off with a fairly obvious statement. I’m indolent. And I can write scripts. This is a dangerous, nay, perilous pairing…
So, with this existing laptop really getting on my nerves, and the lack of email coming from Dell regarding the new ‘un I ordered, I thought I’d tidy up some diff-scripts used $ELSEWHERE, and re-appropriate for quick-and-dirty order-tracking.
Fairly simple: fetch a web-page, in this case the order page (which is accesssible with the order number & email address used for the order), compare it with an existing copy (should it exist), and mail specified addresses when/if there are changes. Do this whenever (@hourly works fine for me), and forget about website visiting.
Bingo.
So, erm, just in case anyone else wants it (yes, the licensing blurb is probably about the same length as the code itself, i dunno why I bother, but maybe someone’s got some hints/tips/comments…), ‘dell-order-status‘ (it’s a tidied up version of the one I’m actually using, so i may need a nudge to update the web-version if I change the one in use)
