I've recently gone back to Ubuntu (10.11), and in my new installation wondered if there was an app I could install which gave me Gmail notifications via the default notification system (libnotify). I was a bit surprised to find that there wasn't, so I wrote a script in bash that does it: gmailpopup My script [...]
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Pretty Gmail notifications for Ubuntu
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A cunning problem with for loops
I came across a cunning little problem with for loops where the values being parsed contain spaces, and can offer a couple of solutions to it. I'll explain what I mean with some code. If you md5sum a bunch of files, you get this kind of output: I wanted to iterate through a list of [...]
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Changing the “administrator” password
Putting my Windows sysadmin hat on again, here's another couple of scripts that may help with changing your domain\administrator password, these will identify places where your administrator account is logging on. Obviously you can change them to look for any domain account. First script will interrogate the event log on all servers listed in "servers.txt", [...]
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Script to list all local admins in your domain
Here's a script to create a report of all local administrators on your domain. It gets the computer names from AD and sends a ping to each computer, and if it gets a reply it will interrogate the local administrators group using WMI to get the list of members. The Domain Admins group is ignored. [...]
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Scripts to make en mass changes to profile paths
We've been migrating shares on our main file server to a DFS share to give us some flexibility with our storage. Part of these changes involve migrating Profile Paths and Terminal Server Profile Paths to the new DFS share location. After the data was being synchronised by DFS we needed a way to change the [...]
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Get system stats automatically on SSH login
I noticed in recent versions of Ubuntu you get some system stats in a banner message when you connect using SSH. I thought this was pretty useful so have implemented my own version on our Red Hat servers at work. This runs every 5 minutes as a cron job and updates the file /etc/motd (Message [...]
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Identify computer type using VB Script
I required some VB which would run as a shutdown script and run some specific commands if the computer was not a laptop. Luckily this was simplified by the naming convention on our corporate network - all laptops have an L in the computer name. Here is one way this can be done - using [...]
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Mapping printers using a login script
Here's how: [lang='vb']Dim objNetwork, strPrintServer Set objNetwork = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Network") strPrintServer = "\\Your_Print_Server" Private function GetUserObject On Error Resume Next Set GetUserObject = GetObject("WinNT://" objNetwork.UserDomain "/" objNetwork.UserName) End function set UserObject = GetUserObject For Each Group in UserObject.Groups Select case Group.Name Case "Your_AD_Security_Group" objNetwork.AddWindowsPrinterConnection strPrintServer "\Your_Printer_Name" End Select Next[/lang] To set the default printer: [lang='vb'] Select [...]
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Run a scheduled task using VBS
One of our users has an occasional requirement to manually run a scheduled task on a server. I wanted him to do this without logging on via RDP. Scheduled tasks can be run remotely using the SVHTASKS program (on Windows XP and Server 2003) so I started writing a VB Script to call this app. [...]
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bash vs vbs (bash wins)
I've been asked by a group of users if they can have a daily report of everything the fax server has sent. Since the fax software we're using doesn't have this feature, I thought I'd write some vb script to pull all of lines containing yesterday's date from the log file (called sendlog.txt) and email [...]
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