Just about every time I want an AppleScript to wait a second or two during script execution, I instinctively insert a “sleep x” statement, where x is some small number of seconds. Every time, I’m surprised when I test the script and my computer promptly… goes to sleep. The command to use is delay, not [...]
I was out taking a (filesystem) walk, and wandered into /var/folders. Not remembering where / when this came from, I was pleased to find that the hier(7) manpage is aware of this directory, describing it as ‘per-user temporary files and caches’. More research reveals that this directory structure is created as defined by some code [...]
Mac OS X makes extensive use of a variety of event notification mechanisms, as described here. One such mechanism is documented in the notify(3) man pages, and it is these types of libnotify notifications that are the focus of this post. Notifications can be posted and observed in a global namespace across all processes (with [...]
It’s “hack some shit up” Friday. Everybody ready? Have a Time Capsule or Mac OS X Server configured to provide network time machine backups? Of course you do! Let’s examine the client / server interaction. The Time Machine preference pane provides a list of available backup volumes. This list includes local volumes as well as [...]
The purpose of this script is to add a bit of granularity and intelligence to the energy saver settings in Mac OS X for disk sleep. Problem: I want to let my disks sleep, but I HATE having to wait for a spinup while I’m working. Solution: Allow the disks to spin down only when [...]
motivation I finally found a reason to write some Python. Being something of a monitoring and data junkie, I’ve had a fair amount of experience with snmp, data mining scripts, etc. After writing this post to the server list, I figured I’d make some templates for snmp that published interesting pieces of data about the [...]
In wrote the following as part of my response to this. #!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # Place the first three octets here. my $AddressPrefix = “10.0.1″; # Define the range of numbers, inclusive. my $range = “2 .. 10″; # Your fqdn suffix here, e.g. “foo.com” or “k12.fl.us.gov” my $tld = “937″; # Need a [...]
Link to google-soap I was helping my brother with a script called incith-google used by one of his IRC bots. It acts as a bridge between IRC and google, allowing IRC users to perform queries against google from the comfort of their IRC client. The script performs the search on the IRC user’s behalf and [...]
Download. {1} andre@dude [~] % airport -h Program Options: -h print this help -d output in comma delimited format (base station ID lines are designated by ‘*’) -v verbose mode (stacks up to 3 times) –encode Specify plaintext to retrieve the base64 encoding. This should be used to store the SNMP community name near the [...]
Dealing with CPAN has always felt a little weird. Today I found a nice shortcut for getting perl modules installed in a home directory, which is really useful for when you don’t have admin on the box, or if you simply prefer to keep your custom perl stuff all cinched up in a tidy homedir [...]
Here’s a way to let spotlight do a full content index of a read only CD. It can even persist across uses :) #!/bin/sh # pass in the name of the r/o volume, e.g. DiskWarriorCD # this is proof of concept only. seriously :) if [ ! $1 ] ; then echo “supply a volume [...]
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# Automated backups of Open Directory databases (ldap / kerberos / password server) # This needs to run as root and should be mode 700 due to embedded password # Get current date TODAY=`/bin/date +’%m-%d-%y_%H:%M:%S’` # Set destination directory (do not include trailing slash!) DSTDIR=/path/to/backups # Set archive password (needed to restore from / unlock [...]