Archive for Notes

Feb
01

How to determine DST time changes

Posted by: celso | Comments (0)

Here’s how to determine the dates when the Daylight Savings Time changes for a given year (I keep forgetting how to do this.):


zdump -v /etc/localtime|grep 2008 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 9 06:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Mar 9 01:59:59 2008 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 /etc/localtime Sun Mar 9 07:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Mar 9 03:00:00 2008 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 2 05:59:59 2008 UTC = Sun Nov 2 01:59:59 2008 EDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-14400 /etc/localtime Sun Nov 2 06:00:00 2008 UTC = Sun Nov 2 01:00:00 2008 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000

Obviously, change 2008 to whatever year you want.

Categories : Linux, Mac OS X, Notes
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Jan
10

Uninstall Perl Module

Posted by: celso | Comments (0)

Here's how to cleanly uninstall any Perl module:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use ExtUtils::Packlist;
use ExtUtils::Installed;

$ARGV[0] or die "Usage: $0 Module::Name\n";

my $mod = $ARGV[0];

my $inst = ExtUtils::Installed->new();

foreach my $item (sort($inst->files($mod))) {
         print "removing $item\n";
         unlink $item;
}

my $packfile = $inst->packlist($mod)->packlist_file();
print "removing $packfile\n";
unlink $packfile;
Categories : Notes, Perl
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Aug
29

Find Out the Top 10 CPU Hogs

Posted by: celso | Comments (0)

I found this command useful in finding out which top 10 processes are hogging my CPU resources. Note that this command is specific to the Red Hat flavor of Linux. See the man page for ps for the correct output format to use for your specific platform:

ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args | sort -k1 -r | head -11

Substitue pcpu above with pmem to see the memory hogs instead.

Categories : Linux, Notes
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Aug
28

Bourne Shell Logging Routine

Posted by: celso | Comments (0)

Here’s another logging routine, this one is written in Bourne shell:

#!/bin/sh

log_message() {
    echo `date "+%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S %Z"` "$1" | tee -a aaa.out
}

log_message "Hello there"
log_message "Goodbye"

Sample output:

08/28/07 23:16:13 EDT Hello there
08/28/07 23:16:13 EDT Goodbye

Categories : Linux, Mac OS X, MySQL, Notes
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Aug
23

Setting MySQL Password

Posted by: celso | Comments (1)

To set up root password the first time:

$ mysqladmin -u root password NeWPasSwORd

To change an existing root password:

$ mysqladmin -u root -p oldpassword newpass
Enter password:

To change a normal user password:

$ mysqladmin -u dbuser-p oldpassword newpass
Categories : MySQL, Notes
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Jul
13

Sorting IP Addresses

Posted by: celso | Comments (0)

The following will sort an array of IP addresses in @in and the sorted IP addresses will be in @out.

@out = sort {
    pack('C4' => $a =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/)
    cmp
    pack('C4' => $b =~ /(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)\.(\d+)/)
} @in;

What this does is it forms a string of four bytes out the IP address octet using the pack() function then sorts it lexicographically.

See also Sorting Section Numbers

Categories : Notes, Perl
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Jun
07

Determining the External IP Address

Posted by: celso | Comments (0)

Here’s how to find out your external IP address courtesy of this hint:

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060602180942480


curl --silent http://checkip.dyndns.org
    | awk '{print $6}' | cut -f 1 -d "<"

If you are using Apple's Airport Extreme Basestation (mine is particularly the Time Capsule and this is where I have tested this), and you have the SNMP interface enabled, you can run the following command


prompt$ snmpwalk -Os -c public -v 1 192.168.63.1 ipAdEntAddr IpAddress \
    | grep -E -v '(127.0.0|169.254|192.168.63.1)' \
    | cut -d : -f 2 | sed 's/ //g'
Categories : Linux, Mac OS X, Notes
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May
24

Write a Daemon in Perl

Posted by: celso | Comments (0)

The code below is a template for a daemon written in Perl. Use the code below as a starting point when you have to write a program that has to persist in the background to do its things and without a gui.


use POSIX qw(setsid);

chdir '/' or die "Can't chdir to /: $!";
umask 0;
open STDIN, '/dev/null'
    or die "Can't read /dev/null: $!";

#open STDOUT, '>/dev/null'
#    or die "Can't write to /dev/null: $!";

open STDERR, '>/dev/null'
    or die "Can't write to /dev/null: $!";

defined(my $pid = fork)
    or die "Can't fork: $!";

exit if $pid;

setsid or die "Can't start a new session: $!";

while(1) {
    sleep(5);
    print "Hello...n";
}

Note that one of the lines above is commented out to let the output print to the screen. Uncomment this in the final code to silence your program. For more on this code, see this tutorial: http://www.webreference.com/perl/tutorial/9/.

Categories : Notes, Perl
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Apr
13

Line Terminations

Posted by: celso | Comments (0)

Line terminations for different operating systems:

unix 0×0a LF
Classic Mac 0×0d CR
Windows 0×0d 0×0a CR LF

To convert a text file with DOS line termination to UNIX line termination:


tr -d '\015' < winfile.txt > unixfile.txt

or


sed s/.$// winfile.txt > unixfile.txt

To convert a unix file to a DOS file:


sed s/$/\x0d/ unixfile.txt > winfile.txt
Categories : Linux, Mac OS X, Notes
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Feb
11

Run Periodic Maintenance Scripts Manually

Posted by: celso | Comments (0)

Mac OS X has to run some maintenance scripts in the middle of the night to do some important housekeeping tasks. If you have a Mac that sleeps in the middle of the night, as you do, you need to run these manually by running this from the shell:


sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
Categories : Mac OS X, Notes
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