So, we have a shell script that starts james (the JAVA mail server). I was alerted to the fact that despite the script being the last line in rc.local, it wasn't starting on boot. So, I went to the ...

One of the delights in Bash, zsh, or whichever shell tickles your fancy in your OSS distribution of choice, is the ease of which you can use scripts. These can be shell scripts, or use the Perl, ...

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Administrators are typically burdened with tons of tasks, many of which are repetitive. One of the best ways to automate such tasks is to use scripting. Here's a look at how scripting can help ...

Familiar with the doge meme? It's dumb. Sometimes funny, but always dumb. Programmers, of course, have to take memes to an n+1 level, so Github user "thiderman" has created a Python shell script to ...

Shell scripting is one of those skills that are absolutely invaluable on especially UNIX and BSD-based systems like the BSDs, the two zillion Linux distributions as well as MacOS. Yet not every shell ...

Phoenix is my favorite browser, and now that I got anti-ailiased fonts working for it, there's only one problem left. If there is a copy of phoenix already open, when I click on the icon, or type it ...

Basic ways you can use shell scripts to monitor password strength and secret accounts. The internet ain't what it used to be back in the old days. I remember being online back when it was known as ...