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Yum: Checking for updates.

Friday, September 23rd, 2005

Here’s a quick script you can put in your cron rotation to check and see if there are any updates available and what they are:

#!/bin/bash


yum_output=/tmp/yum-check-update-output.txt

python=/usr/bin/python1.5

yum=/usr/bin/yum
$python $yum check-update > $yum_output
yum_return_code="$?"
case $yum_return_code in

        100)

        # Packages available for update.

        echo '********************************************************'

        echo "The following packages need to be udpated on $HOSTNAME"

        echo '********************************************************'

        echo ''

        cat $yum_output

        ;;

        0)

        # No packages available for update.

        ;;

        *)

        echo "YUM: Undefined return code: $yum_return_code ."

        exit 1

esac

exit 0

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Init script for rsyncd.

Saturday, September 3rd, 2005

Ed: another one that was sitting in “drafts” for months.

#!/bin/bash
#
# Startup script for rsyncd.
#
# chkconfig: 345 86 16
# description: rsync rocks.
#

case “$1″ in
start)
echo “Starting rsyncd…”
/opt/rsync/bin/rsync –daemon –ipv4
;;
stop)
echo “Stopping rsyncd…”
killall /opt/rsync/bin/rsync
;;
restart)
$0 stop
sleep 1
$0 start
;;
*)
echo “Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}”
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0

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Supybot init script for Debian.

Sunday, April 17th, 2005

Supybot is a neat little IRC bot written in Python. I had been looking for a bot to do some logging of my favorite IRC channel (#nblug on irc.nblug.org). The setup was pretty easy and the documentation is nice, but the one thing I didn’t find was an init script, so I modified one from an existing blootbot init script.

#! /bin/sh # # supybot init script # # # Cobbled together from the blootbot init script. #


PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

DAEMON=/usr/bin/supybot

NAME=supybot

DESC=supybot
test -f $DAEMON || exit 0
set -e
case "$1" in

  start)

        echo -n "Starting $DESC: "

        start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile /var/run/supybot/$NAME.pid \

                --chuid supybot --exec $DAEMON -- --daemon /etc/supybot/nibler.conf

        echo "$NAME."

        ;;

  stop)

        echo -n "Stopping $DESC: "

        start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile /var/run/supybot/$NAME.pid \

                --oknodo --exec /usr/bin/python

        echo "$NAME."

        ;;

  restart)

        $0 stop

        $0 start

        ;;

  *)

        echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}" >&2

        exit 1

        ;;

esac