Check Mail Flow Beyond SMTP Checks

On July 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Even if SMTP services are running, it cannot be assumed that mail is flowing. There are a number of reasons that mail may not reach its destination. This is a simple script that uses Gmail to send an email to an internal server, most likely Exchange, which should automatically reply to the message. For [...]

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Get Your Post Seen on Twitter

On July 20, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Sometimes getting your tweet seen by a Twitterer with a lot of traffic seems like a matter of dumb luck. I don’t really believe in luck, so I wrote a simple script that looks for evidence a user has interacted with twitter and immediately sends a predefined message. While this won’t guarantee your tweet will [...]

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Manage Twitter Followers

On July 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Here is a simple bit of code to keep track of your followers on Twitter. It will acknowledge them when they start following you through either a mention or a direct message. It also shows you who has stopped following you rather just seeing a count change. To run this script you will need to [...]

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Backing up mySQL via email

On June 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I setup a simple set of scripts to email me an encrypted copy of a database run on a regular schedule.

First off I created a simple bash script that dumps all the databases from the local mysql server, tars it, encrypts it and then uses a simple perl script to email it to me, [...]

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Combine Text Files from Command Line

On September 16, 2009 · Leave a Comment

Looking for a way to combine files quickly? Using the example of exports from active directory where you export a number of different OU’s, you can quickly combine them into one file directly from the command line.

copy /b *.txt all.txt /b

This will combine all the files in your directory ending with .txt [...]

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