One question I sometimes forget to ask myself, when I’m coming up with solutions to problems is this: “Is it simple enough?” Even though I try and make a habit of asking myself that often I, sometimes, don’t ask often enough. The lesson of the importance of simplicity in both software development and systems management [...]
Andy bogged a piece of advice that I have him which I got from Barry… and if you want to know how to get the true absolute path to the real location of the current script is from inside of it (like phps realpath and __FILE__) I suggest you check it out
I’ve written a little something which is gaining some traction internally, and I always intended to share it with the world. So… Here. daemon-functions.sh What it does is allow you to write a bash function called “payload” like so: function payload() { while [ true ]; do checkforterm date sleep 1 done } source path/to/daemon-functions.sh [...]
has any body else noticed a huge increase in AIM spam lately? I’m just waiting for the akismet-style service/plugin combo to come along for the IM space… It’s probably long overdue.