Get status of your servers with perl script.

2014-07-14 1 min read perl
Monitoring the servers could be well – “not difficult” but boring and monotonous. And since this is something that you should ideally do on daily basis, so why not have a script for the same. You can’t possibly copy your ssh-keys to all the servers that you are monitoring, better if you can, then you need to do ssh to server with password. So, here is link to my github repo for monitoring servers with perl script. Continue reading

Monitor your system with sysusage.

2013-12-02 2 min read Fedora
First some information on sysusage: Description : SysUsage continuously monitor your systems informations and generate periodical graph reports using rrdtool or javascript jqplot library. All reports are shown throught a web interface. SysUsage grabs all system activities using Sar and system commands allowing you to keep tracks of your computer or server activity during his life. It is a great help for performance analysis and resources management. The threshold notification can alarm you when the system capabilities are Continue reading

create text tables from delimited files.

2013-07-12 1 min read bash Fedora
To create simple text tables to paste in emails or to use in any other document where you want to show a table, here is something that you can use. There is a perl module which provides “tablify“. And here is how to use it: sudo yum install perl-Text-RecordParser This will install a command “tablify” that you can use in number of ways. Here is a simple example to use it. Continue reading

some interesting alias

2011-09-27 1 min read Linux
For this time, I will just give you a link to to bashrc file. http://hayne.net/MacDev/Bash/aliases.bash Head over there and see some very interesting aliase’s. Related articles Bryan Quigley: Windows Cant Handle the Hardware (bryanquigley.com) semantic grep (github.com) Aliases and shortcuts (macstarter.com)

bash regular expressions

2011-02-06 1 min read bash
Here are some quick links on bash regular expressions, pretty good links to bookmark, if you use, regular expressions in bash regularly. I especially like the tldp link at number 3. http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/bash-regular-expressions http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-bash.html http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/parameter-substitution.html#VARMATCH http://wellington.pm.org/archive/200005/codegen/index9.htm Related articles Renaming a whole bunch of files at once, in bash (ask.metafilter.com) bash math (amit-agarwal.co.in) Efficiency of regular expressions (johndcook.com) Autogenerate Regular Expressions with txt2re (readwriteweb.com)

fork a new process in perl

2011-01-27 1 min read Uncategorized
I was doing something today and found that I require to fork a new process in perl. Now I had never done this earlier, so I did not know how to do this. First some background : I was doing some program very similar to http server, where the script accepts some input through a socket and then processes the same. In doing so I was seeing that the script was taking some time in processing the input and thus was not processing the second request until the first one was completed. Continue reading

perl is faster than bash in some cases.

2011-01-11 3 min read bash Fedora Linux perl
Some days back, I had to generate some data to be uploaded to a database. As usual I assumed that bash should be faster and hence wrote the script to create the files in bash. But I found that even after 5 hours I was only 10% done with the data generation. Now that would mean that it would take around 50 hours to complete the data generation. Something did not look correct to me and I asked one of my colleague. Continue reading
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