<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <![CDATA[Checking the links to your site (from affiliates) using cron and bash script.]]> <![CDATA[/2010/05/28/checking-links-site-affiliates-cron-bash-script/]]> 1274991993 <![CDATA[ If you have some affiliate links and are concerned about their presence then you can setup &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f80000000045c9c5b&quot; title=&quot;Cron&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron&quot;&gt;cron to check the links for you regularly. For this you need a very simple script (as below) and a cron entry (example further down). #!/bin/bash – #=============================================================================== # FILE: checklinks.sh # USAGE: ./checklinks.sh # DESCRIPTION: Check if the links exists on affiliate sites # OPTIONS: — # REQUIREMENTS: — # BUGS: — # NOTES: — # AUTHOR: &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink&quot; title=&quot;Amit Agarwal&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://amit-agarwal.co.in&quot;&gt;Amit Agarwal (AKA), amit.agarwal@amit-agarwal.co.in # COMPANY: Individual # VERSION: 1.0 # CREATED: 04/07/2010 08:19:29 AM IST # REVISION: — #=============================================================================== websites=&amp;#8221;space seperated &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/website&quot; title=&quot;Website&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Website&quot;&gt;website address like http://amit-agarwal.co.in http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in&amp;#8221; echo &amp;#8221;Checking the sites for Links&amp;#8221; echo $websites|tr &amp;#8217; &amp;#8217; &amp;#8217;\n&amp;#8217; echo echo for i in $websites do curl -s $i |grep amit-agarwal.co.in &gt; &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/dev_null&quot; title=&quot;/dev/null&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/null&quot;&gt;/dev/null if [ $? != 0 ] then echo &amp;#8221;Link not found on $i&amp;#8221; fi done Then make a crontab entry like this: 40 08 * * * (echo &amp;#8221;Subject: Link verification on affiliate sites @ `date`&amp;#8221;;/checklinks.sh) |/usr/sbin/sendmail &lt;h6 class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta &lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2010/03/08/email-web-statistics-from-the-hosted-website-using-awstats-page/&quot;&gt;Email web statistics from the hosted website using awstats page. (amit-agarwal.co.in) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/Bings-Wallpaper-Search-Feature/&quot;&gt;Bing&amp;#8217;s Wallpaper Search Feature (on10.net) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2010/02/10/bash-script-with-sql-to-get-the-number-of-records-from-multiple-tables/&quot;&gt;bash script with sql to get the number of records from multiple tables. (amit-agarwal.co.in) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lifehacker.com/5483992/variably-safe-for-work-previews-questionable-links-keeps-you-out-of-trouble&quot;&gt;Variably Safe For Work Previews Questionable Links, Keeps You Out of Trouble (lifehacker.com) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2010/04/07/email-with-templates-with-variables-from-the-command-line-with-sendmail-or-any-other-mta/&quot;&gt;email with templates (with variables) from the command line with sendmail or any other MTA. (amit-agarwal.co.in) &lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/a5be6337-90ec-447d-b44c-ee5c4a2128c2/&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b92.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog&quot;&gt; ]]> <![CDATA[Startup animation and theme for Fedora 12 onwards.]]> <![CDATA[/2010/05/20/startup-animation-theme-fedora-12-onwards/]]> 1274373811 <![CDATA[ Since the release of &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/fedora&quot; title=&quot;Fedora&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://fedoraproject.org/&quot;&gt;Fedora 12, fedora is using plymouth. Plymouth kicks in just after grub and before the Xserver starts. Description: Plymouth provides an attractive graphical &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/bootsplash&quot; title=&quot;Bootsplash&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootsplash&quot;&gt;boot animation in place of the &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/text_messaging&quot; title=&quot;Text messaging&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_messaging&quot;&gt;text messages that normally get shown. Text messages are instead redirected to a &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/data_logger&quot; title=&quot;Data logger&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_logger&quot;&gt;log file for viewing after boot. Plymouth does support themes and there are couple of plymouth themes already in the repos: plymouth-theme-spinfinity-0.8.2-3.fc13.i686 plymouth-system-theme-0.8.2-3.fc13.i686 plymouth-theme-charge-0.8.2-3.fc13.i686 plymouth-theme-fade-in-0.8.2-3.fc13.i686 plymouth-theme-solar-0.8.2-3.fc13.i686 To use one of these you need to do the following and see the effects after a reboot: sudo /usr/sbin/plymouth-set-default-theme sudo /usr/libexec/plymouth/plymouth-update-initrd&lt;h6 class=&quot;zemanta-related-title&quot;&gt;Related articles by Zemanta &lt;ul class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul&quot;&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/ApartmentHomeLiving/plymouth-house-apartments-for-rent-brochure-plymouth-mi-4031778&quot;&gt;Plymouth House Apartments for Rent Brochure Plymouth, MI (slideshare.net) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://maketecheasier.com/change-login-and-boot-screen-in-ubuntu-lucid/2010/05/13&quot;&gt;How to Change Your Login And Boot Screen In Ubuntu Lucid (maketecheasier.com) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slideshare.net/ApartmentHomeLiving/plymouth-heritage-apartments-apartments-for-rent-brochure-plymouth-mi&quot;&gt;Plymouth Heritage Apartments Apartments for Rent Brochure Plymouth, MI (slideshare.net) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.plymothiantransit.com/2010/05/pink-yellow-dont-go.html&quot;&gt;Pink &amp; Yellow dont go (plymothiantransit.com) &lt;li class=&quot;zemanta-article-ul-li&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.plymothiantransit.com/2010/05/sunday-best-ttt172x.html&quot;&gt;Sunday Best: TTT172X (plymothiantransit.com) &lt;div class=&quot;zemanta-pixie&quot;&gt;&lt;a class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-a&quot; title=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; href=&quot;http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/55c2d6a5-8570-4dea-8f16-51f1419f5620/&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;zemanta-pixie-img&quot; src=&quot;http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/reblog_b91.png&quot; alt=&quot;Reblog this post [with Zemanta]&quot; /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;zem-script more-related more-info pretty-attribution paragraph-reblog&quot;&gt; ]]> <![CDATA[Finding all the executables/binary in Linux rpm based distro.]]> <![CDATA[/2010/01/04/finding-all-the-executablesbinary-in-linux-rpm-based-distro/]]> 1262558414 <![CDATA[ I have been thinking about this for quite sometime now, how to find all the executables on the linux system. One of the way is to do a &amp;#8221;ls&amp;#8221; on all the directories in the PATH variable. But that will not list the executables that are outside of the PATH. So, I wrote this one liner : rpm -qal |agrep &amp;#8221;bin\/&amp;#8221; &gt; all_execs This will list all the files in the Linux system in bin or sbin directory and that should be pretty much all the binaries in the system. ]]>