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Books have been written on the subject of awk and sed. Here’s a small sample of commands I put together over the years that are useful for everyday system administration tasks. Most of these tasks …

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Monitoring NetBackup Daemons

April 27, 2016 – 9:25 pm
tape dlt backup

Here’s an example of a script you can use to monitor NetBackup server daemons in a Linux environment. The main difficulty with keeping track of these services is that there are so many of them. …

Using JTR to Crack Office Documents

April 22, 2016 – 5:35 pm
Computer Password Security

John the Ripper is a free multi-platform password-cracking software. This article is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to jtr, rather a quick how-to. Starting with version 1.7.9, jumbo patch 6, jtr supports password …

Finding Prime Numbers

April 22, 2016 – 2:09 pm
numbers

I have no intention of competing with GIMPS. To me this is a fun scripting exercise that may produce useful results beyond this initial application. Our goal is to take a bunch of integers and …