If you want to generate properly encrypted password to feed to chpasswd, the most easier and proper way is to do that from command line :
echo "encryptedpassword"|openssl passwd -1 -stdin
If you want to generate in pure python you can do it like that :
def md5crypt(password, salt, magic='$1$'):
[...]
Filed under: Programming, Python, Scripts on August 17th, 2007 | 3 Comments »
If you like me you have a big screen with your laptop and wants to automate when your X session start to get the best resolution, you can use that script :
#!/bin/bash
function get_resolutions() {
xrandr|while read -a line;do
RES="${line[1]}x${line[3]} "
[[ ${RES} != [0-9]* ]] && continue
echo ${RES}
done
}
_BEST_RES=0
BEST_RES=
for res in $(get_resolutions);do
_res=${res/x/}
[[ $_res -ge ${_BEST_RES} ]] && {
BEST_RES=${res}
_BEST_RES=${_res}
}
done
xrandr -s [...]
Filed under: Scripts on July 31st, 2007 | No Comments »
If you like me, you have to do a lot of installs[1] of the same test machine with the same IP and have to ssh it you will notice this annoying message :
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that [...]
Filed under: Scripts on May 30th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A useful svn wrapper scripts. Get a diff of your local repostitory against the upstream repository changes. I wonder why it is not builtins though like a svn status -u but for dif.
#!/bin/bash
IFS="
"
for line in `svn status -u`;do
[[ $line != " "* ]] && continue
rev=`echo [...]
Filed under: Scripts on February 6th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I better to keep that somewhere since i always forget that thing, to do a search and replace from the command line in zsh. you just have to do the :s^FOO^BAR after your expansion
For example you just have typed the long command line :
blah bar FOO=1 FOO=3 FOO=6 cnt=1
you can just type :
!blah:s^FOO^VALUE^:G
and it will [...]
Filed under: Scripts on January 10th, 2007 | No Comments »
Get the size accurately from postgres local filesystem, i guess there is some sql stuff that can do that but that does the job as well for me :
#!/bin/bash
/usr/lib/postgresql/8.1/bin/oid2name -U postgres|while read -a e;do
name=${e[1]}
oid=${e[0]}
[[ $oid == "All" || $oid == "Oid" || -z $oid || -z $name ]] && continue
typeset -a size
size=(`du -s /var/lib/postgresql/8.1/main/base/$oid`)
size=${size[0]}
printf [...]
Filed under: Scripts, postgres on June 5th, 2006 | No Comments »
I am sic of spaces and having svn diff that does not get the spaces removed. So here is a simple script that does the stuff that you can use as your diff-cmd :
#!/bin/bash
for i in $@;do
echo $i |grep -q “)” && continue
echo $i |grep -q “(” && continue
t=”$t $i”
done
diff -bBw $t
Filed under: Scripts on May 25th, 2006 | No Comments »
