cheap script to pass data through gnuplot

im putting this script up not because it does something useful, but because i needed somewhere to store it. if it actually helps you then i apologize. #!/bin/bash # script for gnuplot to combine multiple pieces of data into on graph # in png format case $1 in ‘load_avg’) if [ $# -lt 3 ]; … Read More

simple nagios script to check disk usage in solaris

i know that there already is a command in nagios to check file system usage, but it gives you the percentage in the wrong format (it says there is 21% free when i am used to it saying that 79% is being used) this will give you the format in basic df per device usage … Read More

simple nagios script for exp match in solaris

we just needed something on the fly to monitor /var/adm/messages for certain output in nagios. this does the trick rather nicely and its not that big of a script either. tested with nagios versions 2.3 – 2.5 #!/bin/bash TMPFILE=/tmp/tmpfile.$$ #GREP=/usr/bin/egrep egrep “(ALERT|EMERG|ERR|WARN|NOTICE|panic|halt)” /var/adm/messages > $TMPFILE egrep “\\(sd[0-9]+\\):” /var/adm/messages >> $TMPFILE egrep “su:.*su\ root.*failed” /var/adm/messages >> … Read More

bonding script revised – still working on it though

#!/bin/bash # # script runs simple bonding services for eth1 to bond0 and also does reversion back to just eth1 # tested and created in fedora core 4 # PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin export PATH case $1 in ‘bond0’) # recopy bond0 files back to network scripts cp –reply yes /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/bak/ifcfg-bond0-eth1 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 cp –reply yes /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/bak/ifcfg-bond0 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ cp … Read More

script to mount smb drives over a network

#!/bin/bash case $1 in ‘start’) mount -t smbfs -o fmask=777,dmask=777,username=xxx,password=xxx //ip addy/folder /mount location ;; ‘stop’) umount /mount location ;; *) echo “usage: $0 <start|stop>” esac usage: ./script start|stop — this script also works well when using hamachi in linux – just have to change ip addy to the system (hamachi) assigned ip address of … Read More

uptime script for linux (suse 9.2)

first script – puts uptime and w to file #!/bin/bash rm dmesg_linux.txt # removes existing dmesg file uptime > dmesg_linux.txt # uptime piped to dmesg w > dmesg_linux.txt # w piped to dmesg chron set to once per hour – maybe every half hour or 15 minutes second script – places dmesg_linux.txt on server every … Read More