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1. Admin
(Comments)

Hi, The script is very good but the iostat output is not much satisfactory i have amended it with iostat -xn it looks good now but still i want a disk structure understandable and measurable. T

2. New and Improved Pcap Utility
(Technology/Networking)

It's been three years since I wrote the first pcap-util perl script for splitting and searching pcap capture files, and now largley thanks to Damien Mascord of tusker.org we have an update. Prep

3. ZXTM Eventing Modules
(Technology/Zeus)

Over the past few days I've written some perl modules to plug a Zeus ZXTM Traffic Manager into first, Twitter, and then a Nabaztag bunny. At first both of these seem a little frivolous, but on fur

4. ZXTM Dynamic Provisioning
(Blog/Technoblog)

... Java Extension to initiate provisioning actions on a VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment. A TrafficScript rule detects when the service is under load and then calls the Java Extension, and inst...

5. JavaDKIM
(Technology/Networking)

... Java Extensions (via the Servlet API) to extend the functionality of the ZXTM beyond the built in TrafficScript langauge. Once my JavaDKIM library is completed, it will be a trivial task to integrate...

6. Customising GuessHoo
(Technology/Linux)

...to 17.   Within <GuessHooPeople> we have <DatumMap>, which maps the datum IDs to short descriptions. We have 24 <Person> elements, one for each of the 24 playing cards. The Pers...

7. Apache (NCSA) Visitor statistics
(Technology/Networking)

I've been looking through some old files and I found this log analysis script kicking around. It's really simple and outputs the total hits and unique hits (visitors) per day as read from a NC

8. A busy few days
(Blog/Technoblog)

...spent most of it peering in to pcap files. On the upside, I found another useful feature for my pcap-util script. It can now extract packets based on libpcap filter syntax. Initially I was going to ad...

9. Utility for processing pcap dumps
(Technology/Networking)

...n get huge and when that happens they are a real PITA to analyse.   That's why I wrote this perl script. It allows you to extract packets from a specified time period (using the timestamp in ...

10. Performance Monitoring script
(Technology/Linux)

This is a script which can collect perfomance statistics at desired intervals and convert the output into a CSV report which you can then import into a spreadsheet or database for further analysis. It

11. Lamb Curry
(Blog/Me Myself and I)

We're at Yanys parents house today and her dad has just made us a nice lamb curry. I thought it was a great idea because Yany doesn't like lamb! Except that every time we have it she changes h

12. Working at Zeus
(Blog/Me Myself and I)

...ng Linux and Zeus technology to do some pretty impressive stuff. One of it's great features is trafficscript, which is a very powerful scripting language allowing you to do anything from redirecti...

13. Apache mod_proxy statistics
(Technology/Linux)

This is a little script I wrote that uses awk to generate information on Apache mod_proxy performance. The script is called cachestats.sh and it takes in a list of log files to process.   

14. Solaris Patch Cluster Management
(Technology/Solaris)

...f it's dependencies. On a hardened production system this can be a real PITA.   I have used this script (Updated to use sunsolve IDs since Sun stopped anonymous access) to keep up-to-date wit...

15. Mysql dropping 3.23 and 4.0
(Blog/Technoblog)

...for their future, as our support of these releases will be limited to those covered by a MySQL Network subscription, starting in 1 Aug 2006 (for MySQL 3.23) and 1 Oct 2006 (for MySQL 4.0)." &nbsp...

16. GPGSesame
(Technology/Linux)

GPGSesame is a perl script that collects and verifies Open PGP signed / encrypted mail and allows access through a Linux Netfilter firewall. This enables you to remotely open holes in your iptables by

17. DDNS Firewall Holes
(Technology/Linux)

...ethod I've used for accessing my home box from the interweb is to use a dynamic DNS account. I have a script that is run from cron that does a lookup on a certain hostname and updates an iptables ...

18. GNU GPL Version 2
(Credits/Credits)

All scripts you download from this site are authored or modified by me Mark Boddington and are released under the GNU GPL version 2. Unless otherwise stated, please read each script for the exact deta

19. BashScripts
(Web Links / Scripting and Programming)

A community forum with an ever increasing collection of shell scripts and shell fragments.