Ben Ruset on August 10th, 2007

Couple of things to touch on:
1. I found my first example of “why do it in Perl when shell will do it better/quicker/easier?” Consider this - njpinebarrens.com backs up it’s database and the webroot for three sites nightly to a gzipped tar file to a 40GB USB external drive. The site itself takes up a [...]

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Ben Ruset on August 7th, 2007

I spent the better day working on a perl script to configure the Advanced Lights Out Manager on Sun Sunfire servers. This script will basically read in a bunch of variable and execute the various shell commands to get the ALOM fired up. The basic syntax will be:
./configurealom.pl ipaddress netmask gateway y|Y|n|N
The last value tells [...]

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