Archive for the 'Scripts' Category

Better Scripts #1

Oops! You just sent the root password for your central MySQL server to a big mailing list. You scramble to change it as fast as possible. Sometimes you may need to include a password or some other important information in cleartext in a script. A database backup script could be a good example. You whip […]

Automatic Zone Configuration

The last two entries has been about automatic zone installation, part 1 and part 2. With the provided script you can create as many zones as your platform can allow. But usually the story doesn’t end there. In 99.9% of the cases you want to customize the zone even more. In many cases you want […]

Automatic Zone Installation Part 2

As I promised in my previous entry about zone installs I will now provide you with a script that will simplify those many steps into one simple concise command.
Why would you need to script such a thing? It was not that difficult to do it manually. But when you have a script you can do […]