A secure and very random password generator module written in Perl. It can be used to generate passwords or unique strings which can be used in sorts of operations. The default character set is alpha-numerical based, but can be set to any kind of character list. The complete handling and generating is implemented in a […]
There aren’t many Inotify daemons available that can work recursive and offer a descent flexibility regarding Inotify signals. For basic rsync operations, lsyncd isn’t that bad but it isn’t that flexible for system administration. The fact that it is written and configured in Lua, makes it actually really complex (considering that you don’t know to […]
Below is a small Perl example how to check for NFS mounted shares on a Linux host. The script does not need any specific modules, and makes use of the /etc/mtab file. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @mount_points = do {local @ARGV = ‘/etc/mtab’; }; foreach my $mnt (@mount_points){ next unless $mnt =~ /nfs/; […]
There are definetly a few modules on CPAN which will allow to easily change file permissions in Perl, but you do not always have the chance or possibility to install CPAN modules. The following examples explain how to change the original file permissions to either remove or set new permissions. One way of doing this, […]
In some situations, you need to watch a directory for uploaded files and move/process them immediately. Many scripts work in a polling kind of way, which will check every x amounts of seconds for new files. This is nowadays completely out of fashion and generaly not cool. A real watcher script uses the OS’s built-in […]
When you are not using Debian unstable or some kind of Linux distro that hasn’t got the latest version of the dmesg command, you will not be able to execute ‘dmesg -T‘ to see human readable timestamp in the output. A small Perl script does the trick: #!/usr/bin/perl -wn use strict; foreach my $line () […]
Recently I have been asked to write a Syslog event generator, but not just a normal syslog generator, it had to be able to generate events coming from different hosts. The normal ‘logger’ command sends Syslog messages using the machine’s IP address, so logger wasn’t very useful. The only thing useful seem to be, to […]
Geotagging photos used to be a very expensive operation, since you needed special equipment, heavy antennas and especially: a lot muscles to carry all your extra gear. Nowadays, a lot of people have iPhone or like me, an Android phone. A descent Android phone contains a GPS device. A GPS device connected to a computer […]
Putting photos on a website has always been a pain. There were always a few steps you had to do, before they could be seen on your webpage. Of course, nowadays there are services like Flickr, Picassa, Panoramio, Facebook … but you still have to go through quite some steps before you pictures are online. […]
I just discovered this very interesting article about Perl, CGI, Template and Ajax using JSON. I’m going to use to beef up my image browser which I quickly wrote to simply the contents of directory full with images. (can be found overhere http://yamamoto.moretrix.com/~insaniac/grtp/ Here’s the link to the article.