Questions tagged [scripting]
A form of computer programming that — in the context of system administration — lends it self well to automating tasks.
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exec 2>&1 – execlude some command from being logged to file
I have the following in my bash script:
# catch input for log-data
exec > >(tee -i ${LOG})
exec 2>&1
I want to exclude one command from being written to this log file,
but the following ...
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Failed to satisfy all dependencies (broken cache)
fatal: [ip]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "msg": "Failed to satisfy all dependencies (broken cache)"}
I am trying enter image description hereto run ansible script ...
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Bash-script: run another script on bottom as an other user
I have a bash script that runs over crontab as root.
On the bottom of that script I want to run another bash script as another user in a subshell (detached).
How can I do that
The normal command would ...
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Simple bash syntax failing passwd
Whenever I try to enter the password for a new user through pipe it doesn't work for me.. this is the command:
echo "${PASSWORD}" | passwd ${USER_NAME}
However it fails to work, what am I ...
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Passing a list as parameter in a call within a windows bat file
For a set of project, I need to automate granting access to users and would write a *.bat
I would write something like this (but more complex):
@echo off
CALL :grant "user1 user2" "read ...
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Script without put ran as administrator leaves no file [closed]
I am trying to run this script as administrator. When I run it without admin rights the log file is save in C:\Windows\System32. I put echo %~dp0 in the script and it echos to the current directory.
%~...
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8: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting “)”)
The following code:
weekday=$(date +%a)
day=$(date +%d)
month=$(date +%m)
if [[ ( $month == 03 || $month == 10 ) && $weekday = "Sun" && $day > 24 ]]
then
# ...
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Any PowerShell Script to Backup and restore Ms-sql database using dB username and password?
I am looking for a PowerShell script which can take backup and restore MS-SQL databases using SQL authentication.
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Recursive PowerShell script to protect all OUs and Objects from Accidental Deletion
I'm sure there has got to be an easier way that what I hand-jammed....
I'm trying to write and run a PowerShell script that will set the ProtectFromAccidentalDeletion flag to "true" ...
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Automating kill Terminal sessions older than 24h script on Windows with PSKILL?
So currently, when a user forgot to close his session accordingly we need to manually go to our terminal server, search all active session with qwinsta /server:localhost and kill the unused sessions ...
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Output to log file from Script not working
I have an interactive script example.sh for updates, part of which is something like this:
echo "Performing Backup of Old software"
zip -r backup/backup-$now.zip /var/www/html/...
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What is the Script CMD for add rule for Routing and Remote Access in Firewall?
Does anyone know the script from Command Prompt to add a rule for Routing and Remote Access ?
Routing and Remote Access (GRE-Out)
Routing and Remote Access (L2TP-Out)
Routing and Remote Access (PPTP-...
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SCP exit 0 when using un-initialized variable and fail to copy
I am trying to test if a file fails to transfer using SCP.
I noticed if I use a un-initialized variable, I get exit 0 even though the SCP fails.
For example, I have an empty variable called ...
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Group Policy to copy users profiles to the server
This is my first time asking here but, I tried to find a solution but nothing so far,
I want to create a GPO that will automatically copy the user's profiles of all computers for a folder in the ...
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Does MS Teams write to Event log?
I'd like to trigger a script action upon MS Teams client launch. My first guess was to hook it on an event in the Event log.
However, I was unable to find if the app actually writes to the Windows ...
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copying latest version of a file to another location
a directory /tar/opts/sw/log contains several versions of the same file..eg.log_aaa_0001,log_aaa_0002 ,log_bbb_0001,log_bbb_0002,log_bbb_0003 etc where log_aaa_0002 and log_bbb_0003 are the latest ...
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Renaming a tar file in unix script
cd /var/opt/sw/e4/data/dev/e4_dev/DEVL3/EW/EWD1/DATA/AED/INPUT
for file in *;do tar -czf ../OUTPUT/"${file}".tar; done
According to the above code the files in input path eg. aedlog, aaalog....
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Script to search for specific task in scheduler and delete this task
I am quite new in this area and I am bit lost but when I have looked to: https://serverfault.com/questions/604673/how-to-print-out-information-about-task-scheduler-in-powershell-script ,this was ...
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How in Ansible AWX 15.0.1 to use 'in' to find a nested variable from extra_vars
I wrote in my extra_vars block in AWX the following variables that I expect to be changed anytime someone runs this
servers:
- vm_name: TestDeploy01
vm_ip: 10.10.1.241
vm_tag:
- Infra
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When setting up openvpn in NetworkManager GUI (KDE Plasma applet) how to make it respect the .conf/.ovpn file configuration?
I have my .conf files for openvpn working fine in an Arch with KDE Plasma. My conf files have some lines to update the DNS configurations like below:
script-security 2
up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-...
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multipart/mixed content type and boundary refused by Amavis
I'm writing a Ruby script that send SMTP email. The email is divided onto 3 parts: headers, body and attachment. Unfortunatly, I'm struggling to satisfy an Amavis requirement: properly writing the ...
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In Debian-based script: how to determine if kernel changed and needs reboot?
How can we (more) easily determine if a kernel-change-reboot is required in Debian, other than doing this in a script (which is a bit cumbersome)?
Ubuntu has /var/run/reboot-required and per our ...
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PowerShell Script to create a VPN connection for all users
I have the following PowerShell script that creates a VPN connection and a desktop shortcut to Rasphone.
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# Powershell script to create a client VPN connection to a Meraki MX.
#
# Configuration ...
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Installing the Scripting Extension Python - SNAPSHOT JARs
I am trying to install the Geoserver Scripting Extension - Python (description). After downloading geoserver-2.17-SNAPSHOT-python-plugin (my Geoserver is 2.17.0) I followed the instructions:
Extract ...
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Systemd python script won't log (buffer cause)?
Although the problem exposed here seems very similar, none of the solutions provided work. Context :
Raspberry Pi Zero W, Raspbian Lite (2020-08-20)
I want to register a python3 script as a service, ...
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Terraform Windows Server on AWS - Script not executing?
I have deployed a Windows Server (2019) via Terraform onto AWS.
It seems as though my script lines are not being entered when I deploy the server.
It deploys the server, but nodejs does not seem to ...
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Linux Bash Scripting using grep sed and cut command to display ip address with port number
Can any one please help me
I need a output of "192.168.1.1#53" by using these 'grep' 'sed' and 'cut' command mandatory in linux bash scipting
in given below text.
;; Query time: 29 msec
;; ...
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Correct way to run scripts in automated, unattended Windows installation
I have some custom scripts that I have written to customise Windows 10 such as removing bloatware and setting file explorer options via Registry Editor that I use to apply to all users and/or the ...
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Asterisk dialplan pattern generator
I was wondering if anyone knows about a shell script or Pyhton script, or whatever language, some kind of command line script that given a set of phone numbers, the script will then generate the ...
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make ssh remember host's username
I connect to many servers daily.
my ssh config default username is "admin"
but servers comes from different environnements and username can changes. sometimes it will be "ec2-user" ...
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PowerShell: How to check a recurrent week time interval?
I need to create a PowerShell script, able to collect some data at each minute.
However, this script cannot run during the "technical windows", that are scheduled to occur at the same week ...
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Capturing output of remote process from sysinternal's psexec Script
I'm trying to deploy a program throught PSexec with a script from Bat file to use one CMD instance per computer and not one after the other.
I need a log to be generated on my local server to be sure ...
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Bash script with output
I have a server that needs to send daily some files to remote machines.
I have done this script in order to automate this task.
What I need to insert on this script in order to see if this task as ...
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How to rename multiple files by adding word from that file?
I have files :
file name: report_2020-10-13-17-11.txt
Contain :
...
this report was prepared by=John
...
file name: report_2020-10-13-17-12.txt
Contain :
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this report was prepared by=Doe
...
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fail2ban txt list creation of banned IP
using fail2ban for years, working nice, would like to automate and harden the security for my router.
So I would like that fail2ban created a local file, example, list.txt file with a list of banned ...
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sequence of w3m commands into script for automation
i have a specific command sequence in w3m. Now i want to put these commands in a bash script.
Does anyone know how the syntax is for pressing "q", "tab", "enter" etc..?
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Powershell script to delete oldest files
I DO NOT want to "delete files older than X days." If I wanted to do this, I'd just pick one of the thousands of scripts out there that have already been written for that purpose, and I ...
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Invoke-RestMethod returns 400 error no matter what I do
So I'm working on a helpdesk automation with the Samanage API and need to update the "state" of the ticket. I've read the documentation and there is nothing i saw for updating the ticket ...
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Script executes perfectly in command line but failing in cron
I have created a script to know the successful attempts and failed attempts of users,usually everyday the /var/log/secure file goes to syslog and zipped like "secure-20200910.gz" but without ...
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Multiple same user creation with same username on multiple server
Below is the script which i use to create single user on server(I use another scpect script to copy below script on server and run script),But i want to create multiple user.
So,only once i will enter ...
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How to add credentials to bitlocker script
I'm trying to create a script to see if the bitlocker works or not.
If it works, then a file is posted in the c:\ folder We will call "yes" if the bitlocker does not work then add password ...
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Crontab - Sending StdErr to email and stdOut to log file
In my crontab, I'm trying to send stdout to log file and stderr to email account using a custom subject title.
I've tried many solutions without achieving my initial goal, let me explain:
First method:...
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Run local bash script on multiple remote machine
I have below bash script,every time i want to create a user i need to copy this script to server and run it.
Is there any thing we can do so that this script fetches the IP's from a hosts.txt file(...
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Cronjob can not execute smartctl?
I have a cronjob installed (Ubuntu 16) that runs with the root user. So in
sudo crontab -e
I have the following entry:
10 5 * * mon /home/userA/raidchecker.sh
And the script raidchecker.sh does this:
#...
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PowerShell script to report free disk space on servers
I am required to get reports about free disk space on our exchange servers.
I found this link : https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/PowerShell-Script-Sample-f7164554
But I am unable to ...
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lftp sync FXP script
since I have two ftp servers, I would like to make sure that the first server (ftp1) automatically synchronizes with the (ftp2) the files. I have read that it is possible to do this with lftp via the ...
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Trim and allign an output of command in expect script
{ echo ' ' ;echo ' IP : ' ;ip route get 8.8.8.8 | cut -d' ' -f7,8 | tr -d 'src' ;echo ' ' ;dmidecode -t bios | grep -iw 'Version' ;echo ' ' ;}
the output of above command mentioned is:
IP :
10.0.0.1
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how to use ping in expect script
Need assistance while i want to ping server if got reply then proceed with script and if no reply go again to previous step where we fetch IP from hosts.txt
#Setting up Variables
set timeout 5 ...
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Summarize first column same field
I have some datas with URL's and used network data. I made a custom file with these data's and i stuck last one step.
What i have now:
sevroland.api.url.com 488
www.logstach.url.com 42725
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Retrieving the current PTP settings of an Ubuntu machine
I have an Ubuntu machine (18.04) with PTPd installed. I want to write a script that can determine what PTP settings have been set previously.
Specifically, I want to find information on the master PTP ...
