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• Can a mapped network drive be reconnected from the command line?

  - by Stephen Jennings

  On a daily basis I find myself in the Windows command prompt needing to access a network drive that is mapped but disconnected. I have yet to find a command that will reconnect this drive without unmapping and remapping (which leads to a password guessing game, since I don't own these computers). I would also like to be able to script this so every night the drive is reconnected if it has become disconnected somehow. The fastest solution I currently have is to: Type "start." to open explorer, Alt-D to focus the address bar, type the drive letter I want and press enter, and wait for it to display the drive contents, then finally, close explorer and go back to the command prompt. I know it's a minor inconvenience, but I'm often doing this through a slow VNC or PCAnywhere connection where doing anything through GUI is awful, so I'm just wondering if there's a better solution.

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• How to batch rename files based on file header/metadata in Windows?

  - by Infraded

  I have a directory full of randomly named files of different types, all with no file extensions. Most are images, with some videos, and some plaintext. I've used one of the Windows versions of file to confirm the files can all be identified by their headers/metadata, but would like to automate the naming as there are roughly 2400 files. I don't care so much about the filename as much as just having the appropriate extension for it's type. Is anyone aware of a program or script that can do this?

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• Is there a feature in Nagios that allows Memory between checks?

  - by Kyle Brandt

  There are various instances where there are values I want to monitor with Nagios, and I don't care as much about the value itself, but rather how it compares to the previous value. For instance, I wrote one to check the fail counters in OpenVZ. In this case, I didn't care about the value that much, but rather I cared if the value increased. Another example might be switch ports, I would be most interested to get alerted about the change of state of a port (Although perhaps a trap would be better for this one). For my OpenVZ script, I used a temp file, but I am wondering if there is a better way? Maybe Nagios has some variables that plugins (check scripts) can access that are persistent across checks?

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• how to protect php app (vbulletin) from hackers

  - by samsmith

  Our vBulletin system is under constant attack, raising cpu load and making the system very slow for legit users. The attack is a script type attack that is attempting to log in and/or create new login ids (mostly it is trying to create login ids in order to spam the site). In vBulletin, we have black listed large ranges of ips, which has helped a lot, but the attacks continue. Is there an automated way to protect the application or web server? ideally, the protection would detect the pages accessed and automatically black list the ip.

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• Eclipse style autohotkey commands

  - by Ph4g3

  Is autohotkey capable of interpreting hotkeys in the style of Ctrl + Shift + W, W? I would assume a script like the following would work: ^+W:: ; Windows hotkeys (Ctrl + Shift + W) O:: Run Outlook ; Subsequent 'o' pressed => Run outlook E:: Run Explorer ; return From the documentation I note that these are called vertically stacked hotkeys and cause each line to perform the same action. In the case above, I think Ctrl+Shift+W and o will both cause outlook to be launched, whereas pressing e would cause explorer to be launched. What I would like is Ctrl+Shift+W, O runs outlook and Ctrl+Shift+W, e runs windows explorer. Is there any way to cause a hotkey to perform context specific actions (much like in Eclipse), where I can press Ctrl+Shift+W to activate a block of specific hotkeys?

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• Software to automate event notifications

  - by user6781

  I maintain a small web site and people can send an email to request information about new events. I would like to automate the process of updating people about new events via email. Is there some easy existing software package to do this? Where I can configure events with a date/description/etc... and have mails get sent automatically? The alternative is to build a MySql database and have some python script in a cron job that does it. I'd like to know if this is a solved problem though. I'm running on a shared host (dreamhost if it matters)

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• CPU/RAM usage log over a period of time to file on CentOS

  - by joel_gil

  Hi everyone Im looking for an app pr line of code that could let me observe a process, save the info in a number of variable and then put the gathered info on a file. Ive been trying with variations of top but no luck. I am running several CentOS virtual servers, VM is 2gb ram 2 processor. Maybe a script that works over a specified amount of time while writing lines with the info on a text file so at the end i can have a sort of table with the data. The thing is Im going to stress test the server and I would like to have the data to make some statistics. Any comments and suggestions are most welcome.

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• Someone tried to hack my Node.js server, need to understand a GET request in the logs

  - by Akay

  Alright, so I left my Node.js server alone for a while and came back to find some really interesting stuff in the logs. Apparently some moron from China or Poland tried to hack my server using directory traversal and what not, while it seems though he did not succeed I am unable understand few entries in the log. This is the output of a "hohup.out" file. The attack starts, apparently he is trying to find out some console entry in my server. All of which fail and return a 404. [90mGET /../../../../../../../../../../../ [31m500 [90m6ms - 2b[0m [90mGET /<script>alert(53416)</script> [33m404 [90m7ms[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /pz3yvy3lyzgja41w2sp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /stylesheets/style.css [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /index.html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /index.htm [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /default.html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /default.htm [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /default.asp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /index.php [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /default.php [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /index.asp [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /index.cgi [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /index.jsp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /index.php3 [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /index.pl [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /default.jsp [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /default.php3 [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /index.html.en [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /web.gif [33m404 [90m34ms[0m [90mGET /header.html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /homepage.nsf [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /homepage.htm [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /homepage.asp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /home.htm [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /home.html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /home.asp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /login.asp [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /login.html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /login.htm [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /login.php [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /index.cfm [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /main.php [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /main.asp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /main.htm [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /main.html [33m404 [90m2ms[0m [90mGET /Welcome.html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /welcome.htm [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /start.htm [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /fleur.png [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /level/99/ [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /chl.css [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /images/ [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /robots.txt [33m404 [90m2ms[0m [90mGET /hb1/presign.asp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /NFuse/ASP/login.htm [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /CCMAdmin/main.asp [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryServer [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /admin/images/rn_logo.gif [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /vncviewer.jar [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m7ms - 240b[0m [90mOPTIONS / [32m200 [90m1ms - 3b[0m [90mTRACE / [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mPROPFIND / [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /\./ [33m404 [90m1ms[0m But here is when things start getting fishy. [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /robots.txt [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m3ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://37.28.156.211/sprawdza.php [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mHEAD / [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.daydaydata.com/proxy.txt [33m404 [90m19ms[0m [90mHEAD / [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m2ms[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m4ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.pl/search?q=wp.pl [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mHEAD / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.pl/search?q=onet.pl [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mHEAD / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.pl/search?q=ostro%C5%82%C4%99ka [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.pl/search?q=google [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mHEAD / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.baidu.com/ [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mPOST /api/login [32m200 [90m1ms - 28b[0m [90mGET /web-console/ServerInfo.jsp [33m404 [90m2ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m10ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://proxyjudge.info [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mGET / [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m3ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m3ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.baidu.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m0ms[0m [90mGET /manager/html [33m404 [90m1ms[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m2ms - 240b[0m [90mHEAD / [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/ [32m200 [90m1ms - 240b[0m [90mGET http://www.google.com/search?tbo=d&source=hp&num=1&btnG=Search&q=niceman [33m404 [90m2ms[0m So my questions are, how come my server is returning a "200" OK for root level domains? How did the hacker even manage to send a GET request to my server such that "http://www.google.com" shows up in the log while my server is simply an API that works on relative URLs such as "/api/login". And, while I looked up the OPTIONS, TRACE and PROPFIND HTTP requests that my server has logged it would be great if someone could explain what exactly was the hacker trying to achieve by using these verbs? Also what in the world does "[90m [32m [90m1ms - 240b[0m" mean? The "ms" makes sense, probably milliseconds for the request, rest I am unable to understand. Thank you!

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• Mass modify all php files on my server

  - by anslume

  I would like to delete a php code on all my php files on my debian server. indeed I would like to get rid of a line: eval(base64_decode("DQplcnJvcl9yZXBvcnR")); It's present in many of my phpfiles. That's why I would like to find a script which is going to look it up in all my php files and replace itwith nothing? Do you have any idea how i could do that ? I know how to do it on windows with some software (notepad++ is very useful) but no idea how can I do that in a command line through ssh Thanks for your answer, Ans

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• How can I use '{}' to redirect the output of a command run through find's -exec option?

  - by pkaeding

  I am trying to automate an svnadmin dump command for a backup script, and I want to do something like this: find /var/svn/* \( ! -name dir -prune \) -type d -exec svnadmin dump {} > {}.svn \; This seems to work, in that it looks through each svn repository in /var/svn, and runs svnadmin dump on it. However, the second {} in the exec command doesn't get substituted for the name of the directory being processed. It basically just results a single file named {}.svn. I suspect that this is because the shell interprets > to end the find command, and it tries redirecting stdout from that command to the file named {}.svn. Any ideas?

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• How Do I Parse a String?

  - by Russ

  I am new to bash, and I am creating a script that loops through the files in a directory and based on part of the filename, does something with the file, so far I have this: #!/bin/bash DIR="/Users/me/Documents/import/*" for f in "$DIR" do $t=?????? echo "Loading $f int $t..." done so $f will output something like this: /Users/me/Documents/import/time_dim-1272037430173 out of this, I want time_dim, the directory can be variable length and -1272037430173 is a fixed length (it's the unix timestamp btw). What is the best way to go about this?

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• Windows 7 (64-bit) remove global hotkey created by unknown application

  - by user61967

  As the titles says an unknown application that I've installed have registered a global hot-key for Alt+2 , or as this is a Finnish keyboard it's actually Alt Gr+2. As this is also the key combination for writing the @ symbol (I copy/pasted this one) you can imagine how frustrating it is. There doesn't seem to be a way to even list these global hot-keys in windows, let alone change them. Searching the net doesn't help much either, it just gives you a list of windows built-in hot-keys or references to AutoHotKey, which as far as I can tell can't solve this issue. I don't want to script/customize/modify anything, I just want to remove this global hot-key so I can start typing @ again.

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• How to make vim display unicode

  - by Yitzchak

  I am trying to work with a utf-8 encoded xml file in vim 7.3 running on ubuntu. ASCII characters display normally but vim gives me gibberish instead of the unicode characters. After trying the following, I've reached the limits of my knowledge: 1) Checked that unicode was enabled by running set termencoding?. Output was termencoding=utf-8. 2) I installed the script from here (vim.org/scripts) 3) moved my ~/.vimrc file into ~/.vim 4) moved it back into ~ 5) followed the instructions in the accepted answer to this question. Is there some other variable I'm supposed to set? I know my system has the fonts I need. Update: Issue seems to be limited to html files for some reason.

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• How should oracle vbox look like in terms of Memory, CPU and Performance? [duplicate]

  - by Nicholas DiPiazza

  This question already has an answer here: Can you help me with my capacity planning? 2 answers I've got a need for a ton of VMs to simulate some realistic load testing scenarios. I've got a bunch of different host machines that differ in ram, cpu's, etc. What should my resource manager look like? Is there a standard way to know what the CPU, Memory and Disk Utilization should be given your CPUs + Memory available + Disks available? For example, I have a box: MemTotal: 50 Gb CPUs: 8 CPUs are pretty much 100% all day long. Memory is at about 60%. Swap not getting hit. Little bewildered by why the VMs, while doing the exact same test script, are showing different virtual memory consumption. Huh.

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• Remove folder structure from archive, ignore folder while archiving and fix error

  - by Michael

  I am trying to make a script to backup each of my plesk hosts to individual files, I am having two problems: I would like to remove the folder structure from archive, the tar is 3 folders deep I am getting this error: tar: Removing leading `/' from member names I need my archive to ignore folders named "catch" because I don't need them in my archive. The code: FILES=/var/www/vhosts/* FNAME="" for f in $FILES do FNAME=`basename $f` tar cfv "/root/backup/ftp/$FNAME.tar" $f done Sample output: tar: Removing leading `/' from member names /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/ /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/conf /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/etc/ /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/etc/group /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/etc/termcap /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/etc/passwd /var/www/vhosts/mydomain.com/usr/

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• Relating ping to perceived browser GUI response

  - by cvsdave

  We periodically get complaints of poor GUI (browser page) response that we need to explore. I am looking for a quick and cheap first check to see if the issue is network latency, or server performance. Has anyone encountered any discussion of ping time and perceived GUI response? I understand that GUI response is complicated, but it would be nice if we could find or develop a rule of thumb along the lines of "Hmmmm, ping is over 200, it might be network problems". Ideally, this lives in a script on the user's machine so that we can see the latency that they are seeing... (BASH, Linux). A reference to a good discussion page would be a fine answer, as would any recommendation of other source material.

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• Uninstall file from Apache Tomcat Web Server

  - by sttaq

  I have a website deployed on an apache web server. I am using a windows installer to deploy and un-deploy this website from the server. During the uninstall I am just removing the .war from the webapp directory of the tomcat. Now when I do this the tomcat automatically removes all the folders created when it unpacked the war file. But it takes some time to remove those folders. I want to know if there is a way to force tomcat to remove the folder immediately by communicating to it with some external tool eg a script, xml-rpc etc?

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• Windows 7 Mapped Network Drive Multiplying to Create Duplicates all the way to Z:

  - by bendiy

  A strange issue came in today from some users. At least two Windows 7 x64 boxes that have duplicate mappings of a network drive. The drive is not mapped with a log in script, but done manual through "Map Network Drive". Everything has been fine for months, but all of the sudden, Explorer looks like this: Files (\\fileServerPath) (S:) Files (\\fileServerPath) (T:) Files (\\fileServerPath) (U:) Files (\\fileServerPath) (V:) Files (\\otherServerPath) (W:) Files (\\fileServerPath) (X:) Files (\\fileServerPath) (Y:) Files (\\fileServerPath) (Z:) There are some other networks drives mixed in there that did not duplicate. The drive is normally mapped to S:\, but it decided to make its way to Z:. What is going on here? I've found this and will be trying soon: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpronetworking/thread/b5647cc3-15d0-4776-bb00-a869bd8f930b

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• Updating shared files across computers

  - by murgatroid99

  I have a file server running Windows Server 2008 and a couple of laptops running Windows 7 on a network. There are a large number of files that all users will need access to. My plan is to have the files on both the server and the laptops because the users will need to access the files in places with no Internet access. I also want any changes made to the files on any of the laptops to propagate to the server and then propagate to the other laptops whenever they connect to the network. Should I do this with a scheduled batch script with a few xcopy commands or is there a better way to do it?

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• Cant checkout from WebSVN

  - by yoasqie

  I am trying to download a script from SVN. The url looks like this: http://websvn.myurl.com/list.php?repname=name_1 I am trying to download using: svn checkout --username myuser --password mypass "http://websvn.myurl.com/list.php?repname=name_1" I got "URL is not properly URI-encoded", then I changed the "?" for "%3F", and the output shows: svn: OPTIONS of 'http://websvn.myurl.com/list.php%3Frepname=name_1': 200 OK (http://websvn.myurl.com/) But nothing gets downloaded. Sorry I can't post the real URL, but it's a private project and I don't have anyone else online to ask. What am I doing wrong?

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• Lightweight alternative to R for RHEL?

  - by Eric Rath

  I want to use R for some statistical analysis of logfile information, but found that even the "limited" R-core RPM has a lot of dependencies not already installed. I don't want to install so many packages for a peripheral need. Are there lightweight alternatives for simple statistical analysis on RHEL 6? I have an R script that accepts on stdin a large set of values -- one value per line -- and prints out the min, max, mean, median, 95th percentile, and standard deviation. For more context, I'm using grep and awk to find GET requests for a particular path in our webserver log files, get the response times, and calculate the metrics listed above in order to measure the impact on performance of changes to a web application. I don't need any graphing capabilities, just simple computation. Is there something I've overlooked?

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• What are some good asp.net shared hosting pre-sales questions?

  - by P a u l

  I'm not asking for any host recommendations, those are covered in other questions. What are some good pre sales questions for asp.net shared hosting? They never seem to answer all the questions in their feature lists. So far I have a few: dedicated application pool? sql server management studio supported? Is tunneling required? can I reset my application pool in the control panel? are php and perl fully supported as well? are subdomains supported, and will I need a routing script in the root or are they routed automatically? etc. Developers have a critical need for good hosting to stage applications. I think this is absolutely developer related and don't want the question on serverfault.

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• From the Coalface - 3 - Work as hard as you can to be as lazy as you can!

  - by TATWORTH

  The saga of the Change Log A recent conversation reminded me of the need for change logs within a database, to record when various change scripts were run. Creating such the required table is simple. A typical table for this consists of: Id - identity Integer primary key ChangeFileName - NVARCHAR(128) to hold the name of the file run. DateAdded - DateTime non-null with default value of getutcdate() Purpose - NVARCHAR(128) Rerunnable - Bit non-null default 0. By good design of the table only two data values normally need to be supplied. Two stored procedures, one for inserting data and one to list in reverse sequence the log complete the database essentials. The complete implementation can be found in the CommonData solution at http://CommonData.CodePlex.Com By including a call the add Change Log stored procedure, each script can log its name and purpose for posterity. The scripts that were applied to say the UAT system and their sequence of application can be readily identified for running on the Live system. Formatting XML XML is often produced as one continous string with no embedded CR/LF. To get it into human readable form, open it in visual studio, swap to another tab and back and click the format document button. The XML will then be nicely formatted!

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• Linux/Solaris replace hostnames in files according to hostname rule

  - by yael

  According to the following Perl command ( this command part of ksh script ) I can replaced old hostnames with new hostnames in Linux or Solaris previos_machine_name=linux1a new_machine_name=Red_Hat_linux1a export previos_machine_name export new_machine_name . perl -i -pe 'next if /^ *#/; s/(\b|[[:^alnum:]])$ENV{previos_machine_name}(\b|[[:^alnum:]])/$1$ENV{new_machine_name}$2/g' file EXPLAIN: according to perl command - we not replaces hostnames on the follwoing case: RULE: [NUMBERS]||[letter]HOSTNAME[NUMBERS]||[letter] my question after I used the Perl command in order to replace all old hostnames with new hostnames based on the "RULE" in the Perl command how to verify that the old hostnames not exist in file ? for example previos_machine_name=linux1a new_machine_name=Red_Hat_linux1a more file AAARed_Hat_linux1a verification should be ignore from this line @Red_Hat_linux1a$ verification should be match this line P=Red_Hat_linux1a verification should be match this line XXXRed_Hat_linux1aZZZ verification should be ignore from this line . . . .

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• What makes one language any better than another when both are designed for the same goals? [closed]

  - by Justin808

  I'm in the process of creating a grammar for a scripting language but as I'm working on it I started to wonder what makes a language good in the first place. I know the goals for my script but there are always 1000 different ways to go about doing things. Goals: Easy to use and understand (not my grandma could do it easy, but the secretary at the front desk could do it or the VP of marketing could do it type of easy) No user defined functions or subroutines. Its use would be in events of objects in a system similar to HyperCard. Conceptually I was thinking of a language like this: set myVariable to 'Hello World' set counter to 0 repeat 5 times with x begin set counter to counter add x end set myVariable to myVariable plus ' ' plus counter popup myVariable set text of label named 'label' to 'new text' set color of label named 'label' to blue The end result would popup a dialog with the contents Hello World 15 it would also change the text of a label and make it blue. But I could do the same thing 1000 different ways. So what makes one language any better than another when both are designed for the same goals?

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