December 22nd, 2008
Sometimes, a script which works perfectly fine when run from the shell, fails when run as a cron job. It’s often quite difficult to debug these problems, but to make the task a little easier, try this. Edit the crontab file with crontab -e Add this line for your script…
December 18th, 2008
Here’s how to acheive the appearence of text popping out as you hover over it with your mouse. It’s a simple effect that can be acheived with nothing more than a little CSS. I’ve used this on the title’s of each blog post, but I also think it looks quite…
December 8th, 2008
Here’s an annoying little foible of BASH shell scripting. I’ve been trying to writea script to test authorization against a list of servers, and fire off an email if any of the servers doesn’t respond. The lis tof servers is in a text file, and I’ve got a while loop…