Re: [SLUG] More spam stuff - Spamassassin and procmail
This one time, at band camp, Scott Waller (Lots of Watts) wrote: > Q Do I just create the /etc/procmailrc file? or is there a > better/easier way? Normally the .procmailrc file is in the user's home directory. So /home/john/.procmailrc man procmail man procmailrc man procmailex Note the -m switch on procmail. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. - Winston Churchill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Python problem
I compiled the application called gdesklets. There were complaints during the configuration process of my missing certain files, which I believed I'd overcome, since ultimately I was able to run the necessary installation commands with no further complaints. However, when I afterwards tried to open the gdesklets shell, I got the following output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gdesklets shell [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ python: Objects/stringobject.c:110: PyString_FromString: Assertion `str != ((void *)0)' failed. I have no idea whatever I'm being told by the above output or how to overcome the problem disclosed. I'd be grateful for any advice. Thanks, Leslie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] New St George HTML based online banking interface
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:31:08PM +1000, CaT wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 04:03:49PM +1000, Adam Kennedy wrote: > > I can't remember EVER getting St George ones, although they've warned > > about them before. > > You're just not popular enough with the right crowd :) > > 165 N + Apr 14 St. George Bank ( 77) St. George Bank Phone Verification > 166 N Oct 16 St. George Bank ( 77) St. George Bank Phone Verification > 167 N Oct 17 St. George Bank ( 77) St. George Bank Phone Verification > 168 N Oct 17 St. George Bank ( 77) St. George Bank Phone Verification You have to admit 3 is a big increase. Ooh and hey lookie, anothery just arrived: 328 N Oct 17 St. George Bank ( 0) St. George Bank Phone Verification -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Python problem
Leslie Katz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ gdesklets shell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ python: Objects/stringobject.c:110: > PyString_FromString: Assertion `str != ((void *)0)' failed. > > I have no idea whatever I'm being told by the above output or how to > overcome the problem disclosed. The file Objects/stringobject.c has a bug in that it seems that the C language layer is tring to pass a NULL C string to the Python layer. This is something that the person who wrote the code needs to fix. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ "I ran it on my DeathStation 9000 and demons flew out of my nose." --Kaz -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] OSDC 2006's fabulous keynotes
Book before 31st October to save $50 and get a free conference t-shirt! Registrations are open for the Open Source Developers' Conference 2006: http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html The conference is running in Melbourne from the 6th - 8th December, with a day of tutorials on the 5th. Keynote talks this year include: Damian Conway: "The Da Vinci Codebase" When a dying operating system scrawls his name across its corrupted boot volume, Dr. Damian Conway, an unassuming college professor, is plunged into a deadly race against time to solve a series of impossible riddles. What is the mysterious "Priory of Bios?" And who are their deadly nemeses "Opus Arai?" On the run from the law and stalked by a ghostly pale killer, will he unravel the subtle clues hidden in Leonardo's most famous source code and reveal to the world the incredible secret encrypted in...the Da Vinci Codebase? Randal L. Schwartz: "Free software - A look back, a look ahead" A twenty year history of the free/open software movement, from my perspective of how to contribute (in many ways!) and how to make money as well. Richard Farnsworth: "Open Source Synchrotron" What is a Synchrotron anyway? What software needs does it has? How can Open Source help solve these? The Australian Synchrotron achieved first light in July 2005 almost exclusively filling its software needs through open source. The code base has been refined to suit local conditions, and shared with the rest of the Synchrotron open source community. By sharing information, experience and software freely between scientists and engineers, great design efficiencies have been made further aiding the development of experimental beamlines. Anthony Baxter: "futurepython" import __future__ What does the future hold for the Python language? In this talk, we'll look at Microsoft's (Open Sourced!) IronPython and show some of the massive fun coming down the track for scripting languages thanks to .Net and Mono. We'll also cover Python 3.0 (now under development) and the PyPy (Python, in Python) project. Be a part of this fantastic conference and help it be the best developers' conference this year! If your business would like to benefit from exposure to many of Australia's best open source developers then perhaps you should consider sponsorship. We have a wide range of sponsorship options, to find out more information please visit: http://www.osdc.com.au/sponsors/index.html We look forward to sharing this great conference with you! Don't forget to register before 31st October to get a free conference t-shirt. http://www.osdc.com.au/registration/index.html Jacinta Richardson OSDC Publicity Officer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] email address farming
Hello sluggers, No, it isn't for spamming... I've changed my email address again and wish to send emails out to anyone who has sent one to me, short of individually collecting them and putting them into my kontact data base is there a way of farming them to collect them all and throw out the ones I don't want? All the messages are in kmail and there are about 1600 of them, so individual collection would be a large PITA. Any ideas would be appreciated. TIA, Nicholas Tomlin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] More spam stuff - Spamassassin and procmail
* On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:02:01AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Scott Waller (Lots of Watts) wrote: > > > Q Do I just create the /etc/procmailrc file? or is there a > > better/easier way? > > Normally the .procmailrc file is in the user's home directory. So > /home/john/.procmailrc > > man procmail > man procmailrc > man procmailex > > Note the -m switch on procmail. You'll probably find the procmail pages a bit obscure; there's lots of web guides out there. My favourite is by Prof Timo Salmi, http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/info/proctips.html, especially "Building a Testbench". -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them. One OS to call them all, And in salvation bind them. In the bright land of Linux, Where the hackers play. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] rebooting a non scrolling mouse
I switch between two systems using a Belkin KVM, and when I return to Dapper, the mouse no longer scrolls. After a little while if I'm lucky it will start to scroll again. I can't pick a pattern though. I've tried waiting after KVM switching (previously suggested by someone) but no luck. Any suggestions about forcing the system to re-read the mouse in some way? Perhaps something equivalent to #/etc/init.d/gpm restart thanks... David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] suse
Hi slugs, I am in the process of (hopefully) converting our school from winxp to Novell and suse. Found out about you at the Moodle conference; - can you help with advice about useful apps? We need a good Flash editor, website design, CAD program, - things schools need. My school phone and email are 4757 2253 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Joachim begin:vcard fn:Joachim Herrmann n:Herrmann;Joachim org:Livspace adr;dom:;;6 West Street;Leura;NSW;2780 email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:02 4784 3734 x-mozilla-html:TRUE url:http://www.livspace.com.au version:2.1 end:vcard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] suse
Hello Joachim! Great to hear that your trying to migrate your school to Linux. Now about the applications you require: Flash Editor There's tool called Flash for Linux[1], but it's still in development and from what I can see development has halted (thus not all that good in your case). Personally I'm against encouraging school children to use it due to it's heavy proprietary nature. A good and _complex_ animation package is Blender[2]. Although not embeddable into websites, if that is your intention. Website design. Nvu[3], the website is pretty informative about it's features. CAD Qcad[4], simple CAD program. You'll find a number of sluggers have or do work with schools as well, so your not alone! [1] http://f4l.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://blender.org/ [3] http://nvu.com/index.php [4] http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html Note that all of the above software is available on Linux and Windows, so students can use them freely at home. -- Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Joachim Herrmann wrote: Hi slugs, I am in the process of (hopefully) converting our school from winxp to Novell and suse. Found out about you at the Moodle conference; - can you help with advice about useful apps? We need a good Flash editor, website design, CAD program, - things schools need. My school phone and email are 4757 2253 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Regards, Joachim -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] suse
Joachim Herrmann wrote: > We need a good Flash editor, Joachim, I do quite a bit of messing about with Flash in my day job and I can assure you that there is nothing like the Macromedia Flash development tools on Linux. Even the Free Software Flash player, Gnash ( http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ ) is nowhere near ready for general use. Flash is a closed proprietary product which is bandwidth intensive in comparison to other web formats, it breaks the operation of the back/forward buttons on web browsers etc. My advice is to steer people away from developing web sites with Flash and instead concentrate on widely used, truely open web standards. Hope this helps, Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ A Microsoft Certified System Engineer is to computing what a MacDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Google women in engineering event
Hi all, Google are putting on a free evening for women in engineering. Come along to meet some awesome local women in IT, hear from Jen Fitzpatrick and Rob Pike from Google, get some free Google schwag and enjoy some yummy food and drinks. Thursday, October 26th 6:30pm - 10:00pm http://services.google.com/events/ohsydney_rsvp Rock! Hope to see you all there :) Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au/ "What are we doing today brain?" "We're taking over the world like we always do." - Pinky and the Brain -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Python problem
Thanks very much for the reply, Erik. I'll now try to contact the developers. Leslie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] email address farming
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/10/2006, at 6:52 PM, Nicholas Tomlin wrote: No, it isn't for spamming... I've changed my email address again and wish to send emails out to anyone who has sent one to me, short of individually collecting them and putting them into my kontact data base is there a way of farming them to collect them all and throw out the ones I don't want? All the messages are in kmail and there are about 1600 of them, so individual collection would be a large PITA. If your mail is stored locally on your PC, then you could simply write a script to rip through your mail store and grab all unique "From" headers and dump them into a file. Edit the file at your leisure, then use it to pump out the new messages :) Shouldn't take more than about 10 minutes. Of course, if your scripting is a little rusty, it might take longer :P Cheers, James -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFFNVGmwBHpdJO7b9ERAma6AJ9EhSSJslwQFgLi86evOulOT6IxywCgv6Uu xrcRvVqoNbmLYfUXvF9mhas= =Hq1K -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] rebooting a non scrolling mouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17/10/2006 08:38:14 PM: > > > I switch between two systems using a Belkin KVM, and when I return to > Dapper, the mouse no longer scrolls. After a little while if I'm lucky > it will start to scroll again. I can't pick a pattern though. > > I've tried waiting after KVM switching (previously suggested by someone) > but no luck. > > Any suggestions about forcing the system to re-read the mouse in some > way? Perhaps something equivalent to #/etc/init.d/gpm restart > Do you have any objections to using gpm in X? you could try modifying your pointer section in your xorg.conf as such: Device "/dev/gpmdata" Restarting gpm as you mentioned might reset it. Alternatively, if its a usb mouse, you could just unplug and re-plug it in each time. If its a serial mouse, check out: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/3-Button-Mouse.html#s6 Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Script not working
I have a script to backup a VMWare virtual machine which when run manually on the box by root runs OK, but when run by cron...well, it doesn't. This is the script echo VMSNAP Backup Script echo _ rm -f /vmimages/localbackup/###-###-REP1/* rm -f /vmimages/localbackup/###-###-VDB1/* echo Old images erased, new backup started date /usr/sbin/vmsnap_all echo Backup complete, copy started date scp -r /vmimages/localbackup/* 192.168.0.1:/vmimages/from_vm1 echo Copy complete, script exiting date /var/log/messages shows Oct 15 16:30:05 RKI-SYD-VM1 sshd(pam_unix)[5470]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Oct 15 16:30:05 RKI-SYD-VM1 sshd(pam_unix)[5470]: session closed for user root Oct 15 16:30:12 RKI-SYD-VM1 sshd(pam_unix)[5533]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) Oct 15 16:30:12 RKI-SYD-VM1 sshd(pam_unix)[5533]: session closed for user root Oct 15 16:30:17 RKI-SYD-VM1 sshd(pam_unix)[5549]: session opened for user root by (uid=0) The script is set to run at 4:30pm /var/log/cron shows it starting ... Oct 17 16:30:00 RKI-SYD-VM1 CROND[16132]: (root) CMD (/root/vm1_snap.sh #Daily vmsnap backup script) There is nothing in /etc/pam.d/cron Could someone please tell me why it may not be working. Why does it say about an ssh session opening? I think it may be a pam issue but my skills are a bit patchy with how cron,pam and ssh all work together. Thanks Kaz -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] suse
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 01:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi slugs, > I am in the process of (hopefully) converting our school from winxp to > Novell and suse. Found out about you at the Moodle conference; - can > you help with advice about useful apps? We need a good Flash editor, > website design, CAD program, - things schools need. > My school phone and email are 4757 2253 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Regards, Joachim > Attached business cards > Joachim Herrmann > Livspace > > Work 02 4784 3734 > Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Homepage http://www.livspace.com.au > Domestic 6 West Street > Leura NSW, 2780 > [Add this contact to the addressbook] > > > End of encapsulated message Have you looked at ltsp? http://www.ltsp.org James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] dual monitor video card
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:46:58 +1000, Ben uttered > doh! I meant PCIe, but that's probably what you mean anyway. and it > was just last week I was scoping hardware sites and laughing at the > ones who labelled the PCIe cards PCIx. > PCI-X and PCI-E are very different. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express Cheers, -- Steve In the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Script not working
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 18/10/2006 10:16:14 AM: > I have a script to backup a VMWare virtual machine which when run manually > on the box by root runs OK, but when run by cron...well, it doesn't. > > This is the script > > echo VMSNAP Backup Script > echo _ > rm -f /vmimages/localbackup/###-###-REP1/* > rm -f /vmimages/localbackup/###-###-VDB1/* > echo Old images erased, new backup started > date > /usr/sbin/vmsnap_all > echo Backup complete, copy started > date > scp -r /vmimages/localbackup/* 192.168.0.1:/vmimages/from_vm1 > echo Copy complete, script exiting > date > > > > /var/log/messages shows > > Oct 15 16:30:05 RKI-SYD-VM1 sshd(pam_unix)[5470]: session opened for user > root by (uid=0) > Oct 15 16:30:05 RKI-SYD-VM1 sshd(pam_unix)[5470]: session closed for user > root As far as I know, this states a session was successful via ssh (scp), perhaps there is nothing to place on the remote box? (eg, /usr/sbin/vmsnap_all didn't work) What is /usr/sbin/vmsnap_all, is it a shell script? Perhaps it relies on environment variables that are not set in the cron. After it is run from the cron, do the backups exist on the local machine's /vminages/localbackup? Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Script not working
$quoted_author = "Kazik Malenczak" ; > > I have a script to backup a VMWare virtual machine which when run manually > on the box by root runs OK, but when run by cron...well, it doesn't. it's probably a path issue. log the cron output somewhere and check the error. > Could someone please tell me why it may not be working. Why does it say > about an ssh session opening? I think it may be a pam issue but my skills > are a bit patchy with how cron,pam and ssh all work together. scp uses ssh which is using pam for authentication. cheers marty -- "its a mailing list... its only slightly better than a web forum. the main improvement is that no one has anime-p0rn avatars. Dean" [1] [1] - http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2005/12/msg00309.html` -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Malone Question
Hey guys,When I have subscribed to a bug in Launchpad.net's Malone bug tracker and the bug gets marked as a duplicate, does it automatically subscribe me to the other bug report? Cheers,~James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] suse
Also OpenLaszlo is an opensource Flash like technologyhttp://www.openlaszlo.org/JamesOn 10/17/06, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Joachim Herrmann wrote:> We need a good Flash editor,Joachim,I do quite a bit of messing about with Flash in my day joband I can assure you that there is nothing like the MacromediaFlash development tools on Linux. Even the Free Software Flash player, Gnash ( http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/ ) is nowherenear ready for general use.Flash is a closed proprietary product which is bandwidth intensive in comparison to other web formats, it breaks the operation of theback/forward buttons on web browsers etc.My advice is to steer people away from developing web sites withFlash and instead concentrate on widely used, truely open web standards.Hope this helps,Erik--+---+ Erik de Castro Lopo+---+A Microsoft Certified System Engineer is to computing what a MacDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine.--SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Script not working
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a script to backup a VMWare virtual machine which when run manually > on the box by root runs OK, but when run by cron...well, it doesn't. > > This is the script > > echo VMSNAP Backup Script > echo _ > rm -f /vmimages/localbackup/###-###-REP1/* > rm -f /vmimages/localbackup/###-###-VDB1/* > echo Old images erased, new backup started > date > /usr/sbin/vmsnap_all > echo Backup complete, copy started > date > scp -r /vmimages/localbackup/* 192.168.0.1:/vmimages/from_vm1 > echo Copy complete, script exiting > date > > > > /var/log/messages shows > > Oct 15 16:30:05 RKI-SYD-VM1 sshd(pam_unix)[5470]: session opened for user > root by (uid=0) > Oct 15 16:30:05 RKI-SYD-VM1 sshd(pam_unix)[5470]: session closed for user > root > Oct 15 16:30:12 RKI-SYD-VM1 sshd(pam_unix)[5533]: session opened for user > root by (uid=0) > Oct 15 16:30:12 RKI-SYD-VM1 sshd(pam_unix)[5533]: session closed for user > root > Oct 15 16:30:17 RKI-SYD-VM1 sshd(pam_unix)[5549]: session opened for user > root by (uid=0) > > The script is set to run at 4:30pm > > /var/log/cron shows it starting ... > > Oct 17 16:30:00 RKI-SYD-VM1 CROND[16132]: (root) CMD (/root/vm1_snap.sh > #Daily vmsnap backup script) > > There is nothing in /etc/pam.d/cron > > > Could someone please tell me why it may not be working. Why does it say > about an ssh session opening? I think it may be a pam issue but my skills > are a bit patchy with how cron,pam and ssh all work together. Um how about step by step: Can root on machineA ssh to machineB without password? If NO then on machineA do ssh-keygen -t rsa (as root) copy id_rsa.pub to .ssh/authorized_keys (sic) on machineB (also using ~root) Now you ought to be able to ssh to machineB without password Now the backup should run James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] scripting question
Hi
On 17/10/06, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've written a small script that archives email - it works, but I was
wondering if there's any better way to write it (apart from using
another language).
Damn.
The script is:
> for i in z_bak:7 root:14 y_spam_definite:56 ; do
> mydir=${i%:*}
> mydays=${i#*:}
$mydir is the directory to cleanup, $mydays is the # of days I want to
keep email. Is there any better way of writing the for loop to go thru
the 2 sets of values?
Not that I can see - mildly curious to know if there is. AFAIK Bash
only has 1-dimensional arrays (in my version), certainly no hashes.
The above script looks quite compact along with those annoying
substitution operators that I can never remember.
I tend to use 'case' if I'm shelling - which is far more verbose:
for mydir in z_bak root y_spam_definite ; do
case $mydir in
z_bak)
mydays=7
;;
foo|bar|baz)
mydays=100
;;
*)
echo "$0: Bad mail directory used : '$mydir'" >&2
;;
esac
done
Here is a crazy version using arrays:
expires=(
z_bak:7
root:14
y_spam_definite:56
)
for (( i=0; i<${#expires[*]}; i++ )); do
j=${expires[$i]}
mydir=${j%:*}
mydays=${j#*:}
done
It's kinda lost some clarity at this point (!). What I was trying to
do was to put the delete settings at the top in a simple list for easy
configuration.
(I've used arrays before in a script which stores my sometimes
numerous working directories in a file so that I can call these up and
jump back and forth between locations more easily)
Daniel.
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Re: [SLUG] scripting question
On 17 Oct 2006, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've written a small script that archives email - it works, but I was
> wondering if there's any better way to write it (apart from using
> another language).
>
> The script is:
>
> > for i in z_bak:7 root:14 y_spam_definite:56 ; do
> > mydir=${i%:*}
> > mydays=${i#*:}
>
> $mydir is the directory to cleanup, $mydays is the # of days I want to
> keep email. Is there any better way of writing the for loop to go thru
> the 2 sets of values?
Using associative arrays in zsh (or ksh or maybe bash?) you can write
typeset -A to_archive
to_archive=(z_bak 7 root 14 y_spam_definite 56)
for mydir in ${(k)to_archive}
do
mydays=$to_archive[$mydir]
But I've actually never used them before doing this, and I have to say
the ${(k)to_archive} is beyond my current tolerance for shell wierdness.
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