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Concatenate all lines to one line
Here is something I needed to do the other day. I needed to take an input file which had many lines of text, and concatenate to one line. There are lots of ways of doing this, but here is just … Continue reading
Compress logs daily
If you have a service generating log files that can’t be automatically rolled over and cleaned up, here is a quick method, using a cron entry, to gzip and then remove the unneeded logs: 05 04 * * * /usr/bin/find … Continue reading
Add a date to an output file generated from a cron entry
If you’ve ever struggled to put a date format in a crontab entry, so that the output file for the command has a date/time stamp, then here is a method that works: 00 02 * * * /var/scripts/bin/filesystem_cleaner.sh -a > … Continue reading
Agent vs Agentless Deployments Part 1: Agent Based Deployments
Agent based deployments rely on the presence of a running process and associated connection port(s) on the target infrastructure as a means to transport files and/or execute actions or commands. Agents can also be used to discover configurations on target … Continue reading
