Dear all,
I've slung together a tiny little perl module to enable
periodic(8) scripts to access periodic.conf(5) settings without having
to use sh(1). I thought it might be useful to some, so I tidied it up
and made it available for download at:
http://www.plasm.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD-Periodic-0.1.tar.gz
This all came about when I foolishly started porting some of the
periodic scripts over to a Solaris8 box. Particularly
470.status-named. Solaris `date' doesn't support the `-v' flag, so:
date -v-1d '+%b %d' | sed 's/0\(.\)$/ \1/'
becomes
perl -MPOSIX "print strftime "%b %e", localtime (time - 24 * 60 * 60);"
and then Solaris `uniq' doesn't support the `-i' flag so:
sort -f | uniq -ic |
becomes:
perl -ne '$s{lc $_}++; \
END { for (sort { $s{$a} cmp $s{$b} } keys %s) { \
printf "%4d $_", $s{$_} } }'
by which time the script might just as well be pure perl anyhow...
Cheers,
Matthew
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