Hello Guys, I'm new on this list and this is my first post! Let me introduce myself: my name is Antonio Carlos and I'm Brazilian. I'm a SysAdmin with specialty in Linux/UNIX, working professionaly with Linux/*BSD platforms since 2003 (mainly Slackware/OpenBSD), but I'm on Linux since 2.0.12 kernel.
I'm always writing scripts, since basic to complex ones. As my current job in a Check Point reseller, my routine is based in Firewalls migration, so I wrote a modular script (I call it as Tabajara Migrator) that helps me a lot in this task. Basically it reads and parses an input file (FortiGate backup, ASA backup, ISA Server XML, IPTables dump and OpenBSD's Packet Filter dump), convert it to a pseudo Firewall in a database (MySQL) and export it to a desired Firewall (currently, it supports only Check Point). It is completely written in Bash/AWK/SED (ok, one line of Perl) and currently it have around 7500 lines (distributed in various modules). I'm working in a little bit of inteligence in this script (such remove duplicate rules and keep rules with high usage on top). Who is using it? Me and my co-workers! On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Adam Moskowitz <ad...@menlo.com> wrote: > On the way home from LISA '14 I found myself already thinking about what > I'm going to submit to next year's conference and about what I'm going > to contribute to the community between now and then. I have some ideas > about what I want to do but my inner sysadmin is screaming at me to > first make sure I understand the problem before I design a solution. > With that in mind, I'm asking everyone who reads this to take a moment > and answer a few questions for me. > > I believe that many *nix sysadmins write programs (or "scripts," if you > prefer -- for this discussion the distinction doesn't matter). Maybe > it's this simple: > > #!/bin/bash > cd /home > du -ks * | sort -n | head -10 > > and you wrap that in a cron job, or maybe it's a 200 line Perl program > that does something more complicated. If you're not writing programs > that's OK but I want to hear from the people who are writing them. > > Would you please take a few moments to send me a description of the > programs you've written in the last 3 or 6 or 12 months? Specifically, > would you please send me the following: > > * language used > * number of lines > * very brief description (< 140 chars? :-) of what > the program does > * who runs the program: > 1) you, from the command line > 2) people in your group, from the command line > 3) people outside your group, from the command line > 4) "the system" via anything from cron to whatever > config management system you use > 5) it's a web app > 6) other > > Here's an example: > > perl, 1363 lines > simple unit test harness for CLI tools > run by: 1 (me, from the command line) > > Please reply directly to me. I will NOT distribute or publish this data > in any way -- I just want to know what kind of programs people here > write. Your answers won't even appear in a "highly anonymized form" in > anything I write; this is 100% "background" information that I'll use to > help me decide what to do. > > Thanks, > Adam > _______________________________________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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