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Not real good with scripting. But, I through my hat in the ring. I was in dire need of a DB backup script that wrote to an inserted, but mostly unmounted rdx drive, regardless of mount situation. I also needed it to keep sanity in that backups older than 30 days needed to be pruned. Logs needed...

Hello all, I wrote a script to direct all output to a log file, but I'd like to echo certain things during the process of the script to screen output if I can. I haven't been able to find anything related to this searching online, and the man page for sh is cryptic for me (as of now). Sample of...

Dear all, How can I not generate the substring ...[C[C[C[0k after issued comands trough expect scripts? For example, I have the following lines in an expect script: #set variables, parameters etc ... spawn telnet $IP $PORT expect -nocase "name:" send -- "$USER\r" expect -nocase "password:" send...

Hi, So I'm trying to set a script, so it starts on boot. The problem is, I'm using "@reboot" and I don't think that is working. I have: Tried modifying /etc/crontab as root using crontab -e -u syncthing tried various commands, IE: "@restart touch /home/syncthing/test" I have surfed the net...

Hi all, i'm brand new on FreeBSD, i want to run a python script for pfsense firewall running on FreeBSD (FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p9) this is the script https://github.com/edgauthier/pfsense-backup I already installed beautifulsoup4 (py27-beautifulsoup-4.4.1) So, when i make this as root ...

I have this script which checks for updates on my host system and on my jails: #!/usr/local/bin/bash PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/root/bin" # Updaten en rapporteren Ports Tree host system: portsnap cron update && { echo -e "Packages te...

To write a script, which checks the availability of computers in the network (the range of addresses in the /24 subnet). The Protocol displayed in the form of: IP-address –available/unavailable for each of the addresses. Please help, for earlier thanks for the answer!

Hi, I'm a student and I have to create a script, but I want to show a progress bar when the script is making a backup. For example, I'm making a full backup of the FreeBSD system and while the script is making the job, I want to show a progress or a bar percent completed, is that possible on...

May someone can help me out. I want to use a script everytime my machine boots up. Execute before even the splash screen pops up. As I am the single user, I could set it as root in the crontab /etc/crontab following the handbook, so it would act for each other user. If I do so, do I set it as a...

Ultimately, I want to shutdown a freebsd box from my android (there are lots of android apps to run scripts). I do not want to be prompted for a password. One step at a time, first I just want to shut down the remote from another freebsd box. The following did not work: #!/bin/sh ssh -t...

On pfSense 2.2.4 (FreeBSD 10.1), my custom init script filebeat_wrapper won't start at boot. According to rcorder it should start right after boot: # rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* (snip) /etc/rc.d/SERVERS /etc/rc.d/DAEMON /etc/rc.d/LOGIN /usr/local/etc/rc.d/filebeat_wrapper (snip)...

I was interested in seeing a graph of package dependencies, so I could trace which packages were needed by which in a complete tree. portmaster -l can give basic information (leaf, trunk, root, branch) but does not show the relationships. I wrote the following tool to list dependencies as a...

Hi, yesterday, I attempted to install the latest SmartGit release on my FreeBSD (10.2) and, being written in Java, it should work. But when I run the boot script I get these exceptions: Error invoking SmartGit java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException at...