There will be a meeting Saturday, May 25th, 2013, 10:00am, at the Pleasant Ridge Branch of the Cincinnati Public Library, located at 6233 Montgomery Road, Cincinnati, OH Google Maps Goodness I don’t have a topic yet, if there’s something you want to hear about, let me know, but leave out the Spam! Steve Jones E-Mail…
Month: May 2013
Automating Simple Tasks on Linux (Shell Scripts and other Simple Tools) Shells
Monty Stein Mar 24, 2000 There are 2 major groupings of shells in common use. Bourne derived shells evolved from the first Unix shell. Bourne (sh), Korn (ksh) and Bourne Again Shell (bash) are the major variants in use. The other evolutionary branch are the C shells from the early Berkeley Unix systems. csh is…
BYLAWS OF THE CINCINNATI LINUX USERS GROUP
September 27, 1998 ARTICLE I. NAME The incorporated organization shall be named the Cincinnati GNU/Linux Users Group, Incorporated, also known as the Cincinnati Linux Users Group, hereinafter known as CLUG. ARTICLE II. OBJECT The object of CLUG is to bring together computer users who encourage the study of and use of the GNU/Linux operating system….
Backing up VirtualBox VMs
This script below is what I use to make backups of running Windows VMs, they are put into hibernation, then the drive is imaged, then the machine is woken back up. There is downtime with this method, but not much and it is easy to schedule as a low use-time service. #!/bin/bash ## ## Destination…
Rsync to Fat32 drives
I regularly provide one of my clients with a backup of his data in the form of an external hard drive. Since his server runs CentOS Linux and his computer is a Windows machine, I need to provide a drive formatted Fat32 so he can plug it into his computer and access the data without…