All kinds of things can go wrong with your shell scripts, but they don't have to. Let's look a some debugging tips that can help ensure your scripts run the way you intend. The first step in debugging ...

Put your scripts in a reasonable location -- /usr/local/bin or your own bin directory -- and maybe tar them up from time to time so you have a handy backup. I actually prepare documents describing ...

Sending a Tivoli event from a Unix script involves the following steps: <probe_argument> is any qualifier associated with the event, such as the disk, network ...

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is warning government administrators not to use its Security Readiness Review (SRR) scripts to evaluate Unix computers ...

Developer Andy Szybalski has released Shellsilver 1.0, a Mac OS X tool that lets you execute UNIX shell scripts directly from the Finder. You execute the scripts by double-clicking on them. When a ...

The Defense Information Systems Agency has corrected a flaw in tools used to ensure that Defense Department computers are securely configured — but had inadvertently exposed those computers to ...

Performed regularly, certain Mac OS X maintenance tasks — Disk Utility’s Repair Disk Permissions function and three Unix cleanup scripts scheduled to run daily, weekly, and monthly, respectively — can ...