Photo etc

Shell scripts for archiving digital photos in directories by date

The fact that most digital cameras store the shooting dates inside JPEG files in the EXIF format makes it possible to automatically archive the photos by date right after they are downloaded, which is exactly what the scripts below do. Here’s an example of a directory tree they create: 1999 1999-07 1999-07-14 IMG_48324.JPG IMG_48325.JPG IMG_48326.JPG […]

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Linux

Shell script for removing duplicate files

The following shell script finds duplicate (2 or more identical) files and outputs a new shell script containing commented-out rm statements for deleting them. You then have to edit the file to select which files to keep – the script can’t safely do it automatically! OUTF=rem-duplicates.sh; echo “#! /bin/sh” > $OUTF; find “$@” -type f […]

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Linux

Script to unmount Busy Devices

First the script tries to umount the drive normally. If that fails, it tries to restart famd which is the most common problem. If that fails it tries to restart xinetd. If that fails it uses the command fuser -ki which asks you if you want to kill each process that’s using that folder. Be […]

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Scripting

Rule-based DoS attacks prevention shell script

Dette scriptet er ikke testet samt DoS bør hindres på kernel nivå! A simple rule-based DoS attack-prevention shell script. However, the proposed shell script is not a perfect tool for preventing DoS attacks, but a powerful tool for alleviating DoS attacks overheads of the Linux servers significantly.

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Scripting

Detecting changes to your network services/damons

This is a tutorial to detect changes in port from hosts on your network. The basic approach is to ping every available address upon your subnet and see which ones are up by detecting replies. If you install the package libperl-net-ping you can use the following script to see which hosts upon your LAN are […]

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