Export news from google sites
I’ve added a script, export_google_site_news, to my catchall repository on github. It’s for downloading the section of a Google Sites hosted webpage generated by the News Gadget. It takes two arguments, the address of your site and the name of the news section. It will download all the news stories it finds as html files into your working directory.
Iscsiadm wrapper
When I first started to use icsci on RHEL5, isciadm seemed like a very complicated command. This turned out not to be the case, but the syntax is a bit verbose and can be hard to remember if you don’t use it frequently. I put together a wrapper script to make it easier to remember.
Identifying zombies
One on server I adminster, users run workflows that occasionally leave zombie processes behind. A zombie describes a processes that has finished but has not had its exit status read by its parent process. I keep this shell script around to generate a report on zombie children and their negligent parents that I can send to the workflow developers.