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 ...

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

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 ...