This is a collection of system command line tools that are designed to be easy to audit and non-invasive to make your daily life as a sysadmin or devops easier.
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Installation
- 3. Package structure and components
- 4. Description of commands and functions
If you are an old school sysadmin like me, you will find yourself facing the same difficulties over and over when managing vanilla systems as CentOS 7 that do not offer certain conveniences.
If you are operating from a remote console that offers plenty of screen space (i.e. columns, precious columns), you will find that many basic linux command line commands are designed for 80-columns legacy screen, which make them difficult to operate.
That is, of course, if you are not using those fancy complex systems that take manual tasks off your hands (and usually as well as the ultimate control of your servers).
This package contains simple, non-invasive scripts and tools to ease your pain without doing things without you knowing it, and without learning new commands as they mimick the old school commands.
The best way to get started using this package is to simply source init.sh into your login shell.
This package works from source, no building process is required.
Modify your ~/.bashrc to include the source the init script:
# ~/.bashrc:
. $HOME/path/to/th-sys-tools/bash/init.shJust clone this repository and symlink the bash/init.sh file in your /etc/profile.d folder like this (assumes you cloned this into /opt/th-sys-tools):
ln -sf /opt/th-sys-tools/bash/init.sh /etc/profile.d/th-sys-tools.shInstall this package using your distro package manager (not yet supported, rpm/deb help wanted)
Contains the init.sh script to initialize your bash shell and the funcs.sh file that contains simple shell functions and aliases.
Contains symlinks to scripts and tools useful for both users and root.
Contains the actual implementation.
| Command | Component | Description |
|---|---|---|
| mysql_choose | bash | Checks your ~/.my.cnf for multiple client definitions and lets you choose an entry to set the environemental variable MYSQL_GROUP_SUFFIX to the desired value. After that, all mysql-family commands will use those settings. |
| mysql_dropall | bash | Ever noticed that mysql does not provide a way to drop all tables from a database? This commands queries your database structure and drops all tables and views so, use carefully. |
| piptables | scripts | PHP-wrapped iptables command that colors and reformats the output nicely. |
| pdocker | scripts | PHP-wrapped docker command that colors and reformats the output nicely. |
| scripts | PHP-wrapped df command that colors and reformats the output nicely. |
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| tail_http_access_log | scripts | Tails a standard combined httpd access_log with coloring and formatting. |
| tail_http_error_log | scripts | Tails a standard httpd error_log with coloring and formatting. |
| tail_mysql_general_log | scripts | Tails the MySQL general_log with coloring and formatting, allows to isolate DML queries. Useful to inspect the database activity of a rogue web app that doesn't allow a reliable built-in way to do so at application level. |
And, hopefully, much more to come!