Antagonism.org Scripts

Here is the collection of all the scripts posted on my website. With each file should be a MD5, SHA-1, and RIPEMD-160 values and a PGP signature to verify file integrity. You may download my GPG key or send an email to gpgpublickey-marlowe@antagonism.org.

Admin scripts

Checksig verifies the signature of a package.

Backup Scripts

trac-backup

Trac-backup creates a hot copy of all trac projects, compresses them and then compresses the root directory. It stores the latest 10 backups.

backup-svn and svn-backup-check

These scripts are a master/slave pair which create a hot copy of the subversion repository, verify it against a test repository and store the latest 10 backups.

ClamAV scripts

Freshclam-outdate downloads the latest ClamAV tarball and associated signature when ClamAV is outdated. It emails the administrator the success of the download.

Service Control Scripts

I run a majority of my services under daemontools. Below is a collection of all the run scripts with a short description.

atd

Atd is a background daemon which reads atjobs and executes the commands within. It is used to ensure the running of scheduled tasks.

clamav

ClamAV is an antivirus toolkit for use with Unix-like operating systems. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is commonly used on email servers to scan for virii, scan files shared by Samba and files downloaded through an Apache proxy, just to name a few.

crond

Crond is a background daemon which reads crontab files and executes the commands within. It is used to ensure the running of scheduled tasks, such as nightly backups.

fetchmail

Fetchmail is a remote mail retrieval and forwarding utility. It retrieves email over POP or IMAP and forwards it via SMTP to the local MTA.

freshclam

Freshclam is used to update the ClamAV database. It is part of the ClamAV package. Freshclam may be called manually from the command line or it may be run as a daemon.

maildrop-logger

maildrop-logger creates the named pipe called by pipe-watcher to log maildrop.

Nagios

Nagios is a computer system and network monitoring application. Originally, known as NetSaint, Nagios watches hosts and services specified, notifying the appropriate personnel regarding their state.

OpenSSH

OpenSSH is a set of computer programs which provide encrypted communications using the SSH protocol. OpenSSH provides a secure alternative for ftp (with sftp), rlogin and telnet (with ssh) and rcp (with scp). OpenBSD currently develops OpenSSH and is need of funding. If you find this document and/or OpenSSH helpful, I encourage you to make a donation.

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL is an object-relational database. It provides an open source alternative to MS-SQL and Oracle.

rsync

Rsync provides a means of fast low bandwidth incremental file transfer utility. Its connections can be sent in the clear or encrypted via OpenSSH. It is commonly used to do nightly backups and mirror creations.

SMARTd

Smartd is a demon that monitors the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) system built into many hard drives. It's purpose is to provide monitoring of the hard drive with the intent of predicting drive failures. Smartd can be configured to notify appropriate personnel via email.

SpamAsssassin

SpamAssassin provides spam filtering through the use of content matching rules and network based tests. The network based tests can include DNSBL checks and checksum tests, such as Razor.

Log run script

This is the generic log script I use for services running from daemontools.

RunWhen Scripts

dogreylist-clean

Runwhen calls the following script to clean out any IP addresses in /var/qmail/jgreylist which haven't been seen in 30 days.

jgreylist-clean

jgreylist-clean sets the parameters on when dojgreylist-clean is called.

Mail Scripts

jgreylist-var

jgreylist-var converts the appropriate variables in the Perl version of jgreylist to the shell variables required by the C version.

Logging Maildrop

log-maildrop simply prints the output of maildrop to STDOUT where multilog records it.

pipe-watcher watches a named pipe and runs the first program whenever data appears on the pipe.

Write-pinger-maildir

write-pinger-maildir prints the output of STDIN to a directory where echolot can read it.

Copyright 2006-2008 Patrick R. McDonald <marlowe@antagonism.org> (GPG key)
This document last modified Saturday, 02-Aug-2008 07:57:56 PDT