Admin Shell Scripts

The repository has a collection of administrative shell scripts for managing Ubuntu Servers and their systems.

Documentation

Each script includes supports for “-h” and “–help”. The output of the help option is suitable to process with Pandoc into a manual page.

    mkdir -p man/man1
    check-for-reboot.bash -h |\
    pandoc --from markdown --to man -s \
    >man/man1/check-for-reboot.1

Check the man page or user manual for documentation on individual scripts.

Requirements

Aside from the standard Unix/POSIX system utilities the following commands are needed by one or more shell scripts.

• bash
• make
• pandoc
• makepasswd
• mysql

Installation

1. Clone this repository
2. Make sure Pandoc is installed
3. Run make and make install

By default it will install scripts in $HOME/bin and manpages in $HOME/man. If you need to install in /usr/local run make with the prefix option.

Install in your home directory

    git clone https://github.com/caltechlibrary/admin-shell-scripts
    cd admin-shell-scripts
    make
    make install

Install in /usr/local

    git clone https://github.com/caltechlibrary/admin-shell-scripts
    cd admin-shell-scripts
    make
    sudo make install prefix=/usr/local

Uninstall from your home diriectory

    cd admin-shell-scripts
    make uninstall

Uninstall form /usr/local

    cd admin-shell-scripts
    sudo make uninstall prefix=/usr/local