The best scripts ever (trick or treat)

[Gary Kline]

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:08:58PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> There's no good reason to copy two lists at the same time for this.
> Please remove -questions from the Cc: list of the thread :-/

	I see that the -questions addr is gone.


	This is to those on the -www list; the issue is 
	having a separate page or two of /bin/sh scripts 
	that do X, Y, Z.  

	I realize the time involved if hundreds of shell
	hackers submit their favorite scripts.  But if it
	sounds worth trying, there could be a scripts 
	index.php|html page with a few categories to start.
	Each script must be submitted with:

	CATEGORY: system admin
	FUNCTION: backup [using tar and bzip] files.
	FEATURES: optional use of --exclude

	etc.

	A shell or perl script could probably strip the
	mail and convert it to web-ready format.  Having 
	many (*proven*) scripts would be a major++ for 
	sysadmins.  At least.  Ok, I'll get off my soapbox.


	Feedback?

	gary


> 
> On 2005-11-01 10:59, Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 02:14:14PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> > > > But the scripts would have to be drop-in-able.  Otherwise,
> > > > would freebsd.org be willing to donate a few pages?
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure.  Since this sounds good, it's not (IMHO) a bad idea
> > > to bring it up in the freebsd-doc or freebsd-www lists, to see if
> > > people have similar plans already or would support such a project.
> > > 
> > 
> > What's the best way of suggesting that we (fbsd.org) support a page of
> > "best scripts"?? [...]
> >
> > PS:  I've cc'd www with this.  If anybody is interested, [...]
> 

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