Make WinXP’s NTP client poll more frequently (hourly)

At the registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\TimeProviders\NtpClient

Change the value SpecialPollInterval to 3600

3600 seconds = 1 hour

Save and restart the Windows Time service:

net stop "Windows Time"
net start "Windows Time"

Taken from: http://dossy.org/2007/02/make-winxps-ntp-client-poll-more-frequently/

Dizzy Gillespie on Music

"...and all about how music can transport people spiritually."


Dizzy Gillespie in Carr, I., Fairweather, D, Brian P, The rough guide to Jazz. page. 291.

Using back references in SED

Today I have several CSV files, everyone with a header at the first line and a date at the first fields with the format mm/dd/yyyy. It was necessary to change that field into the format yyyy-mm-dd.

Here there is a Perl solution and also a SED one:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
while (<>) {
        chomp;
        if (/^[^0-9]/) {
                print "$_\n";
                next;
        }
        my @Fields = split /,/, $_, 2;
        my ($Month, $Day, $Year) = split /\//, $Fields[0];
        print "$Year-$Month-$Day, $Fields[1]\n";
}
__END__

sed -i.bak 's/^\([0-9]\+\)\/\([0-9]\+\)\/\([0-9]\+\)/\3-\1-\2/' *.csv

Yesterday on my way home I realized that the Perl script was horrible, a one-liner should be OK, like the one below:

perl -i.bak -pe 's!(\d+)/(\d+)/(\d+)!\3-\1-\2!' *.csv

Deleting Glassfish old logs

#!/bin/bash


DAYS_TO_KEEP=$((7 * 86400))     # In seconds
LOG_DIR=/var/lib/glassfishv2/domains/domain1/logs
TODAY=$(date +%s)


for FileName in $(ls ${LOG_DIR}/server.log_*)
do
        FileDate=$(stat --printf=%Y ${FileName})


        DateDiff=$((TODAY - FileDate))


        if [ $DateDiff -gt ${DAYS_TO_KEEP} ]
        then
                echo Deleting ${FileName} ${FileDate} ${TODAY} ${DateDiff}
                rm ${FileName}
        fi


done


##END##

Glassfish start/stop script for Ubuntu

#!/bin/bash


GF_DIR=/usr/share/glassfishv2
GF_DOMAIN_DIR=/var/lib/glassfishv2/domains/domain1


case "$1" in
        start)
                #${GLASSFISHHOME}/bin/asadmin start-database
                ${GF_DIR}/bin/asadmin start-domain --user admin --passwordfile ${GF_DOMAIN_DIR}/config/password domain1
                ;;
        stop)
                ${GF_DIR}/bin/asadmin stop-domain domain1
                #${GLASSFISHHOME}/bin/asadmin stop-database
                ;;
        restart)
                ${GF_DIR}/bin/asadmin stop-domain domain1
                #${GLASSFISHHOME}/bin/asadmin stop-database
                #${GLASSFISHHOME}/bin/asadmin start-database
                ${GF_DIR}/bin/asadmin start-domain --user admin --passwordfile ${GF_DOMAIN_DIR}/config/passwordfile domain1
                ;;
*)
        echo $"usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
        exit 1
esac


##END##

Insert data into MySQL from a CSV file

LOAD DATA INFILE '/var/lib/mysql/btdata.csv' INTO TABLE btpl.parset FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n' (idsystem, name, dataurl, description);

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/load-data.html

mysqlimport — A Data Import Program

The mysqlimport client provides a command-line interface to the LOAD DATA INFILE SQL statement. Most options to mysqlimport correspond directly to clauses of LOAD DATA INFILE syntax.

Invoke mysqlimport like this:

shell> mysqlimport [options] db_name textfile1 [textfile2 ...]

Command invocation for a CSV file exported from Excel:

mysqlimport --fields-terminated-by=, --ignore-lines=1 -u root -p rolling mbf_symbols.csv

For each text file named on the command line, mysqlimport strips any extension from the file name and uses the result to determine the name of the table into which to import the file's contents. For example, files named patient.txt, patient.text, and patient all would be imported into a table named patient.

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/mysqlimport.html

Creating a filename using the output of a command in MSDOS

From Microsoft Windows XP Documentation:

Parsing output

You can use the for /F command to parse the output of a command by making the filenameset between the parenthesis a back quoted string. It is treated as a command line, which is passed to a child Cmd.exe and the output is captured into memory and parsed as if it were a file.

For example, a batch file like the one that follows:

@echo off
rem Creates the yyyymmdd.csv file from the statement text file
rem The date for the filename is taken from the statement text file
rem with a perl program called getdate.pl that returns the date throgh
rem standard output
FOR /F "usebackq" %%d IN (`getdate.pl statement.txt`) DO @statement.pl statement.txt > %%d.csv