Linux Automation Group

Public Group | Founded: 28 Sep 2010 | Serving 34 members

A group of Linux gurus dedicated to ensuring Deployment Solution Linux driver support is current, made up of people who can compile drivers, and those who are willing to test them so we can get them ratified.

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New discussion 07 Feb 2013

Nisha_Sharma posted: Automation in Linux

I need a solution Hi, I want to automate the task of searching for logs in putty . I am a newbie , can anyone help me as how to proceed, My main moto is to have a GUI and I enter BAN number , User Id and it gives me

download comment 16 Jan 2013

spadron commented on: DS 6.9 SP3 / SP4 - Linux automation driver - Intel PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet

I can't seem to find the attached complied file in this post, was it removed ? Thanks -Steve

discussion comment 04 May 2012

VNotes commented on: Want to know how to get WWN for linux

For Detailed information about WWN Go to this link: http://linuxshellaccount.blogspot.in/2008/09/how-to-easily-find-wwns-of-qlogic-hba.html It might help you.

download comment 01 Nov 2011

Gibson99 commented on: Statically Compiled RSync 3.0.7

This looks like yet another great utility from Ian. We use the heck out of his ImageInvoker utility, and it does indeed save us a lot of time since it's SOOOO much better than plain old initial deployment. Keep up the good work, ...

download comment 03 Oct 2011

XB commented on: Mounting Removable Disks in Linux Automation

Updated The comments combined in one new script, find attached. But credits are still for Ian; without his original idea I would have no clue where to start. Will unload and load disks to make sure the local disks are listed first for ...

New download 07 Sep 2011

ianatkin posted: Hacked and Statically Compiled Whiptail for Linux Dialog Boxes

This download is a rather esoteric one. I recently found myself struggling a bit with the whiptail dialog. The problem I faced was that the menu facility in whiptail requires data in tag-text pairs. This allows you to for example create a file menu which looks like, 1 Load File 2 Save

download comment 23 Jun 2011

ianatkin commented on: SplashDiag -Diagnostic Splash For LinPE

Just to let you know I'm still thinking on the best way to add ennumeration in to maintain the disk ordering -it's not as simple as changing the 's' to 'h' in the regular expressions unfortunately. Will provide an update ...

New download 25 May 2011

ianatkin posted: Gathering Driver Data From Linux Automation

If you use Linux Automation, one common frustration is the hoops you have to go through to obtain data for troubleshooting driver issues. This download provides a script which you can deliver with your automation environment to provide useful driver titbits. As the script is completely open, y

discussion comment 30 Mar 2011

JMLAN commented on: Linux automation driver - Intel 82579LM Gigabit Ethernet

I needed this driver so I went ahead and compiled it myself. The link is below in case anyone else looking for the driver lands on this ...

New blog entry 06 Oct 2010

wdebraal posted: Getting started with a clean slate

Here is a very simple way to clear the MBR on computers using the Linux PXE. Boot the Linux and send this command in a shell script or manually from the console: (Just be sure to replace /dev/sd* with your proper device) Clobber the MBR and partition table: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd* bs=5