Linux, Home Servers, BASH, Photography, and Ruby on Rails
Have you ever had to wait for a “dd” command? Not knowing what’s happening, when it will finish, or how far along it is? It’s actually quite easy to get dd to write it’s progress to the screen. Just follow along to see what I mean.
A common task from the command line or a cronjob might be to send an email. If you want to send an attachment, you might think that would be very complicated.
If you have a big RAID array, that last thing you want to be doing is always checking your available disk space. Let’s setup a quick script to monitor our shares for us daily and to send an alert when it gets over 90% used.
sSmtp is a very lightweight SMTP server that is perfect for sending out system emails. In this article, I will show you show to use sSMTP to send email through your Gmail account.
