Fun with Bash: aliases make your live easier… share your favorites

I’ve always been a big fan of having a customized .bashrc file. The one I distribute to all of my servers has aliases for quick commands to save me time on the command line, functions that get work done when aliases are too simplistic, reporting for the server for each cli login, and of course a formatted and colored prompt (for terms that support colors). I also change certain aspects and commands based on the operating system since I’m not always on a redhat box or linux at all. Here’s my bashrc file – maybe you have some fun additions that you’d like to share. What saves you time on the command line?

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Updated: Monolith Toolkit – MySQL DBA tools 0.4.2

Updated the release, sure it’s only been a matter of hours but I added the standard cnf files for 2,4,8 and 16GB server installations. Also added the rhcluster-wrapper script that can be used to run just about anything on the active database node when using mysql in an active/passive setup.

Download here:  http://code.google.com/p/monolith-toolkit/

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Monolith Toolkit – MySQL DBA tools released!

Today I decided to package all of my various scripts together into a useful toolkit. Some are perl, some are shell script. These scripts are, in general, one off scripts that I wrote in order to get things done that weren’t available at the time. Now they’re nicely organized and will receive updates at the google code repo.

So far the toolkit includes the following scripts:

  • mt-backup-parallel -> the parallel backup script I wrote about in my last post
  • mt-check-replication -> script to report on replication status for slave servers
  • mt-check-rhcluster-filesystems -> reports on redhat cluster filesystems (for mysql active/passive clustering)
  • mt-connections-log -> logs connections to mysql to disk, reports on threshold overages
  • mt-flush-tables-sequence -> runs through schema.tables to flush in sequence before global flush
  • mt-rotate-logs -> rotates general and slow query logs on periodic basis

To download go here: http://code.google.com/p/monolith-toolkit/

Note: these are not associated (yet) with the main Monolith project that is for monitoring. Although it will be soon :)

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