updated readme

README.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # MyScripts
 
 ## This repo
-This repo is just meant to house my general-use scripts. Historically I've made over 50-60 large scale scripts (of varying quality), but I've never actually made a habit of archiving them in a repo. 
+This repo is just meant to house my general-use scripts. I've made MANY over the years working with linux, but it never occured to me to archive them.
 
 Although I'm trying to get into the habit of it going forward (and you never know, someone might find one of my scripts useful).

bare-arch-install.sh

@@ -123,10 +123,27 @@ declare -a DISKS
 get_disks DISKS
 get_choice "Which disk are you wanting to use? : " DISK "${DISKS[@]}"
 
-EFI_PARTITION=${DISK}1
+# If the disk is a nvme drive
-SWAP_PARTITION=${DISK}2
+if [[ "$DISK" =~ ^/dev/nvmen[0-9]$ ]]
-ROOT_PARTITION=${DISK}3
+	DISK_BASE=${DISK}p
 
+else
+	DISK_BASE="${DISK}"
+fi
+
+case $BOOT_METHOD in
+	EFI)
+		EFI_PARTITION=${DISK_BASE}1
+		SWAP_PARTITION=${DISK_BASE}2
+		ROOT_PARTITION=${DISK_BASE}3
+		;;
+
+	BIOS)
+		SWAP_PARTITION=${DISK_BASE}1
+		ROOT_PARTITION=${DISK_BASE}2
+		;;
+
+esac
 ## New Login creds for your new user and the root user
 ROOT_PASSWORD=""
 get_answer "What do you want the root password to be? : " ROOT_PASSWORD
@@ -152,17 +169,6 @@ FORMAT_DISK_COMMANDS_BIOS="
 # Create MBR partition table
 o 
 
-# Create bios header (area where boot information is stored at the beginning of the disk)
-n
-# Create Primary partition (which is technically the default anyway)
-p
-# Press Enter to select default partition number
-
-# Press Enter to select default starting sector
-
-# Allocate 10 MB at beginning of disk for BIOS table (you will do nothing with it)
-+10MiB
-
 # Create Swap Partition
 n
 # Create Primary partition (which is technically the default anyway)

check-postfix.sh

@@ -1,5 +1,33 @@
 #!/usr/bin/bash
 
+
+#############################################################################################################
+# check-postfix.sh                                                                                          #
+#############################################################################################################
+#                                                                                                           #
+#  This script is just something I cooked up for work. I setup a server with posftix configured as an`      #
+#  email/smtp relay so that some of our old equipment can still function without having to try and          #
+#  configure our commercial Email Server to accept unauthed requests to send email.                         #
+#                                                                                                           #
+#  This requres a few packages to be installed:                                                             #
+#  - postfix (of course)                                                                                    #
+#  - telnet                                                                                                 #
+#  - sendmail                                                                                               #
+#                                                                                                           #
+#  The issue is if the postfix service dies and fails to come back up after a restart via this script,      #
+#  you will be unable to send any emails via a smtp client (as they will try to contact the service         #
+#  on the server itself). So the only workaround I was able to find is to manually send the email via       #
+#  telnet using a coproc. You could use a smtp library with python or perl, but I like to keep these        #
+#  scripts using a single language wherever possible.                                                       #
+#                                                                                                           #
+#  Since telnet is just a basic tcp client we are able to interact with the smpt port on a mailserver       #
+#  (port 25). So setting it up as coproc allows us to run a concurrent process and pipe commands into       #
+#  the file-descriptor to send the commands to the mailserver. Which allows us to manually send an email    #
+#  to an authoritative email server (provided they don't have your IP blocklisted or are filtering          #
+#  traffic on port 25).                                                                                     #
+#                                                                                                           #
+#############################################################################################################
+
 # BEGIN: Variables
 ## Duration to wait to see if service has come back up
 DURATION=10
@@ -12,6 +40,7 @@ TEST=0
 ## Email addresses
 NOTIFY_EMAIL=recipient@domain.com
 MAIL_FROM=username@domain.net
+FROM_DOMAIN=` echo $FROM_EMAIL | cut -d @ -f 2 `
 DAMAIN=` echo $NOTIFY_EMAIL | cut -d @ -f 2 `
 
 # END: Variables
@@ -27,20 +56,18 @@ send_email () {
 
 
 : "
-The only option is to manually telnet to the smtp port on the authoritative mailserver for the target domain. As otherwise unless a mail-host is configured for email proxy, you will be unable to send an email to a user outside of the mailservers domain (without authentication). 
+The only option is to manually telnet to the smtp port on the authoritative mailserver for the target domain. As otherwise unless a mail-host is configured as an email relay, you will be unable to send an email to a user outside of the mailservers domain (without authentication). 
 "
 do_emergency_email () {
-	local MESSAGE="${1:-"The Postfix service has failed to come up on tartarus (192.168.3.2) after a service restart. Please ssh into server to troubleshoot the issues."}"
+	local MESSAGE="${1:-"The Postfix service has failed to come up on `hostname` (`hostname -i`) after a service restart. Please ssh into server to troubleshoot the issues."}"
-
 	## Getting a mailserver IP for manual message
 	MAILSERVER=`dig $DOMAIN mx | grep -Eo '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' | head -n 1`
 
-	## Setting up coprocess to send commands to telnet session
+	## Setting up coprocess to send commands to telnet session coproc TELNET { telnet $MAILSERVER 25; }
-	coproc TELNET { telnet $MAILSERVER 25; }
 
 	## Commands to send email manually
 	local -a commands=(
-		"ehlo camtel.net\n"
+		"ehlo $FROM_DOMAIN\n"
 		"mail from: <$MAIL_FROM>\n"
 		"rcpt to: <$NOTIFY_EMAIL>\n"
 		"data\n"

do-daily-btrfs-snapshot.sh

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ LOG_FILE=$LOG_DIR/$DATE.log
 LIMIT=5
 
 ## Because cron fucks our env, and loading /etc/bashrc doesn't always fix it
-alias btrfs='/usr/bin/btrfs'
+alias btrfs='/usr/sbin/btrfs'
 
 ## The subvols that we want to backup
 ### <actual-directory>:<name-of-backup-dir>

install-discord-linux.sh

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 # BEGIN: Variables
 
+DEBUG=1
 ACTION=""
 DOWNLOAD_URL='https://discord.com/api/download/stable?platform=linux&format=tar.gz'
 VERSION_REGEX='[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+'
@@ -19,14 +20,20 @@ DESKTOP_FILE_INSTALLED=0
 
 # BEGIN: Helper Functions
 
+function log () {
+	if [[ $DEBUG -eq 1 ]]; then local DATE=`date` local MESSAGE="${1:?"log: Message not provided"}"
+		echo "$DATE : $MESSAGE"
+	fi
+}
+
 function get_remote_version(){
-	local REMOTE_VERSION=`curl $DOWNLOAD_URL | grep -Eo $VERSION_REGEX | head -n 1`
+	local REMOTE_VERSION=`curl -s $DOWNLOAD_URL | grep -Eo $VERSION_REGEX | head -n 1` 
 
 	if [[ "$REMOTE_VERSION" ]]; then
 		echo "$REMOTE_VERSION"
 		return 0
 	else
-		echo "error: remote version not found"
+		log "error: remote version not found"
 		return 1
 	fi
 }
@@ -36,17 +43,19 @@ function do_download(){
 
 	## If the provided version doesn't match the format #.#.#
 	if [[ ! "$VERSION" =~ ^$VERSION_REGEX$ ]]; then
-		echo "do_download : the version ($VERSION) provided, does not match format $VERSION_REGEX."
+		log "do_download : the version ($VERSION) provided, does not match format $VERSION_REGEX."
 		exit 2
 	fi
 
 	## Making the URL to download the package
 	### replacing all {VERSION} in PACKAGE_DOWNLOAD_URL_BASE with $REMOTE_VERSION using string substitution
 	PACKAGE_DOWNLOAD_URL="${PACKAGE_DOWNLOAD_URL_BASE//\{VERSION\}/$REMOTE_VERSION}"
+	log "Download url created ($PACKAGE_DOWNLOAD_URL)"
 
 	## Getting filename from url
 	### Removing all characters from the last / back to leave only the filename
 	FILENAME="${PACKAGE_DOWNLOAD_URL/*\/}"
+	log "File was downloaded as $FILENAME"
 
 	## Downloading the discord package (tar.gz)
 	curl "$PACKAGE_DOWNLOAD_URL" -o "$FILENAME" >/dev/null 2>&1
@@ -54,6 +63,8 @@ function do_download(){
 
 function update_desktop_file() {
 
+	log "Updating desktop file"
+
 	## Desktop file in the current/new install
 	DESKTOP_FILE=$EXISTING_INSTALL/discord.desktop
 
@@ -75,6 +86,7 @@ function update_desktop_file() {
 
 	## Pushing replacement values to desktop file
 	echo -e "$DESKTOP_FILE_CONTENTS" > $DESKTOP_FILE
+	log "Desktop file has been updated"
 
 }
 
@@ -89,8 +101,8 @@ function do_install() {
 	if [[ -f $FILENAME ]]; then
 		tar xf "$FILENAME"
 	else
-		echo "$FILENAME failed to download. Exiting now"
+		log "$FILENAME failed to download. Exiting now"
-		exit 1
+		exit 3
 	fi
 
 	update_desktop_file
@@ -137,11 +149,13 @@ function do_upgrade(){
 
 if [[ -d $EXISTING_INSTALL ]] && [[ -f $BUILD_FILE ]]; then
 	LOCAL_VERSION=`grep -Eo $VERSION_REGEX $BUILD_FILE`
+	log "Local version was found to be ($LOCAL_VERSION)"
 else
 	ACTION=INSTALL
 fi
 
-REMOTE_VERSION=`curl $DOWNLOAD_URL | grep -Eo $VERSION_REGEX | head -n 1`
+REMOTE_VERSION=`get_remote_version`
+log "Retrieved remote version ($REMOTE_VERSION)"
 
 # END: Pre-Work Check