Script Gallery
This is a selection of Windows batch files, and UNIX shell scripts - nothing ground-breaking here, but they have all served me well at one time or another. Writing this kind of thing, especially in the Windows world, is becoming a bit of a lost art and there really is a lot you can do with them.
Run any command as the System user
Devious use of the Windows scheduler can grant you System privileges. more...
Backup and encrypt important files, then FTP them to another machine
Use this script to make regular system backups, and store them off site in a secure encrypted archive. more...
Automate FTP Transfers
This batch file will automatically connect to an FTP server and download a file of your choice more...
Auto-Register/Unregister COM components
This batch file will run regsrv32.exe against all .ocx and .dll files in a given directory, and can be used to register/unregister COM components en-masse more...
List shares on a Windows host using a null session
This script establishes a null session with a Windows host, before running the standard net view command to
list out the available shares. This technique will sometimes yield information that would be normally be denied without authentication.
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Locate classes within a JAR file
Searches through all Java .jar files in the current directory, and in any sub-directories, looking for the class file that you specify. This can be very handy if you need to use a class in a Java programme, but aren't sure which .jar file contains it. more...
Reboot firewall/server when internet connection is dropped
This script attempts to ping a list of well-known internet hosts, and if it fails to contact any of them will reboot the system.
I have used this with great success on my IPCop firewall, which occasionally drops its internet connection and will reconnect
if rebooted. Schedule this using cron to perform a connectivity check every 15 minutes.
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