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Shell script stupidity …

Earlier this week I was told that I had to add some SQL to a batch process that we run every night to correct an error. Basically, this was a stopgap measure until the programmers were able to get in new code. I was in a silly mood that night, so I got a little more creative than I usually would be.

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Making Gallery2 accept photos via email.

Gallery2 doesn’t support emailing photos to it by default, so I had to make alot of changes to get it working. Look behind the cut if you’re interested in how I did it.
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Odd …

3 years ago someone told me that shell scripts couldn’t core dump. Would never ever happen. Last night I found a core that was generated by one.

(root)!/home/someone >ls -ltr
-rw——- 1 root sys 76613004 Nov 16 22:00 core
(root)!/home/someone >file core
core: core file from ’sh’ – received SIGSEGV
(root)!/home/someone >rm core