Adam Maloney writes: > jot - print sequential or random data > > Yeah, it sounds really dull and stupid, but you wouldn't believe how > handy it is. Like to setup an in-addr zone quickly: That's funny, I've always liked seq for that, since it is so much easier to use (the first argument to jot is the size of the set, not the ending number). In fact, I have a shell script called 'seq' that I use on my FreeBSD boxes: #!/bin/sh if [ "$#" -ne 2 ] ; then echo "usage: seq FIRST LAST" exit 1 fi jot $(echo 1+$2-$1 | bc) $1 $2 > jot 254 1 | \ > awk '{ printf("%s\t\tIN\tPTR\t192-168-1-%s.domain.com.\n", $1, $1) }' Ick, who likes zone files? I'd rather use tinydns or MyDNS, both of which can do automatic PTR records. Speaking of DNS, if you have a lot of DNS data, you should check out the latest version of MyDNS. The web interface has been re-written and is really nice. The automatic PTR record feature works very well in combination with the server side alias functionality (--enable-alias), which I originally wrote. http://mydns.bboy.net/graphics/mydns-screenshot.png -- David Phillips <david at acz.org> http://david.acz.org/ _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list