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@alexras
alexras / ssh-agent-snippets.sh
Created October 17, 2011 00:14
Bash snippets to automatically start and stop an ssh-agent process on login and logout
#!/bin/bash
## in .bash_profile
SSHAGENT=`which ssh-agent`
SSHAGENTARGS="-s"
if [ -z "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" -a -x "$SSHAGENT" ]; then
eval `$SSHAGENT $SSHAGENTARGS`
trap "kill $SSH_AGENT_PID" 0
fi
@matthewd
matthewd / diff-configs.sh
Created September 30, 2011 19:48
Diff /etc files against the versions supplied in Debian packages
#!/bin/bash
# This script will make a best-effort attempt at showing modifications
# to package-provided config files on a Debian system.
#
# It's subject to some pretty significant limitations: most notably,
# there's no way to identify all such config files. We approximate the
# answer by looking first at dpkg-managed conffiles, and then hoping
# that most of the time, if maintainer scripts are managing files
# themselves, they're using ucf. So, DO NOT TRUST THIS SCRIPT to find