What Are You Doing Right Now

travisdh1

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fixing a Serial to Lan adapter...

Oh, fun! I'm afraid to ask what it's for, lol.

I'm not. @dbeato, what in the world are you supporting that requires a serial to lan adapter?

DustinB3403

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fixing a Serial to Lan adapter...

Oh, fun! I'm afraid to ask what it's for, lol.

Obviously something cisco. . .

dafyre

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fixing a Serial to Lan adapter...

Oh, fun! I'm afraid to ask what it's for, lol.

Obviously something cisco. . .

Or maybe something else... I can think of one or two things that this type of setup could be useful for.

dbeato

@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fixing a Serial to Lan adapter...

Oh, fun! I'm afraid to ask what it's for, lol.

I'm not. @dbeato, what in the world are you supporting that requires a serial to lan adapter?

Old access control system...

travisdh1

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Fixing a Serial to Lan adapter...

Oh, fun! I'm afraid to ask what it's for, lol.

Obviously something cisco. . .

Or maybe something else... I can think of one or two things that this type of setup could be useful for.

Timeclocks.... they're all cursed anyway, why not continue to use a serial interface.

DustinB3403

@travisdh1 Hey, what could possible go wrong with 25 pins, only some of which you'll ever use on any given device. . .

travisdh1

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@travisdh1 Hey, what could possible go wrong with 25 pins, only some of which you'll ever use on any given device. . .

25 pin, naw, the ones I used to support were 9 pin. So fancy and new

EddieJennings

If sed existed in Windows, that would make my current task much easier.

DustinB3403

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If sed existed in Windows, that would make my current task much easier.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm

EddieJennings

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If sed existed in Windows, that would make my current task much easier.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm

Nice. If I could only install that on every server we have

DustinB3403

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If sed existed in Windows, that would make my current task much easier.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm

Nice. If I could only install that on every server we have

What is stopping you, you have the root creds right?

EddieJennings

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If sed existed in Windows, that would make my current task much easier.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm

Nice. If I could only install that on every server we have

What is stopping you, you have the root creds right?

Bureaucracy and its change management.

Obsolesce

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If sed existed in Windows, that would make my current task much easier.

Doesn't really need it. You have PowerShell to work with objects rather than sorting through garbled text output.

What are you trying to do?

black3dynamite

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If sed existed in Windows, that would make my current task much easier.

http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/sed.htm

Nice. If I could only install that on every server we have

Are you trying to do something like this?
https://www.kittell.net/code/powershell-unix-sed-equivalent-change-text-file/

AdamF

Thinking about how not having to use Putty any more, and being able to SSH into my *NIX boxes right from Powershell is so nice.

EddieJennings

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If sed existed in Windows, that would make my current task much easier.

Doesn't really need it. You have PowerShell to work with objects rather than sorting through garbled text output.

What are you trying to do?

Problem is a piece of this can't work with Powershell (deals with Cisco AMP's sfc.exe). Where I'd want something like sed is for this.

Write two entries to the host file. This is easy enough: Echo text and redirect to the hosts file.
Do the stuff needed for AMP (which can't be done with PowerShell due to an AMP limitation)
Once stuff is done, find the two entries made from step 1 and comment them out.

scottalanmiller

@fuznutz04 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Thinking about how not having to use Putty any more, and being able to SSH into my *NIX boxes right from Powershell is so nice.

That's not PowerShell enabling that. That's just that SSH is installed now. Works with anything on Windows, cmd, PS, Bash.... anything.

scottalanmiller

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

If sed existed in Windows, that would make my current task much easier.

Doesn't really need it. You have PowerShell to work with objects rather than sorting through garbled text output.

What are you trying to do?

Problem is a piece of this can't work with Powershell (deals with Cisco AMP's sfc.exe). Where I'd want something like sed is for this.

Write two entries to the host file. This is easy enough: Echo text and redirect to the hosts file.

Do the stuff needed for AMP (which can't be done with PowerShell due to an AMP limitation)

Once stuff is done, find the two entries made from step 1 and comment them out.

This is a big deal. All other systems work transparently with one another, local and remote. The object system in PowerShell breaks that in really problematic ways.

valentina

Ughhhh I was waiting for my 2 quesadillas hungry as hell and a kid threw up right next to me!!!!! I'm not eating anymore

gjacobse

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Just passed off the on-call shackle (phone) for the next five weeks

Lucky - we pass it around at the start of each week. could be a moot point though.. sigh.