Everybody loves Friday. It signifies the end of the work week and the beginning of relaxing (at least for some of us) for the weekend. Many of us will finish up necessary tasks before the weekend, many of us will handle smaller tasks, or little things you’ve been putting off for a while now. I personally adopt a read-only philosophy of sorts when it comes to Friday. Does this mean I’ll be doing no work today? Absolutely not.
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It was around 7pm yesterday when I realized that I hadn’t gotten a notification that a process I was monitoring to finish. I thought it was odd that I hadn’t gotten a notification, too much time has past to have not gotten one. Thinking there might be a problem on the server I logged in and checked what was going on. Then it hit me like a ton of bricks.
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There are times that I have to perform repetitive tasks for my job. Every sysadmin faces this in their career. I was raised in bash, and to my own downfall, never learned another language to automate my tasks in.
There is a task that I have been finding myself doing more and more recently, and to be frank, there can be a large waste of time if the process is not properly monitored. I have taken to having a separate terminal up that will tail a logfile and if I am lucky, I’ll notice the process I am looking for has completed and I can move on to the next step. This is exceedingly inefficient, especially where there are certain time constraints to get things done.
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