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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Naming convention script Post 302402356 by tlarkin on Tuesday 9th of March 2010 02:13:15 PM
Old 03-09-2010
Naming convention script
OK, so a quick background:

I am a sys admin for a 1:1 deployment in academia with Macbooks, totaling around 6,000. Macbooks get shifted around from building to building and go to and from the repair center if hardware repair is needed. Often, some machines will get moved from one building to another and not be renamed. We have a standard naming convention that goes like this:

AAA_Asset#

Where AAA is the building abbreviation and the asset# is the actual asset tag of the machine, separated by an underscore.

Now, my network admin has done his job and chopped up every building into specific IPv4 VLANs. So, I know what subnets belong to what buildings. This is good.

So, if AAA_Asset# moved from it's current building to a building where BBB_asset# is the standard naming convention I would like to write a script that renames the machine to the proper naming convention.

I can determine what building it is by the second number of the IP address. So, 10.20.30.40 would tell me that the machine is in the 20 subnet and that belongs to building X.

I'd like to set up a shell script that parses the computer name and the second digit of the IP address and puts them into arguments and then depending on the IP address it will rename the first three initials of the computer name to the proper name reflecting what building it is in.

I know I can get the computer name and the IP by using the networksetup binary, but I am not quite sure how to pass all that info into a set of arguments that determines the proper convention and then applies it.
 

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dh_usrlocal

DH_USRLOCAL(1)							     Debhelper							    DH_USRLOCAL(1)

NAME

       dh_usrlocal - migrate usr/local directories to maintainer scripts

SYNOPSIS

       dh_usrlocal [debhelperoptions] [-n]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_usrlocal is a debhelper program that can be used for building packages that will provide a subdirectory in /usr/local when installed.

       It finds subdirectories of usr/local in the package build directory, and removes them, replacing them with maintainer script snippets
       (unless -n is used) to create the directories at install time, and remove them when the package is removed, in a manner compliant with
       Debian policy. These snippets are inserted into the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb. See dh_installdeb(1) for an explanation of
       debhelper maintainer script snippets.

       If the directories found in the build tree have unusual owners, groups, or permissions, then those values will be preserved in the
       directories made by the postinst script. However, as a special exception, if a directory is owned by root.root, it will be treated as if it
       is owned by root.staff and is mode 2775. This is useful, since that is the group and mode policy recommends for directories in /usr/local.

OPTIONS

       -n, --noscripts
	   Do not modify postinst/prerm scripts.

NOTES

       Note that this command is not idempotent. dh_prep(1) should be called between invocations of this command. Otherwise, it may cause multiple
       instances of the same text to be added to maintainer scripts.

CONFORMS TO

       Debian policy, version 2.2

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

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