Based on a true story:
xxx: OK, so, our build engineer has left for another company. The dude was literally living inside the terminal. You know, that type of a guy who loves Vim, creates diagrams in Dot and writes wiki-posts in Markdown... If something - anything - requires more than 90 seconds of his time, he writes a script to automate that.
xxx: So we're sitting here, looking through his, uhm, "legacy"
xxx: You're gonna love this
xxx:
smack-my-bitch-up.sh- sends a text message "late at work" to his wife (apparently). Automatically picks reasons from an array of strings, randomly. Runs inside a cron-job. The job fires if there are active SSH-sessions on the server after 9pm with his login.
xxx:
kumar-asshole.sh- scans the inbox for emails from "Kumar" (a DBA at our clients). Looks for keywords like "help", "trouble", "sorry" etc. If keywords are found - the script SSHes into the clients server and rolls back the staging database to the latest backup. Then sends a reply "no worries mate, be careful next time".
xxx:
hangover.sh- another cron-job that is set to specific dates. Sends automated emails like "not feeling well/gonna work from home" etc. Adds a random "reason" from another predefined array of strings. Fires if there are no interactive sessions on the server at 8:45am.
xxx: (and the oscar goes to)
fucking-coffee.sh- this one waits exactly 17 seconds (!), then opens a telnet session to our coffee-machine (we had no frikin idea the coffee machine is on the network, runs linux and has a TCP socket up and running) and sends something likesys brew. Turns out this thing starts brewing a mid-sized half-caf latte and waits another 24 (!) seconds before pouring it into a cup. The timing is exactly how long it takes to walk to the machine from the dudes desk.
xxx: holy sh*t I'm keeping those
Original: http://bash.im/quote/436725 (in Russian)
Pull requests with other implementations (Python, Perl, Shell, etc) are welcome.
You need these environment variables:
# used in `smack-my-bitch-up` and `hangover` scripts TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID=ACxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy # used in `kumar_asshole` script [email protected] GMAIL_PASSWORD=password
For Ruby scripts you need to install gems:
gem install dotenv twilio-ruby gmail
# Runs `smack-my-bitch-up.sh` monday to friday at 9:20 pm. 20 21 * * 1-5 /path/to/scripts/smack-my-bitch-up.sh >> /path/to/smack-my-bitch-up.log 2>&1 # Runs `hangover.sh` monday to friday at 8:45 am. 45 8 * * 1-5 /path/to/scripts/hangover.sh >> /path/to/hangover.log 2>&1 # Runs `kumar-asshole.sh` every 10 minutes. */10 * * * * /path/to/scripts/kumar-asshole.sh # Runs `fucking-coffee.sh` hourly from 9am to 6pm on weekdays. 0 9-18 * * 1-5 /path/to/scripts/fucking-coffee.sh
Code is released under WTFPL.