I have received a lot of questions about this area recently. Here are a couple of tips and tricks I use to provide security within shell scripts. Note: The syntax I will use is for Bourne type shells. The same concepts apply to csh, but the syntax changes. The first scripting security issue for DBAs [...]

Now that we have the printers all added, the last thing we want to do is have to rekey them all on every server.  Every time you do a manual migration, you increase the chance for errors. We can use system-config-printer to migrate our queues at the linux level and FNDLOAD to migrate the queues [...]

Unfortunately, the list of printers available to Enterprise Linux distros is missing many printers used in the real world.  You can find drivers for most printers and information about how to install them at openprinting.org. However, many of the drivers available there are for LSB 3.2 and many Enterprise Linux distros are not LSB 3.2 [...]