mrTomahawk's questions

Does anyone know how I can silently install/add a print queue to a Windows client? The clients are 32-bit Windows XP connecting to a Windows 2008 R2 print server, and I tried using the following command, but it still pops up a dialog asking the user to browse to the driver files path:

rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n\\print-svr\print-queue /f "C:\windows\temp\pcl\hpcu091c.inf"

So of course in this example the I'm trying to install the "\print-svr\print-queue" queue and instruct the client to get its driver for this queue from the following driver file which is present on their system: "C:\windows\temp\pcl\hpcu091c.inf"

I'm pushing this command from an Altiris server, but really this irrelevant since I could recreate the same issue via remote scripting.

Microsoft has posted the recommended settings for event log sizes in Windows Server 2003 and in Windows Server 2008 (link), but I was wondering if anyone knew if there was something somewhere which posted the same information for Windows XP. Most importantly the Recommended maximum total size for all each log and all logs

Does anyone know why a system would not execute the script code within rc.local on bootup? I have a post configuration bash script that I want to run after the initial install of VMware ESX (Red Hat), and for some reason it doesn't seem to execute. I have the setup to log its start of execution and even its progress so that I can see how far it gets in case it fails at some point, but even when I look at that log, I am finding that didn't even started the execution of the script code. I already checked to see that script has execution permissions (755), what else should I be looking at?

Here is the first few lines of my code:

#!/bin/sh
echo >> /tmp/configLog ""
echo >> /tmp/configLog "Entering maintenance mode"

Does anyone know of any listing of the different parameters that can be used in the command when installing a unix/linux host via kickstart? Specifically I'm look for ones in regards to ESX/Red Hat. These are the ones I know of so far:

ks=          'Points to the .cfg install configuration file ftp/http/usb
ksdevice=    'indicates which ethernet adapter to use
ip=          'indicates what ip to use for install
netmask=     'indicates what netmask to use for install
gateway=     'indicates what gateway to use for install
nameserver=  'indicates what nameserver is in your enviornment
method=      'type of install i.e. cdrom (I don't know what other methods there are)

Is there one for hostname?, I thought there was, but after preforming the install, the name I gave fro the command "hostname=svr01.local" was not the resulted hostname.

I'm trying parse the text of a string in bash which I then can throw a case selection at, but I'm having the biggest trouble trying to figure how to do it. In VB I know its real easy like

someString = "Hey there"
Select Case Mid(someString,1,5)
 Case "Hey t" 'Do something
 Case "Go aw" 'Do something else
 Case 'Else
  'String is unrecognized
End Select 

I can't seem to find anything that shows how I can do a string manipulation function which is equivalent to the Mid function. Do I use sed, I don't believe I can use awk or cut since I'm not trying to trim a string based upon a pattern, but surely it has to be just as simple in Unix.