The free vmware product, vmware-server (formerly GSX) does not have auto power on for certain guests. A simple workaround for not being able to auto power on guests using the vmware interface is call the vmware command line utility at boot up using the local init function. A better way is to write an init script to handle the start up and possibly other functions.

A simple Bash script to parse Google's PR checksum and return any pages rank from the command line!

For a few years now, I have worked on a replacement for the trusty old way of organising the Debian boot. Did you ever make a package with an init.d script, and wonder which sequence number to pick for your script?

A Unix and Linux Command Line Dictionary For Those Of Us Who Love The CLI :)

"emacs-server.bash will let you start up an emacs-server in the background (perhaps from an init.d script?). You can then use emacsclient to create frames or TTY connections to the new server."

The world at your command line loving fingertips :)

A straightforward but very useful idea, Corntab is a dynamic visual crontab generator for Unix and Linux servers produced by David Knell.

Perl script to manage connections to console server ports written for Linux or Unix.

Revised edition of purposefully horrible script released earlier this week.