Hi Alex. Thanks! That's what every OSS author hopes for. It's great to hear.
On Thu, 27 Apr 2023 at 09:35, Alex Kink via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Giles. > I find your script very useful and have added it to my list of tools. > > Thank you! > > > On Apr 26, 2023, at 08:57, Giles Orr via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Three weeks ago I mentioned to a couple people on this mailing list > > that I'd written a script at work that live-checks TLS certificates > > across multiple machines. This is a very useful thing to have when > > one of my jobs is maintaining multiple small websites. One of these > > people responded that I should give a short talk about this project, > > and added "Most of us do a little sys-admining and can learn from the > > pros." At which point I burst out laughing ... and realized Imposter > > Syndrome had reared its ugly head once again. A "professional" is > > someone who gets paid to do a job, and I am that. Doesn't mean I feel > > like a "professional sys-admin," even though I am - more of a > > professional jack-of-all-trades ... But "Imposter Syndrome" is > > another huge discussion ... we now return you to our irregularly > > scheduled programming. > > > > That message prompted me to talk to my bosses, one of whom not only > > endorsed my idea of publicly releasing this code, but did so > > enthusiastically. My thanks to Toronto Public Library for that. And > > so I give you: > > > > https://github.com/gilesorr/robotface-utils > > > > (The naming is a weird story - explanation in the README if you're curious.) > > > > Given a list of fully qualified domain names, the 'chkcertexpiry' > > script goes to each one, retrieves the TLS certificate, and lists the > > expiry date and issuer. If the expiry date is soon (number of days > > settable by a command line switch) the date is colour-highlighted. If > > there are connection problems, those are noted. > > > > At work, I run this once a week against all the sites I'm responsible > > for. I don't think we've had an expired cert on any of those domains > > in the 5-7 years I've been using this script. > > > > I hope people will use this. I welcome comments and suggestions. I'm > > a little scared of PRs because I've never had to deal with them before > > ... > > > > Please feel free to share as you think appropriate. > > > > -- > > Giles > > https://www.gilesorr.com/ > > [email protected] > > --- > > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > > Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk -- Giles https://www.gilesorr.com/ [email protected] --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
