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/
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