Everything is Crap » applescript http://everythingiscrap.com Notes on the crap we've been subjected to Wed, 11 Jan 2012 21:10:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Simple way to add static routes to mac xserve http://everythingiscrap.com/simple-way-to-add-static-routes-to-mac-xserve/ http://everythingiscrap.com/simple-way-to-add-static-routes-to-mac-xserve/#comments Wed, 12 May 2010 17:10:32 +0000 paul http://everythingiscrap.com/?p=435 I have an AppleScript (saved as an application) that runs each time the xserve starts. In that AppleScript I have this code:

do shell script "echo `cat /etc/security/admin_password` | sudo -S route -nq add 192.168.10.0/24 192.168.0.1"

It works for me. (I know, this is a convoluted way to do this, but I could not figure out what I was doing wrong with launchd and I already had this mechanism in place, so I did it the wrong way.)

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tell application "Finder"
mount volume "smb://myserver.mydomain.net/myshare"
end tell

In my test, this code completed successfully, so it communicates with the Key Chain properly and finds the correct user and everything. It's rather impressive that you can coax so much functionality out of so few lines of code. What can I say? I'm becoming a fan of AppleScript.

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