Dean Mac Cu Uladh hosted a walk along the towpath and pointed out some of the native flowering species. Photographs of just three are below. Stitch Wort Marsh Marigold Dog Rose
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Fish Shell Escape Delay
Using the fish shell I needed to increase a timeout to allow me to use Esc-. keyboard sequence to print the last argument from the previous line: Add the following line to ~/.config/fish/fish_variables to fix the problem:
Check SSL Certificate Dates via CLI
Quick command to check the expiry dates on SSL certicate:
Ansible Ad Hoc Commands
Just for future reference: ansible -i /tmp/ips -f 10 -m shell -a “sudo docker restart logstash” all
CentOS 8 munin-node needs PowerTools
I had the following error installing munin-node on a new CentOS 8 system: Depsolve Error occured: Problem: package munin-node-2.0.54-2.el8.noarch requires perl(Net::SNMP), but none of the providers can be installed\n – conflicting requests – nothing provides perl(Digest::SHA1) >= 1.02 needed by perl-Net-SNMP-6.0.1-25.el8.1.noarch Solution is to enable the repo CentOS-PowerTools sed -i ‘/enabled=0/enabled=1/’ /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-PowerTools.repo
Chef Knife List Nodes with IPs
I had to fiddle a bit with this so possibly worth keeping a note of it. I wanted to pull all the node hostnames and ip addresses from chef for use in hostname lookups and ssh config.
Postgresql VACUUM and ANALYZE all tables in a database
The example below uses the database named netbox so change as needed. It gets a list of the tables in the database and for each one performs a full vacuum and analyze. There is probably a more efficient way to do this from the psql prompt but this is what worked for me: su -… Read more »
Proxmox: adding internal private nework
In this scenario I wanted to be able to run several VMs that can communicate with each other on a private subnet e.g. 10.10.10.* and also be access the internet for updates etc. Eventually I want to expose some of the internal services. My proxmox server has one network interface with an internet facing IP… Read more »
SELinux: Create Policy for NRPE Writing
Had a problem with Nagios/NRPE checks that are configured to write a status file as part of their check. The path /var/logstate was the target created the policy below. Andrew (Urban Penguin) Youtube video is an excellent resource. Install selinux utilities: yum install policycoreutils policycoreutils-devel setools-console setroubleshoot The audit log (/var/log/audit/audit.log) was showing the type=AVC… Read more »
Nagios NRPE omreport errors
Nagios check for Dell OpenManage was failing after upgrade to srvadmin 9.2 with: UNKNOWN: Problem running ‘omreport chassis memory’: Error: SMStatus: 700 UNKNOWN: Problem running ‘omreport chassis batteries’: Error! XML Transformation failed UNKNOWN: Problem running ‘omreport chassis pwrmonitoring’: Error: SMStatus: 700 UNKNOWN: Problem running ‘omreport chassis removableflashmedia’: Error: SMStatus: The check command: /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_openmanage -s -b… Read more »
