30

Nov

2016

Connecting in to Docker MySQL Instance

November 30, 2016 jonny docker, mysql

Just recording a few of these steps for future reference. Pull the MySQL image from the hub: docker pull mysql/mysql-server:latest Run an instance: docker run -it -d -p 33060:3306 --name mysql-for-jonny -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=opensesame -d... » More

17

Oct

2016

Gitlab Bulk Update can_create_group

October 17, 2016 jonny red hat centos

I had been allowing normal users to create groups within Gitlab but subsequently discovered some confusion among users between groups and projects. Some users had been creating a group with a single project when a project with multiple members was more... » More

07

Jun

2016

sssd ldap: No Group Members shown

June 7, 2016 jonny red hat centos

With several machines configured to use OpenLdap for user and group authentication/permissions I was having the problem that the getent and id commands were not returning all the group information. My groups exist in the Ldap directory with members... » More

17

May

2016

Minecraft Overviewer

May 17, 2016 jonny featured

Just some instructions to remind myself how I got the Minecraft Overviewer working on CentOS. wget http://overviewer.org/builds/el6-64/7/overviewer-0.12.109.rpm yum install overviewer-0.12.109.rpm VERSION=1.9 wget... » More

10

May

2016

Gitlab API Command Line Access

May 10, 2016 jonny foss

There appears to be a few methods for managing a Gitlab installation from the command line. I liked python-gitlab and I installed it onto Linux Mint/Ubuntu as follows: apt-get install python-pip pip install python-gitlab After installation I created a... » More

10

May

2016

Restoring a Gitlab Bundle

May 10, 2016 jonny open source

I had an odd request today from a guy who had deleted his GitLab project and his local repos. I had been making backups using: gitlab-rake gitlab:backup:create and sifting through the backups under /var/opt/gitlab/backups/  I extracted the latest tar... » More

20

Mar

2016

PhidgetBoard with Raspberry Pi and Tripwire

March 20, 2016 jonny python

I very luckily got landed with a: Phidgets Board 8/8/8 (1018) Lanbao PR18S-TM10DNO Photoelectric Tripwire Sensor (3525) I wired the Tripwire sensor to the Phidget board as described in the wiring diagram and as shown in the video: I... » More

19

Mar

2016

Batch Auto-Levels on Images

March 19, 2016 jonny photography, shell

I had a thousand image files the kids had photographed when creating a stop motion video. An 'auto-levels' on many of the images was required to brighten them up so at the command line I used the following (with ImageMagick already installed of... » More

02

Jan

2016

Customise Yakuake Tabs On Start

January 2, 2016 jonny ubuntu

I've been recommending the slide-down terminal Yakuake to people for some time now and I couldn't live without it myself. Although I use Cinnamon as a desktop I much prefer Yakuake over Guake and can live with the extra RAM usage of the KDE... » More

01

Jan

2016

Bleeding Edge PHP on CentOS 7

January 1, 2016 jonny php, red hat centos

The PHP packages in the base / epel repositories are very conservative. To opt for something more current the REMI repo can be used. Install the remi-release package (info)  first: wget... » More