I'm not sure of the utility of this, but maybe it'll be useful to someone else. I was requested to output all the facts from a system in xml, not wanting to type much I made the following script...


#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'facter'
require 'rubygems'
require 'activesupport'

Facter.loadfacts
facts = {}

for fact in Facter.list.sort

Scenario

machine A (192.168.100.1) provides resource A on port 8888
machine B (192.168.200.1) needs to access resource A

without modifying machine B (not allowed), create machine C and have any traffic to machine C on port 8888 forwarded to machine A. Then tell machine B that machine C is machine A and nobody is the wiser. None of the examples I found online had this working properly.

I routinely used to transfer data between systems using rsync. Since I wanted the communication to be secure I used ssh-keys, I noticed that my trick for using a command in the key isn't terribly well documented, so here is how I do it...

Goal: Keep /opt/before on machine B in sync with /opt/after on machine A.

On machine A, create an ssh key for this

I was trying to allow a user to sudo to another account and run a specific command. I'm not a fan of getting them to run through su since it doesn't make much sense to involve a third tool in the equation. I could get it working with the following:


theiruser ALL=(runasuser) NOPASSWD:/usr/local/bin/script.sh


Trying to fix an issue with snmp, I started by building an snmp module using audit2allow. It kept failing to load, and the error message is a little cryptic...


[root@host thomas]# semodule -i snmp.pp
libsepol.print_missing_requirements: snmp's global requirements were not met: type/attribute snmpd_t (No such file or directory).


Had an sssd process spinning and using 100% cpu. Did an strace on it and saw that it was complaining about too many open files.


pid accept(24, 0xaddress, [110]) = -1 EMFILE (Too many open files)


getting the number of open files for the process.


# lsof -p $(pidof sssd_pam) |wc -l
1065


Lightening talk I gave at SASAG on Sept 12, 2013.

Quick intro to using netcat and gnutls-cli to interact with HTTP, IMAP and SMTP and debug problems.

Talk I gave at puppetconf2013 on using exported resources to dynamically configure your system. Using augeas and concat the examples build up a working dns implementation that is automatic. The system was simplified a lot for the talk but the principles of using exported resources to configure the system is powerful.

I knew this script looked familiar, I just wrote the same script as I wrote almost a year ago. I guess I didn't do a good job getting it on the google's, cause I couldn't find it until I started posting about it...github:pass_to_shadow.py

Maybe this time I'll include some of the code in this post.

This has come up 3 times in the last few days so I thought I'd share it. The situation is that there are files at /var/spool/mqueue that are part of the /var filesystem. But there is also another filesystem mounted at /var/spool/mqueue with it's own files. You want to access the files under the mount but you can't. So, there are two ways around this (in this instance).

Option 1