http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp Scripts, settings, and fixes... Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:58:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Scenario I Backup directory /mnt/one from server pris to client directory /home/user/two on client deckard by initiating the the copy from the client deckard. (i.e. send files from the server to the client) create ssh keys using ssh-keygen [user@deckard ~]$ cd .ssh [user@deckard .ssh]$ ssh-keygen -t dsa -f deckard Generating public/private dsa key pair. Enter passphrase ... http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/using-rsync-with-ssh/ We had a problem where new clients couldn't get their keys signed properly by the puppetmaster. Both the client and the server were in perfect sync with our ntp server. date on both machines returned the expected results. We are running mongrel so I went down the ... http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/puppetserver-something/ using fedora-ds/redhat-ds it creates cert8.db and key3.db to store the certs. I wanted to extract the private key as PEM so I could import it elsewhere. [root@ldap] cd /etc/dirsrv/slapd-ldap [root@ldap] pk12util -o cert.p12 -n 'server-cert' -d . Enter Password or Pin for "NSS Certificate DB": Enter password for PKCS12 file: Re-enter password: ... http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/extract-private-key-and-cert-from-pkcs12/ Was getting this error on our puppetmaster that only had a few clients. Turns out it's just an error from mysql being passed down the line. We share our mysql for puppet with multiple servers. Restarting mysql saved the day... Read http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/too-many-connections.html for instructions on increasing the limit... mysql> show variables ... http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/puppetmaster-error-400-on-server-too-many-connections/ We had a machine that would keep coming up with devXXXXX where XXXXX is a seemingly random number. We tried ifrename to no avail, modprobe -r didn't help, modules.conf didn't help. It turned out that the HWADDR line in the ifcfg-ethX file was wrong. After fixing the line we were ... http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/weird-device-names-like-devxxxxx-with-ifconfig-on-fedorarhel/ This is my first android phone, so I thought I'd share my experience of rooting the phone. All credit to Zinx Verituse over on Alldroid.org Note: I just updated to the update released December 10th for the droid and was able to reapply the update.zip. The instructions are here Download this file and rename ... http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/rooting-the-droid/ After upgrading to 0.25, the following error occurs: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Could not intern from pson: Could not convert from pson: Could not find relationship target '' This turned out to be because of recipes using exec without naming the exec. Example exec { "cat /that/file": ... http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/puppet-upgrade-problem-0-25-could-not-convert-from-pson/ I don't really see the benefit of using adsense anymore. Everyone knows they're ads, no one clicks. It doesn't pay my isp bills anymore, so I'm dropping it. They were only annoying anyway. http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/no-more-adsense/ The problem I was trying to fix here was that I had a package that required a much newer version of a library than the system had installed on it. I didn't want to ruin the stability of the system by updating the library so I build it and ... http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/hard-coding-a-library-path-into-an-executable-while-building-an-rpm/ I posted some additional material on building rpms in the appendix of the book. I cover how to build an example spec file from scratch. This is similar to what I did in my presentation, just with a lot more detail. I hope to expand this section ... http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/building-rpms/