Monthly Archives: November 2015

Installing pry on verrrrry old systems

Posted on 24. November 2015 by bastelfreak

Everybody loves pry. If you don’t know it: pry is an interactive ruby shell, like irb, but nicer (it hase more colours![and other cool features]). I’ve got a few old CentOS 6 nodes with a very old ruby version: # … Continue reading →

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Fixing a messed up git directory

Posted on 23. November 2015 by bastelfreak

Following situation: You have got a cloned repository in your home directory, you noticed that something changed upstream und you want to get all the fancy changes. You do a: to get the latest tag. What you didn’t check: What … Continue reading →

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How to be a good Admin/DevOps/IT person

Posted on 22. November 2015 by bastelfreak

There are two types of system administrators/DevOps/admins/whatever, the first group has a normal 9-5 job, they stop thinking about IT after work, it is a normal job for them. Then there is another group, these people really love their job, … Continue reading →

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#puppethack is coming again!

Posted on 22. November 2015 by bastelfreak

The event description: ########### Join us for #puppethack, our online puppet community hack day, on December 15th! #puppethack is a collaborative, relaxed online puppet community hack day. It will be an opportunity for Puppet community members and Puppet Labs employees … Continue reading →

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Augeas Bug while playing with ” in /etc/default/grub

Posted on 21. November 2015 by bastelfreak

Today seems to be the day of buggy software. I am using the Puppet module herculesteam/augeasproviders_grub to manage entries in /etc/default/grub on Debian and CentOS systems, here is an example: This should result in the following line in /etc/default/grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”nomodeset … Continue reading →

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Cooking Chili con carne

Posted on 21. November 2015 by bastelfreak

I blogged a few recipes in the past, it is time to continue this series. I blogged this recipe a while back in german, this is an improved version, translated into English: We need for 3 dinners: Ingredients: 3 garlic … Continue reading →

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MTR and the IPv6 fuckup

Posted on 21. November 2015 by bastelfreak

I wrote about the internet and administrators unable to deal with IPv6, here is another sad story: I use MTR to detect network issues: $ mtr 8.8.8.8 –report –report-cycles=10 -n Start: Sat Nov 21 14:31:47 2015 HOST: basteles-bastelknecht.baste Loss% Snt … Continue reading →

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Why Archlinux is awesome!

Posted on 21. November 2015 by bastelfreak

Arch, Arch Linux, Archlinux, all is possible to refer to this project (Arch Linux is correct). This is a rolling release distribution, which means that there aren’t any Major releases. A Software maintainer creates a new release, for example Nmap … Continue reading →

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Link collection of the (last) week(s)

Posted on 21. November 2015 by bastelfreak

Some interesting and important happenings and things I found in the past week (and prior): Differences between shell types + their workflow Puppet 4.3 got released! 2.2.5 New Nmap! after 3.5 years of development Commitmas is comming! (still thinking about … Continue reading →

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Building APIs with swagger

Posted on 21. November 2015 by bastelfreak

I’m currently designing a new API endpoint for marmoset. In general, there are two ways to build this: Just start with coding or start with planning. As we are smart people, of course we start with planning! There are several … Continue reading →

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