Timeline for unix list by trish

Patricia Jung

Do NOT use #puppet #module puppetlabs/solaris with puppet 3.x #Solaris 11 nodes — it breaks Solaris package handling completely

Patricia Jung

#Uppercase the #first letter of the #string "bla" in #ruby: "bla".gsub(/^./){|s| s.upcase }

Patricia Jung

How to list #databases: #MySQL: show databases #PostgreSQL: \l

Patricia Jung

#Puppet: "pluginsync=true" in puppet.conf of both, master and node, distributes custom facts, #facter -p will show them

Patricia Jung

#Puppet: #error #message "Syntax error at '='; expected '}" means that you typed "=" instead of "=>" in a manifest

Patricia Jung

How to check whether #SSL connection to #puppet master can be established on node: openssl s_client -connect <puppetmaster>:8140

Patricia Jung

#alias w/ #puppet module puppetlabs-stdlib: file_line{ '<alias>': path=>'/root/.bashrc',line=>"\nalias <alias>=<cmd>",ensure=>'present',}

Patricia Jung

#puppet error msg "ActiveRecord 2.1 or later required for StoreConfigs" means: Run "puppet module install puppetlabs-puppetdb"

Patricia Jung

How to reference out of scope #variables in #puppet #erb #templates: <%= scope.lookupvar('<scope>::<variable>') %>

Patricia Jung

To print double #quotes in #awk output use a predefined variable (x) containing the quote: echo | awk -v x='"' '{print x" "x};'

Patricia Jung

Caution: #Puppet 2.7 does not verify the content of packages, won't be aware when you accidentally remove files/dirs installed from packages

Patricia Jung

#Nagios #plugins 1.4.16: When compiling without #SSL support move line "int ssl_version;" in check_http.c outside HAVE_SSL ifdef clause

Patricia Jung

When compiling #Nagios plugins on #Solaris 10 results in 64bit error see http://ur1.ca/cs1be

Patricia Jung

#vim #texteditor: Type % in command mode to move to matching opening or closing #parenthesis, square #bracket or curly #brace

Patricia Jung

#Linux: list #disk #UUID s with #blkid