I’ve written two nagios checks recently.
The first, for simple http checking of websites has its own repo: check_pycurl
The second check_init_service, which checks if init scripts are running on a Linux systems is in a repo I’ve set up for this and future checks: jp_nagios_checks.
Why can’t readers decide on a common configuration file that stores subscribed feeds (obviously), items read in those feeds and so on.
This could then be stored either locally or more usefully in the “cloud” on Dropbox, Box.com, a personal WebDAV location, etc allowing multiple readers to keep up to date.
New version of ssh allows multiple methods of authenticating, eg public key AND password. http://t.co/jN8PgHuBI7
Getting errors like: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A902DDA375E52366
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys A902DDA375E52366
As Google are ditching Reader, you might want to move to a self-hosted tt-rss install instead.
If you’ve already set up an EC2 instance with ansible, just follow this playbook.
Amazon Linux variety
# enable root ssh login as per http://tinyurl.com/d46d3o8
# as root
cd /usr/local/src
yum -y install git python-jinja2 python-paramiko PyYAML make MySQL-python
git clone git://github.com/ansible/ansible.git
cd ansible && make install
As per http://ansible.cc/docs/gettingstarted.html add your EC2 instance to /etc/ansible/hosts on your local (master) ansible install. You may also want to add your ansible key file to ssh-agent
# if you haven't enable root ssh login, use -u ec2-user
ansible all -u root -m ping
Some of the steps from my test of cobbler / centos / virtualbox.
Other resources: Start Here
MQTT is a machine-to-machine M2M/”Internet of Things” connectivity protocol. It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. It is useful for connections with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium.
via MQTT: MQ Telemetry Transport.
This is supported by the python Mosquitto module.
I last used makefiles a long time ago, so this took some refreshing…
Recently I’ve been looking at using qtile, a python based window manager. I’ve also been thinking about managing my config files using git and makefiles to “publish”. Here’s an example makefile for config.py:
SRCFILE = config.py
DSTDIR = ~/.config/qtile/
.PHONY: all
all: $(DSTDIR)/$(SRCFILE)
$(DSTDIR)/%.py: $(SRCFILE)
@cp -fp -- $(SRCFILE) $(DSTDIR)/$(SRCFILE)
