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blasterpal / fill_up_disk.sh

Created December 24, 2010 17:29

Fill up disk space to test monitoring, like Cloudkick.

dd if=/dev/zero of=11gb-file.bin bs=1GB count=11

blasterpal / data_bag_helper.rb

Created January 26, 2011 16:52

Chef Data Bag Helper Module to pop into recipes and easily get overrides from Data Bags.


	module DataBagHelper

	#wrapper methods to insulate from change :)

	def node_run_list
	node.run_list.role_names.reverse
	end

	def current_data_bag_items

blasterpal / nested_system_timer.rb

Created February 18, 2011 15:25

Nested System Timer Test

	require 'rubygems'
	require 'system_timer'

	class JobWrapper

	attr_accessor :timeout, :job, :name


	# slowjob1 = SlowJob.new(15,'slowjob1')
	# wrapper = JobWrapper.new(10,slowjob1)

blasterpal / curl_http_status_code_check.sh

Created July 12, 2011 11:53

Curl HTTP Status code check

	#!/bin/bash

	#http://beerpla.net/2010/06/10/how-to-display-just-the-http-response-code-in-cli-curl/

	if test -z "$1"
	then
	echo "No URL provided."
	exit
	fi

blasterpal / varnishlog_egrep.sh

Created July 13, 2011 18:14

Varnishlog egrep for mostly HTML requests

blasterpal / rails_multiline_exception_removal.txt

Created July 13, 2011 21:17

Remove Exception Block from standard Rails logs

	#example to remove PageNotFoundError from logs for cleaning up

	sed '/ApplicationController::PageNotFoundError (ApplicationController::PageNotFoundError):/,/^\W*$/d' production.log.cleaned.app01

blasterpal / bash_profile

Created August 4, 2011 14:38

My generic bash_profile

	export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim

	export PATH=${HOME}/scripts/git_ps_tools:${PATH}

	#using ReinH's ps_tools and rvm-prompt
	export PS1="\[\033[01;32m\]\u\[\033[00m\]\[\033[01;31m\]\$(git_br)\[\033[01;32m\]\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;36m\]\$(git_pwd)\[\033[00m\]\[\033[1;34m\]:$(~/.rvm/bin/rvm-prompt)\[\033[00m\]\$ "

	[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function

blasterpal / screen_cheat_sheet.txt

Created August 19, 2011 20:34

screen cheat sheet

	BETTER: http://aperiodic.net/screen/quick_reference

	screen -r
	Ctrl - a d => detatch

	screen -list
	screen -S 31517.pts-1.mxm-util -X kill

	http://haruska.com/2009/09/29/remote-pair-programming/

blasterpal / cpu_mem_status.sh

Created September 19, 2011 19:22

CPU, Mem, IO stats

	echo 'CPU hogs'
	ps -eo pcpu,pid,user,args \| sort -k 1 -r \| head -10
	echo '#############'
	echo 'IO'
	iostat
	echo 'The mems'
	vmstat

blasterpal / verify_cert.sh

Created September 22, 2011 18:29

Verify SSL Cert

openssl x509 -text -in cert-2012.crt