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eliotk / gist:50a73a50d718818dec18

Created May 22, 2015 15:17

Install ansible on Ubuntu. Useful in a sh script for packer setup pre Ansible runs

	sudo apt-get install software-properties-common -y
	sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ansible/ansible -y
	sudo apt-get update -y
	sudo apt-get install ansible -y

eliotk / gist:aeb44b510325aa7378fe

Last active August 29, 2015 14:16

centos openstack image changes to auto grow disk

sudo yum install cloud-utils -y

eliotk / gist:93f6b49a208b1e7d6999

Created February 6, 2015 22:20

ansible: iterate through list of values in a jinja template

	{% for k,v in hostvars[inventory_hostname].iteritems() %}
	{{ k }}: {{ v }}
	{% endfor %}

eliotk / gist:e2449b69221b79c67320

Last active August 29, 2015 14:14

facter custom external facts dir

	/etc/facter/facts.d/ # when admin/root
	<HOME DIRECTORY>/.facter/facts.d/ # when not running facter as admin

	# why is it so hard to google for that!?

eliotk / gist:6ce8ff5a6a6ed6b45876

Created January 23, 2015 18:01

List files and directories showing chmod numerical format. Add to ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile or ~/.zshrc ...

alias cls="ls -l | awk   '{k=0;for(i=0;i<=8;i++)k+=((substr(\$1,i+2,1)~/[rwx]/)*2^(8-i));if(k)printf(\"%0o \",k);print}'"

eliotk / gist:f0a65984010a84559d5f

Created January 23, 2015 15:39

Set secret environment variable on the fly while hiding it from history and from the console output

read -s; export OS_PASSWORD=$REPLY

eliotk / gist:7744806

Last active October 6, 2020 13:00

A ruby script to parse My Tracks kml files and aggregate the summary data into one CSV file to chart changes in time series (or otherwise)

	require 'nokogiri'
	require 'csv'

	kml_path = '/path/to/Google Drive/My Tracks/'

	def kml_file_paths path
	Dir.glob(path + "*.kml")
	end

	csv = CSV.open('mytracks.csv', "wb")

eliotk / exim_queue_email_alerts.py

Last active December 15, 2015 23:19

A simple script for triggering an email alert to an administrator when the exim mail queue count exceeds a certain threshold

	import subprocess
	import string

	# import smtplib for sending email
	import smtplib

	# execute exim queue count command
	proc = subprocess.Popen(['/usr/sbin/exim','-bpc'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
	mail_count = int(proc.stdout.read())

eliotk / basic-gae-template-rendering.py

Created November 19, 2011 23:49

Code snippets for Django-powered layouts in Python blog post at eliotk.net

	template_values = {
	}
	path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'index.html')
	self.response.out.write(template.render(path, template_values))

eliotk / main.py

Created November 19, 2011 23:00

A Python function to render a django view file with optional template dict of parameters passed in. This output could then be passed to a more general layout file using template again. Based on Usage in Google App Engine

	import os
	from django.template import Template, Context
	from google.appengine.ext.webapp import template

	def render_view(view_name, template_dict = {}):
	path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), view_name)
	f = open(path, 'r')
	view_str = f.read()
	t = Template(view_str)
	return t.render(Context(template_dict))

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