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garthk / cleanupdates.cmd

Created October 22, 2012 05:20

Clean up stale Windows Update downloads

	@echo on
	setlocal
	set DAYS=31
	set DOWNLOADS=C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download
	rem http://bit.ly/IttCwo
	rem http://stackoverflow.com/a/51069/5700
	net stop wuauserv
	forfiles /p %DOWNLOADS% /s /d -%DAYS% /c "cmd /c if @isdir==FALSE (del @file) else (rd /s /q @file)"
	net start wuauserv

garthk / fails-ask-for-resources-with-POST.out

Created October 9, 2012 23:22

Trying to get information out of puppetdb directly (puppetdb 0.9)

	$ curl -vH "Accept: application/json" 'http://localhost:8080/resources' --data-urlencode 'query=["not", ["=", "type", "Nonsense"]]'
	* About to connect() to localhost port 8080 (#0)
	* Trying ::1... Connection refused
	* Trying 127.0.0.1... connected
	* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8080 (#0)
	> POST /resources HTTP/1.1
	> User-Agent: curl/7.19.7 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8k zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.15
	> Host: localhost:8080
	> Accept: application/json
	> Content-Length: 78

garthk / fixpup

Created October 9, 2012 00:57 — forked from haus/gist:3851012

Script: pin Puppet to 2.7.* on Ubuntu

	#!/bin/sh
	# Pin Ubuntu to use Puppet 2.7.* rather than Puppet 3.
	# Assumes you're using the Puppet APT repo at apt.puppetlabs.com.
	# Thanks to haus for the technique.
	cat > /etc/apt/preferences.d/00-puppet.pref <<EOF
	Package: puppet puppet-common puppetmaster puppetmaster-common
	Pin: version 2.7*
	Pin-Priority: 501
	EOF
	echo Release pinned.

garthk / puppetlabs.pp

Created September 15, 2012 03:51

Use Puppet to ensure Ubuntu can get the latest Puppet

	class puppetlabs {
	# Install Puppet repository and call apt-get update
	case $operatingsystem {
	ubuntu: {
	$key = "4BD6EC30"
	exec { 'apt-key puppetlabs':
	path => "/bin:/usr/bin",
	unless => "apt-key list \| grep '${key}' \| grep -v expired",
	command => "apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys ${key}",
	}

garthk / nsclient-try2.ini

Created September 7, 2012 07:10

NSClient++ configuration information for review

	# Added logging detail in attempt to debug problem, to no avail.

	; A list of modules.
	[/modules]
	CheckDisk=1
	CheckSystem=1
	CheckTaskSched=1
	NSClientServer=0
	NRPEServer=1

garthk / init.pp

Created September 7, 2012 00:09

Could not evaluate: undefined method `alias' for #<Nagios::Base::Hostextinfo:0x7fe2d61693b8>

	class nagios {
	$targets = '/etc/nagios3/puppets.d'
	}

garthk / bouncy-muxdemux-ouch.js

Created August 4, 2012 02:02

Using bouncy and mux-demux to make a proxy server

	var http = require('http'),
	net = require('net'),
	bouncy = require('bouncy'),
	MuxDemux = require('mux-demux');

	var mux_server_port = 8192;
	var trampoline_port = 8193;
	var target_server_port = 8194;
	var mux;

garthk / node-yes-simplistic.js

Created August 2, 2012 04:38

Node.js does not detect process.stdout pipe closing

	// this terminates: yes \| head
	// this hangs: node node-yes-simple.js \| head
	// per mhart, this is entirely expected
	while(true) {
	process.stdout.write('{"yes": "yes"}\n');
	}

garthk / package.pp

Created May 30, 2012 00:38

Puppet class to pull in a package. Ubuntu-friendly, but non-toxic to other UNIX.

	class NAMESPACE::package (
	$package = $NAMESPACE::package::params::package,
	$repository = $NAMESPACE::package::params::repository,
	$repokey = $NAMESPACE::package::params::repokey,
	$reponame = $NAMESPACE::package::params::reponame,
	$keyserver = $NAMESPACE::package::params::keyserver
	) inherits NAMESPACE::package::params {
	package { $package:
	ensure => installed,
	}

garthk / init.pp

Created May 29, 2012 00:55

err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find parent resource type 'mongodb::package::params' of type hostclass in production at /etc/puppet/modules/mongodb/manifests/package.pp:1 on node X

	# /etc/puppet/modules/mongodb/manifests/init.pp

	class mongodb {
	}

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