mgedmin / gist:9547214

Created March 14, 2014 12:59

Setting up a Jenkins slave on Linux

	# This is how you add a Jenkins slave

	# On master:

	sudo -u jenkins -H ssh-keygen

	# On slave

	adduser --system --group --home=/var/lib/jenkins-slave --no-create-home --disabled-password --quiet --shell /bin/bash jenkins-slave
	install -d -o jenkins-slave -g jenkins-slave /var/lib/jenkins-slave

mgedmin / gist:8936596

Last active August 29, 2015 13:56

Attempt to write a smart super() snippet for UltiSnips

	snippet super "super()" !b
	`!p
	# Set a fallback completion first
	# snip.rv = 'super(${1:ClassName}, self).${2:method}(' <-- does not work
	snip.rv = 'super('
	import vim
	# this needs pythonhelper.vim
	tag = vim.eval('TagInStatusLine()')
	if tag:
	# pythonhelper.vim's TagInStatusLine() returns '[in SomeClass.some_method (method)]'

mgedmin / gist:8686551

Created January 29, 2014 12:01

DP unplug at about 13:49:xx, DP plug a bit after 13:50:05, ran 'xrandr' to force detection a few seconds later

	$ wc drm.log
	70167 933724 8223892 drm.log

	$ < drm.log grep -v 'drm:drm_ioctl\\|drm:drm_calc_vbltimestamp_from_scanoutpos\\|drm:drm_wait_vblank\\|drm:drm_queue_vblank_event\\|drm:drm_handle_vblank_events\\|more than one pipe active, disabling compression\\|drm:drm_framebuffer_reference\\|drm:drm_framebuffer_unreference' \| wc -l
	678

	$ < drm.log grep -v 'drm:drm_ioctl\\|drm:drm_calc_vbltimestamp_from_scanoutpos\\|drm:drm_wait_vblank\\|drm:drm_queue_vblank_event\\|drm:drm_handle_vblank_events\\|more than one pipe active, disabling compression\\|drm:drm_framebuffer_reference\\|drm:drm_framebuffer_unreference'
	Jan 29 13:49:09 platonas kernel: [ 1990.399397] [drm:drm_vm_close_locked], 0x7fb9dcbd2000,0x00009000
	Jan 29 13:49:09 platonas kernel: [ 1990.399438] [drm:drm_vm_close_locked], 0x7fb9dcbc9000,0x00009000
	Jan 29 13:49:11 platonas kernel: [ 1992.815825] [drm:intel_crtc_cursor_set], cursor off

mgedmin / gist:8559853

Last active January 4, 2016 03:09

curses.setupterm() in a doctest

	mg@platonas: ~/src/new-zope-order/zope.testrunner [git:master $=] $ cat doctest.txt
	>>> import curses
	>>> curses.setupterm()

	mg@platonas: ~/src/new-zope-order/zope.testrunner [git:master $=] $ python -m doctest doctest.txt
	**********************************************************************
	File "doctest.txt", line 2, in doctest.txt
	Failed example:
	curses.setupterm()
	Exception raised:

mgedmin / gist:8044562

Last active December 31, 2015 21:09

gnome-shell deadlocked on me, a couple of minutes after I unlocked the session

	# gdb $(which gnome-shell) $(pidof gnome-shell)

	...

	(gdb) thread apply all bt

	Thread 7 (Thread 0x7f2eeb7d0700 (LWP 12426)):
	#0 0x00007f2efbb69f7d in poll () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:81
	#1 0x00007f2efc0a96a4 in g_main_context_poll (priority=2147483647, n_fds=1, fds=0x7f2ee40010e0, timeout=-1, context=0x2367a30)
	at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.38.1/./glib/gmain.c:4006

mgedmin / ppa-gtimelog-copy-packages.py

Created November 28, 2013 09:16

Automate PPA package copies, version 2.

	#!/usr/bin/python
	"""Copy published precise PPA packages to quantal raring saucy.

	Typical usage:

	- build a gtimelog package for precise
	- dput ppa:gtimelog-dev gtimelog_0.8.1-0ppa0_source.changes
	- wait for it to be built
	- run ppa-gtimelog-copy-packages

mgedmin / test_pypi_downloads.py

Last active December 29, 2015 07:39

Testing PyPI downloads (see https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2013-November/023127.html)

	#!/usr/bin/python
	import hashlib, time
	try:
	from urllib.request import urlopen
	except ImportError:
	from urllib import urlopen

	url = 'https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/v/virtualenv/virtualenv-1.10.1.tar.gz'
	md5sum_expected = '3a04aa2b32c76c83725ed4d9918e362e'
	response = urlopen(url)

mgedmin / StartSSL.md

Last active October 22, 2023 07:52

Free StartSSL.com SSL certificate HOWTO

How to get a free StartSSL.com SSL certificate

I'm writing this up from memory, so errors may appear.

This has been updated to use SHA256 certificates.

Start

mgedmin / apache.conf

Last active December 25, 2015 12:39

REMOTE_USER authentication for Sentry 6.3.0

	WSGIDaemonProcess sentry display-name=wsgi-sentry user=sentry group=sentry processes=1 threads=4
	WSGIScriptAlias / /path/to/sentry.wsgi
	<Location />
	WSGIApplicationGroup %{GLOBAL}
	WSGIProcessGroup sentry
	AuthType Basic
	AuthName "sentry"
	AuthUserFile /path/to/htpasswd
	Require valid-user
	</Location>

mgedmin / gist:6854372

Created October 6, 2013 13:50

	# add-apt-repository ppa:pov/ppa
	You are about to add the following PPA to your system:

	More info: https://launchpad.net/~pov/+archive/ppa
	Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it

	Exception in thread Thread-1:
	Traceback (most recent call last):
	File "/usr/lib/python2.7/threading.py", line 551, in __bootstrap_inner
	self.run()