Chris Doherty randomcamel

Troubleshooting winrm usually involves running the automation (Packer build / Terraform apply) until winrm fails, then inspecting the system to see where the failure is occurring. To do so please try the following steps.

If you have destroyed the infrastructure, please spin it back up with the automation tool (Packer or Terraform) and let the provisioner or build fail.

Establish that you have connectivity to the network that the VM is hosted on. This can be done by checking the IP address(es) and using a tool like route.

Open a Powershell session on your Windows workstation. The winrm connectivity tools are not available on other operating systems. You can skip some steps or try to substitute for them, but it's best to use a Windows workstation. A Windows 10 VM can be spun up using Vagrant, for example.

Establish that a raw connection can be made to the winrm service from your workstation. Run the command Test-netConnection -Port 5985, providing the IP address that Packer or Terraform is

This has been moved into the official Chef docs:

https://docs.chef.io/custom_resources_notes.html

12.5 style custom resources

This is by far the most recommended way of writing resources for all users. There are two gotchas which we're working through:

For helper functions that you used to write in your provider code or used to mixin to your provider code, you have to use an action_class do ... end block.

How to make the Webster's 1913 your default Kindle dictionary

Download a Kindle-compatible version of the dictionary here. Unzip the .rar archive.
Get the "Send to Kindle" program on your computer. Here's the link for the Mac.
Right-click your recently downloaded (unzipped) dictionary file, and click the "Send to Kindle" menu item. It will arrive on your Kindle shortly.
Once the dictionary has arrived, go to your settings -- on my newish paperwhite, it's at Home > Settings > Device Options > Language and Dictionaries > Dictionaries > English. Choose the Webster's 1913.

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	"""Store messages in a Maildir into a couchdb database."""

	import couchdb
	from mailbox import Maildir
	from optparse import OptionParser
	import os
	from pprint import pprint
	import sys
	from uuid import uuid4

	# This all assumes you have the process running in
	# a terminal screen and you're on Linux-like system.

	# First off, suspend the process and background it
	ctrl-z # suspend the process
	bg # restart/continue the process in the background

	# Now create files to log to. They can be called anything,
	# Personally I would end the in .log. E.g. could be
	# /var/logs/myprocess-stdout.log,