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If you get this error when running sudo salt-ssh '*' test.ping:

"No hosts found with target * of type glob"

Check the file /etc/salt/roster for fomatting errors.

Note: It doesn't like tabs.

rdmarsh

#!/usr/bin/python

#silly program to light up LEDs on raspberrypi piface depending on system load
#basically multiplys load by x10, rounds, and lights up that many leds

from time import sleep
import pifacedigitalio
import sys

DELAY = 1.0  # seconds

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#!/usr/bin/python3

#Simple prog to chase leds up and down for the rasberrypi piface
#The higher the load, the slower they go

from time import sleep
import pifacedigitalio
import sys

if __name__ == "__main__":

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Starting syslog-ng: Error binding socket; addr='AF_UNIX(/dev/log)', error='Address already in use (98)'
Error initializing source driver; source='s_sys', id='s_sys#1'
Error initializing message pipeline;
                                                           [FAILED]



to solve: rm /dev/log

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/var/nzbget/dst/nzbget.log {
  missingok
  notifempty
  size 2M
  rotate 4
  copytruncate
}

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>                                                                                                                                                                          
        <global>                                                                                                                                                                  
                <keyboard>                                                                                                                                                        
                        <escape>Pause</escape>                                                                                                                                    
                        <key id="251">activatewindow(home)</key>                                                                                                                  
                        <key id="252">activatewindow(videos,movietitles)</key>            

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<keymap>
        <FullscreenVideo>
                <remote>
                        <back>stop</back>
                </remote>
                <keyboard>
                        <back>stop</back>
                        <backspace>stop</backspace>
                        <escape>stop</escape>

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---

# Set CHIP up as an airplay server.
# Based on https://www.hackster.io/11798/c-h-i-p-play-speakers-7cebb9
# Note; you will still have to edit shairport-sync.conf to set the name

- name: configure chips for iot shairport use
  hosts: shairport-chips

  become_user: root

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#!/usr/bin/env perl -w

### 2016-06-01:davidm:simple program to center text on a line

use strict;
use warnings;
use POSIX;

#f1: string
#f2: total width

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write last 2MB of disk to a file

# tailfile="taildisk-`date "+%Y%m%dT%H%M%S"`.dat"
# dd if=/dev/sda of=${tailfile} bs=512 skip=$(( $(blockdev --getsz /dev/sda) - 4096 ))
4096+0 records in
4096+0 records out
2097152 bytes (2.1 MB, 2.0 MiB) copied, 0.0185222 s, 113 MB/s
# ls -lah ${tailfile}

-rw-r----- 1 root root 2.0M Jul 16 11:08 taildisk-20160716T110821.dat