On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Mike Lococo wrote:
2) You must understand how the yum and rpm os commands work, and
specifically how they each handle dependencies and circular deps
(yum works to satisfy deps, rpm fails unless all deps are specified
on a single command-line).
The use of verb forms p
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Trevor Hemsley wrote:
Steve Hoffman wrote:
.../Package[kernel]/ensure) change from 2.6.18-194.el5 to
2.6.18-194.17.4.el5 failed: Could not update: Failed to update to
version 2.6.18-194.17.4.el5, got version 2.6.18-194.el5 instead at ...
# rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-2.6
an
IT policy document will attend to getting the various mirrors
properly recoverable in one's backup strategy. [there, the
'testing' mirrors are often NOT covered, as they are
ephemeral as to their usefulness, and recoverable out of
'vault' (top down) or from a 'rt
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Nigel Kersten wrote:
How, if at all, do any of you do capacity planning with Puppet?
somewhat orthogonal to the question, but after reading this
piece:
http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2010-02/pdfs/bjorgeengen.pdf
at
http://www.usenix.org/publicat
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010, Scott Smith wrote:
The only annoying part is that if I ever revoke something, I have to
distribute the CRL to my puppetmasters. Oh well.
openssl discusses this in the 'verify' man page
Nothing says a certificate has to be of any particular
duration. A certificate outsid
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> Actually, putting this in the service description seems to have fixed it.
>
> pattern=> "/usr/bin/mysqld_safe"
It may have worked, but I guess I don't seen how going around
the LSB conformant services control model and forcing a start
outside
On Sun, 25 Oct 2009, Douglas Garstang wrote:
> I'm using the RPM from the MySQL web site, and the packagers of this
> RPM in their infinite wisdom decided that the mysql service should be
> automatically started when the RPM was installed.
MySQL installs and upgrades are hard to get right, and m
