Earlier, one of my servers stopped responding on port 80. It appears puppet had restarted apache because it updated a config file for one of the virtual hosts, and there was a configuration error, so apache didn’t come back up. By default puppet uses restart, even when a daemon supports reload, so when it messes up, it kills apache. Also, I realized it’d be nice to use configtest before even trying to restart.
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Have you ever realized that puppet stopped running on a server a month ago? Or perhaps you stopped it and forgot to restart it? Your server has been ignoring vital security updates because you thought that puppet had it covered. That’s why I use this handy bit of code:
The other day while I was trying to get puppet up and running on a server, I found that you can use “puppet resource” to automatically generate puppet manifest code. If you type:
It’ll show you the puppet configuration for all of the user’s on your system. You can also specify a specific user, like this:
You can do this for almost any type used in puppet.
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You can easily save your system’s package list and deploy it quickly if the server fails, or if you just want to make a clone for staging.
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I have definitely found a lot of decent uses for Dropbox, but none better than syncing my Thunderbird settings.
The Problem I use a laptop, a work desktop, a home desktop, and occasionally I’ll pull up my email on the HTPC. I found that I had to install Thunderbird on each, which in itself isn’t that bad at all, but when it comes to configuring everything for my three emails and multiple settings that I use, it becomes a nightmare.
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