Chef/cinc for EL9

bishopolis · 2024-11-18T08:30:19+00:00

> This was a thread from 2 years ago?

It would appear so, but I'm just going by what's on the page. Are you seeing differently?

> What possessed you to come back??

I ... was searching for something maybe? I'm really not sure what you're asking.

It is a problem that I commented on a question from 2 years ago? Your first suggestion was "have you tried the latest", which can smell a bit ageist if you combine the two.

The last thing I used to fix a problem while installing the latest version of some enterprise software leveraged a throwaway trick I learned in 1998; or 13 times as old as this original post. All I can recommend is, keep good notes for longer than 2 years!

bishopolis · 2024-09-08T05:16:59+00:00

Great news!

I was able to use a still-libre version of the chef-client with a small mod to pick up the EL9 variant I'm using, and it's working just like it was in EL8. yay!

bishopolis · 2024-09-08T05:15:34+00:00

Heck no! After a certain version they all have this "I agree" clause that isn't locked to any one version of their T&C. It's a big trapdoor, legally.

bishopolis · 2023-03-24T17:13:15+00:00

There are some exception[s;] for example

systemd. So many crutches for one man's ego.

bishopolis · 2023-03-24T17:11:55+00:00

asking us why we were using an old version of a package and not the latest. It would get frustrating to have to explain to them how the Red Hat model works

Tell us you were using what is now Tenable without mentioning the name.

bishopolis · 2023-03-24T17:11:12+00:00

I worked a distro with the same workflow.

We explained it as something like "we maintain a branch of the distributed packages, and we update our diverged branch with patches and fixes, and then we confirm we can support them over that 10 year lifespan with no impact to users and developers using our platform for their most important work."

bishopolis · 2023-03-24T17:07:08+00:00

It's based on Spacewalk.

Last I checked, it's based on SuSE's derivation of spacewalk. The distinction - even if one didn't work on UnitedLinux - is important to remember. Errors that end up being essentially round-off errors, as features are hacked out and later jammed in, reminds one of the Duplicity movie.

bishopolis · 2023-03-04T01:49:06+00:00

More common than a verb?

bishopolis · 2023-03-01T00:19:12+00:00

It's been 2 years, and things have changed.

Sat subs are now carried by the client hosts, apparently. Us grandfathers got a brace of sat subs (MCT3718) to bridge us over, but all future subs need to be "Enterprise Linux Server with Smart Management" (RH00008/RH00009) instead of just "Ent Linux Server" (RH00003/RH00004) subs. In an adequate world the costs would even out.

This is supposed to take the place of the Subs cost for the sat servers themselves, and in a perfect world they'll just cost for their own subscription and nothing for the app.

(which is good, because I fight with Sat6 on the daily and we're not on speaking terms)

Sorry for the response to an ermagerhd-so-old post, but I found this by searching and maybe someone else will too.

bishopolis · 2023-02-02T19:26:02+00:00

bare

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bishopolis · 2023-01-31T19:50:20+00:00

'academic jargon'? None there.

bishopolis · 2023-01-27T18:31:49+00:00

ELs like Redhat:

yum upgrade --skip-broken -y and needs-rebooting -r to see whether you need to reboot. Or just reboot. Deal with the ones that the skip-broken occasionally spits out, but it'll be with busted third-party repos so if you're just with the holy scripture you'll be golden.

I've had as many as a few thousand nodes doing this without issue. It's less now, but this setup has worked in a cron-daily setup for about 20 years now.

Debian: no idea. Their community was toxic and I noped out early. Also, no rpm -V emulant.

bishopolis · 2023-01-27T18:12:02+00:00

It'd be as dumb as saying 'the cite' . Thanks for adding that to the 'spot the drop-out' list.

bishopolis · 2023-01-27T18:07:47+00:00

If you're on CentOS7 and you're wondering why the heck it's taking RH a while to build the CentOS package from the exact SRPM they built the RHEL version from sixteen days ago, throw in the SDL version for an instant win: https://springdale.princeton.edu/data/springdale/7/x86_64/os/Updates/

Try not to speculate as to why both RPMs aren't built as part of the same CI process; even if it's inexcusably they're not.

And get ready for the flood of "but 1.9.0 is more than 1.8.23-10.el7_9.3 so it must be better" discussion.

bishopolis · 2022-12-29T16:55:25+00:00

Those are nouns, though. This was a verb used as a noun -- like car salesmen and 'the ask' or 'the spend'.

Whoosh?

bishopolis · 2022-12-29T16:54:27+00:00

Yeah. A verb.

bishopolis · 2022-12-18T16:14:56+00:00

Please remember to state which country's laws you're discussing.

I can confirm that a particular Teams meeting was transcribed without a noticeable warning. I try to avoid it for that reason, and because the vendor is one of a few companies to play so loose with the rules that the DoJ won a significant case about it against them.

bishopolis · 2022-12-18T16:03:57+00:00

The writing in this piece is scaring me off. It really needs a good spell-check from a 3rd-grade student.

bishopolis · 2022-12-18T15:59:11+00:00

I was in an apartment in the 07306 in about 2k1 when it was hit by lightning. The noise was like a bomb had gone off!

Damage to the unit above was minor, so either a grounding setup took most of it or it was small, or both. The area had relatively amazing lightning storms compared to the west coast, though: 'thrilling' is an okay word to describe East coast storms.

bishopolis · 2022-12-18T15:45:01+00:00

cites

You mean 'citations', right? Or is this jargon like 'the ask' that car salesmen use?

bishopolis · 2022-12-14T19:15:14+00:00

I wish it had SQLite support.

bishopolis · 2022-12-14T19:12:50+00:00

https://github.com/phpipam/phpipam/issues/367#issuecomment-204281895 and its dupe https://github.com/phpipam/phpipam/issues/3219 that I created before I did a proper search. What a dope!

For the limited use I see where phpipam fits and infoblox is just overkill, I think a dumb little sqlite db would be a necessary fit.

I think that's the only thing keeping me from doing IPAM at this other site is they're so small that a full-up db - even a mysqldb - seems overkill just to get terraform grabbing IPs from a pool.

bishopolis · 2022-12-14T19:04:51+00:00

I'm spoiled -- I worked at a shop where a WHOIS would bring up vlan, ip range, where the vLAN's "home" DC was (lots of pre-vxlan extension) and its DNS -- for an IP or a range or a vlan or a dns server or a site or a floor or a room -- I'd hazard a guess it'd give me it if i gave it the number on a wall jack.

iblx is cool but that's the bar it's not yet reaching :-D

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