Another ansible quick tip showing how to restart a program properly. We want to restart the program or the service only if it is running…
Author: neoX
ansible – insert after only if the pattern exists and the new insert is not there
Here is a quick ansible tip for system administrators for the ansible lineinfile. Imagine you want to insert a line after a word (or a…
First ansible use – install and execute a single command or multiple tasks in a playbook
This article is to show you how easy is to use automation tools for managing your servers. If you are new to ansible this article…
DBusException – Could not get owner of name ‘org.freedesktop.secrets’: no such name
There are programs, which heavily depend on a password store. Not sure why they cannot live without it but if you get errors of the…
aptly publish ERROR: unable to publish: unable to process packages: error linking file to
We’ve encountered the following error when issuing a publish command: And the snapshot had failed to publish. Check if the file is “aptly:aptly” (or the…
Recovering MD array and mdadm: Cannot get array info for /dev/md0
What a case! A long story short one of our disks got a bad disk in a software RAID1 setup and when we tried replacing…
aptly publish: gpg: no default secret key: secret key not available
This is also a common error in a typical aptly installation. The other two common errors related to the GPG keys are: aptly publish: ERROR:…
aptly publish: ERROR: unable to initialize GPG signer. Missing pubring.gpg keys
In continuation of our aptly common mistakes here one more when making a second mirror aptly server to your master (you may encounter this error…
Really bad performance when going from Write-Back to Write-Through in a LSI controller
Ever wonder what is the impact of write-through of an LSI controller in a real-world streaming server? Have no wonder anymore! you can get several…
aptly mirror: ERROR: unable to update: no candidates for debian-installer/binary-amd64/Packages found
Always check the source what supports when trying to mirror! We have lost some time before discovering that our source repository does not support udeb…