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Hi. I'm jon.404, a Unix/Linux/Database/Openstack/Kubernetes Administrator, AWS/GCP/Azure Engineer, mathematics enthusiast, and amateur philosopher. This is where I rant about that which upsets me, laugh about that which amuses me, and jabber about that which holds my interest most: *nix.
Posted 01-12-2009 at 01:45 PM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 10-27-2009 at 06:46 PM byrocket357
Today a thought occurred to me...
If I want to "kill -2 1" any one of my Linux boxen, I can. Linux will happily oblige, and I will have shot myself in the foot and upset both customers and management. Obviously this isn't something I want to do, but Linux (and the BSD's, for that matter), make no judgement call. They simply do what you tell them to do.
Not so with Windows. Today I found the evil ATI driver bug that causes Terminal Services to go brain...
fraggod contributed some patches to GeoXPlanet some time ago (around release 0.4.4), which I reviewed and added to the project. His patches centered around reverse dns primarily, but he had a few tweaks in there as well (radius xplanet option exposed via the configGUI, as well as a few other options I'd planned to add around 0.5.0) Now it...
Posted 12-30-2008 at 02:25 PM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 02-03-2009 at 09:16 PM byrocket357
I installed paramiko and tested out ssh.py (see the Edit on my last post). Python isn't just easy to use, it's *incredibly* easy to use...and now it's even more powerful and easy to use than before (is that possible?!?).
The problem with my last post is that you have to manually manage timing. It's a serious pain (Edit - relatively speaking, of course)...you "stdin.write("""<some long-running command>""")", and then you have to time.sleep()...
Posted 12-30-2008 at 11:47 AM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 02-03-2009 at 06:52 PM byrocket357(link)
Ok, so some time back I posted on here about cleartext passwords and Python, and how to encrypt passwords for storage on your hard drive. The task that prompted that post was writing a script capable of round-robin connecting to SQL Server and PostgreSQL databases to extract information about databases, software versions, log file sizes, etc...
Today's task is to round-robin connect to Linux via ssh. Python's os.popen3 is perhaps my favored (yes, I know it's been supplanted by more...
Posted 12-15-2008 at 03:08 PM byrocket357 (Musings on technology, philosophy, and life in the corporate world)
Updated 12-15-2008 at 03:19 PM byrocket357
I "inherited" a password list for the servers I maintain. It's huge. I don't think I could memorize them all if I tried. Seriously, 200+ something machines, each with a root or administrator password, postgres or sa password, and user passwords for standard services? I'd do good to remember the passwords for *one* machine...
So I get this bright idea...I certainly don't want to store them electronically in plaintext without some safety mechanism...my desktop machine...
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