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Error while starting nfsiostat: ValueError: invalid literal for long() with base 10: 'device' 31 Jul 2013 | 05:15 pm
Experienced this on CentOS6 with version `nfs-utils-1.2.3-36.el6.x86_64`. Going through the code, I noticed that it wasn't able to parse file /proc/self/mountstats correctly. For now, I've added in ...
"Error: Time mode requires the flot.time plugin." in Kibana3 23 Jun 2013 | 03:46 pm
This error is very cryptic and hides what the real error is. In my case, it was issue of Cross Domain Resource Sharing. In simple english, AJAX requests can only happen on the same domain (for securi...
IRSSI: nick already in use error after a disconnect or network issue 17 May 2013 | 10:46 am
This error pretty much annoyed the shit out of me where a temporary disconnect resulted in this error for a few minutes on freenode and irssi used to try using a different nick. This can be solved by...
Move a filtered thread that skips INBOX to INBOX in Gmail if you reply to a message there 17 Mar 2013 | 09:42 pm
If there is a a mailing list which is filtered and doesn't pass my INBOX, even if I reply to a thread in it, it'll still goto the filter and skip in INBOX. Well, this is perfectly defined behaviour bu...
Puppet: Override/change resource attributes defined in included class or inherited node 1 Mar 2013 | 08:07 pm
There can be instances where you would want to change a resource which has come from included class. If there is no way for you to *not* include, there is a way. Resource collectors can be used to se...
Up-to-date guide for running Django (using django-nonrel) on Google App Engine (2013) 24 Feb 2013 | 04:47 pm
First install Google App Engine using AUR . If you don't use Arch by now, it's about time :P. Anyways, use your package manager to install GAE. This will install Google App Engine in /opt/google-app...
Disable rate-limiting in rsyslog v5 29 Jan 2013 | 05:41 pm
If you are here, you might be getting error messages like in your /var/log/messages. rsyslog v7 has this disabled by default but rsyslog v5 has this enabled. To disable it, add to your /etc/rsyslog...
rsyslog not sending/logging full hostnames (FQDNs) in logs 28 Jan 2013 | 01:36 pm
I was trying to send logs from rsyslog to syslog-ng and I wasn't getting full hostnames in the central syslog server even though it was configured to keep full hostnames. There is a option $PreserveF...
No "To: " email id at the recipient side while using telnet/nc to send mail 30 Nov 2012 | 04:44 pm
In a typical session like above, the client will have no "To: " emailid but the mail is still received because the "To: " header which an email client uses to find the receiver is not a compulsory hea...
Execute ruby code from puppet 16 Nov 2012 | 11:25 pm
There are times when you want to execute Ruby code from within puppet manifests (those *.pp files). A nice way of doing it is utilizing templates. You can use it to execute random Ruby code and that ...
