Author Archives: Mark - Page 2

Is Perl a legacy language?

I’m rather fond of Perl. Read more »

Setting up sudoers with Puppet and Augeas

Since Augeas became available within Puppet it’s been considerably easier to do inline edits of configuration files – providing there’s a lens, of course. Read more »

Errors exporting Keynote presentations to PowerPoint

I generally write any presentations I do in Keynote. Read more »

CSWpuppet 2.6.8

I’m just about to release Puppet 2.6.8 for OpenCSW. The packages are currently in my experimental repo on buildfarm.opencsw.org:

http://buildfarm.opencsw.org/experimental.html#markp

 

CSWpuppet 2.6.6 released

I’ve released Puppet 2.6.6 for OpenCSW Read more »

Facter 1.5.8 and Puppet 2.6.6 for Solaris

I’ve taken over as maintainer of CSWfacter and CSWpuppet.

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Problems installing DBD::mysql on OS X Snow Leopard

After a colleague showed me the excellent MySQL Workbench the other day I thought I’d install the packaged MySQL on my Macbook, to do a bit of Catalyst developing. Read more »

Stop X11 running an xterm on Mac OS X Snow Leopard

It’s always annoyed me how this is the default behaviour in OS X. It used to be a case of editing an xinitrc, but now it’s a simple ‘defaults’ edit…

defaults write org.x.X11 app_to_run ”

Puppet 2.6.4 for Solaris

Puppetlabs have announced a security vulnerability in the 2.6.x stream of Puppet, but have released a patched version as 2.6.4.  Read more »

A little help with Puppet, Facter and Augeas packages on Solaris 10

If you’re looking to build your own Solaris packages for Puppet, Facter or Augeas, here are some scripts on github that I’ve been using to roll my own packages. Read more »