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import sys                                                                      
                                                                                
def seconds(line):                                                              
    """                                                                         
    convert a string like 5:32                                                  
    which means five minutes 32 seconds                                         
    to one like 332 (seconds)                                                   
    """                                                                         
    splitted = line.split(":")                                                  
    assert len(splitted) == 2                                                      

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#!/bin/bash
#install puppet
rpm -ivh http://yum.puppetlabs.com/el/6/products/i386/puppetlabs-release-6-7.noarch.rpm
#puppet one liner to install java (works as well as yum -y install)
puppet apply -e 'package {"java-1.7.0-openjdk": ensure => installed, }'
#grab someone else's code to install jenkins:
puppet module install maestrodev/jenkins
#use it
puppet apply -e 'include jenkins'

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Building Offline Documentation for Setuptools
---------------------------------------------

1.  Download setuptools  from pypi
2.  Navigate to the top level directory, that contains setup.py
3.  >>>    python setup.py build-sphinx

    There is a Makefile in the docs directory
    that gets used to build the documentation, but it cannot be used directly
    from that directory.

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root@wheezy71:/vagrant/modules/postgresql# RS_SET=debian-73-x64 rspec spec/acceptance
/usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require': cannot load such file -- beaker-rspec/spec_helper (LoadError)
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
        from /vagrant/modules/puppetlabs-postgresql/spec/spec_helper_acceptance.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
        from /usr/local/lib/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36:in `require'
        from /vagrant/modules/puppetlabs-postgresql/spec/acceptance/client_spec.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/rspec/core/configuration.rb:746:in `load'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/rspec/core/configuration.rb:746:in `block in load_spec_files'
        from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/rspec/core/configuration.rb:746:in `map'

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root@wheezy71:~# gem install beaker-rspec
ERROR:  While executing gem ... (Gem::DependencyError)
    Unable to resolve dependencies: beaker requires nokogiri (= 1.5.10); fog requires nokogiri (>= 1.5.11); rbvmomi requires nokogiri (>= 1.4.1)

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import socket

def dnsdomainname():
    """return the dns domain name of the current host."""
    return '.'.join(socket.getfqdn().split('.')[1:])

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Nodejs installation apt dependency failure while doing a puppet run.



notice: /Stage[main]/Etherpad::Dependencies/Package[build-essential]/ensure: ensure changed 'purged' to '
present'
notice: /Stage[main]/Etherpad::Dependencies/Package[pkg-config]/ensure: ensure changed 'purged' to 'prese
nt'
notice: /Stage[main]/Etherpad::Dependencies/Package[libssl-dev]/ensure: ensure changed 'purged' to 'prese
nt'

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How to change an iDRAC password using Racadm for a Dell R720 and similar servers.

TLDR:

#  racadm config -g cfgUserAdmin -o cfgUserAdminPassword -i 2 <newpassword>

This guide assumes you have OpenManage installed. It was tested with the following version of OpenManage:

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<<COMMENT

NICE DATES
==========

I frequently want to make timestamped files.
The 'date' command built in formats all contain spaces and
colons and things I don't want in a file name.
So it is necessary to construct something.
I find myself needing to do this again and again, hopefully I can

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#!/bin/bash

#dump iptables rules to a timestamped file
#requires iptables-save which is in Redhat based distributions.
set -x
set -e

DESTDIR="/root/iptables-saves"

mkdir -p ${DESTDIR}