Bash To Monitor Bits

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Examining Pxe Boot

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I have a host with MAC 00:30:48:60:f3:ca. This host is configured to look for a PXE server, but was not matching the correct profile.

Puppet Core Dump Control

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If you have crashes you can enable core dumps via Puppet

Bash to run for date of lastest Puppet update

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When was this host last updated via puppet?

Debian Package from Python Project using stdeb

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One of the things I do often is download projects from github. Pypi (py-pee-eye) is nice and so is pip, but I like to have one reference for packages on a ho...

Basic Python Regex Extraction

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When dealing with totally unstructured data sometimes it is necessary to go full regex.

Basic Python JSON REST API Client Example

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JSON REST API’s are increasingly common and useful. A basic client example for using something like nagios api import sys import os import urllib import js...

Settings a modular MOTD in Debian

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Granular control over Debian MOTDMOTD should be used for more than welcome messages