I’m hoping someone can explain this one to me.
The default RHEL system-auth for PAM includes the following for the ‘auth’ stack.
auth required pam_env.so
auth sufficient pam_unix.so nullok try_first_pass
auth [...]
Someone recently asked me – ‘What would your perfect configuration management tool look like?’. It took awhile to come up with the answer for the question; after all, configuration management is a large and complex subject. On top of that, who can ever really say what the perfect anything would be? I [...]
I’ve been getting back into the swing of things and trying to organize my life in an effort to regain my sanity. One of those things that I’ve been trying to do is get back into Opsware. You can find a couple articles of mine where I express my.. dislike.. for certain aspects [...]
Ran into an issue recently where I was trying to install gitorious on a local RHEL5 system. The site would crash every time I tried to view a repo with the error:
ruby: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rdiscount-1.3.1.1/lib/rdiscount.so: undefined symbol: RSTRING_LEN
The solution ended up being the following – In the file /usr/lib64/ruby/1.8/x86_64-linux/ruby.h ( note I’m running [...]
The more I use Opsware, the more I don’t understand about this product.
I finally dove into the application configurations which try and use CML ( an Opsware templating language ) to model how a file should look. It’s not the best language by any means but we’ll skip over that small detail for now. [...]
