Month: October 2010
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Run commands against all of your Puppet or Chef hosts
Both Puppet and Chef are incredibly powerful tools, and they are great at allowing your servers to keep themselves up to date. However, there comes a time in every sysadmin’s life when they find there is a need to poll a large number of servers in their infrastructure. They’re faced with two problems: How do…
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Creating an SVN mirror
If you haven’t had the pleasure of working with a distributed version control system such as Mercurial or Git, you may find that it necessary to take some manual steps to set up a mirror of your repository. For SVN, this process isn’t well integrated into the system itself, but there are tools we can…
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Resizing a Solaris partition
This was originally worked out when I had to resize a Solaris 10 partition under VMware, but it applies equally to native Solaris installs too! WARNING: This only really works, if you have one partition. This should be true if you’re using VMware, and for the majority of Solaris installations. Partition, here, is in the…
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