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IT related tech tips since 2006Note to self regarding Amazon Autoscaling
Just started a Microsoft AD environment on Amazon Web Services to test some ITGlue Auto Documentation PowerShell scripts. Found that you need to pay attention to auto scaling settings. After my last session I shut down all the EC2 instances to avoid charges when I...
open-vm-tools The VMware Tools power-on script did not run successfully in this virtual machine.
Note: Before doing the below also check to make sure you are not deleting the proper scripts. Only delete the dpk-old or .old.X files cd /etc/vmware-tools/ cd scripts/vmware # there was a heap of old scripts that # had been renamed but still being executed vim...
Download failed. cURL error 77 – Have you tried switching it off and back on?
I recently updated the PHP version on my Amazon Linux AMI and then a few days later notice I could not download Wordpress updates. I was getting the following error: Download failed. cURL error 77 If you get this error you might try restarting your web server process...
react-scripts 2.0.0 yarn build no runtime chunk
Update: So after tweeting about this I had a massive fanboy moment when Dan Abramov replied, got the details and then fixed the problem in v2.0.3. So to fix this you just need to run: yarn add [email protected] or npm install [email protected] No longer a problem...
Cannot read credentials from /.aws/credentials
I have a CakePHP console based worker script that is started and run by the supervisord process manager The worker script consumes jobs from a beanstalkd queue and when it recieves the job it uses AWS PHP SDK to send emails I was getting the following message from the...
MacOS Mojave Application Upgrade Tweaks
Docker Community Edition Docker Community Edition runs and you can start a container from the command line, so the native virtualization layer seems to be functioning, but the Kitematic application complains of missing a 'native setup'. But after several reboots this...
Change to a directory using a bash menu script and launch vscode
This is a shell script that changes to my code development directory and then lists the directorys and gives a numbered menu to enter a number and then change to that directory and launch vscode You need to add an alias to your .bash_profile so that the script is...
Changing the www-data User Environment for a Perl Script
The Problem - Rendering Unicode Characters using Glabels I have a Perl script running on an Apache webserver that launches glabels-3-batch and given a data input file and a glabels template outputs a label as a PDF document. This is in a Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS container...
Connecting a Docker Container to a MySQL Server Running on the host
Just been trying to connect from a Docker container to a MySQL server running on the Docker Host. I am running Docker Community Edition 18.03.1-ce-mac65 (24312) on a Macbook Pro MacOS High Sierra version 10.13.6 What didn't work Found a lot of information saying to...