Salt only affects online minions. There are no cached actions.

@EddieJennings said in Laptop and Korora:

And now I wait. 🙂
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Awesome

About the laptop, not the waiting.

If you have the backups, you might see if you can find those folders in the backups and restore everything to that policy folder.

@Romo said in Ubuntu Mate - Auto Launch:

@hobbit666 Here is a test in a vm of firefox startingup after login; the config file was created manually.

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Anstle runs Docker. Ask them.

Yeah it definitely seems like an issue. Since the only interface on the FreePBX is marked EXTERNAL (since its hosted) I wander if that is not a situation FreePBX engineers accounted for.

I seem to remember early on @JaredBusch mentioning a customer of his was blocked when their internet cut in and out and he had to remove them. I saw that a couple months ago in his post.

Not having used salt yet myself, couldn't you set the contents of that file using the Salt Master?

@scottalanmiller and open source on github
https://github.com/donatj/CsvToMarkdownTable

Odds are you can create a new VM, and simply attach the disks to the VM (in the correct order) and be back up and running.

@MrListen I am not using Veeam for replication anywhere, but I do have a Backup copy job running offsite. It works quite well, but the daily change on this facility is tiny. So cannot help on throughput numbers.

@JaredBusch said in Linux Lab Project: Building a Linux Jump Box:

@scottalanmiller said in Linux Lab Project: Building a Linux Jump Box:

First you would create users and SSH keys and then deploy them to the other boxes that you wish to connect to. This is the core of what makes the Jump Box a Jump Box. This is standard SSH key setup, nothing unique to a Jump Box.

Did you ever make a good write up on creating users and SSH keys? If so, I cannot find it.

I mean, I know how to make and use keys in general. But detail here would be good.

Write up for creating the users on the jump box and getting their SSH keys. Write up for pushing users and keys to other systems that said jump box will be allowing access. Write up for control of said access. Bob and Jill have access to Jump Box. Bob has Access to servers 1 & 2. Jill has access to server 2 & 3.

I know that @scottalanmiller has mentioned in another thread that he has a script to push this all out (question 2). I can only assume that the script has some controls to tell you which server so shove the key and user logon to (question 3).

Managing Servers, Desktops and Hyper-V via PowerShell.

@Dashrender said in Netgear woes:

@dbeato said in Netgear woes:

@Carnival-Boy said in Netgear woes:

@scottalanmiller said in Netgear woes:

@Carnival-Boy said in Netgear woes:

Had a drive failure on an 11 month old ReadyNAS. Trying to arrange a replacement and Netgear say they need "credit card details for collateral". As an IT department, we don't generally have, or use, credit cards, so this is going to be a pain.

Is this normal?

Yes, this is the standard process for this category of products. This is what is called "SMB equipment", not enterprise. Support is a key difference and SMB world stuff expects credit cards, more often than not. Same from every vendor in this category.

Fine, I guess you've changed your opinion from this thread though?

@scottalanmiller said in Buffalo NAS Return Policy Review:

Right, but in IT we never seen this. This just indicates that Buffalo is consumer gear, not business gear. A business might not even have a credit card. What a weird thing to request! Even businesses that have CCs, rarely do they have a workflow that would allow IT to use it for this. Business and IT just don't work this way. No valid vendor could.

How do you know what is enterprise and what is SMB? In future I'll try and stick with HP & HPE. The only other vendor I've started buying from is Ubiquiti. Is this how they work to?

Ubiquiti does not work that way but they take a while to send you a replacement at times.

This price is so low on Ubiquiti stuff, if I have a failure, I expect to get faster response with next day delivery from Amazon.

Right, under $100 when needed and you get next day or in Texas, same day!

@scottalanmiller said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID:

@matteo-nunziati said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID:

@stacksofplates said in Dell T20 with Intel Intel Rapid Storage Controller RAID is FakeRAID:

I didn't realize people still bought tower "servers"

There are some tower servers which really quakify as great imho. Noticeably from Dell

Any that I've seen that are any good are convertibles (tower OR rack.)

Ya we have 20 z440s that are racked. But those are higher end workstations.

@Dashrender said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@wirestyle22 said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@Dashrender said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@Dashrender said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@scottalanmiller said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@NerdyDad said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@msff-amman-Itofficer said in Comparison of Salt vs AD:

@Romo @aaronstuder @dafyre

This PDQ Deploy you guys have been mentioning, does it require an agent on the other Windows clients ?
or it just relies on Active Directory to work.

No agent required. You can deploy based on AD, computer name, or IP address. AD is not required as long as you have local admin credentials.

Same as with PowerShell.

Does PowerShell require some sort of remote access to be enabled?

Yes, but it is enabled by default. Just don't turn it off.

And is the firewall ports open by default too? I'm guessing not.. but I'm willing to open those for this purpose..

Why would they enable it and not have the firewall ready to work?

Why have a firewall if you're opening a thousand ports anyway 😄

PS doesn't need them. That's for other tools, like PDQDeploy.

PS needs at least one.

Only one, though, and it is one that is set up by default.

Thanks to @NerdyDad for this presentation at Mango Meetup DFW

@IRJ said in List Comparison Tool:

I have two very large lists of IPs and I would like to compare the differences between the list. I usually use Notepad ++ Compare for this type of thing, but I believe it only compares line to line.

I also tried using conditional format in excel, but I am not sure if the results are accurate.

Just one command:
diff <(sort list1 | uniq) <(sort list2 | uniq).

For 95% of tasks involving text manipulation (from the easiest like this to mid-complexity), the standard unix tools can do everything in a very quick and concise way.
The other 4.95% (very complex, special stuff) can be handled by Python (but also ruby or perl).
The last 0,05% is HPC/realtime/weird (C, Ada, erlang?).

But please, don't use a giant piece of bloatware just to compare strings 😭.