Author Archives: larry

Python As A Service

Posted on September 27, 2023 by larry

In Centos 7 I have been running screen on reboot (via cron) to start a script like this. @reboot screen -d -m -S pir /opt/bin/myscustom.py But wanted to be more modern and use systemd unit files and as of Rocky … Continue reading →

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Guilty of Little Documentation

Posted on September 26, 2023 by larry

Last box I need to migrate has so much custom python scripts. Kind of a pain to convert. Some stuff ran, but had libraries that produced different results (paho mqtt). As I was going through this a lot of this … Continue reading →

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Python Challenges

Posted on September 25, 2023 by larry

I now have less VMs to upgrade locally from C7 to R9 than I have in the cloud. Looking into one of them now but am encountering python problems. CentOS 7 supported python 2 and have a few python scripts … Continue reading →

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Another Upgrade

Posted on September 24, 2023 by larry

I could have moved another server from C7 to R9 today, but am going to wait till tomorrow. Gonna let tonight’s backup happen then do it tomorrow. Seahawks won but an incredible game was the loss by Denver Broncos. Did … Continue reading →

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State Fair 2023

Posted on September 23, 2023 by larry

Only 1 of my kids (although he brought 2 of his friends) went with my wife to the state fair. Next year I am not sure if we are going to do it again. This was the last free ticket … Continue reading →

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Rest Awarded

Posted on September 22, 2023 by larry

Finally completed upgrading my Plex servers all to Rocky 9. This one was particularly hard because I had to deal with the SAS controller which was deprecated in R9. Everything but some drivers needed to work with Nikon Raw files. … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Physical Boxes

Posted on September 21, 2023 by larry

Getting together things needed to do the physical boxes upgraded to R9 Got 4 that are at CentOS 7. Eventually will get all of them to Rocky 9. For sure will do my last Plex server this week, and if … Continue reading →

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Working Through Ansible Installs

Posted on September 20, 2023 by larry

Got my first service to install via ansible, it is openldap. It worked so well I upgraded my Rocky 8 LDAP server to Rocky 9. Need to be careful though, I made sure I could log in via local account. … Continue reading →

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Full Application Installs

Posted on September 19, 2023 by larry

Working on documenting different application installs via ansible. I think I got openldap going. Learning a bunch of things, should speed up my deployments. Woohoo, finally cracked 340 again. Weight: 339.2

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All In for Ansible

Posted on September 18, 2023 by larry

Getting more hours under my belt with ansible. Trying to automate my homeserver lab with ansible. Now time to work through each service on the home server to see if I can automate all of it. Got my steps done, … Continue reading →

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