Monthly Archives: September 2023

Script Working Well

Posted on September 30, 2023 by larry

Posting a bit early today, gonna have a busy evening. It looks like I will make my fitbit goals so I will log as such. Will update this post if anything changes. Looks like my scripts are working. Going to … Continue reading →

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Its a Trap

Posted on September 29, 2023 by larry

Insert Star Wars Meme Here Anyway, I was going to edit a media wiki entry. But I got an Exception TypeError. I know this is related in the upgrade from CentOS 7 to Rocky 9. Basically the PHP version was … Continue reading →

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Replacing UNO with Tasmota Devices

Posted on September 28, 2023 by larry

I actually got quite a bit of amount of steps going back and forth from the mailbox trying to get Tasmota to see the mailbox getting opened. Recall I have these UNO boxes sensing 433Mhz But recently moved to Tasmota … Continue reading →

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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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