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erics, Posted on Tuesday, December 18th, 2018 at 3:40:31pm
Penny Marshall, left, on “Laverne and Shirley” with co-star Cindy Williams. Penny Marshall died at the age of 75.
Categories: Entertainment death, Laverne, Laverne and Shirley, Penny, Penny Marshall, Rip, Shirley | 
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erics, Posted on Sunday, December 2nd, 2018 at 3:16:22pm
mysqldump -u {yourUserNameHere} -p --no-data --compact {yourDatabaseHere}
Categories: How-To's, Technology create table, Database, howto, mysql, mysqldump, Structure, Table, tips | No comments
erics, Posted on Sunday, November 18th, 2018 at 9:14:28am
I installed an old version of Adobe software on my new Mac and as usual, it installed some daemons that are undesirable.
Here is how I got rid of them via the Terminal.
Note: Adobe installs daemons in the user context, so do this as your regular user login, not as root.
shell> launchctl list | grep -v apple
PID Status Label
513 0 com.yujitach.MenuMetersApp.1140
- 0 com.logmein.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate
- 0 com.rockysandstudio.Memory-Diag.LaunchHelper
19355 0 com.openssh.ssh-agent
509 0 com.fuekiin.NightOwl.1320
511 0 com.bartelsmedia.ShareMouse.4680
- 0 com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager
- 0 com.adobe.AAM.Scheduler-1.0
519 0 com.rockysandstudio.Memory-Diag.848
63060 0 com.adobe.PDApp.AAMUpdatesNotifier.8000.4C572D6C-E775-4656-B4CB-BD24142281FE
shell> launchctl dumpstate | grep adobe | grep plist
path = /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
path = /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist
path = /Users/erics/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
shell> sudo launchctl unload -w -S Aqua /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.adobe.SwitchBoard.plist: Could not find specified service
shell> launchctl unload -w -S Aqua /Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.CS5ServiceManager.plist
shell> launchctl unload -w -S Aqua /Users/erics/Library/LaunchAgents/com.adobe.AAM.Updater-1.0.plist
shell> launchctl list | grep -v apple
PID Status Label
513 0 com.yujitach.MenuMetersApp.1140
- 0 com.logmein.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate
- 0 com.rockysandstudio.Memory-Diag.LaunchHelper
19355 0 com.openssh.ssh-agent
509 0 com.fuekiin.NightOwl.1320
511 0 com.bartelsmedia.ShareMouse.4680
519 0 com.rockysandstudio.Memory-Diag.848
63060 0 com.adobe.PDApp.AAMUpdatesNotifier.8000.4C572D6C-E775-4656-B4CB-BD24142281FE
shell> sudo launchctl stop com.adobe.PDApp.AAMUpdatesNotifier.8000.4C572D6C-E775-4656-B4CB-BD24142281FE
shell> launchctl list | grep -v apple
PID Status Label
513 0 com.yujitach.MenuMetersApp.1140
- 0 com.logmein.GoToMeeting.G2MUpdate
- 0 com.rockysandstudio.Memory-Diag.LaunchHelper
19355 0 com.openssh.ssh-agent
509 0 com.fuekiin.NightOwl.1320
511 0 com.bartelsmedia.ShareMouse.4680
519 0 com.rockysandstudio.Memory-Diag.848
Categories: How-To's, Technology Adobe, apple, daemon, Disable, howto, Kill, launchctl, MacOS, macosx, Shell, Stop, Terminal, tips, Unload | No comments
erics, Posted on Thursday, September 27th, 2018 at 10:46:20am
There are many things to configure in Nagios, especially when using custom check commands. Recently I needed to configure all of the Continuent Clustering Nagios checks. Once setup on the database side, I wanted to confirm that everything was working.
To test a remote NRPE client command from a nagios server via the command line, use the check_nrpe command:
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shell> /opt/local/libexec/nagios/check_nrpe -H db1 -c check_tungsten_latency |
shell> /opt/local/libexec/nagios/check_nrpe -H db1 -c check_tungsten_latency
The above command calls the NRPE daemon running on host db1 and executes the NRPE command “check_tungsten_latency” as defined in the db1:/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg file.
Here is the line used in nrpe.cfg to define the check_tungsten_latency remote NRPE call:
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command[check_tungsten_latency]=/usr/bin/sudo -u tungsten /opt/continuent/tungsten/cluster-home/bin/check_tungsten_latency -w 2.5 -c 4.0 |
command[check_tungsten_latency]=/usr/bin/sudo -u tungsten /opt/continuent/tungsten/cluster-home/bin/check_tungsten_latency -w 2.5 -c 4.0
Note that sudo is in use to give the nrpe user access as the tungsten user to the tungsten-owned check scripts using the sudo wildcard configuration.
Here is the service check definition in the /opt/local/etc/nagios/objects/services.cfg file:
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# Service definition define service{ service_description check_tungsten_latency - Continuent Clustering servicegroups myclusters host_name db1,db2,db3,db4,db5,db6,db7,db8,db9 check_command check_nrpe!check_tungsten_latency contact_groups admin use generic-service } |
# Service definition
define service{
service_description check_tungsten_latency - Continuent Clustering
servicegroups myclusters
host_name db1,db2,db3,db4,db5,db6,db7,db8,db9
check_command check_nrpe!check_tungsten_latency
contact_groups admin
use generic-service
}
To enable sudo for the nrpe user, create or edit the file /etc/sudoers.d/20_nagios like so:
sudo vim /etc/sudoers.d/20_nagios
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Defaults:nrpe !requiretty Defaults:nrpe !visiblepw nrpe ALL=(tungsten) NOPASSWD: /opt/continuent/tungsten/cluster-home/bin/check* |
Defaults:nrpe !requiretty Defaults:nrpe !visiblepw nrpe ALL=(tungsten) NOPASSWD: /opt/continuent/tungsten/cluster-home/bin/check*
/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
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command[check_tungsten_online]=/usr/bin/sudo -u tungsten /opt/continuent/tungsten/cluster-home/bin/check_tungsten_online command[check_tungsten_progress]=/usr/bin/sudo -u tungsten /opt/continuent/tungsten/cluster-home/bin/check_tungsten_progress -t 5</code> |
command[check_tungsten_online]=/usr/bin/sudo -u tungsten /opt/continuent/tungsten/cluster-home/bin/check_tungsten_online command[check_tungsten_progress]=/usr/bin/sudo -u tungsten /opt/continuent/tungsten/cluster-home/bin/check_tungsten_progress -t 5</code>
/opt/local/etc/nagios/objects/services.cfg
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# Service definition define service{ service_description check_tungsten_online - Continuent Clustering servicegroups myclusters host_name db1,db2,db3,db4,db5,db6,db7,db8,db9 check_command check_nrpe!check_tungsten_online contact_groups admin use generic-service } # Service definition define service{ service_description check_tungsten_progress - Continuent Clustering servicegroups myclusters host_name db1,db2,db3,db4,db5,db6,db7,db8,db9 check_command check_nrpe!check_tungsten_progress contact_groups admin use generic-service } |
# Service definition
define service{
service_description check_tungsten_online - Continuent Clustering
servicegroups myclusters
host_name db1,db2,db3,db4,db5,db6,db7,db8,db9
check_command check_nrpe!check_tungsten_online
contact_groups admin
use generic-service
}
# Service definition
define service{
service_description check_tungsten_progress - Continuent Clustering
servicegroups myclusters
host_name db1,db2,db3,db4,db5,db6,db7,db8,db9
check_command check_nrpe!check_tungsten_progress
contact_groups admin
use generic-service
}
For more information about monitoring Continuent clusters, please visit https://docs.continuent.com/tungsten-clustering-6.0/ecosystem-nagios.html.
To learn about Continuent solutions in general, check out https://www.continuent.com/solutions
Categories: How-To's, Technology cli, Clustering, Command, Command line, Continuent, Disaster REcovery, DR, HA, High Availability, howto, mysql, nagios, NRPE, Test, tips | No comments
erics, Posted on Friday, August 31st, 2018 at 11:42:15am
1 | <button class="paypal-btn large" onclick="window.location='https://www.yoursite.com/targetPage/';return false">What a Great Button</button> |
<button class="paypal-btn large" onclick="window.location='https://www.yoursite.com/targetPage/';return false">What a Great Button</button>
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 | button.paypal-btn { white-space: nowrap; } button.paypal-btn { white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 13px; font-family: "Arial", bold, italic; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; border: 1px solid #ffa823; color: #0E3168; background: #ffa823; position: relative; text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5); cursor: pointer; z-index: 0; } button.paypal-btn:before { content: " "; position: absolute; width: 100%; height: 100%; border-radius: 11px; top: 0; left: 0; background: #ffa823; background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #FFAA00 0%,#FFAA00 80%,#FFF8FC 100%); background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFAA00 0%,#FFAA00 80%,#FFF8FC 100%); background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #FFAA00 0%,#FFAA00 80%,#FFF8FC 100%); background: linear-gradient(top, #FFAA00 0%,#FFAA00 80%,#FFF8FC 100%); z-index: -2; } button.paypal-btn:after { content: " "; position: absolute; width: 98%; height: 60%; border-radius: 40px 40px 38px 38px; top: 0; left: 0; background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #fefefe 0%, #fed994 100%); background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #fefefe 0%, #fed994 100%); background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #fefefe 0%, #fed994 100%); background: linear-gradient(top, #fefefe 0%, #fed994 100%); z-index: -1; -webkit-transform: translateX(1%); -moz-transform: translateX(1%); -ms-transform: translateX(1%); transform: translateX(1%); } button.paypal-btn.small { padding: 3px 15px; font-size: 12px; } button.paypal-btn.large { padding: 4px 19px; font-size: 14px; } |
button.paypal-btn {
white-space: nowrap;
}
button.paypal-btn {
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
border-radius: 13px;
font-family: "Arial", bold, italic;
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
border: 1px solid #ffa823;
color: #0E3168;
background: #ffa823;
position: relative;
text-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255,255,255,.5);
cursor: pointer;
z-index: 0;
}
button.paypal-btn:before {
content: " ";
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
border-radius: 11px;
top: 0;
left: 0;
background: #ffa823;
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #FFAA00 0%,#FFAA00 80%,#FFF8FC 100%);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #FFAA00 0%,#FFAA00 80%,#FFF8FC 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #FFAA00 0%,#FFAA00 80%,#FFF8FC 100%);
background: linear-gradient(top, #FFAA00 0%,#FFAA00 80%,#FFF8FC 100%);
z-index: -2;
}
button.paypal-btn:after {
content: " ";
position: absolute;
width: 98%;
height: 60%;
border-radius: 40px 40px 38px 38px;
top: 0;
left: 0;
background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #fefefe 0%, #fed994 100%);
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #fefefe 0%, #fed994 100%);
background: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #fefefe 0%, #fed994 100%);
background: linear-gradient(top, #fefefe 0%, #fed994 100%);
z-index: -1;
-webkit-transform: translateX(1%);
-moz-transform: translateX(1%);
-ms-transform: translateX(1%);
transform: translateX(1%);
}
button.paypal-btn.small {
padding: 3px 15px;
font-size: 12px;
}
button.paypal-btn.large {
padding: 4px 19px;
font-size: 14px;
}
Categories: How-To's, Technology Button, Class, Create, CSS, howto, html, onclick, PayPal, style, tips | No comments
erics, Posted on Thursday, August 9th, 2018 at 12:48:45pm
Bill Baldwin passed away from a stroke in July 2018. He will be missed terribly by his many friends, family and co-workers. His exemplary craftsmanship and feisty attitude will be remembered with great fondness by all who knew him.
Categories: RenFaire Baldwin, Bill Baldwin, death, RenFaire, RenFest, Rip, William Baldwin | No comments
erics, Posted on Monday, August 6th, 2018 at 4:23:58pm
Create a new page and set the page template to Blog.
Add a new Custom Field to the page.
Set the Name to the string query_args and the value to cat=NNN, where NNN is the ID of the desired category.
Be sure to click Publish or Update when done.
You can locate the Category ID on the Categories management page:
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category
If you cannot find the Custom Fields box on the edit page screen, look at the very top for a drop-down menu called “Screen Options”. Make sure that “Custom Fields” is checked.
Categories: How-To's, Technology Blog, Cat, Categories, Category, Custom, Custom Field, Field, howto, query_args, Single, tips | No comments
erics, Posted on Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 at 12:55:42pm
git checkout -f
Categories: How-To's, Technology Branch, Checkout, Discard, git, git branch, git checkout, howto, Revert, tips, Undo | No comments
erics, Posted on Friday, June 15th, 2018 at 1:35:54pm
remove_filter( 'the_content', 'wpautop' );
add_filter( 'the_content', 'smart_autop' );
function smart_autop($content) {
$post = get_post();
if($post->post_type != 'post') return $content; // if not a post, leave $content untouched
return wpautop($content);
}
Categories: How-To's, Technology add_filter, autop, Disable, howto, para, POST, remove_filter, tips, WordPress, wpautop | No comments
erics, Posted on Friday, June 15th, 2018 at 9:53:58am
™ ™
Categories: How-To's, Technology html, Symbol, Trademark, Trademark Symbol | No comments
