I just wanted to add a user to our database with REPLICATION SLAVE privileges. The Ansible module docs suggest that would do this: However you get an error messages saying “this module requires key=value arguments”. The error was caused by the space between REPLICATION and SLAVE. The answer is to put the privilege in quotes: … Read more
I have a simple build script which installs wkhtmltophf on a server. However I only want this script to be run if the software isn’t already installed. Essentially, I want an if statement or check statement in Ansible. I.e. If file doesn’t exist then run this command. I have read the Ansible documentation multiple times … Read more
You can batch rename files in Ubuntu using the “rename” command. It should be installed by default – so no need to apt-get install. The command is quite simple: For example renaming: google_marker_green.png google_marker_blue.png etc… To: map_marker_green.png map_market_blue.png etc… Hope this helps someone.
I’m just building a map of some ip addresses and need to geolocate them. I decided to use the MaxMind database. I found these two brilliant resource without which I could not have imported the databases properly. There are: http://www.dbasquare.com/2012/06/01/implementing-efficient-geo-ip-location-system-in-mysql/ http://nickbartlett.com/wordpress/using-maxmind-geo-city-lite-database-on-your-website/