A Technical I.T./DevOps Blog
Problem Scenario: In Windows Server 2012 from a command prompt, you run a .bat file that launches a PowerShell script. You get an error that says “System Error 5” and “Access is Denied.”
Solution: Open a new command prompt as an Administrator. Click the Windows button, search for “cmd.” Right click the cmd prompt chose “Open as Administrator.” Try running the .bat file again.
If that does not work,
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Problem scenario
When running “puppet agent -t” on a Windows server with Puppet Agent installed and configured, you get an error like this: “Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Unclosed quote after “”” followed by …”
Solution
For the relevant manifest, verify there are no unclosed quotes. Then verify that you are using double backslashes in any path with a backslash “\”.
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Scenario: You want an exec command in a manifest to be invoked only if a certain file is on the Windows Server. You do not want the execution of a command to happen if a file does not exist in a certain location.
Solution: Incorporate the following lines into your manifest (.pp file).
exec { ‘cont_int”:
command => “echo continual > contint.txt”,
provider =>
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Problem scenario
Assuming that you know Puppet is installed, you want to find out if you are on a Linux server that has Puppet Master or Puppet Agent. This posting applies strictly to Linux or Unix.
Solution
Run this command:
cat /etc/puppet/puppet.conf
Then use “ip addr show” (or ifconfig) to verify the IP address of the server that you are on.
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Part 1
Problem scenario: You have a PowerShell function that should add two parameter numbers and display their sum. It is displaying the input when it should not. No sum is being displayed. There are no error messages. What should you do?
Solution: Your code may look like this:
function contint ($a, $b) {
$c = $a + $b
return $c}
$d = contint (5,
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Scenario / Goal: You are trying to add a hard drive (or new storage) to a Linux server. You want the drive usable. You attach the drive and use fdisk. Now you want to use mkfs to create a file system on it.
Problem: You are trying to use mkfs.ext4 but you get this error: “mkfs.ext4 no such file or directory while trying to determine filesystem size.”
Root cause: Wrong /dev/xxx argument.
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Goal: You want to install pip on RedHat 6 with Python version 2.7.x installed.
Problem scenario: You try “yum install python-pip” but get an error about python(abi) = 2.6 being an unmet dependency. Trying to install an older version may require you to downgrade other components. The latest version of Python packages is often safer and recommended.
Solution: Obtain a copy of python-pip-7.1.0-1.el7.noarch.rpm.
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Problem: You have a Python program that reads in a file named coolFile (in /tmp), and outputs the content to the screen. The program prints an extra blank line after each line of content of the file named coolFile. You want the output to not have an extra blank line. Here is the code:
#/usr/bin/python
x = open(“/tmp/coolFile”, “r”)
for line in x:
print (line)
How do you have the output now print an extra blank line after each line?
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Goal: To use a diskpart.exe script (a file of commands that could be ran interactively in sequence).
Problem: When you run this command via PowerShell it does not work: diskpart /s C:\Full\Path\script.txt
The result says something like “Microsoft DiskPart …” and there is a list of alphabetic diskpart subcommands (ACTIVE to RECOVER). There is no explicit error. The diskpart command and script does no work.
Background:
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Goal: You want to run a .ps1 file.
Problem: You get the error “Powershell : script : The term ‘script’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, At line:1 char:1 + …”
Solution: Use the “script” resource section inside of a DSC configuration exclusively. It will not work or run as a standalone PowerShell script. Scripts with GetScript, SetScript, and TestScript must be run as part of a DSC configuration.
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