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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.”
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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
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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.
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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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Goal: Apply DSC configuration
Problem/scenario: When you run the “start-dscconfiguration NameOfConfig -wait -verbose” (where NameOfConfig is the name of the configuration) from the folder that houses the subfolder with NameOfConfig, you get an error like this: “Get-targetresource PS module does not implement the key property solution”
Solution: Stop a specific process by running this command.
gps wmi* |? {$_.Modules.ModuleName -like ‘*DSC*’} | Stop-Process -Force
Re-run the “start-dscconfiguration NameOfConfig -wait -verbose” command.
Goal: You want to create a new Disk Partition on Windows Server.
Problem: You go to Server Manager -> Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management. You right click a newly-added partition (in the graphical bar section that says “Unallocated”). “New Simple Volume,” “New Spanned Volume,” and “New Striped Volume” are all grayed out.
Solution: Right click the “Disk X” (where X is the integer associated with the newly-added disk).
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Goal: You want to use DSC to apply a configuration.
Problem scenario: When you run the “start-dscconfiguration NameOfConfig -wait -verbose” (where NameOfConfig is the name of the configuration) from the folder that houses the subfolder with NameOfConfig, you get an error like this: “DSC error: Cannot invoke the SendConfigurationApply method. The sendConfigurationApply method is in progress…”
Solution: Back up and delete the subfolder named NameOfConfig.
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Problem Scenario
You want to find out the permissions, ownership and groups associated with various subdirectories in Linux. You do not want to display the lengthy contents of these directories. How do you use the ls command to show the attributes of the directories themselves and not the contents of the directories?
Solution
From a Linux command prompt, run this command: ls -ld /parentdirectory/
For PowerShell to list files without traversing into their contents use either of these two commands:
dir
ls
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Problem scenario
You are using Windows Server 2019. You want to create a new local user. You don’t want the user to be a member of the local Administrators group (which allows remote logins). What do you do?
Solution
Prerequisites
i. Install DSC. If you need assistance, see this posting.
ii.a. Make sure the server has been added to its own TrustedHosts configuration settings.
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