When you test your Chef cookbook in Test Kitchen you may get the following warning: warning: Insecure world writable dir MY_DIRECTORY/PATH in PATH, mode 040777 To stop this warning message, execute
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Install missing commands on Linux distributions
On some lean systems, mostly in Docker containers, some important commands are not readily available. The table below shows the command to install them. To get the name of the Linux distribution execute To find the package that contains the command, install apt-file Update the file package mapping database Search for the command at the …
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The advancement of computer programming and personal computer technology
If you really know one programming language, you can learn others too. The most important part is to understand the concept of computer programming. All languages are built on similar type of instructions, some of them require a semicolon at the end of the line, others don’t. Some of them use curly braces {} to …
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Install Windows from a USB drive
Modern computers don’t have DVD drives anymore. To install Windows on a new system you need to place the Windows installation media on a bootable USB drive. To prepare the bootable USB drive you need a working computer with Windows. Create the bootable USB media Insert an at least 8 GB USB or 8 GB …
Using MSSQL
Assign a database security role to a Windows security group List the members of a database server group
Microsoft SQL Server clients
To connect to an MSSQL database on Macintosh Install the Azure Data Studio Download it from Download and install Azure Data Studio on Windows Install SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio Download it from Download SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Install the Azure Data Studio Download it from Download and install Azure Data Studio
Docker Compose commands
To view the final configuration values of the docker-config.yml file after reading the environment variables from .env file, and all variable substitutions are done Make sure the config file in the current directory is named docker-compose.yml Execute
Connect the Portainer Server to an existing Portainer Agent
With Portainer we can monitor multiple Docker Swarms from one Portainer Server. To connect an existing Portainer server to an agent Configure the Agent For security reasons, by default, the Portainer Agent only accepts connection from the first Portainer Server it encounters. To enable the Portainer Agent to connect to multiple Portainer Servers, add the …
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Portainer troubleshooting
The Portainer server restarts every 5 minutes before the admin account is created When the Portainer server starts, waits 5 minutes for a user to create the admin account. If no account created in the first 5 minutes, the server stops with error code 1, message: No administrator account was created after 5 min. Shutting …
Chef Test Kitchen converge pauses with Transferring files to <...>
The first step of the Chef Test Kitchen converge operation is to transfer the cookbooks to the instance. If any of the cookbooks contain large files, the operation can take minutes while the terminal displays the message Transferring files to < … >