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U.S. 4x400M Runner Finishes Olympic Relay After Breaking Leg
0This is pretty incredible but totally what you’d expect from somebody like him 
Manteo Mitchell Broken Leg: U.S. 4x400M Runner Finishes Olympic Relay After Breaking Leg.
Scripted setting of users passwords; RHEL/CentOS and now Ubuntu/Debian/others too
0I’ve been setting users passwords successfully on CentOS/RHEL from within my kickstarts, using entries like this:
echo p4ssw0rd | passwd --stdin username
… however, that unfortunately doesn’t work on at least Ubuntu (and possibly many other distros as well).
Now — finally — and thanks to this comment, I have an answer; and it looks something like this:
echo username:password | chpasswd
start-stop-daemon on CentOS/RHEL
0(Note that I’ve only ever done this on CentOS 6.2. It should work in a lot of other places too though, especially other RHEL based distros.)
I really wanted to use the Smokeping init script that comes with Ubuntu 10.04.* LTS on a CentOS 6.2 box. One look at it, however, and you will very quickly realise that out-the-box that isn’t something which is likely to work, possibly for other reasons, but definitely because you don’t have “start-stop-daemon” on a CentOS box; not yet at least
This helpful post suggested that if you pull the dpkg source from one of the Debian mirrors then you could build it, albeit quite nastily, and end up with a successful build of start-stop-daemon. However, it doesn’t have to build so nastily. Newer versions of dpkg build cleanly, as I discovered and have detailed below. As root or using sudo, do the following:
cd /usr/local/src
wget -c "http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.15.8.4ubuntu3.tar.bz2"
tar jfxvh dpkg_1.15.8.4ubuntu3.tar.bz2
rm dpkg_1.15.8.4ubuntu3.tar.bz2
cd dpkg-1.15.8.4ubuntu2/
./configure --without-install-info --without-update-alternatives --without-dselect
make && make install
Now if you type “which start-stop-daemon” you should discover that it’s built and installed into /usr/local/sbin, and works perfectly just like it’s supposed to. And with that hurdle out the way, I could now finish getting that Ubuntu init script working on CentOS. Happy time
The easiest way to fix apt missing key issues
0Sorry, this is a bit lazy of me, but at the moment I can only confirm that this works on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. It might, however, work on other versions too, and maybe also with Debian of course.
If when you run an apt-get update you are being told something like this right at the end:
W: GPG error: http://196.x.y.z lucid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2940ABA983EF826A
… then install “add-apt-key” on the box, and run it, adding the missing key itself to the end of the command, as shown below.
root@xyz-box-bry-01:~# apt-get install add-apt-key Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: add-apt-key 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 5,314B of archives. After this operation, 81.9kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://196.x.y.z/ubuntu/ lucid/universe add-apt-key 1.0-0.5 [5,314B] Fetched 5,314B in 0s (270kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package add-apt-key. (Reading database ... 88896 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking add-apt-key (from .../add-apt-key_1.0-0.5_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up add-apt-key (1.0-0.5) ... root@xyz-box-bry-01:~# add-apt-key 2940ABA983EF826A gpg: directory `/root/.gnupg' created gpg: new configuration file `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created gpg: WARNING: options in `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active during this run gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created gpg: requesting key 83EF826A from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net gpg: /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created gpg: key 83EF826A: public key "Opscode Packages " imported gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1 OK root@xyz-box-bry-01:~#
I’ve found that sometimes the key server doesn’t have the key and so it’s not imported, but re-running the command generally fixes that as the next key server chosen usually does end up having the key. Once you’ve successfully imported the key, run “apt-get update” again and your problem should no longer exist.
There was something else I wanted to say but I’ve totally forgotten what it was.
Enjoy 
On the run for 41 years, hijacker traced to Portugal
0I wonder if this dude still lived his life convinced that he’d be caught up with any minute.
2 accused of running up tab on corpse’s ATM card
0This is pretty crazy!
“DENVER (AP) — Two men are accused of driving around with a dead friend, using his ATM card and visiting a strip club in a less amusing real-life version of the film ‘Weekend at Bernie’s.’”
Photography+
0Pretty awesome. Kick ass story!
Inside the Ghost Ships of the Mothball Fleet and SS Independence Ghost Ship.
It should be noted
01 year ago
by chukaman
in Uncategorized
This is an unofficial Wikipedia style guide, or part thereof. It’s hilarious!
Wikipedia:It should be noted — Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Mission to Get Osama Bin Laden
0Wow, this is an awesome story about the mission during which /bin/laden was killed! Quite long though, and once you start reading it you won’t want to stop.
