If you have created a custom RightScript in the RightScale interface that uses git to clone a repository and you are running that RightScript on boot following the RightScale git_repo recipe then you likely are having issues. The problem appears to stem from the fact that the environment variables are not completely cleaned up as…
Ever attempt to delete the Trash on OSX and run into an error that says you can’t complete the operation because you don’t have permissions to access some of the items? I am not sure how often this will happen to the average user that wouldn’t already know how to resolve the problem since the…
Recently I was working on a project that was using RightScale to manage RackSpace cloud nodes. One of the requirements of the project was to have application nodes scale automatically thus they were required to automatically install software, configure settings, and start services automatically on the RackSpace CentOS nodes being used. Most everything was fairly…
I was installing some tools on my mac today which I wanted to have in the path. Specifically I was installing the Android-SDK tools. I wanted to have the adb shell come up no matter which directory I was in. Being a Linux guy I check out /etc/profile but discovered that mac does it just a tiny…
I ran in to the weirdest error today. “sudo: unable to resolve host”. I got this error even running as root which was the really weird part. I was especially confused because I have been running Linux as my main OS for the better part of 10 years and have never run into this issue.…
I was recently working on a Perl script that would SSH to another server and run a sudo command on the remote server that was failing. The error that was received is below. Error: sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo The reason for this is an update along the way with…