New job!

The three of you who have been following this blog for awhile have probably noticed that around February of this year, the number of topics I’ve blogged about has dropped pretty significantly. That’s because I left my jack-of-all-trades systems engineer job to take a position as a systems integration lead with Time Inc., a position dealing primarily with the difficult tasks of systems automation and configuration management. While I love the job, and have a great deal of fondness for the people I work with, I do have to say that the amount of new technology I’ve gotten exposure to … Continue Reading →

Repo updates aplenty

I’ve just pushed a pile of important updates into the holyhandgrenade repo. Here’s a quick rundown of the most important changes: -thirdparty repo I’ve added another repository, holyhandgrenade-thirdparty, in which I redistribute rebuilds from other people’s SRPMs in an attempt to cut down on the amount of unnecessary dependencies. In particular, I’m trying to kill all the dependencies on the RBEL repo, which I’ve become increasingly unhappy with on account of them doing everything totally differently from Fedora upstream (shit, there’s unmodified rebuilds of openSUSE packages in there!) I could probably push most of this stuff into the main repo, … Continue Reading →

RHEL/CentOS init scripts for Carbon

As part of the recent set of updates I’m pushing to the holyhandgrenade-testing repo, I pushed some updated Graphite packages which contain three init scripts for Carbon: carbon-aggregator carbon-cache carbon-relay As before, I’m making a special post to draw search engine attention to these in case they end up being useful for anyone not using my packages. As usual, you can find these scripts on GitHub: carbon-aggregator init script carbon-cache init script carbon-relay init script  Note: These are specific to my Graphite packages, which means they specify carbon-{aggregator,cache,relay}.py files in /usr/bin instead of /opt/graphite. If you are using the default /opt/graphite hierarchy, … Continue Reading →