Category: libre software

Bexec: Execute script in buffer and display output in buffer. Version 0.10 released.

After almost a year of no releases, I’ve made a new release of Bexec today. It’s a minor feature release that brings a new setting to Bexec: bexec_splitsize. This settings controls the default size of the output window. You can set it in your .vimrc as follows: let g:bexec_splitsize=20 This will always make the output […]

Multi-repo Git status checking script

I’ve got a whole bunch of Git repositories in my ~/Projects/ directory. All of those may have unstaged, uncommitted or unpushed changes. I find this hard to keep track of properly, so I wrote a script to do this for me. The output looks like this: As you can see, it shows: Untracked files: File that […]

Ansible-cmdb v1.17: Generate a host overview of Ansible facts.

I’ve just released ansible-cmdb v1.17. Ansible-cmdb takes the output of Ansible’s fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML overview page containing system configuration information. It supports multiple templates (fancy html, txt, markdown, json and sql) and extending information gathered by Ansible with custom data. This release includes the following bugfixes;: A bug that caused whitespace to be […]

Ansible-cmdb v1.15: Generate a host overview of Ansible facts.

I’ve just released ansible-cmdb v1.15. Ansible-cmdb takes the output of Ansible’s fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML overview page containing system configuration information. It supports multiple templates and extending information gathered by Ansible with custom data. This release includes the following bugfixes and feature improvements: Improvements to the resilience against wrong, unsupported and missing data. […]

cfgtrack: A simpel tool that tracks and reports diffs in files between invocations.

Sometimes other people change configurations on machines that I help administer. Unfortunately, I wouldn’t know when they changed something or what they changed. There are many tools available to track configuration changes, but most are way overpowered. As a result they require too much time to set up and configure properly. All I want is […]

mdpreview, a Markdown previewer to be used with an external editor

There are many Markdown previewers out there, from the simplest commandline tool + webbrowser to full-fledged Markdown IDE’s. I’ve tried quite a few, and I like none of them. I write my Markdown in an external editor (Vim), something very few Markdown previewers take in account. The ones that do are buggy. So I wrote mdpreview, […]

Multithreaded dev web server for the Python Bottle web framework

I’m writing a simple web application in the Bottle framework. I ran into an issue where I had a single long-running request, but needed to make some additional requests from the browser to the server. It turns out that Bottle’s built in development web server is single-threaded, and can’t handle multiple requests at the same […]

Ansible-cmdb v1.12: Generate a host overview of Ansible facts.

I’ve just released ansible-cmdb v1.12. Ansible-cmdb takes the output of Ansible’s fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML overview page containing system configuration information. It supports multiple templates and extending information gathered by Ansible with custom data. This release includes the following bugfixes and feature improvements: Bugfix: Don’t parse hidden files in fact output […]

Openvas v8 on Ubuntu 14.04: Login failed. OMP service is down

Recently I suddently couldn’t log into Openvas v8 running on Ubuntu 14.04 anymore. Nothing had changed about the machine (as far as I knew), but I got the following message when trying to log in with any account: Login failed. OMP service is down The logs (/var/log/openvas/openvasmd.log) showed the following message: lib serv:WARNING:2016-01-19 15h52.12 utc:21760: […]

Ansible-cmdb v1.10 released

I’ve just released ansible-cmdb v1.10. Ansible-cmdb takes the output of Ansible’s fact gathering and converts it into a static HTML overview page containing system configuration information. It supports multiple templates and extending information gathered by Ansible with custom data. This is a feature and bugfix release, including the following changes: Fix for UTF-8 characters appearing in […]

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