Monthly Archives: June 2014

Consul – Service Discovery and Configuration tool

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Recently come to know about consul which is new entrant into the Service Discovery and Configuration.
Looking at the Docs and Demo and getting started guides it seems pretty interesting and impressive too.
I will give a try in free time and will update my findings
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Running Jenkins to work with Apache on Port 80

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Tested on Centos 6 and Jenkins installed with RPM from jenkins-1.527-1.1.noarch

Change the /etc/sysconfig/jenkins with right JENKINS_ARGS

#JENKINS_ARGS=”–prefix=/jenkins”  #If you wanna run like http://localhost
JENKINS_ARGS=””  # if you wanna run Jenkins on the index

[root@tiber07 jenkins]# cat /etc/httpd/conf.d/jenkins.conf

    ProxyPass         /jenkins  http://localhost:8080/
    ProxyPassReverse  /jenkins  http://localhost:8080/
    ProxyRequests     Off
    ProxyPreserveHost On
   
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
   
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteRule   ^/jenkins/(.+) http://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1

#Make sure to change the Proxy Pass location depending what u defined in JENKINS_ARGS

Dropbox commandline

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Installation…
Take a CentOS 6.x box for a smooth install (the curl on centos 5.x seems buggy/incompatible)
  • As root user, run the 2 commands below
  • dropbox_uploader is installed and can be run by any user. As root or as any other user… run command
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    • dropbox_uploader
    • Do the instructions as the script says
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      •  1) Open the following URL in your Browser, and log in using your account: https://www2.dropbox.com/developers/apps
      •  2) Click on “Create App”, then select “Dropbox API app”
      •  3) Select “Files and datastores”
      •  4) Now go on with the configuration, choosing the app permissions and access restrictions to your DropBox folder
      •  5) Enter the “App Name” that you prefer (e.g. JunedTest)
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      • Now, click on the “Create App” button.
      •  When your new App is successfully created, please COPY the, App Key, App Secret and the Permission type shown in the confirmation page
      • Asks you to confirm by going to a URL like https://www2.dropbox.com/1/oauth/authorize?oauth_token=, click ALLOW
      • It saves your info (in the file .dropbox_uploader)
      • Run “dropbox_uploader” which prints all commands
To remove the credentials, remove the file .dropbox_uploader in your home dir.

Remove /usr/local/bin/dropbox_uploader if u no longer need it.