A SysAdmin's NoteBook

Often there are tags with images when they are pulled. If you want to rename that tag, all you need to do is the following steps.

When you re-tag, it will leave you with two different images with different tags and we need to get rid of the old one using step3.

An example given below

Sometimes when you merge two git branches, it might give you conflict. Conflict occurs because the same line in the same file has been edited differently in the two branches. This confuses git as to which change to accept and merge. Git conflicts are to be always resolved manually before git can proceed with the merge.

For example, I have two different branches here named current-branch and dev-branch. I want to merge the changes in dev-branch to current-branch now but I am getting a conflict.

Now, to resolve the conflict, you the git mergetool

If you have not already conf...

After a long break of nearly 2 years, I tried to brush up my knowledge and wanted to started with Git. I created a bitbucket repo under my personal account, and setup the identities but no matter what, I was unable to clone the repo via ssh. I was getting the following error while trying to do it.

The error clearly stated it was a problem with my ssh key. I already checked and confirmed the following

1. I have added the SSH public key to the repo’s Access keys option.
2. I also tried to add it under Personal Settings -> Security -> SSH keys but both ...

While creating a playbook for mysql, I cam across the following error while creating database on an AWS Amazon Linux instance.

To correct it, we need to install the dependencies and add them to the playbook as required below

To run an ansible playbook in your localhost, just add the following entry to your inventory file

Then, in your playbook, add localhost to the hosts section

Sometimes you might come across some errors as follows, when you start services in servers.

Nothing to worry, it could just be because you don’t have the proper permission to do so, or you failed to add a ‘sudo’ infront of the command. Juts try with sudo and it will work.

To create a local yum repo, all you need to do is to make sure the packages are available in a path in the server, say /downloaded_packages/

Now, create a repo file. Be default, all repo files are present in the path /etc/yum.repos.d/ . I am going to name my repo as local_yum, so I will create a repo file named local_yum.repo and add the following contents in it.

The above files tells the programme to take the packages from the baseurl mentioned in the file, which in our case is our local folder /downloaded_packages/

Now check if our repo is listed correctly. In my case, I have not set any other repos, so only my local repo is listed...

I was getting this error when I was trying to run a docker container using jenkins declarative pipeline script. This was being run on my localhost and below is what I needed to correct it.

Added jenkins user to docker group

The solution that actually worked was to change the permission of the sock file to 666

Once this was done my pipeline script started working!

PHP 7.2 does not come by default with Centos base repo. Hence, in order to install it we first need to install and enable the remi repo and then install PHP. Execute the following commands in the below order to get PHP 7.2 installed on Centos7.

Now, check if PHP 7.2 packages are available.

I came across this error while taking the database dump of a database. The database was originally created in another server and transferred to my server after long. When I tried to take a database dump as a part of my backup script, I came across this error.

Basically this error is caused by a definer which was created in the previous server but is not present in the new server. The easiest way to get past this error is to go to the original dump file and search for ‘definer’ in it.

If found, modify it to reflect the root user or database user in your new server.