While trying to clone a repository from Github the other day on one of my EC2 servers and I ran into an SSL verification issue. As it turns out, Github renewed their SSL certificate (as people who are responsible about their web presence do when their certificate is about to expire). As a result, I couldn’t git clone over https. This presents a problem since all my deploys work using git clone over https.
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Erics Tech Blog Thoughts, musings, and other idealistic (sometimes useful) systems and development hoopla.
Fixing CentOS Root Certificate Authority Issues
1 Jun 2011 — ericSharing a Screen Session
23 Jul 2010 — ericAnyone who has spent any time in a shell and has been cut off while working should know about screen. If not, then I recommend reading up on it (here or here). But I’m not here to tell you about screen as a general tool, I want to show you how to use it for screen sharing. I found a couple of forum posts and other scattered information, so here’s a little centralizing of information.
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Creating Configuration Files With Ruby Templates
30 Jun 2010 — ericI recently had a very repetitive configuration file that needed creating. There were approximately 50 config blocks of 10 lines each with only the host name changing with each block. So I decided to take a shortcut and do it in Ruby using ERB templates. This is so easy and literally save me hours worth of work.
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Nagios notify-by-campfire Plugin
6 May 2010 — ericSince one of the core communication methods for my company amongst engineers is 37Signals Campfire and Nagios is one of our main monitoring tools for all of our applications and services, I thought it would be a good idea to combine the two. So with a few simple additions to the Nagios configuration and a Ruby Campfire script, you can get this up and running.
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