Get the most out of GNOME notifications

Learn how to get more out of your GNOME notifications on Fedora Workstation.
My first article on Fedora Magazine.

https://fedoramagazine.org/get-gnome-notifications/

Oracle Database Appliance: random notes

How to create a shared repository

[root@oda11 ~]# oakcli create repo shared1 -dg data -size 50G

How to import a VM template

You must/can download a template from edelivery.oracle.com
You need to put the template or the assemly inside the DOM0, then import it from ODA_BASE.
[root@oda11 ~]# oakcli import vmtemplate prova -assembly /tmp/OVM_OL7U2_x86_64_PVHVM.ova -repo shared1 -node 0

How to create a VM

[root@oda11 ~]# oakcli clone vm pigna -vmtemplate prova -repo shared1 -node 0

How to create a vdisk

A vdisk that will be attacched to the VM

[root@oda11 ~]# oakcli create vdisk pignadiskl -repo shared1 -size 5G -type local

How to create a cpupool

The same pool name must be configured on each node.

[root@oda12 ~]# oakcli create cpupool provapool -numcpu 2 -node 1

[root@oda12 ~]# oakcli create cpupool provapool -numcpu 2 -node 0

How to configure the VM

Add two network interfaces

[root@oda11 ~]# oakcli configure vm pigna -network "['type=netfront,bridge=net1','type=netfront,bridge=net2']"

Enable failover

[root@oda11 ~]# oakcli configure vm pigna -failover true

Attach an additional disk

[root@oda11 ~]# oakcli modify vm pigna -attachvdisk pignadiskl

Configuring cpupool

[root@oda11 ~]# oakcli configure vm pigna -cpupool provapool

Starting the VM

[root@oda11 ~]# oakcli start vm pigna

Attacching to the console

You must ssh to the ODA_BASE using -Y flag.
[root@oda11 ~]# oakcli show vmconsole pigna
A VNC session will start

Expanding the disk space from inside the VM

This is the vdisk created before.

[root@pigna ~]# btrfs device add /dev/xvdb /

You can attach additional vdisks, and the VM OS will see them without the need to reboot it.

Adding space to the repo

[root@oda11 ~]# oakcli configure repo shared1 -incsize 25G

Percona Monitoring Plugins for Nagios on SmartOS

Using Percona monitoring plugins inside a SmartOS branded zone, I get an error related to the local command.

percona-monitoring-plugins-1.1.7/nagios/bin/pmp-check-mysql-innodb[58]: local: not found [No such file or directory]

To solve this problem, perform the following command against every script (i.e. inside the nagios/bin/ directory).

sed -i 's/^\( \{2,4\}\)local /\1typeset /' *

rsyslog gnutls: could not load module

Starting rsyslog with gnutls configured I got this error:

Nov 27 21:57:03 prometeo rsyslogd-2068: could not load module '/usr/lib64/rsyslog/lmnsd_gtls.so', rsyslog error -2078 [try http://www.rsyslog.com/e/2068 ]

The suggested link is not useful as the description (module could not be loaded - init failed) is too generic.

The problem here was that in the config file, the line DefaultNetstreamDriverCAFile was pointing to a non existent file.

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Giochini elettrificati

Per i lettori italiani.

Ho messo in piedi un sito vetrina dove condivido le mie creazioni elettroniche.
Oggetti altamente artigianali e dilettanteschi. Talvolta brutti e fatti male.

https://www.gioele.xyz

In questo sito raccolgo e presento qualche idea e qualche realizzazione, spesso maldestramente scopiazzate, di semplici e molto artigianali oggetti elettronici fatti in casa (circuiti e roba basata su Arduino) con cui far divertire in qualche modo bambine e bambini.
E magari, perché no, stimolare la loro curiosità nei confronti di hacking, DIY, elettronica e informatica.

Arduino IDE and persistent serial port (Linux)

In the development of a little project with Arduino, I have to plug and unplug the USB cable a lot of times.
And I have a big annoyance: every time I plug the USB cable again, the port name changes from /dev/ttyUSB0 to /dev/ttyUSB1 and vice versa. So, in the IDE I have to go in Tools -> Port menu and select the right serial port every time before uploading the new sketch.
What a bore!

I've found this post, but the Arduino IDE seems that doesn't detect fancy names like /dev/arduino, but only names starting with "tty".

So my solution, in order to get a persistent name, is based on the http://hintshop.ludvig.co.nz/ blog post, but using a different port name:

sudo vi /etc/udev/rules.d/98-usb-serial.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="tty", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1a86", ATTRS{idProduct}=="7523", SYMLINK+="ttyUSB10"

Reload udev rules with:

sudo udevadm control --reload-rules -R

Now in the IDE you can select this port and it never change every time you unplug and plug the USB cable.