Comments in YAML

It’s no big deal to comment out a line in YAML. Just put a sharp (#) as the first character of that line. fileSync: typo3_user_upload: #rsync_params: ‘–delete -avhHxS’ #source: ‘shared/typomage/fileadmin/user_upload’ #target: ‘shared/typomage/fileadmin/user_upload’ typo3_redaktion: rsync_params: ‘–delete -avhHxS’ source: ‘shared/typomage/fileadmin/redaktion’ target: ‘shared/typomage/fileadmin/redaktion’ # magento_media: # rsync_params: ‘–delete -avhHxS’ # source: ‘shared/typomage/media/catalog/product’ # target: ‘shared/typomage/media/catalog/product’ As you can see […]

Prevent unwanted email delivery

If you have multiple instances of a Magento shop – for example a staging and a production environment – sooner or later you’ll come to the point, where you need to  synchronize the database from live- to stage-system to get realistic production-like application behavior. In this case it is a good idea to prevent the system from sending mails […]

“Could not resolve host” error

If you get this error message when trying to update the system (see example below) or just pinging an external host … $> sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases… error: failed retrieving file ‘core.db’ from mirror.archlinuxarm.org : Could not resolve host: mirror.archlinuxarm.org error: failed to update core (download library error) error: failed retrieving file ‘extra.db’ […]

Deliver status 503 with you Python CGI-script

I’ve searched a lot for a solution of this simple looking problem. I found a lot of irritating and confusing information about this on the WWW. From implementing a socket-application to setting up an self-made HTTP-server. But the answer is much simpler: #!/usr/bin/python # -*- coding: UTF-8 -*- # enable debugging import sys import cgitb import […]

Run Python on Apache CGI

To run Python scripts as Apache CGI scripts you have to install and activate the apache cgi module (Ubuntu 12.04): $> sudo apt-get install python #if not already installed $> sudo a2enmod cgid #sudo a2enmod cgi in earlier Ubuntu versions And you have to add the following directive to your Apache configuration file: … <Directory /var/www/sheldonroot/cgi-bin> […]

Recover lost images from SD/MMC cards

A very nice and really working recovery tool is  PhotoRec. It’s a very cool commandline tool for Linux which is able to recover all images on a SD or MMC card that have been deleted accidentally. In my case my fingers where faster than my brain and so I had kicked three rally awesome images :-/. […]

Setup an static IP on Arch Linux

Setup an static IP on Arch Linux can be done by placing a config file in /etc/netctl/: $> sudo nano eth0-Valhalla As you can see, you have to install sudo first. Otherwise you have to switch to root user (su). In the file you have to place the following lines for example: Description=’Valhalla at home eth0′ […]

Wifi setup on Arch Linux

The following steps are showing how I did setup my wireless connection with an static IP on my ArchLinux driven RaspberryPi. You need to have installed sudo to uses this instructions: Update all packages: $> sudo pacman -Syu Install dialog package: $> sudo pacman -S dialog Install wpa_supplicant package $> sudo pacman -S wpa_supplicant Run wifi-menu: […]