openATTIC (Posts about howto)

How to install Calamari on Ubuntu 14.04

Tatjana Dehler — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 10:03:52 GMT

The current Calamari version 1.3.1. requires SaltStack version 2014-7. Unfortunately the packages for version 2014-x are no longer available from the official SaltStack repository.

Here is how to install Calamari and SaltStack 2014.7 on Ubuntu 14.04:

Replacing text in multiple files using the replace utility

Lenz Grimmer — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 13:37:24 GMT

First of all, a Happy New Year to you all!

A new year has begun, so it's time to update the copyright headers in the openATTIC source tree!

While there are countless options for resolving this task, I have become quite fond of a little gem hidden in the MySQL Server distribution called replace. It does exactly what you would expect from its name - from the manual page:

The replace utility program changes strings in place in files or on the standard input.

Cronjob Snapshot Script for openATTIC

Kai Wagner — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 12:39:41 GMT

This is the continuation of my last blog post Snapshot Python script with authtoken. I expanded the script a little bit, because I don't want to create the snapshots manually every day and I also want to store the last 10 snapshots.

Use your own javascript templates with nikola

Kai Wagner — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 10:45:23 GMT

You can use your own javascript templates with nikola.

Just edit the BODY_END parameter in the conf.py file.

BODY_END = "<script src="/assets/js/showhide.js"</script>"

How to Blog on openATTIC.org?

Kai Wagner — Fri, 18 Sep 2015 07:45:18 GMT

This blog post is for openATTIC developers only. The mercurial repository and the internal IRC is not reachable outsite the intranet.

Our new blog is released, but no one of our team (except Lenz and me) can write blog post, because they don´t know how to do it :-).

First of all you should install nikola and virtualenv, because that makes things so much easier.

My Distribution - Debian 8.0 - Jessie