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Have you ever wanted to just start a Webserver in a second, for a quick and dirty task but didn’t want to install a full LAMP/LEMP stack? This is possible with the help of a python module and here it is in action: costin@ubuntu:~$ mkdir testare costin@ubuntu:~$ cd testare/ costin@ubuntu:~/testare$ echo MERGE! > index.html costin@ubuntu:~/testare$ pushd $PWD; python3 -m http.server; popd ~/testare ~/testare Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 (http://0.0.0.0:8000/) ... 192.168.1.126 - - [29/Apr/2020 14:16:10] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 - 192.168.1.126 - - [29/Apr/2020 14:16:10] code 404, message File not found 192.168.1.126 - - [29/Apr/2020 14:16:10] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 - root@ubuntu:~# curl http://192.168.1.94:8000/ MERGE! Oh and this is cross-platform, of course. If you have python installed on a Windows machine. ...

On F5 BigIP LTM you can create a SSL profile even if you don’t know the private key passphrase This workaround can be applied only if you’ve used the private key on the same F5 BigIP node already. In my case, I had to reuse the same cert+key from a server-ssl profile on a client-ssl profile. And because business was in a hurry and they didn’t have the private key anymore, I had to find alternative ways of making it work. ...

So recently I’ve encountered the error in the subject. This came after 2 major changes (OS upgrade and PHP upgrade). So definitely it had to do with one of them. My money were on the first one. I’ve looked around on the internet and the only thing I could see was this old article that had no solution: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/do-agent-exited-with-a-return-code-100 So I knew I had to take the matters in my own hands. I’ve started by looking at that cron entry that was failing. run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/do-agent exited with return code 100 ...

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Recently I had this issue that ate a big part of my day. Here’s how I fixed it. Firstly, some background info I’m using a Win 10 (Version 10.0.14393) OS with Office 2013 [15.0.4569.1503]. The previous day I’ve been prompted to restart my laptop to complete the new updates. I’ve left in a hurry and just closed the lid. The laptop didn’t close and I had to use the power button to stop it. I knew I was in trouble at this point, but had to attend a meeting and didn’t have time to wait for the updates. ...