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Martin Hope
Collin Allen
Asked: 2014-02-21 12:47:12 +0800 CST
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I'm attempting to install psycopg2 into a Python virtualenv with Ansible's pip module, but I need to prepend an entry to PATH for it to build correctly (it needs to know the path to the directory containing pg_config). I see that I can pass environment to the pip module, but I'm unsure of how to prepend rather than overwrite PATH.

Here I'm attempting to prepend the path with the necessary directory, but it overwrites the virtualenv PATH and fails:

- pip:
    name: psycopg2
    virtualenv: /path/to/my/venv
  environment:
    PATH: /usr/pgsql-9.3/bin:$PATH
automation
Martin Hope
jwegner
Asked: 2012-01-07 07:06:24 +0800 CST
  • 32

My company is in the process of upgrading all of our users from old Windows XP computers to newer quad-core Win7 computers. This is a good thing - it's long overdue that we upgrade our workstations - but I now spend a ton of time configuring new computers. Is there any way to automate this process?

The steps that I go through with just about every computer:

  • Run through Win7 setup process (we do mostly HPs, so we get the stupid "The computer is personal again" thing.
  • Uninstall bloatware (norton, bing bar, roxio, etc.)
  • Install Updates
  • Add to domain & configure network settings
  • Install Office, and other company-specific applications
  • Configure important shortcuts (Outlook on task bar)

There's a couple other things that I do after that that would be nice to automate, but it's unlikely due to license keys, passwords, etc.

  • Configure Outlook
  • Pull in files/settings with easy transfer wizard
  • Map network drives

I know that it's possible to create a complete image of a computer, but how does that work with different hardware/drivers? What about Win7 license keys? If there is a way to make this work, what is the best (preferably free/open source) software out there to do this?

deployment configuration windows-7 automation
Martin Hope
Eonil
Asked: 2011-03-02 03:07:12 +0800 CST
  • 671

How to automate SSH login with password? I'm configuring my test VM, so heavy security is not considered. SSH chosen for acceptable security with minimal configuration.

ex)

echo password | ssh id@server

This doesn't work.

I remember I did this with some tricks somebody guided me, but I can't remember now the trick I used...

password ssh automation
Martin Hope
sutch
Asked: 2010-05-21 17:43:42 +0800 CST
  • 77

My system configuration script does an "apt-get install -y postfix". Unfortunately the script is halted when the postfix installer displays a configuration screen. Is there a method to force postfix to use the defaults during installation so that an automated script can continue to the end?

Does the postfix installer maybe check for existing configuration in /etc/postfix, and if it exists, not bother the user with the configuration screen?

ubuntu installation postfix apt automation
Martin Hope
Josh Hunt
Asked: 2009-05-01 03:47:31 +0800 CST
  • 27

I find i am constantly settings up pretty much nearly identical servers and VPSs for a number of my clients and it can be very time consuming. Often the only thing that changes between each deployment is the different website that is to be served. Is there an easy way to automate all this and take the boring monotony of setting up 56 identical servers?

The servers i have deployed so far have only been Ubuntu, but it may be possible that i start to use other linux OSs or even Windows. So far i have looked at Capistrano, but it seems to be focused on writing little ruby programs to do the job with, and i have no knowledge at all

deployment automation vps