Best Redmine Hosting Service Provider in 2020 by Jobin Joseph Reviews Today one of my friends was asking me for the best Redmine hoisting solution. He also wants to install some free plugin available to give it a boost. As usual, I have gone for a google search and found the top results like easyredmine, redmineup, planio, etc. I also found some shared hosting companies that ...

How to run Multiple Dropbox on a macOS and start it on login by Jobin Joseph macOS Today I was having the challenge to run multiple Dropbox to run on my mac. So, let us see how we can run a second dropbox on your mac and start on login Create Dropbox2 Launcher App Create a folder in your Home directory with name “Dropbox2”. This will be the location of the new ...

How to run Django On a subpath – DevOps by Jobin Joseph DevOps Today, we were trying to run the Django application on a subpath say /backend/ . We were able to run it but some URL redirection from the application was still pointing it to the / URL instead of /backend/ Let me share the configuration a high level, please comment if you need any clarification. My ...

How to migrate a KVM / Virtualbox VM to VMware by Jobin Joseph SysAdmin, VMware Today, we had to migrate a virtialbox VM to VMware, and i had to deal with a lot of issues. Hence i thought about documenting it here since it may help someone. Convert QCOW2 to VMDK If you are migrating from a KVM, use the below additional steps to convert the Disk to vmdk and ...

How to add a new check in Uptimerobot via API by Jobin Joseph API, Monitoring Today I was thinking to automate the new addition of website check to our monitoring systems. Since we are using multiple providers for website monitoring, it is a headache to go to each portal and add the website to the portals. So, I have decided to add a Jenkins key where a single click will ...

Ansible Playbook – How to pass hostname or IP in the Command line by Jobin Joseph SysAdmin Today I was thinking about passing the host IP on the ansible-playbook I’m going to run to automate something. As per the documentation, it says –i hostname in a comma separated input will work fine. I was trying to give the IP like ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i 1.1.1.1 in the playbook command line and it was not working, then I figured out that we need ...

The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown by Jobin Joseph Ubuntu Today I ran into an issue on my Ubuntu box. I had an NTFS partition mounted via /etc/fstab . I had booted my PC into Windows for some reason and booted back to the Ubuntu and the system got stuck in the maintenance mode. The solution to fix the boot issue was to comment the fstab ...

AWS Autoscaling is not working. Seems stuck by Jobin Joseph AWS Issue Today I was working on a modifying autoscaling group and playing with some options in suspended action. After testing the things, I found that the new instances were not launching even if I haven’t suspended that action. Debug As I checked, I had kept “Terminate” in the suspended action in the Autoscaling Group ...