Author Archives: Ajitabh
Upgrading Raspbian 8 (Jessie) to Raspbian 9 (Stretch)
I decided to upgrade my oldest Raspberry Pi to the latest Raspbian. Since I was two releases behind, I decided to do it step-by-step. Today I updated from 8 – 9. I plan. to perform similar steps to upgrade 9 … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi – rsyslog fixes on Raspbian 8 (Jessie)
One of my Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi Model B Rev 2) is running quite old versio of Rasbian – although fully updated and patched. Today while checking the syslog on my raspberry pi, I noticed the following error which was … Continue reading
Using Wrap Utility to Hide the SQL Code in Oracle
At times we may need to encrypt sensitive information in certain columns in Oracle Database. Oracle provides a DBMS_CRYPTO package for the purpose. More details about this package can be found in Oracle Documentation here. The approach I followed is … Continue reading
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Apt Pinning in Raspbian
Quite sometime back I wrote a blog entry on apt-pinning to mix multiple repositories in debian and prioritize them. Recently, I felt the need to do the same on my raspberry pi. I use rsnapshot to backup remote systems. Rsnapshot … Continue reading
Ansible Quirks – 4
I was installing ansible on OpenSuSE Leap 42.3 machine and faced a problem with multiple python versions. I have both python 2.7 and python 3.4 installed on this machine. Python 2.7 is the default one. I tried installed ansible with … Continue reading