Debian Lighttpd does infinite redirect loop and fails to connect

Just imagine your running a blog that requires zero maintenance and one day you access it and it doesn’t load!

You try Firefox and then Chrome and finally Edge (the new IE)

You notice that Firefox and Chrome seem to loop and then finally fail - You notice that Edge works….

You notice that cURL works.

Things are but aren’t working.

Finally you notice Firefox is trying to do TLS1.3! Interesting how do I disable that on Debian 9 with Lighttpd? You Can’t!

What’s the fix?

in lighttpd.conf in your SSL section input:

ssl.disable-client-renegotiation = “disable”

ssl.disable-client-renegotiation exists because of a bug back in 2009 - This bug has long been patch in newer versions of OpenSSL and is safe to turn back on.

Disabling this setting allowed you to find the answer to your troubles :-)

Disable Fedora Cockpit

Quick and dirty:

service cockpit stop
service cockpit.socket stop
systemctl disable cockpit
systemctl disable cockpit.socket
systemctl mask cockpit.socket
systemctl mask cockpit

Ansible Conditionals and Parentheses evaluate to True

I had fun wasting hours working out how to do correct ‘when’ statements in Ansible - In end up consulting #ansible on IRC to get the answers.
Anyway I hope the following playbook makes sense to you. Note that ‘admintool’ is a valid group in my situation.

- name: Debug all the things
  hosts: all

  tasks:
    - set_fact: renew_cert="renew"

      # Valid - Should pause
    - name: Test 0 PASS
      pause: prompt="Test" seconds=1
      when: '"admintool" in group_names and renew_cert == "renew"'

      # Valid - Should skip
    - name: Test 1 SKIP
      pause: prompt="Test" seconds=1
      when: '"I-Dont-Exist" in group_names and renew_cert == "renew"'

      # Valid - Should skip
    - name: Test 2 SKIP
      pause: prompt="Test" seconds=1
      when: 
        - "'i-dont-exist' in group_names"
        - renew_cert == "renew"

      # Valid - Should pause
    - name: Test 3 PASS
      pause: prompt="Test" seconds=1
      when: 
        - "'admintool' in group_names"
        - renew_cert == "renew"

      # Invalid - Should skip - but eval's True - DONT USE
    - name: Test 4 SKIP
      pause: prompt="Test" seconds=1
      when: ("'admintool' in group_names" and renew_cert == "renew")

      # Invalid - Should skip - but eval's True - DONT USE
    - name: Test 5 SKIP
      pause: prompt="Test" seconds=1
      when: ("'I-dont-exist' in group_names")

      # Valid - Should pause
    - name: Test 6 PASS
      pause: prompt="Test" seconds=1
      when: ("admintool" in group_names and renew_cert == "renew")

      # Valid - Should skip
    - name: Test 7 SKIP
      pause: prompt="Test" seconds=1
      when: ("I-dont-exist" in group_names and renew_cert == "renew")

List comparison and list manipulation in Ansible

I keep saying time and time again that Ansible is not a programming language, it’s similar to one, it can do some programming things but ultimately it’s messy and I hate it BUT I can make it do some strange things.
List manipulation being one of those.

In this example I have two directories that I want to compare, directory one (/tmp/1) and directory two (/tmp/2). Directory one is the Source, that I want directory two to look like.

The use case is I want to sync /tmp/1 to /tmp/2 but you only want to remove the files in that are no longer /tmp/1, then you can sync (copy/template) the /tmp/1 directory knowing that nothing exists /tmp/2 that shouldn’t be there.

The ansible code is this with debug statements:

- hosts: local
  become: false
  tasks:

    - name: find 1
      find: path=/tmp/1
      register: one
    - debug: msg="{{ one }}"

    - name: find 2
      find: path=/tmp/2
      register: two

    - debug: msg="{{ item.path }}"
      with_items:
        - "{{ two.files }}"

    - set_fact:
        one_list: []
        two_list: []
        new_list: []

    - name: append
      set_fact: one_list="{{ one_list }} + [ '{{ item.path | basename }}' ]"
      with_items:
        - "{{ one.files }}"

    - name: append
      set_fact: two_list="{{ two_list }} + [ '{{ item.path | basename }}' ]"
      with_items:
        - "{{ two.files }}"

    - debug: msg="{{ one_list }}"
    - debug: msg="{{ two_list }}"

    - set_fact: new_list="{{ two_list | difference(one_list) }}"
    - debug: msg="{{ new_list }}"

The final result is new_list is a list (array) that contains what needs to be removed from /tmp/2 to bring it in line with /tmp/1

Docker and IPtables Firewall Merger

The problem: Modifying firewall rules on a host that runs Docker or Rancher (cattle) causes the docker-bridges and rancher NAT rules to be blown away, causing all your containers networking to break.

The solution: Modify /etc/sysconfig/iptables as normal and instead of running iptables-restore /etc/sysconfig/iptables run as root: dockerFirewallMerge.py

I’d appreciate some constructive feedback! https://github.com/c … /DockerFirewallMerge