Tuesday, April 22, 2014

How to delete a set of old builds in Jenkins? Using CLI

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You can use Jenkins command-line-interface(CLI) to delete some old build numbers. To run jenkins CLI, you need java and jenkins-cli.jar. ...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

SVN Quick Reference

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Creating a repository mkdir svn-repos svnadmin create /cygdrive/c/svn-repos ls -a /cygdrive/c/svn-repos            conf  db  forma...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014

How to start a jenkins slave on linux machine without ssh?

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Step 1: Login to Jenkins -> Manage jenkins -> Manage nodes -> Linux node name Copy the command under    Run from slave command l...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Enabling https on Sonatype nexus

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Here are the list of commands used to enable https on nexus web application. The below described example nexus application is running on Li...
Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Working with perforce streams - command line

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Streams intro Creating a stream depot  - Command:     p4 depot <stream-depot-name>          Ex: # p4 depot DPM  - Change the...
Monday, December 9, 2013

How to restart windows from command line ?

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Are you running a build on windows? Is your build failing for no valid reason? Did you try every known options debugging the issue? Why don...
Friday, July 26, 2013

How to increase open files limit in Linux. Fix for java.io.FileNotFoundException (Too many open files) error

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I was configuring a new build on Linux machine and it kept on failing with error java.io.FileNotFoundException : /home/build/jenkins/wor...
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Friday, July 5, 2013

What is Apache Hadoop?

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Newbies can get a clean and simple introduction to Hadoop from the following Pivotal blog posts 1)  Demystifying Apache Hadoop in 5 Pictu...
Monday, April 22, 2013

Perforce and cygwin

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Are you a command-line freak ? Do you want your automated shell scripts to run on Windows ? Do you wish to work with Perforce commands on C...
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

FeatureBranch v/s FeatureToggle v/s BranchByAbstraction patterns

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This blog is excerpts from Martin Fowler blog and Continuous Delivery book (Jez Humble, David Farley). It explains about the concepts of 1...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

How to restrict a Jira issue?

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Why should we restrict Jira issue? Typically Jira instance will be opened to non-developers like Customer Support, partners, QA and in som...
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Friday, March 8, 2013

Track/update Adobe Flash Player

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Adobe Flash Player is a well known tool for exploitation by hackers. It is our responsibility to keep track of latest updates released by A...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Why hackers penetrating Software Build infrastructure?

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Many recent cyber attacks on enterprise involved penetrating into their product build infrastructure. The motive here is either to stole co...
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Monday, February 11, 2013

My first experience with GlassFish Application server

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GlassFish is a open source application server started by Sun Microsystems and now sponsored by Oracle. As part a POC (proof of concept) pro...
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Thursday, February 7, 2013

Extracting tar.xz and tar.bz2 files

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Extracting tar.xz files xz files are one of the archive format generated using XZ Utils. XZ Utils (previously LZMA Utils) is a set of free...
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Sunday, January 27, 2013

putty+screen: Close your putty session, without terminating the running script

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Normally we connect to a remote UNIX (Linux) servers through putty. But when we disconnect a putty session, the remote shell terminates, as...
Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Custom fields not appearing in Jira gadgets

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Are you scratching your head debugging why a custom field in Jira not appearing in Gadgets? Here is one the reason. Scenario : We have a...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

how to check rpm license without installing?

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Command to find out installed rpm license information     1) Find out the installed rpm name by running        rpm -qa|grep -i <name-o...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

kiwi build failure Can't provide file from repository 'update'

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Our Kiwi builds were failing inconsistently with the below error Failed to provide Package  users-1-1.x86_64 . Do you want to retry  retri...
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

A quick tutorial on building appliance using Kiwi in restricted environment

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In this blog, I'll share step by step information on building a appliance using opensuse kiwi tool on a restricted environment. Here re...