[Cialug] TroubleMaker

[Josh More]

Oh, right.  That makes sense.

TroubleMaker is an open source project I started back in 2004 when I was going after my RHCE.  It worked wonderfully, but since then, I've used the SUSE line almost exclusively and didn't pay as much attention to Red Hat... so the project stalled out a bit.  There are a fair number of folks that are bugging me about updating it to RHEL5, and since a lot of folks here seem to want to update their Linux skills, it seemed like a good match.

The app, in a nutshell, breaks your system and lets you try to fix it.  It randomly selects one of it's "trouble scripts" and applies it, then gives you a pithy and incomplete explanation of the problem (to duplicate the sort of information you're likely to get from a user).  It's great for practicing for the RHCE exam, but it's also great for getting some experience fixing problems without the stress of having users breathing down your neck.  

I'm looking for people to, first, test the existing trouble scripts on modern systems and let me know what needs updating.  Secondly, they can update the scripts.  Third, they can write new ones.  Last, if they want, they can help me work on the engine.  I have some ideas that might make it more useful... but that's low priority.

For time commitment, it can take as little as 10 minutes to test a script, so I'm not looking for much.  Whatever people can give will be better than what I've got now.  For skill level, I'm also not picky.  Scripts can be written in Shell, Perl, Python, Ruby, or whatever you like, so long as you write the appropriate config file (it has environment checks so it doesn't run a Ruby script on a system lacking Ruby).  While I'd like people to push their boundaries on this project (best way to learn), I understand if folks are hesitant about leaping directly into a programming gig... so I have to stress, this really isn't programming unless you want it to be.

Does that make sense?


-Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
morej at alliancetechnologies.net
515-245-7701

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From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of Lathrop Preston [lathrop at prestonfam.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 21:01
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] TroubleMaker

Context on TroubleMaker for those of us who were not at the meeting or
didn't read the right thread would be nice.

Laith
-who would love to make a meeting again some day...

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Josh More
<MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
> I just sent a note out to the TroubleMaker list detailing status and future work.  If you signed up for the list at last night's meeting, you should have received the email.  If you did not and should, and you've checked your spam trap, drop me a note off list and I'll see what I can do.
>
> If you missed last night's meeting and want to be part of the project, also feel free to drop me a note off list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
> morej at alliancetechnologies.net
> 515-245-7701
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