Daily Archives: 2023-12-29 [Friday]

Setting Konsole title to $USER@$HOSTNAME

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First: Settings -> Configure Konsole -> General -> Show window title on the titlebar (checked)

Then: System -> Configure Konsole -> Profiles -> [Default] -> Edit… -> Tabs:

  • Tab title format: %w
  • Remote table title format: %w

Then you need this config and these two shell functions in your .bashrc:

# 2023-12-29 jj5 - if not running interactively, don't do anything
case $- in
    *i*) ;;
      *) return;;
esac

# 2023-12-29 jj5 - set the Konsole window title
echo -ne "\033]2;$USER@$HOSTNAME\007" >&2

# 2023-12-29 jj5 - intercept ssh and sudo commands to reset window title on exit:
ssh() {
    /usr/bin/ssh "$@"
    echo -ne "\033]2;$USER@$HOSTNAME\007" >&2
}
sudo() {
    /usr/bin/sudo "$@"
    echo -ne "\033]2;$USER@$HOSTNAME\007" >&2
}

Transferring large files with Salt file.managed

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Well, this took me a few hours to figure out.

If you’re going to be transferring large files using file.managed in your salt state, make sure you specify show_changes: False, otherwise salt will start trying to boil the ocean and calculate the unified diff of your enormous files.

The clue that this is the problem you're having is if one of your CPU cores pegs at 100% and your state doesn't apply in a reasonable amount of time (minutes, I guess).

Also you probably want to make sure you're not trying to use your large file as any sort of template. By default file.managed will assume no template, which is what you want for large files that aren't templates. I've never used large files which are templates, but I suspect if you tried that you'd have a bad time.