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@dafyre said in Installing SaltStack Salt-Minion to Solus Linux:

@quixoticjustin said in Installing SaltStack Salt-Minion to Solus Linux:

Solus Linux lacks a native package for SaltStack and so to use it as a Salt Minion you have to grab the packages from GitHub and create it yourself. Special thanks to @scottalanmiller who looked into this and Exoner4ted in the Solus community who did the research and figured out how to make this work.

Remember to change "saltmastip" to the actual IP of your salt master or handle that however makes sense for you.

cd /tmp; wget https://github.com/saltstack/salt/archive/2018.3.zip unzip 2018.3.zip; cd /tmp/salt-2018.3/ python /root/salt-2018.3setup.py install echo "saltmasterip salt" >> /etc/hosts cp /root/salt-2018.3/pkg/salt-minion.service /usr/lib/systemd/system/ systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl enable salt-minion eopkg install python-pyzmq pycrypto python-msgpack python-tornado python-jinja pyyaml systemctl restart salt-minion

Unfortunately this package is not self updating.

Once you get the initial client installed, you should be able to to push out new salt-minion packages via Salt itself, right?

Yes, but not using a repo. So you'd need to build your own installer / updater inside of a Salt state. Totally possible, but not as simple as telling it to update.

@nerdydad said in Fun Sodium Slogans:

@quixoticjustin said in Fun Sodium Slogans:

Sodium, Reactive and Useful

Liking that one the most.

That one will be better when we get moved to an actually reactive interface. Till then, it's funny but a bit misleading 🙂

@scottalanmiller said in August 18 Sodium Update Roundup:

Avatars are pretty cool. It immediately makes the whole thing feel more polished, for one. But it also means that a lot of times you can shrink things and use little avatars to clean up screen real estate to make things easier.

Yep and that's definitely the direction this will head. This release in particular was just getting the foundation of avatars in place but it will be used all over the place eventually.

@wls-itguy said in Sodium Agent Support Matrix:

@scottalanmiller said in Sodium Agent Support Matrix:

Added MacOS 10.11

Should the Mac machines be checking in or is something still wonky?

No, Macs will not check in.

The team is wrapping up for the night. It's been a long, productive night. See everyone tomorrow as we attempt to get more updates rolled out for you.

Or maybe I'll just make @QuixoticJustin do it. That could be fun too.

@dustinb3403 said in What Do You Want in a Helpdesk and Ticketing System?:

/s I want beer and food from my help desk system. Can you build that in? /s-off

Now that would be an amazing feat. No one would ever use a different ticketing system. Not to mention I would never get any further work done ever again lol.

@manxam said in Sodium System Status:

@QuixoticJeremy, I installed the agent on a Windows 10 system a few days ago but Sodium does not show any information beneath "Applications" for it.

Also, it enumerated the DVD drive (E:) but shows "Not Available" for all of the data. Could you do a quick WMI check on drives to determine if they're ROM and, if empty (isReady = False), show "Empty" or something along those lines?

[IO.DriveInfo]::GetDrives() | where { $_.DriveType -eq 'CDRom' }

Name : E:
DriveType : CDRom
DriveFormat :
IsReady : False
AvailableFreeSpace :
TotalFreeSpace :
TotalSize :
RootDirectory : E:
VolumeLabel :

Hi @manxam! Thanks for posting/helping us test. Yep, you are 100% right, the applications not showing is indeed a known issue and I'm actually working on it as we speak. (It was reported on Friday but we've had some crisis situations that prevented me from getting to it until now). As for the storage side of things I'm making note of that and will check into that right after I fix the app bug. Thanks again!