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Doctrine Error: Expected Plain Value

Mar 19, 2015 php

I’m so used to PHP’s liberal allowance for single and double quotes, that I forget that other languages and tool-sets don’t play that way. Case in point, my most recent error:

Ansible Installation of Postfix with No Prompts

Mar 13, 2015 linux scripting

Using an Ansible configuration, I wanted to use postfix on ubuntu to send out mail. However, I couldn’t seem to figure out exactly how to get it to stop asking for input during the apt-get install postfix process. Turns out, you can use debconf to set the values that are necessary for the install.