Installing Debian on a server (Old laptop) first, so I can I can backup my files via rsync and finally update my main laptop to Debian Trixie.
Also this old laptop will be used by my parents afterwards.
#justadminthings #debian #admin #gnulinux #linux
#JustAdminThings
My #Letsencrypt certificates auto-renewed (yay!) but did not propagate correctly to #Prosody (XMPP server), and #Slidge (Whatsapp-to-XMPP bridge) silently lost connection, meaning that I missed on roughly a week of family chat, only thinking "what a boring time of year".
I'll have to rethink this Rube Goldberg machine of message delivery.
Forgot to enable-linger on my NAS, download job I wanted to run over night just stopped when I logged out, feels like compiling-your-kernel-overnight-getting-stuck-10-minutes-in-after-you-went-to-bed-because-of-some-weird-kmenu-question all over again #90sKernelThings #FirstWorldProblems #JustAdminThings
tfw you're a proud Polish girl from Toronto (29 y/o) #justAdminThings
POV you are Nicole, but I can call you the Fediverse Chick
OH: Ich mach erstmal die Dateien und dann gibt's Peak Traffic auf dem DNS …
Message Fatigue is really a thing. If you have a thing that produces a bunch of messages and logs to say everything went well, and you're monitoring a bunch of it, you're eventually going to mentally filter it out as "normal" and it just becomes noise.
it's much easier for the "omg everything is on fire" message to be lost in the noise then.
Unix has the right of it, if everything went well, say nothing, exit stage left with value 0.
Die Anwendung nutzt das Ruby-De-Rails-Framework …
Zum frühen Morgähn erstmal untersuchen, welches der zig Geräte im Server-Schrank unüberhörbar laut piept …
Spoiler: Es war die USV …
Ah yes. Consistency and #Microsoft.
They want a UTF-8 file as config.
I generate one in Powershell and write the file using Out-File -Encoding UTF8 LayoutModification.json
Which generates a file with BOM, which the system refuses to read; without any error message found anywhere.
This problem took at least a full day to find... and lots of cursing :blobcatcry: :blobcatcry: :blobcatghost: #justAdminThings #Windows11
Well yeah... Devs using #docker containers like VMs for #qa...
2 months, 10 containers, 500 GB of disk space used...
Each #container having its log file around 45 GB in size, over 84 MILION lines...
And that's the only reason we have a dedicated server for that... Cannot virtualize it... Cuz they won't change their QA process...
#justadminthings #docker #linux #centos #ubuntu #testing #godwhy #help
Story time: I've had a few people recently message me regarding their strong suspicions that we had somebody impersonating (in their words catfishing) on aus.social.
While I couldn't find anything that proved one way or the other, I was able to directly contact the person via linked in of all places and confirm their identity.
This isn't a regular issue, but I hope it builds trust and safety on this platform. Thank you for people who raised concerns of the possible stolen identity, and thank you for the person for being understanding of our concerns.
Edit: that said, I think a few people got in contact with them directly, and spooked them away.... please just report these things and leave them to myself/mods instead of messaging people directly. It's the mods job.
User messages me saying they can't send emails.
"Well your mailbox is full. Especially folders X Y and Z. And your sent box has 15 GB in it."
"I'm confused I'm in those accounts daily of course they will be bigger."
>angrily typing about the 6 year old emails in her box
>delete message
"You can try just archiving the emails from defunct locations and leave the account folder?"
Head > Desk
#users #office365 #sysadmin #systemsadministration #exchange #justadminthings
#fun!!!
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/util-linux_2.37.2-4ubuntu3_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/bin/su', which is also in package login 1:4.5-1ubuntu2.5
@meave *gets ideas* also, my admin is messier and has no impressive boots :( but she does like providing service... #justadminthings
Eben einen alten Server upgedatet, der nicht in der zentralen Verwaltung ist und wohl ein paar Monate vergessen wurde (ist ein interner legacy Server). Hatte mich auf eine Yak Shaving Tortur eingestellt. Hat aber einwandfrei geklappt. Was mache ich jetzt bis zur Mittagspause?!
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