Good morning, friends of #BSDCafe and the #Fediverse!

Today, I'm doing some maintenance on a few servers, migrating a couple of #CentOS to #FreeBSD, and an old #Linux firewall with #iptables (done manually) to #OpenBSD with #pf.

Some users (myself included) have noticed that the FreeBSD Fortune bot tends to repost the same advice frequently. According to my statistical calculations, it should repost the same fortune every 4/5 days, but in reality, there seems to be very little randomization. The output is generated directly from the 'fortune(6)' command on FreeBSD, so for now, I'll let it be. In the end, it's one post per hour, so it shouldn't 'spam' too much.

Have a great day ahead! 😊 #SysAdmin #ServerMaintenance #TechLife #ITproblems #Randomization #RunBSD

A shout out to all IT specialists on here is there any good sources to learn vSphere/ESXi? It's a nightmare to use and even the senior tech and director isn't fully clued up on how it works. It's taken me all day to get a server running again on a host. #vmware #vsphere #esxi #vmwareexplore #servers #serverdown #servermaintenance #serverroulette

due to the "well I'll be danged" levels of new members during the soft-launch of the instance, we will need to have some planned downtime in order to upgrade our server with more RAM. It should only take a few minutes in this case. will post again when we have an exact time.

later in the month we will need to have a longer planned outage as we move storage off the main server, more details on that when we have them.
#ServerMaintenance #PlannedDowntime #NMSAnnouncements #TechWG

okay, #ServerMaintenance, upgraded to the latest. Is everything still working? Does media work?

#servermaintenance up to date with glitch-soc again!

added some links to donation and status pages to the about page! https://tilde.zone/about

i will try to remember to tag maintenance updates with the #servermaintenance hashtag