It should be illegal to make a service that can't tell you what its running config is (even if it's from a helper tool).

And it should be illegal for it to be able to say "I'm doing this because of this condition (which is configurable)" without it saying which config it used.

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Poking around the Internet to understand some abused URLs.

Some people saying not to bother about requests for bad URLs. Even though some of the examples are blatant vulnerability probes.

How are you going to see the real bad URLs amongst the malicious noise if you don't do _something_ with them?

And how are you going to block the lazy hackers if you don't spot their dumb repeated probes first?

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Apparently Git Prompt is *noticeably* faster than HG Prompt when run on a Raspberry Pi.

Like "tenth of a second vs 5-7 seconds" faster! Even though both use sub-shells. But I guess it's Python startup vs Bash and binaries.

Which is a bit annoying when all my personal repos use Mercurial, and I like the version control info in my shell prompt 😕

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Restarted Postfix and suddenly it's chunking through the emails.

Even though `systemctl status postfix` said that it was all still alive and running. And the (split) Ubuntu logs didn't show any obvious errors.

Wonder why it died/locked up? 😕

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I'm not saying that a misconfigured service was causing my server to spin its wheels, but… 😬

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Okay, it _is_ possible to do dynamic editing of cached content before serving.

BUT you need "late init" enabled for it to work. Otherwise it adds a comment about it not being set and it might not quite work right.

And setting "late init" _still_ loads Wordpress. So my sub-100ms load times go back to >600ms 🙄

#Wordpress #SysAdminProblems

WHY ARE SOME OF MY SCRIPTS LOGGING SYNTAX ERRORS ETC AND THIS ONE SCRIPT ISN'T? IT MAKES NO SENSE! 😭

(And that's before we get to it logging to the wrong log file according to phpinfo.php - should be logging to /var/log/php-fpm/www-error.log, actually logging to its Apache log _or_ /var/log/php8.1-fpm.log)

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And so far I _cannot_ get Augeas to write the additional IPs to the config anywhere near as easily as I could on a CentOS system.

Why have IPv6 with a huge pool of IPs if you can't split things off onto secondary IPs?

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"Can't connect to socket [127.0.0.1]:10025 using module IO::Socket::IP"

That would be because you're on an IPv6 server and it's listening on ::1, like it says in your config 🧐

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Goddammit, I hate #RedHatSatellite so much right now. #RHEL #RedHat #Linux #SysAdmin #SysAdminProblems #SysAdminLife #LinuxAdmin

Damn, Satellite is running even slower than usual today. #RHEL #RedHat #Linux #patching #LinuxAdmin #Sysadmin #sysadminproblems #sysadminlife

First time #patching since the #surgery. Of course, one of the systems doesn't want to listen to the update script and holds up the output for the rest. I had to go into the problem child and kill the process, then run the script again. I also had to make sure the rest updated okay. #linux #rhel #linuxadmin #sysadmin #sysadminlife #sysadminproblems

Done with work until a short shift on Sunday for #patching. Onto my #RHCSA studying. #rhel #redhat #sysadmin #sysadminlife #sysadminproblems #linux #linuxadmin #unixadmin

Scheduled my #RHCSA exam. #redhat #rhel #rhcsaexam #linux #sysadmin #linuxadmin #unixadmin #sysadminlife #sysadminproblems

@polarisu at least I was able to transfer a short .mp4 on my #Windows10 laptop to the #Ubuntu server using #WinSCP to test that I could upload it and watch it using the #Plex app on our #Roku. So it's pretty much ready to go.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good #externalharddrive that plays nice with Plex and #Ubuntu? I'm probably just looking for a couple of terabytes. #sysadmin #sysadminlife #sysadminproblems #linux

So, since I think I've finally had it with all the #streamingservices BS, I made a #Plex server on my #Ubuntu partition that already hosts a #pihole server. I used to run Plex off of the #Windows8 partition years ago on the same desktop and wanted to get our old media files off of it to the new one on the Ubuntu partition.

Setting up the Plex server on Ubuntu was very easy and fast since I already have #SSH setup to remote to my Ubuntu system since the host is shoved into a corner and I only access it remotely from the same home network. Trying to get #RDP going from my #Windows10 laptop wouldn't work for some reason, even though RDP was enabled on the Windows 8 system.

So I gave up and just pulled out the computer and worked on it locally. I tried several methods to find the files. Again, the Plex server on Windows 8 was several years past its last use, so I couldn't remember where I kept the files, what type they were, or even what the proper name for them should be.

@polarisu helped me remember the files mostly were .mp4s, but even that last search was fruitless. Nothing under the default or any of the subfolders for Plex either. I finally asked,

"Did we delete these files?"

"Yeah, I think we did. It should be on my external drive. I put it in a bin in the basement, though."

"Oh."

I just had #neckfusion #surgery about a week ago for a #herniateddisc on my C5-C6 and can't lift anything over 5 lbs yet.

So yeah, that's going to have to wait.

#sysadmin #sysadminlife #sysadminproblems #PlexMediaServer #linux

Ok, it's time to stop dragging my feet and get some #RHCSA studyin' in. #RHEL #RHEL9 #RedHat #Linux #UnixAdmin #LinuxAdmin #Sysadmin #Sysadminlife #sysadminproblems

So #Windows, #VMWare & #RHEL9 all needed to update. Serves me right for not studying for a few weeks. #RHCSA #RedHat #Linux #LinuxAdmin #UnixAdmin #sysadmin #sysadminproblems

Need to get back on practicing for #rhcsa... #linux #unixadmin #rhel #linuxadmin #sysadmin #sysadminproblems

Latte keeps sleeping on my work laptop. WTF. #cats #blackcats #catsofmastodon #blackcatsofmastodon #WFH #WFHProblems #sysadmin #sysadminlife #sysadminproblems