🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>Gave up on it after Rust build choked when building as a ClamAV dependency from ports, also when building directly on its own. I think I know why clamav has been sitting there so long with an audit-noted vuln. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Clamav" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Clamav</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a></p>
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🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>2 hours+ now. It’s MUCH less efficient in the install stage. <br />I need to remember to never do this again. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Clamav" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Clamav</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>I love the smell of perfect cpu utilization… <br /><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>Customer just asked us to upgrade-in-place their 12yo RoR-based PM app currently running on Ubuntu 12. <br />Not looking forward to this fun.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>The people committed to DDoSing the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Apache</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SpamAssassin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpamAssassin</span></a> RuleQA server seem to have substantial resources. I’ve blocked a lot of them, but they keep coming, asking about things like the May 7 2017 performance of a single rule in one contributor's stats. Not stuff real people want. </p><p>Of course, there's a resource they do not have. Our sysadmins, both those employed by <a href="https://toad.social/tags/TheASF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TheASF</span></a> to watch all of our infra and the volunteer cadre focused on SA. We'll keep whacking the moles... </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>Well then, I guess I’ll have to replace that disk… </p><p>Except it’s a virtual disk, and should NOT be doing that. None of the other umpty-zillion VMs in that zone are showing trouble. Only this one. And the 3 other instances I launched before based on the the same original image, provided as a pre-built one for <a href="https://toad.social/tags/OpenNebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenNebula</span></a> from the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Alma" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alma</span></a> site. On different physical hosts.</p><p>I am pondering how the content+config of system image could lead to this. sysctls? </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/OpenNebula" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenNebula</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AlmaLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AlmaLinux</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>writing json by hand in a janky Java console to get a network working is what I live for.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>Locked myself and everyone else out of a production mail machine for ~20 seconds today because ipfw did *something* that knocked all the rules out except for the default deny. </p><p>2 hours later I’m still mystified. I re-did everything I was doing before it died and it did not recur. I have nowhere else to look. I will never know. </p><p>But I sure am glad that I added the watchdog that kills the fw when it's working too well. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>My least favorite work interactions are with customers’ 3rd party “rockstar” consultants. I never know how to respond to certain sorts of queries. Ones where I could answer the question as asked but it really implies a deeper misunderstanding. I feel like I want to write him a treatise on VPNs: what they are and how they work. And Cc his boss (who shares his surname…) to communicate the depth of the problem. </p><p>I’m letting my boss handle it. He’s the networking guy anyway… </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>I love being the bespoke whiteglove MSP that not only handles YOUR mail with skill and care, we’ll even troubleshoot your business partners’ shabby mail systems if they happen to have made unwise choices.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a><br />(NOTE: This is not a solicitation for more such trade...)</p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>I built most of my <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a> finger memory in commercial Unices. Some of that stuff just never goes away. I can't give up netstat and ifconfig either. <br />More correctly: nets<TAB> and ifco<TAB> <a href="https://toad.social/@grumpybozo/114650088512032368" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">toad.social/@grumpybozo/114650</span><span class="invisible">088512032368</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>Canonical is evil. </p><p>If I wanted to use nano, I suppose I might run something like "nanosudo" </p><p>BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT I RAN. </p><p>It only took me about 30 seconds of flailing before I noticed the garbage at the bottom of the screen. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Ubuntu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ubuntu</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/sudo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sudo</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>I do not like terabyte-scale log files. They are obnoxious. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/NoContextForYou" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoContextForYou</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>If you are having trouble getting the the <a href="https://toad.social/tags/SpamAssassin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SpamAssassin</span></a> infra in recent days, thank AS136907 (Huawei) for hosting so many DDoS-bots asking rule-qa.cgi impossible questions</p><p>This may get me to do something evil in that script.... </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InfoSec</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>I will never understand how it is that >3 decades into Linux being in direct competition to <a href="https://toad.social/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> et al. I still cannot ^T on a 'hung' terminal to see what's going on. <br />Right behind the inconsistency related to BS/DEL mapping that sometimes breaks password entry on my list of pet peeves. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>Finally, our EDR provider alerted us to something real and actionable. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/InfoSec" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InfoSec</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>I really hate maintaining Gitlab. We don't make huge use of it at this point but it is where some things we use got developed so we need it. It wouldn't be so terrible if they just fixed the upgrade process. I'm having to do 3 steps of upgrade to get from 17.0 to 17.11.1, each with fidgety manual steps in between that COULD be scripted but mysteriously are not. I sense that they really don't like people installing the "Community Edition" (free) & want it to be painful. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>Just transferred 3 expiring-soon domains out of <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Gandi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Gandi</span></a> to <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Porkbun" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Porkbun</span></a>. Total cost for adding a year to all of them was $30 and change. Gandi wanted a few cents less than $40 to renew any one of those domains.</p><p>Why, yes, there *was* a private equity buyout and later resale of Gandi. How could you tell? </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Domains" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Domains</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/registrars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>registrars</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>A decade of tangled tech debt came due today for me. In my defense, much of it was locked in during my hiatus from this job, when these bits of infrastructure were being stood up by very junior administrators with lax supervision. Not really their fault, I was not there to ask the right questions when they needed them. </p><p>But basically I need to rebuild/update/rethink a production environment with dozens of hosts and hundreds of customer VMs. No one else is going to. </p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/FML" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FML</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a></p>
🆘Bill Cole 🇺🇦<p>I think the reason I get so tied up in knots with git as a non-developer is that I always forget that branch is not switch. Then I forget that having done that causes nasty side-effects. <br />It just took me an hour of flailing to switch from a clean checkout of one upstream branch to another one adjacent to it. I think I've had exactly this problem a half-dozen times.</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Sysadminnery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Sysadminnery</span></a></p>
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