James Wells / is on Nostr

Ordained minister, US Navy veteran, HAM radio operator, Sr UNIX systems engineer, and lifelong Republican

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2024-07-07 13:54:53

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You don't need to rm before the mv as the mv will replace the existing file.

2024-06-30 18:15:20

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@npub18sq…29ap
Might I suggest looking into Gravitational's Teleport (https://github.com/gravitational/teleport). A feature-rich replacement for SSH.

2024-06-29 18:52:28

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Very nice. You might want to add a step to notify your monitoring system though of a reboot about to happen.

2024-06-10 15:56:12

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And that is why I will never live on the moon. Having 5 Mondays a week is bad enough.

2024-06-07 18:10:49

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Oh you poor thing... You need to detox stat... I recommend 2 hours of Monster Trucks, while drinking Monster energy drinks.

2024-05-30 12:41:34

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https://mastodon.acm.org/system/media_attachments/files/112/530/080/036/256/451/original/c2d1cfa13d509452.jpg

2024-05-10 20:44:13

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Something wrong with the URL you posted. I get a 'Oops, we couldn't find the page you were looking for' page.

2024-05-08 23:00:57

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So far, Amazon Prime Video has not gotten to my drop it threshold, but it is trying to get there.
Netflix is trying to get there are well, but I get Netflix for free through my cell phone provider, so they safe for now at least.

2024-05-07 15:23:37

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Just in the last month;
1. Physical machine booting up, getting a valid IP address and route from DHCP but being able to ping anything on the internet.
2. VM SSH'ing to a specific IP address but getting to a machine with a different IP address.
3. Deleting a file (successful) but still seeing the file on the filesystem with a 6 month old timestamp.
Been intentionally breaking things in my home lab to practice / learn new technologies. I am a human chaos monkey at times. 🤣

2024-04-23 19:04:08

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I used the live workstation image and told it to do the install. After first boot, packagekit ran for about 30ish minutes, and then another 5ish minutes when I used the UI to perform a poweroff as there were more updates still.

2024-04-23 18:44:49

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Well I didn't find a good log to monitor it, but I was able to confirm that it really is updating the system and the updates were pretty time consuming.

2024-04-23 17:16:32

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Server edition didn't do it, but when I ran dnf update there were over 100 packages to be updated / installed. With the load their servers and CDNs must be under right now, I am gonna guess it would have taken quite a bit longer than most administrators / end users are comfortable waiting on a fresh install.

2024-04-23 16:35:20

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Not a fedora person, but you got me curious so now I am downloading it to my homelab.

2024-04-23 16:15:41

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I am not aware of any way to monitor it save watching logs.

2024-04-23 16:00:37

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Someone mentioned this yesterday, but apparently Fedora turned on the boot-time security update / upgrade feature of packagekit.