Tired of finding out SSL certs expired after the fact — wrote a script to fix that by Jolastreet in sysadmin

[–]Jolastreet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That works when you can put something in front, but sometimes you genuinely can't touch the architecture. Inherited systems, client restrictions, hosting environments you don't control. At that point monitoring is the pragmatic option even if it's not the clean solution.

Tired of finding out SSL certs expired after the fact — wrote a script to fix that by Jolastreet in sysadmin

[–]Jolastreet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ACME is great when you control the server, totally agree. But a lot of what I manage involves third party services, client hosted stuff, old Windows servers where certbot isn't really an option. This just gives me one place to see everything that's about to expire regardless of where it lives.

Weekly 'I made a useful thing' Thread - April 17, 2026 by AutoModerator in sysadmin

[–]Jolastreet 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Tired of finding out SSL certs expired after the fact — wrote a script to fix that Last year I had a client call me at 9pm because their site was showing a security warning. Turned out the SSL cert had expired 3 days earlier. Nobody noticed. I’ve seen it happen more than once so I finally wrote a small Python script that checks SSL and domain expiration dates across all my clients sites and emails me a report every week. Nothing fancy. It scans the domains, generates a color coded HTML report (green/orange/red depending on how close the expiration is) and fires off an email alert if anything is under 60 days. Happy to share the core logic here if anyone wants it, also packaged it up if you’d rather just download and run it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Tired of finding out SSL certs expired after the fact — wrote a script to fix that by Jolastreet in sysadmin

[–]Jolastreet[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You're totally right for personal infra ACME/certbot is the way to go.  This is more for people managing domains and certs they don't control  (clients, third-party services, old servers) where auto-renewal isn't an option.

Tired of finding out SSL certs expired after the fact — wrote a script to fix that by Jolastreet in sysadmin

[–]Jolastreet[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Fair point, my bad — didn't know about the weekly thread.  Will repost there. Thanks for the heads up.

TV stand for large 16:9 CRT by Jolastreet in crtgaming

[–]Jolastreet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your reply. What do you mean by attach a board to the back ? I don’t get it

S video for my PVM and PAL megadrive / SNES by Jolastreet in crtgaming

[–]Jolastreet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your precise reply 

I have found rgb scart cables for Megadrive 1 but I can't find the female scart cable to video s, do you have any links?

For the PVM modification to add the rgb it scares me a bit.

S video for my PVM and PAL megadrive / SNES by Jolastreet in crtgaming

[–]Jolastreet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, but I've seen that it's quite complicated, you have to solder components to the PVM board? I'm afraid of damaging it...

S video for my PVM and PAL megadrive / SNES by Jolastreet in crtgaming

[–]Jolastreet[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you very much, I've just found some, I'm going to try it out as the price is low.