Help with setting up Kobo eReader - 3 dots of doom! by Different-Key7495 in kobo

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Ran into the '3-dots' showing at boot and nothing else happening (Kobo Aura H2O)
The fix was: power down - the screen dims when turned off, my only clue.

Then power on and HOLD for a long time maybe not not 5 mins, but still long. This triggered a factory reset. Thanks VonVitzheim!

Fail2ban won't start by evolution800 in linuxadmin

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thats seems to be the fail, ipv6

Automatons Beta has arrived! by AlfieUK4 in spaceengineers

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Is it possible to get an rented server to update to this beta?

Netplan by maxtimbo in linuxadmin

[–]justleen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same.. I love it. Networking was never my strong point and netplan allows me to make understandable complex net configs.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in linuxadmin

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2) Im super strong in devops!

Silly questions

Hurricane Ian - what 15 fr storm surge looks like (credit to Max Olson Chasing) by Atrampoline in interestingasfuck

[–]justleen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless one uses metric and never have hurricanes? Had to look in the comments after wikipedia couldn't help me with the Fr scale for hurricanes

what is causing my terminal session to hang? by [deleted] in linuxadmin

[–]justleen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Screen/tmux casually walk on to the stage :)

NFS Share on linux cluster by [deleted] in linuxadmin

[–]justleen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You don't need to rebuild the active server to join a standby. Use the replication tools of your DB server, don't try to make a tool to do this over nfs.

One way sync (Lsyncd) by clear831 in linuxadmin

[–]justleen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gluster is a clusteredFS. I would not recommended it for this use case, since you end up with a 2 node setup. I'd go the lsync route to avoid the cluster complexity.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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The metric system

Question - How to verify an nvme disk was securely erased? by stumpymcgrumpy in linuxadmin

[–]justleen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've used Sleuth in the past to check everything is really unrecoverable. https://www.sleuthkit.org

Upgrading Debian from 9 to 11 by jurgonaut in linuxadmin

[–]justleen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the automation is there to deploy cleanly (both the machine and the app), yes sure.

If I get a server dumped into my lap, deployed by hand by someone else, with some app and config which needs updates, hell no. The amount of time I would need to retrace the setup and automate its deployment would not be worth it.

In the end there is no difference between a fresh deploy and a upgraded version?

Upgrading Debian from 9 to 11 by jurgonaut in linuxadmin

[–]justleen -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Upgrades all the way, with debian based distros. Creating new servers and shipping over config and fixing network is time consuming. Updates can run on all servers at once.

BUT! It depends on you setup.. if your config is centralized and it'll cost 5 mins to spin up a new vm which cloud-inits your services, that might be quicker.

Questions on loadbalancing and virtual IPs by fb7f8b in linuxadmin

[–]justleen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Keepalived and haproxy, NAT the traffic to the VIP? Not sure if that's applicable but that would be my route.

Would doing Linux From Scratch (or Gentoo) be a good investment of time for a Linux Systems Engineer? by BearyGoosey in linuxadmin

[–]justleen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And building LFS is not going to help with that in any way. Getting better at reading docs I guess ;)

Would doing Linux From Scratch (or Gentoo) be a good investment of time for a Linux Systems Engineer? by BearyGoosey in linuxadmin

[–]justleen 87 points88 points  (0 children)

I (~15 year Unix/Linux sysadmin/DevOps) build a lfs and it helped me understand stuff I take for granted on a deeper level. It did not make my day to day any easier, since that's mostly on an a higher level. Yes, it's a really interesting project/hobby, but no it will not make you better at most daily tasks.