Some bad news. Something's gone horribly awry with my #YunoHost deployment. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!

This is a two-part issue. First, the smaller of the two issues: Phanpy has gone AWOL. It's visible in some places, but not others.

Phany is listed as an app on the front page of the YunoHost UI.

But go into Admin, and it's not listed as an installed app.

Go to the URL it was installed at, and it's just a blank screen.

And yet. When I SSH in, and see what's in the /etc/yunohost/apps folder, Phanpy's files are still clearly installed on the server.

Now, here's where the Phanpy situation is a big issue... [1/3]

#Fedihelp #Mastodon #GoToSocial #Phanpy #Linux #LinuxHelp #SysAdmin #YunoHostAdmin #YunoHosters #YunoHostHelp

What's the lifespan of a "temporary" workaround in IT?

Approximately the same as the universe, according to the ancient IT proverb: "There's nothing as permanent as a temporary solution."

This is so much like the daily Ops morning meetings I'm in that I've taken to ending them with "Hey - let's be careful out there." #sysadmin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCWu3PkjEPQ

The Server That Wasn't Meant to Exist

A story from 16 years ago - trust, tech, and a server that had to disappear. They offered me a blank check. I said no.

https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/05/13/the_server_that_wasnt_meant_to_exist/

Oh fuck me. It's a #FullMoon on a #PatchTuesday

Any superstitious #sysadmin about?

BSDCan is in Ottawa, with tutorials June 11-12, 2025, talks & BOFs June 13-14, 2025

Registration is open - https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html, register before May 19 to get the reception free!

Also see https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdcan-2025-talks-tutorials-and-registration/ for descriptions and tips, also https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/timetable/?layout=room#20250612.detailed

Sysadmin journal: setting up wireguard on all of my Linux desktops

I had to hack together a few things to use wireguard transparently on my Android phone and all of my Linux laptops and desktop.
#ddclient #Linux #NetworkManager #VPN #wireguard #Ansible #SysAdmin
https://blog.kamens.us/2025/05/10/sysadmin-journal-setting-up-wireguard-on-all-of-my-linux-desktops/

BSDCan is in Ottawa, with tutorials June 11-12, 2025, talks & BOFs June 13-14, 2025

Registration is open - https://www.bsdcan.org/2025/registration.html, register before May 19 to get the reception free!

Also see https://blog.bsdcan.org/2025/03/18/bsdcan-2025-talks-tutorials-and-registration/ for descriptions and tips, also https://indico.bsdcan.org/event/5/contributions/

I just passed the Red Hat Certified System Administrator exam!

Okay, #windows #sysadmin folks: what's your favorite native DNS client? One that returns actual NXDOMAIN or NODATA errors?

No, resolve-dnsHost isn't that. It hides details.

No, not on WSL. Native client, for Windows admins. #n4sa2e

Uh...

PS > resolve-DnsName -Name google.com

gives me:

2607:f8b0:4009:81b::200e and 142.251.32.14. Fine.

$ dig google.com @8.8.8.8

gives me six addresses, all in 142.251.163.0/24.

#sysadmin #headdesk

Is consistency too much to ask for?

[edit to add: this is google playing silly buggers, not powershell. see replies]

Oh, hey, Microsoft replaced nslookup with a PowerShell client, Resolve-DnsName -- huzzah!

And... it doesn't show the actual DNS error codes? NODATA vs NXDOMAIN vs SERVFAIL matters, folks.

Sigh. Looks like #n4sa2e will recommend dig for Windows people. AGAIN.

Protéger tous ses sites avec Anubis https://www.journalduhacker.net/s/ykcd0n/prot_ger_tous_ses_sites_avec_anubis https://dryusdan.space/proteger-tous-ses-sites-avec-anubis #hébergement #sysadmin

Root zone hints file update on 25 April? Grab yours now!

https://www.internic.net/domain/named.root #sysadmin

i know you all are sysadmin nerds, any recommendations for a small cheap server rack? need probably about 6u, more would be cool too.
and if you have reccs for a rack-mounted ATX chassis and rack-mounted ethernet switch, thatd be awesome too ​​

#sysadmin #selfhosted #selfhosting

Hey les #geek et #sysadmin, si vous vouliez mettre en place un petit wiki pour une orga, un truc simple à héberger et à utiliser, vous utiliseriez quoi?

Merci :)

I have a dream. [No, nothing that earthshaking or inspiring.]

Picture a tool that could use ssh and winrm to pull all scheduled tasks, systemd timers and cronjobs, and put them on a time line.

So you could see where your backups overlap, or if half your machines are all downloading something at the same time...

Anybody seen any sort of a 'time line builder' kind of thing? Getting the data is a secondary issue, if I could easily display it sanely.

Comparing a Pentium II to a Raspberry Pi. That's gonna get me some good benchmark hate. #n4sa2e

But still, a Pi would be a perfectly adequate recursive nameserver. The load is minuscule. #sysadmin

Fellow #SysAdmin curious how you found your current position. :)