@grumpybozo@toad.socialIt’s amusing to me that the only times I’ve ever seen a FreeBSD graphical login screen has been @… screenshots. 30 years as a user and sysadmin and it has never been a thing I have thought to set up.
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@grumpybozo@toad.socialI need to stop even doing the no-brainer tickets for the day. I almost chewed out a client for not knowing how to make her screenshots mail-worthy and then being confused by a 28MB message being rejected.
I was a good boy. I spent 10 minutes rephrasing myself to be inoffensive. I think.
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@grumpybozo@toad.socialWhat's that work thing that I keep forgetting about until I run into it while doing something else and realize that I really need to fix that?
Why don't you know?
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@grumpybozo@toad.socialSure, I can migrate a Redmine from its 2012 Ubuntu server to a modern machine and upgrade everything.
I am a sysadmin.
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@grumpybozo@toad.socialIn case anyone is wondering how my day has been. #Sysadminnery #IHateWindows
@grumpybozo@toad.socialWe are NOT AMUSED.
If you're hosted by Aceville, you're dead to me.
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![screenshot from the VM used for SpamAssassin RuleQA. It shows the runn of the command 'w' which reveals one logged in user and triple-digit load averages.
Raw Text:
root@sa-vm:/var/log/apache2# w
14:28:18 up 111 days, 8:42, 1 user, load average: 208.31, 203.42, 138.01
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
billcole pts/0 67.149.19.2 14:02 4.00s 7.525 0.22s sshd: billcole [priv]](https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/115/225/807/536/287/221/original/bfc3701df0c614e2.png)
@grumpybozo@toad.socialWhy is there no scanf(1)?
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@grumpybozo@toad.socialThe verbs are out of order.
EHLO
STARTTLS
EHLO (a 2nd time, inside the TLS session)
AUTH
MAIL FROM
RCPT TO
DATA
QUIT
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@grumpybozo@toad.social @grumpybozo@toad.socialIn case you were wondering: no, it is NOT safe to do an unconstrained zfs send of the root filesystem to a vmhgfs-mounted filesystem.
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@grumpybozo@toad.socialI'm not pleased with what is being done to most tasks here, but I do love total perfect CPU utilization...
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@grumpybozo@toad.socialA bit of actually helpful #Sysadminnery...
So, you don't have a DBA on staff because the databases you "administer" are all designed by external app developers and a DBA would have no work? Your databases have been running w/o intervention for years, aren't generating errors? Getting used to everything kinda running slow?
Schedule an annual date to do the equivale…
@grumpybozo@toad.socialAlthough I must admit, I much prefer crystal-clear problems (URL NO CONNECT) with clean fixes over the sort I spend most of my time on, where I can only see the problem through the lens of other people's perception of slow vs. fast across something like a 10k-mile connection. With all the concomitant obscurants, both technical and cultural.
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@grumpybozo@toad.socialHad a major customer infra migration today, went perfectly fine until it didn't, right when boss/network guy was boarding a plane.
He spent most of his DC-Miami trip texting w/me getting me to look at everything except his firewalls. He even made me go digging into a Win22 IIS and on-host firewall config, which is an absolute fucking nightmare.
Guess where the problem was...
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