Tootfinder

I hate when I screw up.
I know, it happens every now and then to everyone. It just sucks so bad.
Make sure your programmatically deployed config files don’t have lingering interface details specific to one machine. Weird things happen. Terrible things.
<sigh>
#Sysadminnery

Just so that anyone unfamiliar with the fundamentals of #Sysadminnery doesn’t misunderstand:
If OpenAI had wanted a closed testing sandbox, they would have actually constructed and used a closed testing sandbox. THIS IS NOT HARD.
Sure, it's possible that they have shit netadmins and sysadmins who couldn’t contain a test planned by shit devoopsies and project managers unwilling …

No, really, creating a login role account so multiple people can have access to support a system is very bad.
— How I make developers look at me incredulously.
#InfoSec #Sysadminnery

The metric of the day is “oom-kills per hour”
I is SRE
#Sysadminnery

Cool. After an hour of trying to log into an actively DDoS’d webserver, all 5 retry cycles seem to have reached authentication…
#Sysadminnery

I’m building a toolchain to get OpenSSH 10 running on CentOS 6 on a production box to fix backups, in case anyone is envying my July 4 festivities.
#Sysadminnery

RE: #Sysadminnery

LOL…
Just wasted most of a day and all of my capacity for diplomacy on a customer whose problem amounted to “Microsoft has a feature I dislike.”
It’s called “Focused Inbox” and while I also now believe it to be a flawed feature, I believe that it provides some users with something they want, and that their provider of $REDACTED just has to deal with not being that important to users…
#Sysadminnery

RE: https://toad.social/@grumpybozo/116692326777473465
“Seem” is a favorite word…
The machine was gummed up to the point where fail2ban saw my failed logins as an attack.

I swear there is nothing more annoying in my job than the complete and total nightmare of domain names, distinct auth systems, and self-competing branding that fell out of SolarWinds’ dismemberment.
I never saw the value in this mess and still don’t. I only ever touch any of it when it makes noise, which it only does when the tooling itself is breaking in ways that I can't even comprehend based on the alerts.