Jokes aside, Mailcow works very well and the author's support is awesome; this one I use and recommend.
I would say that Mailcheap's web site has lots of information, but that's me. I don't use it as I host my own email (besides using Office 365/G Suite/others depending on the client). I just seemed to me that it checked all @thwr needs while being recommended by people I trust.
$0.02

@nashbrydges said in Synology external access - weird information:

@bbigford I manage 3 separate Synology NAS units for clients, 2 with dynamic IPs and 1 with static IP and the requirements were essentially exactly the same for all 3. Ensure the correct port was directed to the device and DSM just worked. Wonder if your user has missed something.

That's what I'm thinking. I responded a moment before you did with a previous conflict regarding proper PAT. If he would allow me to just log in and do it myself that would cost them less operationally. I typically follow up with reminder emails that if I'm left to do my work with proper access, it costs them less overall. Comes down to a trust issue; it is just going to take time to bust through their ego and allow me to do my job.

Pretty sure that's part of the patch(es) applied for Meltdown & Spectre - I also have it on XS7.2 hosts

You likely want to make an app that talks to email via something like IMAP and parses them that way.

Comedy Bang Bang
Harmontown
Spontanenation
The Joe Rogan Experience (especially if you like MMA/UFC fights)
WTF with Marc Maron

(this list is only effective if you like comedy)

@black3dynamite said in Ansible role for GRAV:

@stacksofplates said in Ansible role for GRAV:

I think the coolest thing about it is being a flat file setup, you can check the whole CMS into Git and do all of your edits and updates through configuration management.

So I would just have create a new repo from within the root directory?

Well I was thinking more update the site, make page changes, etc on my local repo. Push changes up to my repo in Gitlab/Github whatever and then have a post-receive hook that pushes changes to the web server.

@dafyre said in Fedora Powerloss:

@thwr said in Fedora Powerloss:

@dafyre said in Fedora Powerloss:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Powerloss:

@dafyre said in Fedora Powerloss:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Powerloss:

@thwr said in Fedora Powerloss:

@scottalanmiller said in Fedora Powerloss:

@emad-r said in Fedora Powerloss:

@mattbagan said in Fedora Powerloss:

sume, I would need to start over with the vm installs, considering they were in the middle of installing the OS. Host machine is setup with mdadm raid.

check the file system for errors + scrub the raid array if you are paranoid

XFS doesn't even have a filesystem check utility 🙂

xfs_check
http://docs.cray.com/books/S-2377-22/html-S-2377-22/z1029470303.html

Does it actually do something? XFS famously does a placebo check.

Yes, it actually does something. It's fixed a couple of systems here for me that wouldn't mount a data drive.

Interesting. With XFS?

Yepp. I know the system is XFS. I'm trying to get connected to it now, but it lost it's AD connection and I don't have a local login on it, lol.

Can't you boot the machine using some LiveCD and alter the PAM order / add pam_unix/pam_localuser? You could also change root's password this way. This only works if the drive is not encrypted or you have the key.

Yeah, I could do that, but I like my job, lol. In an emergency that's what we do, but this isn't an emergency (the system is up, my login isn't working).

If you say so 😉

@matteo-nunziati said in Hypervisor preference - costs included:

Also one thing to consider is that some hypervisor level backup solutions will cost in the 500€-750€ ballpark. A single paid version of veeam agent server (which does CBT) costs 130 per guest! And I cite veeam just because it is widespread.

Even with 10 machines this is a bit of a cost IMHO. In my previous work I've spent 500€ for a backup solution which managed 12 VMs - with all the fancy stuff: CBT, dedup, incremental, blablabla and yes: a single pane of plastic.

I do not think that costs are to be kept out of the equation here.

Very true. But in most cases I look at, we don't use an agent of that nature. Veeam's agent is great, but I'd see it as more special case.

@jaredbusch said in Anyone heard a date for Windows 10 1803:

I have a new deployment coming March 8-12 and Would prefer to not have a new update a few weeks later.

Too late to reschedule things now, but I was jsut wondering what anyone has heard.

Googled around a bit and just been seeing "March" and nothing else.

Here:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3234766/microsoft-windows/windows-10-update-and-retirement-calendar-mark-these-dates.html

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3256148/microsoft-windows/microsoft-hints-at-early-april-release-of-windows-10s-next-feature-upgrade.html

but nothing on the official release and revision site
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-info.aspx

@bnrstnr said in WordPress behind NGINX Reverse Proxy issues:

@scottalanmiller said in WordPress behind NGINX Reverse Proxy issues:

https://mangolassi.it/topic/13062/install-a-basic-wordpress-site-with-wp-cli

Doh, somehow I missed this.

And this one.... 🙂

https://mangolassi.it/topic/16084/installing-fedora-27-lamp-stack-plus-wordpress/

@scottalanmiller said in Installing WordPress on Fedora 25 and 26 Minimal install:

For ease and speed and better management, I highly recommend using WP-CLI for all of your downloading, updating, configuration, etc. One like of WP-CLI will eliminate most of this installation, while making it easier to maintain in the long run.

https://mangolassi.it/topic/13062/install-a-basic-wordpress-site-with-wp-cli

Yup, that's what I use now, I won't every go back!

https://mangolassi.it/topic/16084/installing-fedora-27-lamp-stack-plus-wordpress

If you do it on Hyper-V, this may help initially:

https://www.timothygruber.com/hyper-v-2/run-a-nested-vm-on-kvm-qemu-vm-in-hyper-v/

@black3dynamite said in Meltdown Shows Why to Avoid LTS Releases:

What makes Red Hat and SUSE exempt compare to CentOS and OpenSUSE leap? Because we are paying for the support?

Nothing makes them exempt, they ARE CentOS and Leap, just paid for instead of free. They suffer just the same.

Found it. You have to share the site to any users first, before that option shows up. Just sharing documents doesn't actually generate that option. So once you share a document, it's shared. That option isn't for shared out documents, it's for the site itself.

@scottalanmiller said in Reboot a Yealink phone from the command line of a FreePBX system:

@dbeato said in Reboot a Yealink phone from the command line of a FreePBX system:

@jaredbusch said in Reboot a Yealink phone from the command line of a FreePBX system:

@dbeato said in Reboot a Yealink phone from the command line of a FreePBX system:

some changes to the configuration of the phone.

This is one reason I want it done, but rarely do i need to do it from the PBX itself.

Because I create my own config files, I do not get the magic "rebuild config and reboot" button that the paid EPM has in FreePBX.

Generally I only need this when things happen like today when an internal FreePBX system went unexpectedly offline and was rebooted along with the entire Hyper-V server.

BLF subscriptions seem to not update real well to events like that.

Understood, talking about the Paid EPM, Do you see a reason to use it in the Small Business World?

Loads. Even for internal staff, why walk to a phone if you can reboot from your desk?

I like the exercise. 🙂

@jaredbusch said in Installing MailSpring on Fedora 27, Modern Email Desktop Client:

Ok, I dislike this 😞

Artificial limitation of 4 accounts.

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$8/month for an email client that doesn't even support calendars.

@black3dynamite said in Should I backup my file server VM or just the files?:

@scottalanmiller said in Should I backup my file server VM or just the files?:

@jaredbusch said in Should I backup my file server VM or just the files?:

Scott likes to talk like everyone uses state systems when that is far from the case.

Scott likes to talk like everyone should use state systems, which is nearly always the case.

But even if you don't, if you have automated rebuild and install scripts, or use cloud computing, you rarely want to restore the whole thing rather than just the data. It's way more than just state systems. We've been doing this since long before state systems were a thing.

With a stand-alone windows file server is not so bad redeploying it with the help of powershell. But it’s so different compare to Linux.

Yes, much more work for sure. But no matter what OS you use, no matter what your backup situation is, you should have a rapid new deployment system to rebuild systems whether it is script, state, or whatever.

@scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Project:

@jaredbusch said in Home Lab Project:

@thwr said in Home Lab Project:

@scottalanmiller said in Home Lab Project:

Logging, like Graylog2?

This. Maybe Sexilog.

Interesting package. can it easily monitor more then VMWare? Or did they only setup listeners for VMWare?

Only VMware last time that I looked at it.

Windows, Veeam, SNMP and more.
http://www.sexilog.fr/features/