I've been using Duplicati where I need a standalone backup of a thing. Web based management interface makes it super simple to manage.

To add to this- I have an error that started appearing after updating their Fedora 29 and 30 instances. Further testing found that the error appears in different regions using their server type template installers or even a custom iso option that I used with net install. All I have to do is deploy, run dnf update and reboot. The error is present in every boot after the update.
https://mangolassi.it/topic/19903/fedora-29-and-30-edac-skx-can-t-get-tolm-tohm-error-on-vultr

Vultr got back to me last week with an email -

"Hello,

We apologize for the delayed response to this ticket, while we investigated this matter further.

We are continuing to review our OS template and application images, and should be applying comprehensive changes across all available deploy images in the near future.

Your continued patience and understanding is appreciated in the meantime.

If you have any followup questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out."

@Pete-S said in Wget - Download a Web Dashboard For Local Viewing?:

Here is Firefox headless mode:
Firefox uses the same browser, just run with the headless switch. Works from version 57 and newer.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Headless_mode

Thanks. I won't be able to use this with brightsign, but it might work if I have to run windows for a site that I can't view a public dashboard.

I know you were just explaining how to do it but this is a simple task with Ansible.

- name: Ensure user exists user: name: Joe state: present password: "password_hash" groups: wheel, libvirt

Instead of needing the hash up front you can do things like:

{{ Password1234 | password_hash('sha512') }}

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@scottalanmiller said in Linux CP command - Estimate MBs:

You can use cp and see progress using a separate tool, like progress. But cp itself can't do it.

Gotcha.

Okay so figured it out with this guide.

From Windows administrative Powershell

ssh-keygen
type C:\Users\<username>\.ssh\id_rsa.pub | ssh user@linuxserver 'cat >> .ssh/authorized_keys'

Exit administrative Powershell

Open Powershell

ssh user@linuxserver

Logged in.

@black3dynamite said in Salt - Can't Connect to Minions After Adding Them to Master:

I sometimes have to add --timeout 60 so I can see a response
salt FP01.domain.local test.ping --timeout 60

Seems to be working. I think that it was the firewall needing the exception AND using the

--timeout 60

Thanks!

I've done both. I tend to like MariaDB / MySQL better because that is what I'm more comfy with.

@BraswellJay Just a note for next time, from the installer you can ctrl+alt+F2, this will drop you into a console where you can fix these kinds of issues without needing to boot into another thing.

We got it. Had to open the Nginx logs and noticed too many "posts" in the error log. Dug in and it was three ranges overseas all hitting with a "post timeout attack." It was a light DDoS where sessions were being opened and held causing nginx to wait on a timeout. This caused Apache to just increment forever. Once we blocked those ranges, the Apache thread count started to drop for the first time, and memory started to release. And the continuous flood of nginx error logs ceased.

If you are looking at nginx error logs, this is what you look for: upstream timed out (110: Connection timed out) while reading response header from upstream, client:

You can use this command to collect the offending IP addresses:

grep "upstream timed out" error.log | cut -d' ' -f20

Then use your firewall to shut them down. We are all good now! Woot.

Well let's talk about fedora and updating killing a laptop lol....

@zachary715 said in Linux Options for Dell PowerEdge 2950 II:

Just curious what role this server will be playing...

Web server

Worth noting that the issue comes back when you upgrade to Fedora 31 as well. Same fix still applies.

So, easy fix, the ca_stag2 was a staging DB that was not needed and was not current. The whole thing appears to have corrupted. So I simply "moved" that entire directory to /tmp (just in case I had to put it back) and then MySQL could fire up.

@scottalanmiller said in Updating to Fedora 30 Gives Pix Error:

Doing an upgrade from Fedora 29 to Fedora 30 and you get...

Error: Problem: package pix-1.8.2-1.fc29.x86_64 requires libexiv2.so.26()(64bit), but none of the providers can be installed - exiv2-libs-0.26-12.fc29.x86_64 does not belong to a distupgrade repository - problem with installed package pix-1.8.2-1.fc29.x86_64 (try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

This seems to happen with most normal workstation installs of Fedora. Easiest thing to do is simply remove Pix.

sudo dnf remove pix -y

Your update should work fine after that.

I don't ever use it. But, yeah it is there by default.

@StuartJordan I kinda like the netplan approach (ducks for cover)