@scottalanmiller said in ProxMox 8 is out:

The 8.x family is based on the great Debian 12 "Bookworm" and comes with a 6.2 kernel, QEMU 8.0.2, LXC 5.0.2, OpenZFS 2.1.11.

Literally just installed it as part of my home system clean up. Had no idea it came out today. Simply wnet to the download page to get the current ISO and saw 8

@Eric-Ross said in CentOS 7 VM won't boot after migration to Proxmox:

@JaredBusch Ah, too bad that wasn't the fix.

I didn't bother at the dracut point. I likely could have recovered the system. I simply decided to stop putting off the migration of those workloads.

They were still running CentOS 7 after all.

@scottalanmiller said in Configure Mastodon to Use Zoho ZeptoMail for SMTP Email:

@PhlipElder said in Configure Mastodon to Use Zoho ZeptoMail for SMTP Email:

All of our mail servers are properly set up with a SmartHost, SPF, and DMARC. We don't have any reputation issues. That's a 2000s kind of problem.

No, it's current. Microsoft blacklists entire datacenters still. There's a lawsuit in Illinois about it that they lost. It's a very real thing still that RBL are used by the majors (like Microsoft, but not Google) and used to shut down entire ISPs and IP blocks. I've been brought in to help providers with these issues, it's a huge legal problem and if you don't get hit with it, it seems like it doesn't exist, and if you do get hit, it seems like there's no recourse (hint: there isn't.)

MS blocks entire IP blocks based on ISP ownership of said IP at the ISP request. It is fucking horrid.

Example (a Comcast IP): https://check.spamhaus.org/listed/?searchterm=69.139.101.133

@JaredBusch said in CentOS 7 VM won't boot after migration to Proxmox:

Let me kick it and see.

Did not work.
It booted into dracut recovery, so it did make a difference.

I gave up and booted the original virtual machines and migrated the workload to new systems.

@Eric-Ross said in CentOS 7 VM won't boot after migration to Proxmox:

@JaredBusch Just a guess since I haven't used Proxmox for years. I just saw a post elsewhere about a problem running AlmaLinux 9.1 where the CPU had to be changed from Default (kvm64) to Host.

Did not think to try "host" I left it on kvm64 or I used the model that matched the old server. Let me kick it and see.

@DustinB3403 You have to buy enough to cover your physical cores.

@PhlipElder said in Configure Mastodon to Use Zoho ZeptoMail for SMTP Email:

internal IIS or Exchange based SMTP server

I have had these things. They never seem stable to me.

@PhlipElder said in Configure Mastodon to Use Zoho ZeptoMail for SMTP Email:

It's also temperamental. It will just stop working.

I use Postfix, typically on Fedora, I don't have problems then.
I setup it up on Vultr and restrict the IP that can connect to the company offices.

I am doing cleanup/consolidation of my home setup.

My primary home virtualization platform was KVM on Fedora, managed mostly with Virtual Machine Manager from my desktop.

I have 2 other systems running Proxmox, but they are super old and crappy.

I am going to convert my main system to Proxmox, but I need to migrate of course. Everything migrated and works fine except for the two old CentOS 7 systems I have on it. They migrated and the VM will power on, but they lock up on boot.

One locks up right at the start

The other actually boots a bit before locking up.

Sure, I plan on getting the workloads migrated to new virtual machines or something, but before that, I simply want them migrated.

Any clues? It is only these two CentOS 7 VMs.

Chilling on the back deck

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

We have only a tiny bit of either. Asian food we tend to miss.

And why I could never move there.

You could probably do something with the external busy light that Yealink sells, but no direct external ringer. It flashes when ringing and solid lit when on a call. So may not help.

https://www.yealink.com/en/product-detail/accessories-blt60

No matter what you are going to have to buy something to make noise, so why hack something together instead of simply purchasing a device designed for it?

Source NAT rules. No clue how this work on UniFi though.

On an EdgeRouter it looks like this.

I assume it goes here in UniFi.

@scottalanmiller said in Get Alert Whenever There is MS SQL Server Access:

It's a production database so there should be an email when the application connects and absolutely no user should ever, ever, ever be able to log in unless it's an admin doing an emergency backup and/or restore (likely alerts would be off during a restore.)

I cannot imagine a MS SQL Server based client-server application that does not make a billion DB calls all day long. So you will have to exclude that system user from being audited.

@scottalanmiller said in Get Alert Whenever There is MS SQL Server Access:

There's no user ever authorized to just connect.

The application user is always connecting. Repeatedly.

@Pete-S said in Debian 11 & php8:

So right now the best approach is to wait until Debian 12 is released officially and then install Debian 12 with the new version of the application.

Do exactly this.

@scottalanmiller said in Get Alert Whenever There is MS SQL Server Access:

Email is easiest

How in the fuck is that "easiest?" It would be a train wreck of hundreds of emails for a barely used system, let alone a busy one.

Log to audit file and ship the log.

Drobo finally dead

Drobo, having stopped sales and support, reportedly files Chapter 7 bankruptcy

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/drobo-reportedly-files-ch-7-bankruptcy-signaling-the-end-of-a-simpler-nas

You don't hear nearly as much about Drobo boxes as you used to, especially on sites like Ars Technica. We now have some news, but it isn't good.

StorCentric, the holding company for the Drobo and Retrospect brands, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late June 2022. Now, AppleInsider reports that, based on an email sent by StorCentric, the bankruptcy shifted from reorganization-minded Chapter 11 to liquidation-focused Chapter 7 in late April.

@scottalanmiller said in Red Wine is good for you: Myth busted!:

This also flags ChatGPT because it misunderstood the topic.

Like this?
Interactive AI incorrectly describes Japan's Shiga gov. as 'Rurouni Kenshin' manga creator

OTSU -- Shiga Gov. Taizo Mikazuki is a "manga artist" known for the popular work "Rurouni Kenshin" -- or at least that's the mistaken description one artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot would have users believe.

When a Shiga Prefectural Government employee asked ChatGPT about Taizo Mikazuki it apparently explained that he was a "Japanese manga artist." Microsoft's Bing AI, meanwhile, correctly gave his job title as governor of Shiga Prefecture but provided an incorrect job history. The interactions serve as a reminder that chatbots may be providing a mixture of false information to users.

@JaredBusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Only myself to blame. I guess upgrade it is today.

No upgrade.. some packages are hosed

@Obsolesce said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

, dual boot.

Windows Dual boot left overs is one thing I want to clean up.