@kelly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@dafyre said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@wrcombs said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Morning. It's humpday, 1 day closer to Friday .

And I am absolutely positive that there is not enough caffeine available to me to day.

It is healthy: https://waterjoe.com/.

I'd rather have coffee. I drink it black so it's not like I'm getting all the negative from added milk/sugar/fakeshit

Wow, who would have thought it would be so easy to install NextCloud on Linux doing it the correct and supported way, as your guide shows!

I like to use WordPress with a wiki theme, and some plugins installed to make it super easy and efficient to create documentation.

Platform: WordPress
Theme: WikiWP
Plugins:

• Members: allows granular user and role management
• OnePress Image Elevator: allows you to paste images / screenshots directly into the editor... huge time saver
• Responsive Lightbox: allows images or links that are clicked to 'pop out' and the background dims
• Table of Contents Plus: automatically creates a table of contents as you see in wiki websites
• TablePress: an excellent tables plugin... you can import Excel spreadsheets for example
• TinyMCE Advanced: adds a lot of visual editing options
• Disable Comments: as the name says
• Broken Link Checker: handy to make sure no links are broken

It's like working in MS Word or similar. Very easy and fast to document.

VSCode is so great. Switching between Windows PowerShell and PowerShell is a breeze.

Starting chapter 2 of:
https://www.amazon.com/Learn-PowerShell-Core-6-0-administrative/dp/178883898X

@aaronstuder said in Managing KVM via the Command Line:

Anyone have any good resources to learn to manage KVM via the Command Line?

virsh --help

virsh <command> --help

@rojoloco said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

...but hopefully this will be an eye opener and will make it easier for me to get a backup solution.

They don't need backup if they have RAID!

@NashBrydges

The default behaviour of a Fedora Server install is to just use what's needed. During install, you need to select the "custom" option and add space to your / partition and/or add a /home if you desire.

See the first section of my post here: https://mangolassi.it/topic/16084/installing-fedora-27-lamp-stack-plus-wordpress

@strongbad said in Non-IT News Thread:

@obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@jaredbusch said in Non-IT News Thread:

@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

Amritsar: India train mows down crowd killing scores

I am not sorry that you stood on train tracks and got run over by a train. I can feel sympathy for the families, but not for the stupid.

But the kids... Just standing with their parents.

Very sad, they think people couldn't hear the train coming.

You shouldn't ever have to... don't stand in train tracks. Idiot parents.

I made a really good SaltStack state for Linux hardening. Works great, and now pass OpenVAS with flying colours for example.

You'll Never Guess What He Said Next!

@nashbrydges said in Home Lab Project:

I recently picked up a new (to me) Dell R720XD for my home lab, stuffed it full of SSDs and now that I've got a ton more capacity, I'm itching for a new project that I can try out. Hoping to get a few fresh ideas from anyone here who might be working on something interesting.

I'm already running VMs for:

• Plex
• FreePBX
• Alfresco
• Nextcloud
• Sophos XG
• Fastvue Reporter
• Mattermost
• Apache Guacamole
• Minecraft
• Unifi
• Snipe-IT
• SuiteCRM
• Piwik
• A few websites, some WordPress some PHP some simple HTML
• Veeam Availability Suite
• Veeam Backup for Office 365

You can start off by making a saltmaster and configuring all of your list and VMs that way, starting with your favorites.

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@EddieJennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@Obsolesce said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

@black3dynamite yeah, PowerShell is still stuck in like 1982 here.

No, I think all of you are stuck in 1982 while PowerShell has moved on...

Unless there's a bleeding-edge version of Powershell out now that has that cmdlet, it doesn't seem to be native for 5.1.

I know there's a module out there that does what your picture shows, but it would be nice if that was just baked-in.

No, nothing new or fancy... just plain old PS6:

That's promising then. Maybe in 5 years we'll have version 6 on everything where I work . It is telling that it took 6 versions to get that functionality.

PowerShell 7 is on its way with some sweet (and much needed) functionality.

1. Create a new file somewhere named zabbix_installer.sh, then paste everything below exactly as it is.
   • You will need to edit Zabbix_Passwd in the script below before saving it.
   • In my case, to get the script to create the databases without error, I had to change in the below script: sudo mysql -uroot to sudo mysql -u root -p. Then it prompted me for the password and it finished successfully.

#!/bin/sh

set -e

# Avoid "Your password does not satisfy the current policy requirements".
[ -z "${ZABBIX_PASSWD}" ] && ZABBIX_PASSWD=Zabbix_Passwd

zabbix_install()
{
  sudo dnf install -y policycoreutils-python-utils zabbix-server-mysql zabbix-web-mysql \
       mod_ssl mariadb-server

  timezone=$(timedatectl | grep "Time zone:" | \
                awk -F':' '{ print $2 }' | awk '{ print $1 }')
  sudo sed -e 's/^post_max_size = .*/post_max_size = 16M/g' \
       -e 's/^max_execution_time = .*/max_execution_time = 300/g' \
       -e 's/^max_input_time = .*/max_input_time = 300/g' \
       -e "s:^;date.timezone =.*:date.timezone = \"${timezone}\":g" \
       -i /etc/php.ini

  sudo systemctl enable mariadb
  sudo systemctl start mariadb

  cat <<EOF | sudo mysql -uroot
create database zabbix;
grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by '${ZABBIX_PASSWD}';
exit
EOF

  for sql in schema.sql images.sql data.sql; do
    # shellcheck disable=SC2002
    cat /usr/share/zabbix-mysql/"${sql}" | \
      sudo mysql -uzabbix -p"${ZABBIX_PASSWD}" zabbix
  done

  sudo sed -e 's/# ListenPort=.*/ListenPort=10051/g' \
       -e "s/# DBPassword=.*/DBPassword=${ZABBIX_PASSWD}/g" \
       -i /etc/zabbix_server.conf

  # Skip setup.php
  cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/zabbix/web/zabbix.conf.php
<?php
// Zabbix GUI configuration file.
global \$DB;

\$DB['TYPE']     = 'MYSQL';
\$DB['SERVER']   = 'localhost';
\$DB['PORT']     = '0';
\$DB['DATABASE'] = 'zabbix';
\$DB['USER']     = 'zabbix';
\$DB['PASSWORD'] = '${ZABBIX_PASSWD}';

// Schema name. Used for IBM DB2 and PostgreSQL.
\$DB['SCHEMA'] = '';

\$ZBX_SERVER      = 'localhost';
\$ZBX_SERVER_PORT = '10051';
\$ZBX_SERVER_NAME = '';

\$IMAGE_FORMAT_DEFAULT = IMAGE_FORMAT_PNG;
?>
EOF

  sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=http --permanent
  sudo firewall-cmd --add-service=https --permanent
  sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=10050/tcp --permanent
  sudo firewall-cmd --add-port=10051/tcp --permanent
  sudo firewall-cmd --reload

  cat <<EOF > zabbix-server.te
module zabbix-server 1.0;
require {
  type zabbix_t;
  class process setrlimit;
}
#============= zabbix_t ==============
allow zabbix_t self:process setrlimit;
EOF
  checkmodule -M -m -o zabbix-server.mod zabbix-server.te
  semodule_package -m zabbix-server.mod -o zabbix-server.pp
  sudo semodule -i zabbix-server.pp
  rm -f zabbix-server.te zabbix-server.mod zabbix-server.pp

  sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_connect_zabbix 1

  sudo systemctl enable httpd zabbix-server-mysql
  sudo systemctl restart httpd zabbix-server

  # This Hostname is used for Host name in
  # Configuration -> Hosts -> Create Host.
  sudo dnf install -y zabbix-agent
  sudo sed -e "s/^Hostname=.*/Hostname=localhost/g" \
       -i /etc/zabbix_agentd.conf
  sudo systemctl enable zabbix-agent
  sudo systemctl start zabbix-agent
}

zabbix_install

2. Edit the following file: vi /etc/zabbix_agentd.conf
   Note: The Hostname must match the name of the host.
   Note2: Mine is like below because I'm running the agent on the Zabbix server.

   • ServerActive=zabbixServer.domain.com
   • Hostname=zabbixServer.domain.com

3. Restart Zabbix services:
   service zabbix-server restart && service zabbix-agent restart

4. Access your server here:
   https://<server>/zabbix

Mine is up as a demo at https://tgserv.timothygruber.com/zabbix

Playground with the kids

nope, read it wrong when trying.

@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

Way to early to be alive.

Psh, I'm walking to the train station at 5:15 every morning! It's not so bad once you're outside, but getting to that point sucks. Especially when it's hard to go to bed before 11-midnight.

Would you consider looking for duplicate files from the server directory by directory, rather than everything all at once?

Maybe scan in 500,000 file chunks and start reducing it little by little manually.

@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@Obsolesce said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller You say this as if all U.S. families/parents/guardians of children are equally able to home school, that the parents don't need to go to work and have all the time and ability to home school their children. Not all families have a SAHM or Dad, or jobs that allow for WFH, or etc...

There's a ton of variables.

There are, but it's more complex than that. One, it's not the government's job to take over parenting and especially not forcibly. And just because people don't, don't mean can't. A huge number of people simply are unwilling to do so, rather than not being able to.

In many countries, it's just the parents' responsibilities and "can" or not is not considered. Maybe it should be, maybe it shouldn't. But Americans tend to treat "the government raising their kids" as an entitlement rather than an option benefit.

Everything you just said literally had nothing at all to do with my point.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say, I think Scott is talking to your point - he's seemingly disagreeing with you saying that many can work from home and choose not to.

Now he says that, and I suppose from a pure ability - sure they can. But they can also starve to death because they have no money from not working, because many companies, especially small ones, aren't paying people to stay home. Sure Uncle Sam is paying people unemployment, but only if furloughed/laid off/fired - if you quit, which is what many of these people would have to do - i.e. I can't work because I have to take care of my kids as they are now at home and I have no baby sitter/money to pay daycare - that's tantamount to walking off the job... now the employer can likely treat this either way - as quitting, or fire them for no show. It's in the company's interest to treat it as quit, because that puts a huge delay in paying unemployment benefits.

No, most jobs are not jobs that allow remote work. You simply cannot shut down all jobs, as many of them require physical work. You just can't, it's not sustainable. You'll run out of food, as one example. Important services like police, fire fighters, road workers, people behind closed networks running nuclear power plants, etc.... it's a fucking HUGE list of people who simply cannot do their job from home. In addition to that, not every place allows all workers to work from home.

And then in a single mom/dad scenario, not every job will allow you to be with the kids all day while you are supposed to be working and getting things done. Kids can't be expected to sit quietly all day and help themselves. There's 0-8 year olds for example, that's just too young to basically let be home alone (and no I don't care about people's perfect kids who are <10 and act like they are 30... that's not the majority). Not everyone can quit their job for 2 years to take care of their kids.

Mom & Dad homes or dual guardian homes, then it has the potential to be easier, but not necessarily. There are FAR TOO MANY variables at play, and the "Scott's World" ideology of "everyone should be able to be home and school their kids perfectly" just isn't what happens in practice. What "should be" isn't at all and is rarely what "is".

Veeam test is on-going.

I started it over an hour ago, and so far, it's over a week ahead of where the other backup software would be...

It's going to back it all up into a .vbk file. So after it's complete, I'll see what can be done with it tape-wise, file restore wise, etc.

I'm not exactly sure "how" it's doing the backup... but I did see from Resmon it read the Master File Table. Much more efficient than scanning every damn file...