I used to have a site hosted (shared) through FastDomain. When the price almost doubled in two years I decided to jump ship. They did a similar thing. They required you to have your DNS and registrar through them. So I just switched to CloudFlare and GoDaddy.

First computer I had was also the first I used. Tandy 1000. I played some mean Amy's First Primer and Commander Keen on that.

Here's an example:

/usr/lib/systemd/system/watch-scans.service:

[Unit]
Description= Starts the logging script

[Service]
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/scan-script.sh

/usr/lib/systemd/system/watch-scans.path:

[Unit]
Description= Runs scan script on directory change.

[Path]
PathModified=/some/path/to-your/share/

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then just start and enable the path unit.

systemctl start watch-scans.path && systemctl enable watch-scans.path

@storageninja said in Veeam Backup and Replication for ESXi:

@tim_g Welcome to Linux. All kinds of shit breaks on new kernels...

If you want a *Nix based desktop that just "@#$@% works" and has a bare metal backup may I suggest MacOS and Time Machine? You can from the BIOS re-install bare metal even from Apple's servers (PXE over WAN).

What's bizarre to me is that you would waste time on forum support for something you complain enough to spend 30 minutes troubleshooting in forums or complaining here about. A license is $50-$30 per desktop per year. You apparently WANT a backup of the desktop and see value in it, but don't want to spend money....

I want a functioning car. I don't want to pay for gas. Sadly this doesn't work.

I’ve never had anything break with kernel updates except junk that installs third party kernel modules.

Relax and Recover does bare metal backups just fine, but who needs them when you can kickstart a physical machine and have it back to the exact same image in ~10 minutes? Our kickstart adds bare necessities like repos in the post install and then on reboot Ansible does a provisioning callback to Tower/AWX and Tower provisions the system. PXE boot, walk away and go to the bathroom and get coffee and come back and start working again.

@irj said in Recover Android files on phone with broken screen:

@stacksofplates said in Recover Android files on phone with broken screen:

@irj said in Recover Android files on phone with broken screen:

@stacksofplates said in Recover Android files on phone with broken screen:

@irj said in Recover Android files on phone with broken screen:

A family member has refused at least 5 attempts of me trying to back up their pics and videos on cloud storage. Well, today my daughter (15 months old) picked up her phone and dropped it and damaged the screen. The phone will turn on, but the screen is completely black.

It's obviously working as notifications are coming across. The screen has a passcode, but we know it. I tried connecting it as a media device, but on screen approval is needed. What can I do?

Ok maybe stupid question, does the digitizer still function? If you plug it in and just tap on the area where the pop up is, can you get it to accept?

I am not sure, I was thinking about hooking up an OTG cable and a usb mouse which I know would work, but if I am sure I have a high chance of locking myself out with incorrect pin entries.

I'd try a keyboard first. The OTG should let the keyboard through.

That worked!

awesome!

@ghani said in VMware PSOD happening on VMware host server:

@storageninja

Dear Team,

customer dont have VMware SnS support for upgrading VMware latest.

Then I guess you’re stuck. Either purchase the support or use a different hypervisor.

@tim_g said in 2 RAID 1 or 1 RAID 10 for VM Server Host:

@kuyaz said in 2 RAID 1 or 1 RAID 10 for VM Server Host:

@jaredbusch ok noted with thanks. I got the idea now.

I usually cut a small partition out of the big RAID10 (or in your case the RAID1). Like 50 GB for the hypervisor, and use the rest for DATA (virtual disks).

Yup, I do the same. OS volume is around 50GB and the rest goes to something like /var/vms or the default /var/lib/libvirt/images.

Although I do put logs on their own volume.

@jaredbusch said in Network setup for production KVM:

So for those who have KVM in production, how do you setup the network?

In Hyper-V i always team the NICs in switch independent mode and then make the vSwitch on the team. The host will have access to the guest VM networks.

For my home lab (Fedora 26) and on my desktop (F25) and laptop (F26) I just use the macvtap in bridged mode. But I have no host to guest communication. This is not an issue for my lab or desktop. But I do not want this in production.

So if I have 2-4 NICs in a server, assuming Fedora 26 or RHEL 7:

• How should I team them?
• Should I create a bridge?
• What source mode should I use?

I have stuff in prod running with macvtap and then there is a separate network for access to the host if the VM needs it. But I also have stuff in prod with a bridge and full access. Just depends on what you want.

IIRC NetworkManager doesn't play nicely sometimes with libvirt and other bits (or it may have just been with bridging in general). You can build a bridge or bond directly from Virt-Manager as well, but I believe it uses network and not NetworkManager.

@eddiejennings said in Gnome 3.26 Released & Linux Kernel 4.14 Upcoming:

@black3dynamite said in Gnome 3.26 Released & Linux Kernel 4.14 Upcoming:

@eddiejennings said in Gnome 3.26 Released & Linux Kernel 4.14 Upcoming:

Maybe this will be the Gnome release that convinces me to enjoy Gnome.

It depends if you were ever interested in Gnome at all.

My main beef with Gnome is that without an extra tool package, files and directories that you place in the /home/whateverUser/Desktop directory don't actually appear on the desktop. It's been a while since I've given Gnome a chance (notwithstanding a recent thread), so maybe my gripe is no longer valid.

I love that part. I never have anything on my desktop. I use the activities overview to get everything.

@coliver said in Password Managers:

I'm, so far, a big fan of BitWarden.

I switched to that from LastPass.

I’m confused. What do you mean by “autopower on”

@dashrender said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

The only thing I can figure is a) he wants to schedule a script or b) an instance will be powered off normally, but he wants it to come on at a specific time.

Which is weird. You pay even if it’s off. So just bring up instances when you need them.

@reid-cooper said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

@travisdh1 said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

@stacksofplates said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

@jaredbusch said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

@stacksofplates said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

@dashrender said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

The only thing I can figure is a) he wants to schedule a script or b) an instance will be powered off normally, but he wants it to come on at a specific time.

Which is weird. You pay even if it’s off. So just bring up instances when you need them.

Right I read a post the other day someplace where the OP was wanting to turn off Azure servers after hours. You still pay for those until they are destroyed.

But the OP in that thread mentioned something about some agreement you can get that you pay less for powered off servers.

I wonder what the use case is for that vs just bring them up when you need them?

Automatically creating/destroying cloud instances on an as-needed basis would be a great thing to automate, actually.

Creating and destroying is not turning on and off.

Right, turning on and off doesn't make much sense. Just create destroy as needed.

@ambarishrh said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

May be he is looking for something like https://aws.amazon.com/answers/infrastructure-management/ec2-scheduler/

I don't get that. It seems less flexible than an ELB and you would have to continually calculate what you would need. Why not just pay for the ELB and have it automatically do this?

If you really don't need this type of infrastructure, then just use something like Vultr or DO.

@travisdh1 said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

@stacksofplates said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

@ambarishrh said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

May be he is looking for something like https://aws.amazon.com/answers/infrastructure-management/ec2-scheduler/

I don't get that. It seems less flexible than an ELB and you would have to continually calculate what you would need. Why not just pay for the ELB and have it automatically do this?

If you really don't need this type of infrastructure, then just use something like Vultr or DO.

I'm gonna have to read up on the ELB. Looks like exactly the thing I've been wondering why nobody had.

Ya they're pretty awesome. You need to use their monitoring to get the most out of it, but if you are operating at that scale it's worth it anyway.

A big downside to Wave is you can’t print checks. No experience with Xero but I assume you can with them.

@stacksofplates said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

@travisdh1 said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

@stacksofplates said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

@ambarishrh said in Configuration for EC2 instance autostartup:

May be he is looking for something like https://aws.amazon.com/answers/infrastructure-management/ec2-scheduler/

I don't get that. It seems less flexible than an ELB and you would have to continually calculate what you would need. Why not just pay for the ELB and have it automatically do this?

If you really don't need this type of infrastructure, then just use something like Vultr or DO.

I'm gonna have to read up on the ELB. Looks like exactly the thing I've been wondering why nobody had.

Ya they're pretty awesome. You need to use their monitoring to get the most out of it, but if you are operating at that scale it's worth it anyway.

However, as awesome as it is you have to take into account the vendor lock in you are accepting. Chances are you won’t just be able to migrate to another provider if you need to without significant retooling.

You should be able to search by unit with -u. So using sshd as an example:

journalctl -u sshd

Too bad it’s Powershell. I could help you with sed.

sed ‘1!d’ file

I did it in Drupal on their site. Only logged in people can see it. Just create a content type for members.

Then just do a view for that content type: