Category: Sysadmin
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From old laptop to Debian server – Do not hibernate
Well well well. What a journey this laptop has been so far. WiFi turned itself off after a few hours, the whole machine goes in hibernate mode after a while. The consequences were not fun at all, my RSS news site also broke. But, then there was light. After some research, I have set the…
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PEBCAK
I didn’t post for a while because I had to escape the cold for six weeks. But yeah, there was a power outage in my absence, my ISP assigned me some new IP’s and everything was fk’d pretty much. I don’t have much time to find a permanent, nice and clean solution. For now I…
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Radicale throws Apache server error after a server reboot
Work around: $ sudo chown -R www-data /var/llib/radicale If you want to know more about my Radicale installation on a armbian singeboard server then read this.
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Manual renewal Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate
$ sudo certbot -d abc.prisamsterdam.com –manual –preferred-challenges dns certonly Follow the instructions on your terminal, (Meaning: adding a DNS txt record using ACME) . Read here. System info:$base@lime2:~# cat /etc/os-release NAME=”Ubuntu”VERSION=”20.04.6 LTS (Focal Fossa)”ID=ubuntuID_LIKE=debianPRETTY_NAME=”Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS”VERSION_ID=”20.04″ UPDATE: I tried above not so long ago and it didn’t work. DNS TXT record could not be found.…
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From old laptop to Debian server
Objective I told my colleague I wanted to build a x68 server, so I could run web-apps and other self-hosted services. He asked if I had old hardware laying around. I have this really old Asus laptop with the following specs: Notebook:Asus K73SV-TY032VProcessor: Intel Core i5 2410MGraphics Adapter:NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 1024 MBDisplay: 17.30 inch,…
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Almalinux 9.1 on Virtualbox 7.0.6
My Almalinux VM runs on Virtualbox, and works like a charm. The hardware I’m using is a Thinkbook with awesome gaming specs. I don’t want to deal with games that don’t run on Linux, so I choose Windows. I woke up with Chrony issues on Alma today, so I wasn’t able to browse the net…