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    noqqe avatar noqqe 2 years ago | link | on: How do you monitor your small scale server infrastructure?

    I can recommend https://uptimerobot.com/ (free version).

    Its independent from your infrastructure and can notify via mail (or twitter DM if you run your on mailserver on the servers you want to monitor)

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      frenkel avatar frenkel 2 years ago | link

      Doesn’t seem to monitor CPU usage, disk space usage and network traffic

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      kevinc avatar kevinc 2 years ago | link | on: /dev/null as a Service

      This gag product seems to exist entirely as an excuse to sell t-shirts. I wish I’d thought of it.

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        noqqe avatar noqqe 2 years ago | link

        actually people asked for tshirts and we added it after 2 years to the website :P

        (author here)

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          kevinc avatar kevinc 2 years ago | link

          That’s cynical of me, then. Either way, please take my words as admiration!

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            noqqe avatar noqqe 2 years ago | link

            no worries :)

            The shop works like this: A friend of mine made the webshop for the shirts and stuff. I have no access to it. Everytime there were some purchases he gives me a call and invites me to dinner from the money. Happend 5-7 times in the last 7 years so and we always had fun :)

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        noqqe avatar noqqe 3 years ago | link | on: WireGuard for OpenBSD Kernel Patches Posted

        I’m so curious what openbsd devs are going to do with this (great) patch

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          orib avatar orib 3 years ago | link

          Review it.

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            Yogurt avatar Yogurt 3 years ago | link

            Me too. It’ll probably be the most interesting patch review round for wireguard.

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            noqqe avatar noqqe 3 years ago | link | on: How do you lay out your home directory?

            The $HOME dir layout I prefer (not my blog): https://morr.cc/home-sweet-home/

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              noqqe avatar noqqe 3 years ago | link | on: What are you working on this week?

              I’m writing a small typing trainer in Go to get used to my NIU 40% keyboard

              https://github.com/noqqe/typist

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                noqqe avatar noqqe 3 years ago | link | on: Share your blog

                https://noqqe.de - German(!) Topics: OpenBSD, Sysadmin, Python, Photography, Linux

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                  pkrumins avatar pkrumins 3 years ago | link | on: herbstluftwm - a manual tiling window manager for X

                  Has anyone used this wm and can compare it to i3?

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                    rocx avatar rocx 3 years ago | link

                    It was my main driver back in the ye olden days. The key is that it’s manual. The layout is entirely up to your discretion. You split a pane, resize the halves, rinse, launch a window in whatever pane, and repeat. i3 from the looks of it is more automatic and limited in ways you can split. Plus herbstluftwm is configured using shell scripts.

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                      hazel avatar hazel 3 years ago | link

                      you technically can script i3 via i3-msg but it’s inadvisable in a lot of places

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                        zge avatar zge 3 years ago | link

                        So it’s kind of like ratpoison or stumpwm.

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                        noqqe avatar noqqe 3 years ago | link

                        yep, me. Very happy with it!

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                        noqqe avatar noqqe 3 years ago | link | on: Do not log

                        Some developer who obviously never maintained a production system advices people to

                        • spend money on a Webservice for some other type of logging
                        • “Just don’t write bugs”
                        • Dont care about code which fails because is not necessary (why is this code in the code base then?)

                        Disclaimer: Im a sysadmin maintaining tons of applications in different languages from software projects which are black boxes to me. Im happy for every single line of log output and its my responsibility to make maximum use out of those log lines given to me by friendly developers.

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                          danielrheath avatar danielrheath 3 years ago | link

                          As a developer who does maintain a production system, there is an alternative to logging which has fully replaced it (in my usage, at least).

                          I use honeycomb, but anything built on the same basic concept would be comparable.

                          However, this only really works well when A) developers are investigating system outages in the systems they write, and B) that you can get a new diagnostic line into production in under 15 minutes.

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                            akavel avatar akavel 3 years ago | link

                            You basically put in words perfectly what I wanted to say but wasn’t able to express properly - also from my perspective as a developer, who not so rarely needs to debug some tricky production issue.

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                            hwj avatar hwj e-mailed 3 years ago | link | on: A systematic evaluation of OpenBSD's mitigations

                            This isn’t stein from jcs.org, is it?

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                              zge avatar zge 3 years ago | link

                              I don’t think so, because @jcs is a OpenBSD dev, while this person says “[a few weeks ago …] I didn’t know much about OpenBSD”, in the introduction.

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                                noqqe avatar noqqe 3 years ago | link

                                No he is not jcs :)