Did you do the needful? I don’t think you did the needful. If you did, you didn’t do the needful kindly.
Last Thursday afternoon, I took off work early to meet my brother Mason, who flew in from Austin to wrap up Dad related stuff. And it turned out to be an unexpectedly eventful weekend. My first broken bone!
Continue reading “I cracked a rib. No, not Dreamland ribs. My rib!”
I was afraid that the packages on my droplet (Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS) were borked, but this fixed it.
apt-get autoclean apt-get update apt-get upgrade apt-get install -f
I couldn’t log in, but then I checked the log in the app. It needs access to xmlrpc.php.
And here’s a cat picture. It’s cold today, so they all piled up in the bed.
You get this error every so often with pianobar.
anna@anna-lenovo:~$ pianobar Welcome to pianobar (2013.09.15)! Press ? for a list of commands. (i) Login... Network error: TLS fingerprint mismatch.
Continue reading “Pianobar: Network error: TLS fingerprint mismatch”
So, I was playing around with cPanel’s new SSL cert thing at WHM -> Home -> SSL/TLS -> Manage Auto SSL in v58
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I don’t have time to be fooling with SSL certs. Or cPanel. I know I need to figure this out. But in the MEANTIME…
Continue reading “My quick and dirty “how to” for Let’s Encrypt”
The domain anna.org is being squatted on. I did a whois, found the contact info, and asked about it. Here’s what happened.
So, it turned out my workaround of putting SSH on the non-SSL IMAP port 143 wasn’t a great idea and I figured out something much more simple.
Of course, a cPanel update broke that workaround, so rather than futz with IMAP settings again, I disabled POP3. That freed up 995 and 110. So, I put SSH on 995 and cPanel doesn’t freak out with that.
Much easier, no need to muck with config files other than sshd_config, and it works just fine at the hospital with sshuttle.
Update: this was hacky and clumsy, see the more recent SSH on Port 995 for something better.
I’ll leave this up, though, rather than attempt to whitewash my mistake.
So, I’m piddling around, cleaning up old kernels on my crappy Ubuntu server. I thought I’d make a note for future reference, I always have to Google whenever it occurs to me to do this.
Find the running kernel (so I know what not to delete):
root@schoolserver:~# uname -r 3.19.0-47-generic
Here’s what I’ve got installed:
root@schoolserver:~# dpkg --list | grep linux-image | grep -v module ii linux-image-3.19.0-43-generic 3.19.0-43.49~14.04.1 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.19.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP ii linux-image-3.19.0-47-generic 3.19.0-47.53~14.04.1 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.19.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP ii linux-image-generic-lts-vivid 3.19.0.47.32 i386 Generic Linux kernel image
Lemme remove the old, unused one:
root@schoolserver:~# apt-get purge linux-image-3.19.0-43-generic Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: linux-headers-3.19.0-42 linux-headers-3.19.0-42-generic Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following packages will be REMOVED: linux-image-3.19.0-43-generic* linux-image-extra-3.19.0-43-generic* 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. After this operation, 155 MB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
There’s no power button on this weird machine, it boots when you plug it in. My workaround for powering it off is that I’ve set the grub timeout to 3 minutes. Reboot, then unplug it at the grub menu.