Reminder about ssh-copy-id for SSH and Ansible
this makes sure I can run ansible from my desktop against VMs on my server easily if they have tailscale for the hostname - otherwise use the IP
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Nextcloud Docker Upgrade Error
https://nicolasbouliane.com/blog/nextcloud-docker-upgrade-error
Adding docker daemon.json broke docker
in /lib/systemd/system/ docker.service there is an ExecStart command that got placed there when I setup Docker with Ansible - it threw the -H flag which told the daemon what hosts…
suda.vim for sudo access to files
I regularly need to edit system config files - take /etc/sanoid/sanoid.conf as an example… I’ll want to play with something but if I don’t start Neovim as root then I get in troubl…
Pipe to a pager to preserve console output in SSH session
I’m playing with my ansible playbook in a remote tmux session, and I’m no wiz so I don’t know the ins and outs, but I can’t scroll up to get any console log output that’s not alrea…
Description of my proposed vimconf 2022 talk
Switching to Vim opened a whole new world to me for interacting with a computer and for getting things done. Before I adopted Vim I used GUIs for everything because I thought that’…
Make a series of directories fast!
mkdir s{1..10} will make directories s1, s2, … s10 in one command!
Don’t forget to load XMP!
Bought some DDR4-3600 speed RAM but only seeing 2666? Load up the BIOS, find DRAM config or something similar, and make sure to load the XMP profile to get that advertised RAM spee…
My PassMark Scores
Babyblue v2 Ryzen 5700x + 32 GB 3200 CL16 RAM Venus Ryzen 3200G + 16GB 3600 CL16 RAM Hogwarts Dual Xeon X5650 @2.67GHz | 90 GB 1883 DDR3 ECC RAM Server 2... Change the name Ryzen 5…
Suddenly SSH requires a password
ssh -v -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa nic@hogwarts THen we can look at print outs cat /var/log/auth.log also showed me that I had too wide permissions on files in ~/.ssh -> probably changed from…