System & Network Admin

I was doing my daily scan of Twitter the other day and came across this One of the commenters questioned how it was implemented, and there were a few follow up comments.  Below are my steps for get…

I’ll post this here, It might help someone in the future. Feedback is greatly appreciated. I use it with direnv on NixOS, It should work with nix on Linux or macOS. custom commands: pg-stop, pg-start, … flake.nix { description = "General Elixir Project Flake"; #source: 20221130; https://github.com/toraritte/shell.nixes/blob/f9af46639a9bb5fb22705ebdfd25783866e22c0f/elixir-phoenix-postgres/shell.nix #source: 20221130; https://github.com/webuhu/elixir_nix_example inputs = { nixpkg...

1. My Caddy version (V2 beta 14): 2. How I run Caddy: I use the systemd service template mentioned in the documentation. My Caddyfile looks like this: samvanderkris.xyz, www.samvanderkris.xyz { reverse_proxy * unix:/run/gunicorn.sock root /static /home/sam/samvanderkris header / Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload" } a. System environment: Ubuntu server 19.10, caddy is running as a systemd service. The reverse proxy is supposed to...

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Normal filesystem images can be easily mounted: mount system.img /mnt Examined, and modified. But when I try this with a Raspberry Pi system image (e.g. raspbian), I get: mount: unknown filesys...

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is there a way to use exiftool command on all files with specific extensions inside a folder? E.g. exiftool -overwrite_original -all= *.jpg *.png *.jpeg The problem of the command above is that it

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TL;DL This Wiki explains how to enable https connections between hosts in a LAN with automatically renewed certificates. Just scroll down and go over the example Caddyfiles. They hopefully have enough comment to understand the idea 😉 Introduction If you have successfully followed the Wiki Using Caddy as a reverse proxy in a home network by @Matt, you have setup a reverse proxy that provides a TLS encrypted connection from the internet to that reverse proxy. This is mandatory and you should...

Create LXC Templates Every time inspiration struck or I saw a blog post with something I wanted to try, it was frustrating and time consuming to get the base operating system set up to the way I like it before proceeding with the project. Now I just update the template each point release or when I add something substantial to my dotfiles so it's ready to go whenever I need to spin up a fresh container.