System Administration
Servers, identity, patching and day-to-day admin.
ok weird one i wrote a simple unit file for our app... running teh command manually works perfectly. runnnig it as backup.service: systemctl status shows sattus=200/CHDIR and thats it. No useful message. Ive reloaded the daemon a dozen times. ive compared…
guys pls help genuine question for people running a small cloud footprint: do you enable unattended upgrades in production, or does everything go through a manual window?? 🤷 we patch quarterly today and Im not suree if thats responsible or reckless. part of…
so annoyed rn home lab drama 😭 debian on my old Dell tower got a kernel update and now it panics during boot: it was running for months without a hiccup. is this hardware failing at teh worst possible time, or the update? I havent touched the hardware in…
im literally losing my mind here routine patching on our openSUSE cloud instance :) updates installed without errors, i rebooted, and this is what greeted me on the console: the services on this box matter. i have console access but Ive never dealt with a…
ok weird one myapp.service was fine until todays server patching. Now it wont start: the status line says status=217/USER. I didnt touch the unit file. did the update change something underneath? The update touched a bunch of packages, sooo it could be…
Help. The file server is barely alive. SSH works, but every command complains about writing temp files. Here's the disk: I deleted the biggest log I could find and df didn't budge. am i losing my mind? Im pretty sure Im missing something fundamental about…
our patching is as soon as updates drop and entirely manual, which means some servres get skipped for months :D i want to fix this without breaking things... how do you structure rings, approvals and reboots?? theres also teh reboot question. some of these…
hmmmm ok our queue consumer.service keeps flapping. It starts, crashes, restarts, and finally systemd stops trying: i see status=1/FAILURE in the status 😭 The app logs to its own file, which stays empty, so it dies before it even gets going. Id like to…
guys pls help i wrote a simple unit file for our app. running teh command manually works perfectly. running it as myapp.service: systemctl status shows status=1/FAILURE and thats it. No useful message. Ive reloaded teh daemon a dozen times. ive compared the…
