Servers

I wanted to try and find a better way to backup my photos from my iPhone to my NAS. I had been using Nextcloud with the app on my phone to do this however is was slow and nextcloud pritiy much always ran so slow a page could take around 60 seconds to load. I had seen iCloudpd before as a application on TrueNAS and so wanted to try it out. I set up a docker compose and signed in. However I then started getting a message to create the .mounted file which I had already done. This prity much instantly told me that there was somthing wrong with my mount. However when I looked it all seemed fine so I was forced to ssh in and relook at the new mount I had made to my NAS. After some failed ideas I noticed that the mount only had empty folders in it. This finaly reminded me that my Photos folder was acutualy a dataset so I switched the nsf share to that and it started to run a backup. ...

I began to notice issues when my passwords in the ios passbolt app when it was’t showing my passwords. I quickly found a range of posts about historical issues with ios 17 batas but as far as I could see they had been solved in app version 15 and I was on 18. The next step I took was to run the health check this found that I had two issues: my install didn’t force https which is fine because if uses cloudflare; and my install was very out of date. Updating is one of the big draw backs of docker in my opinion and while there was a page about updating on the passbolt website I decided to just figure it out through portainer. ...

The first thing I noticed was wrong was that my Iphone was giving me a pop up telling me it could verify the identity of mail.keldo.uk. My first though was that the ssl cert had expired but as far as I knew Mailcow should automaticly refresh the cert. Luckily it was easy to debug as Mailcow has a nice selection of logs and I just open the acme logs and Imedialty saw the issue “mail.keldo.uk - Found AAAA record for mail.keldo.uk: 2a00:23c7:82c2:6401:be24:11ff:fe6d:10fa - skipping A record check” was apearing every hour. I setup ipv6 records when I set up mailcow however since I have a dynamic IP and haven’t set up a ddns for ipv6 it was seeing ipv6 skiping ipv4 and then seeing the ipv6 didn’t match. The simple solution was I just removed the ipv6 record and then the next hour it was fixed.

It began when I checked my emails and saw a email from TrueNAS it told me that one of my drives had failed and the pool was degraded. When I investigated I saw that the drive only had 13 errors but since I had 6 drives I wasn’t using I decided to swap it out I passed through another 2 drives and began the replacement tool. It took around three hours but went smoothly with the pool up the entire time. ...

For a addition to my cyber security home lab I added a metasploitable VM. I made a VM with weak specs (but it should be fine) and then downloaded, unziped and converted it then just added it to the VM. I made sure to put it in VLAN 30 then booted it launched and I could access the UI. I look forward to practising with this.

I began by looking for a iso file as since the name was OS i presumed it was just that an Operating System but no after some reading I found the install script. I ran it on a ubuntu server VM and it just installed on its own and worked just like that. The UI is using port 80 which I can’t see a way to change so I would prefer if it was a more random port so 80 could be a service you can’t change but it works fine and I look forward to playing around with it.

I began by changing the command to a docker compose it was easy apart from a random *.zim that was at the end. I just skipped over it and presumed it would be fine but there was no url so I thought I needed a zim for it to share so I downloaded all of Wikipedia which took around 1 hour so not to bad but after a restart there was still no page. I returned to that random .zim and after some googling and trial and error I found I needed to add the line “command: ‘.zim’” after that it worked fine and I added ask Ubuntu as well.

I started by spinning up phpmyadmin I didn’t care about the settings as I was only going to use it for a bit. At first i tried moving files 1 by 1 but when that gave error I moved all the files I had in my mount and tried to login it said my login was wrong so I tried my wordpress login which worked. I navigated to the pages table and was horrified to see it only have 4 rows. As a last hope I restored a older copy of the db I had from just after the fail. When I checked this time there were 159 posts and a quick check showed I was all there!!

I began with goal of making a cyber security home lab for learning on my r720. The first part of this was to set up a separate network so I could change settings without taking down my familys internet. So I installed Opnsense on a vm and added two network device my normal bridge(WAN) and a bridge that is bound to nothing(LAN) I booted into the live environment and ran the installer. When it rebooted I checked the assignments and found that the wan and lan were the wrong way round. I changed that and the interface ip and then connected my kali box to the LAN and accessed the interface. ...

This project has been a roll-coaster and one of the hardest things I have attempted my goal when I set out was simple to run local Ollama models on a cheap £60 k80 GPU. My first attempted end very quickly when I found out that the GPU I got was faulty and it spewed out smoke within a second of first boot. After I confirmed the rest of my server was unharmed I got a full refund and purchased another K80. This one did not fail on first boot and so I was able to start setting up my GPU. I spent the next month trying on and off failing every time. ...