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During a backup test I did recently I found that wireguard wasn’t working properly. I have no idea how long this has been the case but to fix it I started trying to change the config however when that lead to no improvment I decided to reinstall. This is something I have considered before as my current setup doesn’t have a gui which would be nice so I use the repository (https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy?tab=readme-ov-file). The install was over all easy however the password hashing didn’t work on a super strong password. This seems to be working now and I will probably redo the backup test for wireguard soon.

When I revisted my kasm server I found I was unable to launch a session. After running docker ps I saw that the guac container was contantly restarting. After searching the error message I found this link (https://kasmweb.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/3/article/8126468) which shows a fix. After following this guide I got it working again. However the same day one of my friends tried to download a game on a steam continer and I don’t know why but the entire vm froze up and I had to hard stop it. When I restarted it I found the config files filled with @ and nothing else. ...

I noticed today that Wazuh wasn’t working after I restarted my server. I saw in the logs it was failing the bootstrap test. I thought the issue was the mass of file permission error that were appearing before this error showed. However after messing around with file permissions I noticed a error about sysctl vm.max_map_count after running “sysctl -w vm.max_map_count=262144” it started working however I have no idea how this wasn’t a issue until now.

I decided to finally remove that annoying pop up that appears every time I log into my server. I found this guide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ftWGupG66A). i ignored the first section about the repositories but the section about removing the warning was clear and easy to follow. Once I had restarted the service I went to check the web UI and I was still getting the warning so I checked in a incognito tab and saw it was gone I just need to wait for my cache to update.

I was originaly planing to try security onion but while reasurching it I came across Wazuh which runs on docker which I always prefer. Once I installed it using a edited version of the compose file in the github repository. I managed to install the agent on two of my servers however on my main proxmox host I didn’t understand that the server I was the ip of the main host not the server I was installing it on. This lead to a botched install I haven’t been able to fix yet. ...

One day when I tried to use the console section of portainer I got the error “Unable to retrieve image details”. After looking online I saw that I needed to update portainer so I started looking for the compose file and couldn’t find it. Well that was a bit annoying so I ran “docker run –rm -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock ghcr.io/red5d/docker-autocompose …” which worked as expected. I then pulled the latest image and trimed the compose file. When I removed and restarted the container I was annoyed to see it still wasn’t working. ...

This has for a long time been probably my second biggest issue with my homelab. My main website that your reading this on has been running on http. This happened because i use the domain keldo.uk which is also the domain I use for email. This ment I couldn’t route through cloudflare like everything else. My original attempt to fix this was with trafik but when I got as far as forwarding the website all I got was a white page. I presumed that nginx proxy manager would be the same however I was proven wrong when I tried today. ...

I started with the docker compose file from https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui. I then edited this changing the volumes to mounts on my nas and changing the port. I then installed a range of models some designed for general conversations and others for coding. I then wanted to add tab auto complete to vscode so i used a section of technotim’s guide (https://technotim.live/posts/ai-stack-tutorial/). This worked fine and was all round a simple process. I look forward to trying to customise some of the models.

I started by following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyOSoLn5T5U. Once i customised the compose file I managed to setup my first playbook. I decided to store playbooks on my nas for safety and the first one I made was a apt update. I then started tinkering with more complicated ones for proxmox and my dns settings. This is still what I am doing as proxmox is working through proxmoxer and if not exactly simple but I am happy with the progress I am making.

It started when I was trying to install change detection. I was getting a error about not having space on the drive so I decided to delete some unused docker volumes. This lead to a new far more concerning error “mkdir /data/compose: no such file or directory”. After looking online I realised this could be bad so I decided to download a copy of passbolt and then reboot. The first thing I noticed was proxmox stopped working but I realised this was just my dns. The when I did a docker ps it showed that everything was starting fine. However when I went to Portainer it told me to setup a new install. ...