Please not these posts again

This thread is pinned for a reason: https://lemmy.world/post/60585

You are right. Quadlets require 4.4, Debian 12 has 4.3

Podman

• rootless by default
• daemonless
• integration with systemd, made even easier by podman-generate-systemd
• no third-party APT repository required, follows the same lifecycle as my LTS (Debian) distro
• podman and docker command-line are 100% compatible for my use cases

podman-compose is packaged in a separate podman-compose package in Debian 12 (did not try it though). The only thing missing (for me) in Debian 12 is quadlets support (requires podman 4.4+, Debian 12 has 4.3)

I use tt-rss and the android app

shaarli bookmarks + hecat (shaarli_api importer + download_media/archive_webpages processors + html_table exporter for the HTML index)

https://www.sphinx-doc.org/ + https://pradyunsg.me/furo/ theme + https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/ markdown parser + https://sphinx-design.readthedocs.io/ extensions.

Just drop all your markdown files in a directory and run sphinx-build. Highly customizable but also works out of the box

What’s your existing setup? For such a simple task, check if any of the tools you use currently can be adapted (simple text files on a web server? File sharing like Nextcloud and text files? Pastebin-like? Wiki? …). Otherwise a simple Shaarli instance could do the trick (just post “notes” aka. bookmarks without an URL). I use this theme to make it nicer. Or maybe a static site generator/blog.

Windows Servers

No

setup automatic responses to the alerts

It should be possible using script to execute on alarm = /your/custom/remediation-script https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/alerts-&-notifications/notifications/agent-dispatched-notifications/agent-notifications-reference. I have not experimented with this yet, but soon will (implementing a custom notification channel for specific alarms)

restarting a service if it isn’t answering requests

I’d rather find the root cause of the downtime/malfunction instead of blindly restarting the service, just my 2 cents.

I use netdata (the FOSS agent only, not the cloud offering) on all my servers (physical, VMs…) and stream all metrics to a parent netdata instance. It works extremely well for me.

Other solutions are too cumbersome and heavy on maintenance for me. You can query netdata from prometheus/grafana [1] if you really need custom dashboards.

I guess you wouldn’t be able to install it on the router/switch but there is a SNMP collector which should be able to query bandwidth info from the network appliances.

https://github.com/chriswayg/ansible-msmtp-mailer/issues/14 While msmtp has features to alter the envelope sender and recipient, it doesn’t alter the “To:” or “From:” message itself. When the Envelope doesn’t match these details, it can be considered spam

Oh I didn’t know that, good to know!

The proposed one-line wrapper looks like a nice solution

You can definitely replace senders with correct mail addresses for relaying through SMTP servers that expect them (this is what I do):

# /etc/msmtprc
account default
...
host smtp.gmail.com
auto_from on
auth on
user myaddress
password hunter2

# Replace local recipients with addresses in the aliases file
aliases /etc/aliases

# /etc/aliases
mailer-daemon: postmaster
postmaster: root
nobody: root
hostmaster: root
usenet: root
news: root
webmaster: root
www: root
ftp: root
abuse: root
noc: root
security: root
root: default
www-data: root
default: [email protected]

(the only thing I changed from the defaults in the aliases file is adding the last line)

This makes it so all/most system accounts susceptible to send mail are aliased to root, and root in turn is aliased to my email address (which is the one configured in host/user/password in msmtprc)

Edit: I think it’s actually the auto_from option which interests you. Check the msmtp manpage

msmtp never failed me

See you back on Debian in a few months

RSS feeds

How does this compare to https://awesome-selfhosted.net/ ?

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/installation/source_installation.html

If this is a “shared hosting” type of server (LAMP stack), you can usually run PHP applications (assuming they are pre-packaged and don’t need composer install or similar during the install process). Check https://awesome-selfhosted.net/platforms/php.html

I think Peertube would be overkill for a single channel, but it’s the closest to YouTube in terms of features (multiple formats/transcoding, comments, etc). Otherwise I would just rip the channel with yt-dlp and setup a “mirror” on something simple like a static site or blog. Find something that works, then automate (a simple shell script + cron job would do the trick).

On my desktop I do this with quodlibet alongside the KDE connect applet + KDE connect android app, which lets the phone control media players on the desktop. You probably don’t want to run a full desktop environment just for this, but it’s a good option if you already have a desktop PC with decent speakers.

Mentioning it just in case, because it works for me. If you’re looking for a purely headless server there are other good suggestions in this thread.