@terrorgen said:
The issue in the second link is closed and someone mentioned that they are able to run sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install to install nix on their alpine box. However, I am sure you need sudo and the person who installed it would own /nix so it may not work for metalvps if more than one user wants to use it.
Installing nix using the apk method would end up with an older version of it and I am unsure if it can be upgraded to the latest version.
The 3rd link hosts a dockerfile to create a docker container of alpine+nix.
The forth link may be dated since it says it is not possible to run nix in alpine. However, it is dated 2021 and there are at least two instances where nix has successfully worked in Alpine Linux.
What's your recommendation about what we should do at this time to enable Nix for everyone?
@terrorgen said: Thank you! looks like I need to be added to the nix group to do anything meaningful
Hi @terrorgen! You are more than welcome! Can you please give me a specific example of something you want to do that doesn't work? I am confused because the nix binary seems executable by everyone:
fmt:~# which nix
/usr/bin/nix
fmt:~# ls -l $(which nix)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3292400 Oct 9 14:45 /usr/bin/nix
fmt:~#
Thanks for any comments and insights! Best wishes!
Your password is in a file in your home directory. Please feel free to change it.
Please feel free to continue posting here in the thread if you have any questions or concerns. We are delighted to have you with us! Welcome to MetalVPS!
Rootless Docker can run by one none root user,rootless Podman run by more than one none root user.
For each user that will be allowed to create containers using Podman.
@terrorgen said: Thank you! looks like I need to be added to the nix group to do anything meaningful
Hi @terrorgen! You are more than welcome! Can you please give me a specific example of something you want to do that doesn't work? I am confused because the nix binary seems executable by everyone:
fmt:~# which nix
/usr/bin/nix
fmt:~# ls -l $(which nix)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3292400 Oct 9 14:45 /usr/bin/nix
fmt:~#
Thanks for any comments and insights! Best wishes!
To allow a Nix store to be shared safely among multiple users, it is important that users are not able to run builders that modify the Nix store or database in arbitrary ways, or that interfere with builds started by other users. If they could do so, they could install a Trojan horse in some package and compromise the accounts of other users.
To prevent this, when a unprivileged user runs a Nix command, actions that operate on the Nix store (such as builds) are forwarded to a Nix daemon running under the owner of the Nix store/database that performs the operation.
To limit which users can perform Nix operations, you can use the permissions on the directory /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket.
In alpine, /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket is owned by root:nix, so whoever wanting to run nix would need to be in the nix group.
@fluttershy said: I did want to thank @Not_Oles for always being so friendly. Makes me smile seeing how nice you are to everyone here.
Hi @fluttershy! Thanks for your kind words! Hope you do not mind, but I couldn't resist adding them to my OP. If you ever decide you want an account, you're more than welcome! Cheers! Tom
@terrorgen said: Thank you! looks like I need to be added to the nix group to do anything meaningful
Hi @terrorgen! You are more than welcome! Can you please give me a specific example of something you want to do that doesn't work? I am confused because the nix binary seems executable by everyone:
fmt:~# which nix
/usr/bin/nix
fmt:~# ls -l $(which nix)
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3292400 Oct 9 14:45 /usr/bin/nix
fmt:~#
Thanks for any comments and insights! Best wishes!
To allow a Nix store to be shared safely among multiple users, it is important that users are not able to run builders that modify the Nix store or database in arbitrary ways, or that interfere with builds started by other users. If they could do so, they could install a Trojan horse in some package and compromise the accounts of other users.
To prevent this, when a unprivileged user runs a Nix command, actions that operate on the Nix store (such as builds) are forwarded to a Nix daemon running under the owner of the Nix store/database that performs the operation.
To limit which users can perform Nix operations, you can use the permissions on the directory /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket.
In alpine, /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket is owned by root:nix, so whoever wanting to run nix would need to be in the nix group.
Thanks for your helpful post! What do you and other guys here think of what I did below?
fmt:~# which usermod
fmt:~#
[Some googling. . . .]
fmt:~# addgroup
BusyBox v1.35.0 (2022-11-19 10:13:10 UTC) multi-call binary.
Usage: addgroup [-g GID] [-S] [USER] GROUP
Add a group or add a user to a group
-g GID Group id
-S Create a system group
fmt:~# ls -l /nix/var/nix/daemon-socket
total 0 # Not running now? Does root need to start it? Maybe it starts when someone calls `nix`?
fmt:~# grep nix /etc/group
nix:x:102:
nixbld:x:103:nixbld0,nixbld1,nixbld2,nixbld3
fmt:~# addgroup terrorgen nix
fmt:~# grep nix /etc/group
nix:x:102:terrorgen
nixbld:x:103:nixbld0,nixbld1,nixbld2,nixbld3
fmt:~#
-P, --perl-regexp
Interpret PATTERNS as Perl-compatible regular expressions (PCREs).
Installing grep on Alpine
fmt:~# apk info grep
grep-3.8-r1 description:
Searches input files for lines containing a match to a specified pattern
grep-3.8-r1 webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/grep.html
grep-3.8-r1 installed size:
200 KiB
fmt:~# which grep
/bin/grep
fmt:~# ls -l /bin/grep
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 11 02:00 /bin/grep -> /bin/busybox
fmt:~# apk add grep
(1/2) Installing pcre2 (10.42-r0)
(2/2) Installing grep (3.8-r1)
Executing busybox-1.35.0-r29.trigger
OK: 1154 MiB in 150 packages
fmt:~# which grep
/bin/grep
fmt:~# ls -l /bin/grep
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 186488 Sep 6 19:55 /bin/grep
fmt:~# grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 3.8
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
Written by Mike Haertel and others; see
<https://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/grep.git/tree/AUTHORS>.
fmt:~#
Per the Alpine Linux Wiki running LXC requires the following apk packages in addition to the lxc package:
* bridge
* lxcfs
* lxc-download
* xz
* lxc-templates
* gnupg
On our default install of Alpine 3.17 edge, who is a symlink to busybox. who seems to work with the -H flag at least enough to print headers, but who does not seem to list logged in users with the -a flag or without any flags.
The busybox who source linked below (the last of the listed references) doesn't seem to require coreutils, but maybe I missed something.
Would some kind soul please explain why who shows the headers with the -H option but doesn't show me and others besides me who may also be logged in?
Thanks!
Tom
fmt:~# which who
/usr/bin/who
fmt:~# ls -l /usr/bin/who
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 11 02:00 /usr/bin/who -> /bin/busybox
fmt:~# who
fmt:~# who -a
fmt:~# who -H
USER TTY IDLE TIME HOST
fmt:~# apk info | grep coreutils
fmt:~# apk info | wc
84 84 940
fmt:~#
Q: Why is the utmp/wtmp functionality only implemented as stubs?
if the feature is implemented, you need to take additional measures to protect your user’s privacy
in order to use the utmp/wtmp feature, you need a suid/sgid binary to modify the database, which opens the door for security issues:
if you compromise those binaries, you can inject arbitrary data into the db, that other programs might interpret in exploitable ways that’s a HUGE risk to pay for the sake of a basically-useless and possibly-harmful “feature”
fmt:~# gcc --version
gcc (Alpine 12.2.1_git20220924-r6) 12.2.1 20220924
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
fmt:~# g++ --version
g++ (Alpine 12.2.1_git20220924-r6) 12.2.1 20220924
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
fmt:~# info libc-dev
libc-dev-0.7.2-r3 description:
Meta package to pull in correct libc
libc-dev-0.7.2-r3 webpage:
https://alpinelinux.org
libc-dev-0.7.2-r3 installed size:
4096 B
fmt:~# apk add libc-dev
OK: 1173 MiB in 196 packages
fmt:~# apk info libc6-dev
fmt:~# which make
/usr/bin/make
fmt:~# make --version
GNU Make 4.4
Built for x86_64-alpine-linux-musl
Copyright (C) 1988-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
fmt:~# apk info libtool
libtool-2.4.7-r0 description:
A generic library support script
libtool-2.4.7-r0 webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/libtool
libtool-2.4.7-r0 installed size:
2268 KiB
fmt:~# which libtool
fmt:~# apk add libtool
(1/2) Installing libltdl (2.4.7-r0)
(2/2) Installing libtool (2.4.7-r0)
Executing busybox-1.35.0-r29.trigger
OK: 1175 MiB in 198 packages
fmt:~# fmt:~# which flex
fmt:~# apk info flex
flex-2.6.4-r3 description:
A tool for generating text-scanning programs
flex-2.6.4-r3 webpage:
https://github.com/westes/flex
flex-2.6.4-r3 installed size:
392 KiB
fmt:~# apk add flex
(1/2) Installing m4 (1.4.19-r2)
(2/2) Installing flex (2.6.4-r3)
Executing busybox-1.35.0-r29.trigger
OK: 1176 MiB in 200 packages
fmt:~# which bison
fmt:~# apk info bison
bison-3.8.2-r0 description:
The GNU general-purpose parser generator
bison-3.8.2-r0 webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/bison/bison.html
bison-3.8.2-r0 installed size:
1460 KiB
fmt:~# apk add bison
(1/1) Installing bison (3.8.2-r0)
Executing busybox-1.35.0-r29.trigger
OK: 1177 MiB in 201 packages
fmt:~# apk info autoconf
autoconf-2.71-r2 description:
GNU tool for automatically configuring source code
autoconf-2.71-r2 webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf
autoconf-2.71-r2 installed size:
2088 KiB
fmt:~# apk add autoconf
(1/5) Installing perl (5.36.0-r0)
(2/5) Installing autoconf (2.71-r2)
(3/5) Installing perl-error (0.17029-r1)
(4/5) Installing perl-git (2.39.0-r0)
(5/5) Installing git-perl (2.39.0-r0)
Executing busybox-1.35.0-r29.trigger
OK: 1217 MiB in 206 packages
fmt:~# apk info automake
automake-1.16.5-r1 description:
GNU tool for automatically creating Makefiles
automake-1.16.5-r1 webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake
automake-1.16.5-r1 installed size:
1612 KiB
fmt:~# apk add automake
(1/1) Installing automake (1.16.5-r1)
Executing busybox-1.35.0-r29.trigger
OK: 1219 MiB in 207 packages
fmt:~# apk info nasm
nasm-2.16.01-r0 description:
80x86 assembler designed for portability and modularity
nasm-2.16.01-r0 webpage:
https://www.nasm.us
nasm-2.16.01-r0 installed size:
3220 KiB
fmt:~# apk add nasm
(1/1) Installing nasm (2.16.01-r0)
Executing busybox-1.35.0-r29.trigger
OK: 1222 MiB in 208 packages
fmt:~# apk info gdb
gdb-12.1-r3 description:
The GNU Debugger
gdb-12.1-r3 webpage:
https://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/
gdb-12.1-r3 installed size:
8616 KiB
fmt:~# fmt:~# apk add gdb
(1/1) Installing gdb (12.1-r3)
Executing busybox-1.35.0-r29.trigger
OK: 1231 MiB in 209 packages
fmt:~#
Downtime for maintenance December 27 and 28. This is from @Cloudie.
Thanks!
Dec 27 and 28 are the day after tomorrow and the following day cuz today is the 25th. Right now be your last chance to make a backup if there is anything you want on the server.
What have I missed about LXC and GCC friends?
Anybody wanna switch off Alpine and goto NetBSD or Slackware or Gentoo or something else?
Where are all the very fun guys from NodeSeek? They seem quiet lately!
@Not_Oles said: @19930618 Hello! I made a new account and new keys for you. Please check your private messages. Let's see if you can get in now. Have fun! Best wishes! Tom
Hi Tom!
Thanks for the new password, problem solved. I can log in now. thank you very much!
Looks like you are doing some interesting stuff on the server! That's great! Do you want to share details about what's happening?
Best wishes and kindest regards,
Tom
Sure! I had run a nginx server without privilege
Just run the script below,the nginx server will start up in a Udocker container !
Change the NginxPort in the script if the port number is used by someone.
cat > run_nginx_with_udocker.sh << 'EOF'
curDir=$(dirname $(readlink -f "$0"))
UdockerVersion=1.3.5
udockerHome=$curDir/pri/udocker
export UDOCKER_DIR=$udockerHome/udocker_dir
export PATH=$udockerHome:$PATH
NginxImage='nginx:1.23.1-alpine'
if [ ! $NginxPort ]; then
#change port number if already used
NginxPort=2080
fi
if [ ! -d $udockerHome ]; then
mkdir -p $curDir/pri
cd $curDir/pri
#download udocker bin
wget https://github.com/indigo-dc/udocker/releases/download/$UdockerVersion/udocker-$UdockerVersion.tar.gz
tar zxvf udocker-$UdockerVersion.tar.gz
rm udocker-$UdockerVersion.tar.gz
#instal udocker lib udockertools
udocker install
fi
# download nginx image if not exist
if ! udocker ps | grep $NginxImage > /dev/null ; then
udocker pull $NginxImage
fi
# create nginx container if not exit
if ! udocker ps | grep nginx > /dev/null ; then
udocker create --name=nginx $NginxImage 2>&1
fi
# run the nginx container
udocker run -p $NginxPort:80 nginx
EOF
bash run_nginx_with_udocker.sh
"udocker is a basic user tool to execute simple docker containers in user space without requiring root privileges. Enables download and execution of docker containers by non-privileged users in Linux systems where docker is not available. It can be used to pull and execute docker containers in Linux batch systems and interactive clusters that are managed by other entities such as grid infrastructures or externally managed batch or interactive systems.
@Not_Oles said:
Here are some more questions for possible consideration:
What does everyone think about giving some or all neighbors sudo?
How about installing some kind of containers or VMs, letting neighbors do whatever they want inside their container or VM, but not giving sudo on the node?
Does anyone (maybe those who get containers, VMs, and/or sudo?) want to contribute to the $30/month cost of the server?
It's okay with me just to leave things as they are for now. But I am equally happy to consider alternatives. Special thanks to @terrorgen for helping get the discussion started!
Thanks in advance for your helpful comments!
Best wishes!
Tom
No to everyone having sudo
lxc container sounds good, if that's do-able (proxmox with a single shared IP)
Maintenance December 27 and 28, 2022. That's tomorrow and the following day.
Right now might be your last chance to make a backup if there is anything you want on the server.
I set up IPv4 and IPv6 monitors at Hetrix Tools so we all can see when the pings from Hetrix receive responses and when they don't. Here are the links:
There have been rumors that our fmt machine perhaps could receive an upgrade from 32 GB to 64 GB RAM. Additional rumor penumbras suggested that certain routers might be upgraded. I'm looking forward to the results of the maintenance!
@Asim said: @Not_Oles works fine, now I just need to figure out how to run staff on a linux shell without sudo/root
If you read through the entire thread 😵 you will see lots of interesting ways that several guys got interesting stuff working! For TL;DR I just added a "Congrats" section to the OP. 🤩
@Not_Oles said:
Here are some more questions for possible consideration:
What does everyone think about giving some or all neighbors sudo?
How about installing some kind of containers or VMs, letting neighbors do whatever they want inside their container or VM, but not giving sudo on the node?
Does anyone (maybe those who get containers, VMs, and/or sudo?) want to contribute to the $30/month cost of the server?
It's okay with me just to leave things as they are for now. But I am equally happy to consider alternatives. Special thanks to @terrorgen for helping get the discussion started!
Thanks in advance for your helpful comments!
Best wishes!
Tom
No to everyone having sudo
lxc container sounds good, if that's do-able (proxmox with a single shared IP)
Yes to sharing the cost
Hey!
Thanks for your vote on sudo. We have quite a few IPs, please recheck the server specs in the OP. Thanks for saying yes to sharing the cost. Much appreciated!
Thanks for requesting an account! Excellent to see you posting here! Welcome!
Since we haven't seen you around LES too much, would you like to share a bit about yourself and your interests? Maybe who and where you are, your Linux experience, and what you plan to do on the server? I'm sure everyone will be interested!
the maintenance downtimes happened. As of right now I have not yet heard that the maintenance officially was completed. So maybe there might be more downtime.
Nevertheless, the server seems up and running. Network performance seems much improved, and there is a second important improvement. Have some fun trying to figure out the second improvement or take a look underneath the spoiler.
Hey, our RAM was doubled! We have 64 GB now!
Last but not least, I remounted one of the 1 TB hard drives on /mnt (but it's still not in /etc/fstab). Please feel free to write some files there, if you wish. Looks like you have write access:
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 11 17:59 mnt
Special thanks to @Cloudie for the upgrades! That's so nice, it deserves saying it twice! Thanks to @Cloudie for the upgrades! And maybe even a third time in bold! Thanks to @Cloudie for the upgrades!
Hi @chitree! Welcome to LES! Congratulations on your first post! Want to introduce yourself to the community? Please tell us a little about who and where you are, your experience, and what you want to do on the server. Also, we will need your ed25519 ssh public key to give you an account. Thanks! Tom
@Not_Oles said:
Hi @chitree! Welcome to LES! Congratulations on your first post! Want to introduce yourself to the community? Please tell us a little about who and where you are, your experience, and what you want to do on the server. Also, we will need your ed25519 ssh public key to give you an account. Thanks! Tom
Thanks @Not_Oles! Sure, I'm a privacy advocate and work in the computer security field. I'm a New Englander and I've been using Linux since it began in the 90s. I would like to explore in my Alpine Linux shell, as I know it's very different approach to an OS. My ed25519 ssh public key is here
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIAaMPrmXnsbLYdSg9j14Ry65FqOmv1k/iWWkUMi7F7uT
Thanks
@Not_Oles said:
Hi @chitree! Welcome to LES! Congratulations on your first post! Want to introduce yourself to the community? Please tell us a little about who and where you are, your experience, and what you want to do on the server. Also, we will need your ed25519 ssh public key to give you an account. Thanks! Tom
Thanks @Not_Oles! Sure, I'm a privacy advocate and work in the computer security field. I'm a New Englander and I've been using Linux since it began in the 90s. I would like to explore in my Alpine Linux shell, as I know it's very different approach to an OS. My ed25519 ssh public key is here
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIAaMPrmXnsbLYdSg9j14Ry65FqOmv1k/iWWkUMi7F7uT
Thanks
Excellent! Do you have a website or other presence elsewhere on the web where we can learn more about your position on privacy and about your work in computer security? Thanks!
Comments
GCC
Have fun!
Go
Vim
Yaaay!
User must be in the
dockergroup in order to use Docker.Otherwise, all we get is:
However, adding someone to the
dockergroup is equivalent to granting them root privilege.For BGP daemon, either LXC or KVM can work.
We accept Karma donations for the last flan. 🍮 affbrr
Python3 + Vim upgrade
Thanks to @yoursunny for his comment above concerning the Docker install.
Additional questions and comments on any of today's installs are respectfully requested! Thank you!
@Not_Oles Just bumping up incase you missed my comment
https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/116210#Comment_116210
Thank you! looks like I need to be added to the
nixgroup to do anything meaningfulDM us for private tracker invite.
Not trying to argue with you, cuz I admit to being clueless™ about Docker. However, there seems to be: https://docs.docker.com/engine/security/rootless/
If anybody is interested in running Docker, we can talk about this topic some more.
Now that I had a moment to think about it, I believe I recall seeing some of this in the LXC install instructions. I will take another look tomorrow.
Thanks again! Friendly greetings!
Hi @terrorgen! You are more than welcome! Can you please give me a specific example of something you want to do that doesn't work? I am confused because the
nixbinary seems executable by everyone:Thanks for any comments and insights! Best wishes!
Hi!
Thanks for the bump! You are right that I missed your comment! So sorry!
Please try something like:
ssh [email protected] -p 42365Please let us know if you can get in.
Your password is in a file in your home directory. Please feel free to change it.
Please feel free to continue posting here in the thread if you have any questions or concerns. We are delighted to have you with us! Welcome to MetalVPS!
Kindest regards,
Tom
Podman is similar to Docker.
Without root privilege,maybe we can run container with the Rootless Podman instead of Docker.
https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/main/docs/tutorials/rootless_tutorial.md
What advantages does podman over docker?
Even docker offers rootless containers I believe
@Not_Oles it would be worth a try for rootless docker.
Would love to try the rootles Docker @Not_Oles 😅
https://microlxc.net/
Even docker offers rootless containers I believe
Rootless Docker can run by one none root user,rootless Podman run by more than one none root user.
For each user that will be allowed to create containers using Podman.
From https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/installation/multi-user.html#multi-user-mode, cherry picking information relevant to the discussion here:
In alpine,
/nix/var/nix/daemon-socketis owned byroot:nix, so whoever wanting to run nix would need to be in the nix group.DM us for private tracker invite.
This morning's updates
I don't want an account, but I did want to thank @Not_Oles for always being so friendly. Makes me smile seeing how nice you are to everyone here.
Hi @fluttershy! Thanks for your kind words! Hope you do not mind, but I couldn't resist adding them to my OP. If you ever decide you want an account, you're more than welcome! Cheers! Tom
Hi @terrorgen!
Thanks for your helpful post! What do you and other guys here think of what I did below?
What else needs to be done?
Best wishes and kindest regards,
Tom
rc-update add nix-daemonrc-service nix-daemon startDM us for private tracker invite.
Good morning everyone! Today's updates, including Nix update. Also, I enabled and started nix-daemon per @terrorgen's request. Have a great day! 🌅
@terrorgen When you have time, please let us know if Nix now works okay for you. Thank you very much!
@Not_Oles nix now works! I installed zsh through nix!
DM us for private tracker invite.
That's delightful! Glad to hear it. Thank you for the report as well as for your help with and patience during the install.
Add bash
Add GNU
grepBusybox's
grepdoesn't recognize GNUgrep's -P option.From the man page which accompanies GNU
grep3.8:Installing
grepon AlpineAdd
iperf3andfioAdd gcompat
From Running glibc programs:
Install Git
Happy holidays everyone!
Install LXC related packages
Please see https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/116433/#Comment_116433 for previously completed install of the LXC package.
Per the Alpine Linux Wiki running LXC requires the following apk packages in addition to the lxc package:
* bridge
* lxcfs
* lxc-download
* xz
* lxc-templates
* gnupg
A few more things need to be done. For example,
network configuration in /etc/network/interfaces
kernel configuration
Happy Holidays!
Happy Holiday everyone!!
https://microlxc.net/
Hello! Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it! 🎄
Santa brought me a link to the new musl website's wiki, where it says:
Q: Why is the utmp/wtmp functionality only implemented as stubs?
Friendly greetings!
Install friends of GCC
Please see https://lowendspirit.com/discussion/comment/116445/#Comment_116445 for gcc install.
Procedure: Attempt translation of Debian apt-ese into Alpine apk-ese.
build-essential
dpkg-dev
gcc
g++
libc6-dev
libc-dev
make
libtool
flex
bison
autotools-dev
autoconf
automake
nasm
gdb
Alpine
So, guys, what else? Surely I missed something!
Reminder About Upcoming Maintenance
Dec 27 and 28 are the day after tomorrow and the following day cuz today is the 25th. Right now be your last chance to make a backup if there is anything you want on the server.
What have I missed about LXC and GCC friends?
Anybody wanna switch off Alpine and goto
NetBSD or Slackware or Gentoo or something else?
Where are all the very fun guys from NodeSeek? They seem quiet lately!
What else has @terrorgen installed with nix?
Friendly greetings! Happy New Year!
@Not_Oles Happy Holidays! Want to try Alpine Linux shells, please provision me one
Hi Tom!
Thanks for the new password, problem solved. I can log in now. thank you very much!
Hi @Asim!
Nice to see you! Welcome!
Please try
ssh [email protected] -p 42365and please let us know if you can get in. Have fun!Best wishes!
Tom
@subenhon
Hello!
Looks like you are doing some interesting stuff on the server! That's great!
Do you want to share details about what's happening?
Best wishes and kindest regards,
Tom
Sure! I had run a nginx server without privilege
Just run the script below,the nginx server will start up in a Udocker container !
Change the NginxPort in the script if the port number is used by someone.
Hi @subenhon!
Thanks for posting! Congrats, cuz your install seems to be working just fine!
Maybe some of you guys might enjoy reading https://github.com/indigo-dc/udocker. I can't resist quoting a little bit:
Looks very cool to me!
Thanks again @subenhon and best wishes!
Tom
I‘'d glad to try one of the accounts. Thank you
@Not_Oles works fine, now I just need to figure out how to run staff on a linux shell without sudo/root
Hello!
Maintenance December 27 and 28, 2022. That's tomorrow and the following day.
Right now might be your last chance to make a backup if there is anything you want on the server.
I set up IPv4 and IPv6 monitors at Hetrix Tools so we all can see when the pings from Hetrix receive responses and when they don't. Here are the links:
IPv4
IPv6
There have been rumors that our fmt machine perhaps could receive an upgrade from 32 GB to 64 GB RAM. Additional rumor penumbras suggested that certain routers might be upgraded. I'm looking forward to the results of the maintenance!
Friendly greetings!
If you read through the entire thread 😵 you will see lots of interesting ways that several guys got interesting stuff working! For TL;DR I just added a "Congrats" section to the OP. 🤩
Hey!
Thanks for your vote on sudo. We have quite a few IPs, please recheck the server specs in the OP. Thanks for saying yes to sharing the cost. Much appreciated!
Thanks again!
Tom
Hi @johnsnow!
Thanks for requesting an account! Excellent to see you posting here! Welcome!
Since we haven't seen you around LES too much, would you like to share a bit about yourself and your interests? Maybe who and where you are, your Linux experience, and what you plan to do on the server? I'm sure everyone will be interested!
Best from New York City and Mexico! 🗽🇺🇸🇲🇽🏜️
Tom
Hello!
As you guys can see at
IPv4 https://hetrixtools.com/report/uptime/b4016ba7f28dd0efdf98b962503d6da8/
IPv6 https://hetrixtools.com/report/uptime/e68bf04b3d5c0aefd8c872a3086e902c/
the maintenance downtimes happened. As of right now I have not yet heard that the maintenance officially was completed. So maybe there might be more downtime.
Nevertheless, the server seems up and running. Network performance seems much improved, and there is a second important improvement. Have some fun trying to figure out the second improvement or take a look underneath the spoiler.
Hey, our RAM was doubled! We have 64 GB now!
Last but not least, I remounted one of the 1 TB hard drives on /mnt (but it's still not in /etc/fstab). Please feel free to write some files there, if you wish. Looks like you have write access:
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Dec 11 17:59 mntSpecial thanks to @Cloudie for the upgrades! That's so nice, it deserves saying it twice! Thanks to @Cloudie for the upgrades! And maybe even a third time in bold! Thanks to @Cloudie for the upgrades!
Can I please have a shell account? Thanks.
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Hi @chitree! Welcome to LES! Congratulations on your first post! Want to introduce yourself to the community? Please tell us a little about who and where you are, your experience, and what you want to do on the server. Also, we will need your ed25519 ssh public key to give you an account. Thanks! Tom
Thanks @Not_Oles! Sure, I'm a privacy advocate and work in the computer security field. I'm a New Englander and I've been using Linux since it began in the 90s. I would like to explore in my Alpine Linux shell, as I know it's very different approach to an OS. My ed25519 ssh public key is here
ssh-ed25519 AAAAC3NzaC1lZDI1NTE5AAAAIAaMPrmXnsbLYdSg9j14Ry65FqOmv1k/iWWkUMi7F7uT
Thanks
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Excellent! Do you have a website or other presence elsewhere on the web where we can learn more about your position on privacy and about your work in computer security? Thanks!