Ubuntu is upgraded to 24.04 Noble but outgoing e-mail is presently broken. Please use another shell server to send or reply to e-mail. I am still working on it.
Ubuntu is upgraded to 24.04 Noble but outgoing e-mail is presently broken. Please use another shell server to send or reply to e-mail. I am still working on it.
Ubuntu is currently unresponsive because of an update in progress from 22.04 Jammy to 24.04 noble. This is taking longer than expected largely owing to the huge number of packages installed and automatic backups of the host server taking place simultaneously.
In the meantime, please consider using debian, mint, mxlinux, popos, or zorin as alternatives. All of these are derived from the same base and will operate similarly.
I was not where I thought I was and did an rm -rf removing the friendica directory in the process. So it’s being restored from compressed backups. Because the partition that is backed up is 13TB partition, this is going to take a little while.
In an attempt to further the freedom of speech, I have added a new Misskey social media site to Eskimo North. It can be reached through our Web-Apps menu on the main website https://www.eskimo.com/ or directly at https://misskey.eskimo.com/.
It is a minimal setup at present so not super pretty but I’ll fill it out as time permits.
This joins our other social media sites, https://friendica.eskimo.com/, https://hubzilla.eskimo.com/, https://mastodon.eskimo.com/, https://nextcloud.eskimo.com/ and our federated search engine https://yacy.eskimo.com/.
Just a heads up on how things are going with Ice and general redundancy measures. I’ve got cron jobs in place to distribute SSL certs across all of the physical machines so any one physical machine being alive will be adequate to get access to SSL certs.
I’ve got a 5th name server running as a virtual machine on my machine at home so even if the co-lo is down entirely incoming e-mail will not be lost.
I’ve got a cron job copying /home and mail spool to another machine so either machine being down, I will still have a way of making these things accessible.
I’m still working on ice. It turned out both Asus memory boards I have had dead memory channels, one because pins are missing from the CPU socket but the other is a mystery. I can not see any missing or bent pins, yet, the BIOS sees all the DIMMS even though the CPU does not so this still points to a socket problem, perhaps a bad solder connection or open trace.
So I ordered another board, but did not pay adequate attention to the description, it was a parts board so not usable. The seller agreed to take it back if I paid shipping even though he had said no returns up front. Thank God some decent people still exist.
Then I ordered another board, this one supposedly working, well it arrived and had a minor problem. Someone broke a screw off for the nvme drive in one of the mounts. I was unable to get it out of the mount so ordered a kit for $6 off of amazon that contains mounts and mounting screws and I will just replace it. A pain as I have to take the board out again as I can not get to it from the back.
But still moving forward…
At the request of one of our customers, “anki” has been installed on all of our shell servers. The version installed is the qt6 version from the ankiweb website with the exception of Mint.
On the Mint server, the distribution version is installed because system security would not permit some of the actions required by the install script.
For servers available see: https://www.eskimo.com/services/shells/servers/
Presently quacamole and vnc access is broken on manjaro and rocky8.
SSH, rdp, and x2go works on all of the servers.
For those without an account, free trials: https://www.eskimo.com/services/free-trial/
A new shell server based upon the Alma Linux distribution is now available. The server name is “alma.eskimo.com”. It is available via ssh, vnc, rdp, and guacamole.
To access via guacamole (web) go to https://www.eskimo.com/
Then hover over web apps and select Terminal or Desktop. At the login prompt type “public” in both the login and password fields. Then select Alma Terminal or Alma Desktop, as you prefer, from the menu. Then type your login and password when prompted.
I believe it is reasonably complete, but if there is software not present that you would like, please send email to support@eskimo.com.
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