Sysadmin Mega Thread

anon75264233 · June 25, 2020, 9:14pm

OEL is free

Unless you go for the ksplice stuff (live kernel patching)

SgtAwesomesauce · June 25, 2020, 9:16pm

Oh really?

SgtAwesomesauce · June 25, 2020, 9:17pm

I’m sold:

anon75264233 · June 25, 2020, 9:17pm

LoL I thought that too (Oracle giving something away for free?)

anon75264233 · June 25, 2020, 9:17pm

Yeah he’s got a cute suite or armor

SgtAwesomesauce · June 25, 2020, 9:19pm

bout to go hit the gym. I’ll dig into this more later.

It’s probably closer to centos in nature than arch, so it’ll be less headache to convert the ansible.

I might have to propose this then.

anon75264233 · June 25, 2020, 9:20pm

Yeah because Oracle builds directly from Ret Hat source.

Enjoy the gym!

SgtAwesomesauce · June 25, 2020, 9:22pm

of course they do lol

anon75264233 · June 25, 2020, 10:20pm

In case you’re curious…

(you do have to create an account but the download is free)

https://edelivery.oracle.com/osdc/faces/Home.jspx

You’ll probably be more interested in this though since their ol7 distro plays nice with kubernettes

https://www.oracle.com/linux/technologies/oracle-linux-downloads.html

geeklife · June 25, 2020, 10:26pm

I’m officially the only guy in my department who missed a covid exposure. I am the lone inhouse IT guy for the next two weeks. Joy.

SgtAwesomesauce · June 25, 2020, 11:15pm

If you wanna get in on the fun, just go to the bar.

geeklife · June 25, 2020, 11:17pm

Oh I have been going to the brewery, but it has an outside area and I get my pitcher and go out back alone and watch netflix. I have a mask on the whole time inside.

SgtAwesomesauce · June 25, 2020, 11:20pm

Oh, do you poke a hole in it for the beer straw?

geeklife · June 25, 2020, 11:20pm

No, haha I take it off outside.

SgtAwesomesauce · June 25, 2020, 11:21pm

egad!

Who would have thought such a thing was possible!?

geeklife · June 25, 2020, 11:22pm

I know. Like wear the mask inside and around people take it off outside. Why is this so hard to get?

Novasty · June 25, 2020, 11:28pm

I usually just leave it on for convenience, I usually take it off when I am in the office, but that is mostly due to me being practically the only person in the office when I actually need to go to the office.

oO.o · June 26, 2020, 12:44am

I’m going to have to start going in again. Sadly the main task will be selling things and downsizing. Anyone want some Apple and/or misc network hardware?

2bitmarksman · June 26, 2020, 2:35am

That’s about what I surmised from my own findings. Thanks!

anon75264233 · June 26, 2020, 3:08am

Fuck.

Fuck fuck fuck.

Apparently, if the rpcbind service is restarted and mounts use NFSv3 then it will cause and issue with stale file locks that can only be resolved by restarting the NFS service. Not an issue with NFSv4 mind you.

Shit.

Just got out of an S1 meeting. Kill me.