@dustinb3403 said in Need some help with crontab:

Ok and that is what it was.

Simply needed to make a bash script out of it and have it scheduled to run, rather than using the commands directly in cron.

Problem solved.

Solution:

pwd /usr/bin/local touch expiring-alert.sh vi expiring-alert.sh /usr/bin/php /var/www/html/snipeit/artisan snipeit:expiring-alerts sudo vi /etc/crontab 35 * * * 1 <user> /usr/local/bin/expiring-alert.sh

Presumably changing this to be @daily or @weekly would work as well.

MOst of the time that is how I have it setup on my crontab, same for my certbot scripts too.

@black3dynamite said in Wink Smart Home Controller:

The only open source alternative is called Things Gateway.
https://iot.mozilla.org/gateway/

They also have a list of supported hardware too.
https://github.com/mozilla-iot/wiki/wiki/Supported-Hardware

@black3dynamite This is very neat, i like the extend-ability it seems to offer. The problem with all this IoT stuff to me seems like there is no standards. Every company has their own implementation and their stuff only works with their stuff. This project from Mozilla seems to be trying to expand interoperability and compatibility across manufacturers/brand names.

These are the kind of things you think someone would catch.

Not like it's some random 3rd party app on some 3rd party OS on some 3rd party host.

@tim_g said in Networking and 1U Colocation:

fail2ban

Fail2ban does nothing with key based access. It's denied before fail2ban even sees it.

@bbigford said in Struggling with Rocket.chat CSV Import:

@scottalanmiller said in Struggling with Rocket.chat CSV Import:

I often find that the ACT of posting something makes me think about it and fix the issue. The issue was that I was zipping the folder that contained the files rather than making a "flat zip" file. It is working now.

Ah, so you had to zip the contents is all, rather than zip the folder?

Yeah.

@dbeato said in Powershell Alpha in Ubuntu:

@lakshmana said in Powershell Alpha in Ubuntu:

@scottalanmiller said in Powershell Alpha in Ubuntu:

I use powerShell on Linux regularly. But nothing with AD.

Whether we can check the locked users from the AD ?

Take a look below:

https://powershell.org/forums/topic/activedirectory-for-powershell-on-linux/

https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerShell/comments/7ttrad/linux_powershell_what_does_it_take_to_run_ad/

So far it is not possible.

Enter-PSSession doesn’t even work.

@francesco-provino said in SAN vs vSAN in a brownfield environment:

@scottalanmiller said in SAN vs vSAN in a brownfield environment:

@francesco-provino said in SAN vs vSAN in a brownfield environment:

I've already pointed out that. The reply was that vSAN is a new/untested stuff, and they prefer to stick with a trusted route.

How are they defining this? vSAN is old and very trusted. SAN is older and has demonstrated that it is not to be trusted.

vSAN isn't actually old, it's the same age as SAN. The two are one and the same. Point that out, that vSAN and SAN aren't different things so all testing of one is of the other. Ask them point blank "You seem to be confused, I think you are recommending SAN only because you don't understand what vSAN is or means or you'd understand that you couldn't make that statement. I hope this means you are unknowledgeable of this subject matter and not just trying to scam us while thinking we are fools."

I think that the management never heard about vSAN, that's all.

It's all in how you present it. Simply present it as SAN, but done in an enterprise, well thought out way.

To create scheduled tasks with PowerShell look at this:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/heyscriptingguy/2015/01/13/use-powershell-to-create-scheduled-tasks/

@dashrender said in T-mobile stores passwords in clear text:

At bare minimum this social media person needs to be fired. This is so much more egregious than the Hilton guy who was fired a few weeks ago.

Yes, none of his response made any sense.

@jaredbusch said in MariaDB on Fedora 27 Fails to Start from RocksDB Inclusion:

@scottalanmiller So as my systems update over the next 24 hours they are all going to break?

Hit us on update, no restart involved 😞

@jaredbusch I will make the change later today. I would rather follow the best practices and methods. I have zero issues with that. It is definitely different than using POTS lines because that is what I was used to with legacy systems. I've learned a TON since first installing FreePBX last year. Wish I would have tried it a long time ago.

@momurda said in SSL TLS options in Windows registry:

Yes, how did i not know about this tool before? Amazing software. I will be doing this tonight after hours. Going to first test on a rarely used webserver now.

I have been using for years, it is a great tool but as @JaredBusch it can break a lot of software.

Can confirm G6 will not work with HyperV from experience; due to exactly what @black3dynamite posted

@hobbit666 said in Install Zabbix on Fedora 27:

Just ran through this again as moved from a CentOS install to Fedora and only just noticed it pulls down Version 3.0.15?

Current Version is 3.4.8. Does the script need changing or how do we update to the latest?

3.0.15 is Zabbix 3.0 LTS version.
https://www.zabbix.com/download?zabbix=3.0&os_distribution=centos&os_version=7&db=MySQL

Edit: You will have to manually install the new version.

@carnival-boy said in Current Status of SEO:

An SEO expert can advise on how to turn bad content in to good content, without being a writer.

Beyond how to be a good writer? I'm not confident in this. This is what SEO salespeople claim, but at the end of the day it's quality content and writing and beyond that, you are into the gaming that Google is watching for.

@Danp Instead of disabling globally, it would be better to temporary change the DNS on your computer instead.

It's my first time running into it. Wondering if it might not be a corrupted client.