Ram's Technology Notes
This is kind of an esoteric niche thing – but if you face this issue, I think this is a nice tool to have. My scenario is the following: I have several servers on my home LAN and I mostly work on them from my main desktop. Currently, my workflow is SSH into them and…
Warning: This is not something you should do in environments that care about security a lot – the default settings that do not allow this behavior is more secure and you should stick with that in such cases. In my home network, one annoyance is executing a command as root using sudo (my setup is…
Decided to teach myself some new tricks (moving to zsh from bash and neovim from vim) as a hobby. My main reason to stick with the basic bash and vim is that this is what is available by default and you can rely on by default in most environments, including those that you are unfamiliar…
The easiest way to shrink the size of a Proxmox container’s root volume is to backup the container and restore it to a new container with the updated volume size. The following sequence of operations will do this – please be careful and make sure to take full backups as some of these steps will…
Are you thinking of getting VOIP service? If so, I have an extremely strong disrecommendation for voipo.com. Do not do business with them no matter what you hear from them or elsewhere in the Internet. Background: I have been using them for almost a decade. So, I’m not just an average disgruntled customer who didn’t…
Now that I am separating my services into containers or even VMs, I have enough servers running that setting them all up for something new (like centralized log collection through syslog or updating their postfix configuration to point to a central mail relay) is becoming tedious to do manually or with ad-hoc scripts. Enter Ansible…
One slightly tricky thing with proxmox (at least to me), is getting things right with bind mounts and id mapping from host to container. This is a brief overview of the basics and how to set this up so it works correctly: Background is that a proxmox container UID and GID space starts from 100000…