#sysadmin

@chris_siebenmann Discovering rsync's -W option and our use for it #SysAdmin #Rsync #Tech

@chris_siebenmann I'm only interested in "native" installation systems #SysAdmin #Software #Tech

@chris_siebenmann Our long path from IPMI remote installs to network installs #SysAdmin #Networking #Infrastructure

@chris_siebenmann How your Ubuntu 26.04 server boots with a software RAID array root filesystem #Linux #SysAdmin #OpenSource

@chris_siebenmann You can't always trust a BMC's inventory of the server's hardware #SysAdmin #Hardware #Networking

@lobsters I've gone full Nix: Proxmox to NixOS + Incus #Nixos #DevOps #SysAdmin

@chris_siebenmann Two versions of a 'is SSH up on a machine' check #Sysadmin #Networking #SSH

@chris_siebenmann The quiet issue of lurking settings (and how it bit me) #SysAdmin #Networking #Infrastructure

@chris_siebenmann Configuration is a liability, just like code #SysAdmin #DevOps #Infrastructure

@chris_siebenmann Some reasons why your server may not be doing a UEFI network boot #Sysadmin #Networking #UEFI

@chris_siebenmann How to correctly not wait for network carrier in Netplan #Linux #SysAdmin #Networking

@chris_siebenmann Why servers running Ubuntu can stall on boot for two minutes #Linux #Networking #SysAdmin

@chris_siebenmann What the new Linux NFS mount option 'fatal_neterrors' is #Linux #NFS #SysAdmin

@chris_siebenmann Systemd-resolved and sticking (or not) to what distributions do #Linux #Systemd #SysAdmin

@chris_siebenmann Running a modern email system requires non-trivial staff time #SysAdmin #Email #Infrastructure

@chris_siebenmann Should we care any more about Googlebot crawling our sites? #WebCrawling #SEO #SysAdmin

@chris_siebenmann A wish for automatic or semi-automatic disk setup in Linux server installers #Linux #SysAdmin #Automation

@hackernews Sysadmining Like It's 2009 #HackerNews #Tech #Sysadmin

@lobsters Sysadmining like it's 2009 #Sysadmin #RetroTech #IT

@chris_siebenmann Our unusual system of "web home directories" for people #SysAdmin #Networking #Infrastructure

@chris_siebenmann Anti-robot techniques can be nice but the problem is, they're not static #WebDev #SysAdmin #Tech

@chris_siebenmann How our environment still needs the security boundary of Unix logins #SysAdmin #Security #Unix

@lobsters This blog ran on Ubuntu 16.04 for 10 years. I migrated it to FreeBSD #FreeBSD #Linux #SysAdmin

@chris_siebenmann Notes on respectfully getting a personal copy of a website's contents #WebArchiving #DataPreservation #SysAdmin

@chris_siebenmann The hardware needs of our mail system (as of mid 2026) #SysAdmin #Infrastructure #Networking

@chris_siebenmann Unicode and Emoji in terminals, or my simple but difficult wish #Tech #Unicode #SysAdmin

@chris_siebenmann Going from a ZFS object ID to its path the easier way #ZFS #Solaris #SysAdmin

@chris_siebenmann In praise of the Linux kernel netconsole (in the right circumstances) #Linux #SysAdmin #Networking

@chris_siebenmann Notes on using GNU Emacs' Tramp system in an unusual shell environment #Emacs #Programming #SysAdmin