I guess
That this blog is back..? Apparently it just turned 9 years old. So why not celebrate?
Lately I've done a little coding. Just bash. My mom got hit with a ransomware attack so I went a tad crazy with a Pi-hole, Fail2Ban and now Firewalld (original Uncomplicated Fire Wall). It's all on a Fedora server running on that ancient nettop I was going to make into a NAS.
Current problem: Pi-hole web console won't cooperate and 403's me. Forbidden why? Fuck if I know. Fuck if I've had the energy to find out. I've got other, completely unrelated work.
But. yes so first order of business is unfuck the Pi-hole web console. It isn't the web server malfunctioning because Webmin still works, and it was previously working so it's something relatively recent. At any rate I can at least monitor its status if not its activity.
Next up on the docket: "Linux Attentive SERver Console". It's a silly name but it has some clear objectives:
Backup management
System resource monitoring
Fail2ban, Firewalld, and Pi-hole metrics
Email summaries and alerts
Web-based interface
Security and authentication
So it's a big project but one step at a time. First backup management, which already sort of exists. I have scripts that I need to get running properly with cron jobs with basic backup creation and management. So next step is to start expanding user control.
