Eskimo North

Pixelfed.Eskimo.Com Properly Federating

Thu, 03 Jul 2025 04:19:53 +0000

I finally got pixelfed.eskimo.com to properly federate so that it now shares images with the rest of the fediverse allowing you to see pictures from people you follow on other sites and they your pictures.

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Eskimo North Changes

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 04:34:05 +0000

I’ve firewall rules to address recent SYN and UDP floods. So far they have had the intended effect. I’ve installed a new shell server, anduinos.eskimo.com. This is a debian derived server similar to popOS except the default graphical environment is Gnome configured to look like Windows. Unfortunately this environment does not seem to work if using vnc or x2go, instead you just get…

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Mail System Maintenance

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:56:47 +0000

The mail system is currently shutdown to image the servers. That is to say to take a copy of the virtual machine image while it is down in case it should get corrupted or lost and needs to be restored in the future. I expect to have the mail sub-system returned to service around 3AM.

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Web Server Database

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 03:03:02 +0000

Mariadb, the database that is used to provide SQL service for most web apps requiring it (a handful use postgresql) hung when some internal process failed to remove a lock and everything else piled up behind it. I could not restart it with either systemd or mysqladmin, and even a regular kill signal did not work, kill -9 eventually did but even the response to that was delayed by several…

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Mail

Fri, 16 May 2025 07:20:32 +0000

Mail system is down. Something very weird happened when I rebooted the server it is hosted on. It did not find the qemu img for the mail spool at the location specified in the XML file and the location was obviously wrong as the directory did not exist. Yet, I had rebooted the server many times before. I found a spool img but it is two weeks old. The current one seems to have just…

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Mail

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 09:31:04 +0000

Mail is down presently as it is being moved from the Iglulik server to inuvik. The reason I am doing this is the machine is showing some signs of instability so I want to get mail, a critical service OFF of this machine before it crashes and burns. This was THE only machine that would not boot 6.14.2, could not find the root partition even though 6.14.0 finds it fine. I do not know what is…

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Squirrelmail Moved

Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:57:27 +0000

Squirrelmail has been moved to our new web server. The menu items through our home page and web-apps will work as normal, but the direct URL has changed to https://squirrelmail.eskimo.com/.

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Mail Up

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 06:24:11 +0000

Mail is back up and is now on a stable but slower platform. I will need to reload Linux on the other machine as it has somehow become badly corrupted. Systemd is not acting properly on the larger machine and is starting servi ces, particularly systemd-networkd which needs NOT to be running as I use network-manager, even though they are masked that breaks the network. It’s not impossible…

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Mail Maintenance

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 04:09:28 +0000

Mail is going to be down for approximately 2 hours to move from the present host that has some software networking instability issues and needs a reload to a stable host. Because this involves copying 400GB of data across a 1Gb/s link, it will take approximately two hours, I expect it to be back up around 23:00 March 15th.

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Inuvik – Still Trying to Kill me

Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:05:14 +0000

Inuvik, the server that runs all the social media and also runs manjaro and alma shell servers is still out of service. I can’t get an Asus X299 board that doesn’t have dead memory channels, they are all just shit, and I got a Gigabyte board that did work but one of the SATA controllers went south so four ports don’t work and the remaining four take errors. Also the video card slot is…

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