Downtimes
Written by Simone
It's been a few days now that I'm experiencing downtimes at night, early mornings.
When I wake up, connect to the VPS and attach to tmux, I am welcomed by these messages in console:
Message from syslogd@pandora at Nov 3 05:37:13 ...
kernel:[1586232.350737] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
Message from syslogd@pandora at Nov 3 05:37:24 ...
kernel:[1586235.049143] Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason
30 on CPU 1.
Message from syslogd@pandora at Nov 3 05:37:24 ...
kernel:[1586235.049145] Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
Message from syslogd@pandora at Nov 3 05:37:55 ...
kernel:[1586273.642163] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck
for 27s! [dockerd:526408]
Message from syslogd@pandora at Nov 3 05:38:00 ...
kernel:[1586278.545172] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck
for 24s! [systemd-journal:257]
Message from syslogd@pandora at Nov 3 05:38:02 ...
kernel:[1586281.187611] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck
for 35s! [lua5.4:1702]
There's no need to say that when this happens, the server is completely frozen and doesn't respond to anything.
I already contacted support, but they didn't investigate at all, I believe. They manually restarted my VPS once and did some pings and connection tests (VNC, SSH) afterwards.. "everything is working fine!"
This last Saturday I was up when it happened, so I did a mtr
from my PC to the VPS's IP and logged it, then I sent another email with the output to support.. Still waiting for them to reply, I guess tomorrow (Monday).
Friends like lorenzo and shai are having difficulties too, with the same provider, so I'm not imagining things.
Well, that's all I got to say, will keep you posted if any news.
Night tinkering..
Written by Simone
I am most productive at night, when there is finally silence - apart from background music. The last couple hours of this Wednesday brought some nice additions to the @wpn support MUC:
- chat is not XMPP only anymore, but it got bridged to Matrix, via "matterbridge".
- a bot is now sending "BOFH excuses" to the chat, once a day.
XMPP MUC can be reached from: https://invite.woodpeckersnest.space/#status@chat.woodpeckersnest.space?join
Matrix room can be reached from: https://matrix.to/#/#wpn:matrix.org
Bridged chat means that everything being written in any of those rooms, gets relayed to the other by bots: there are in fact 2 bots connected to the 2 rooms, one is an XMPP bot and the other is a Matrix one, operated by "matterbridge", as I said earlier.
About "BOFH excuses", they are some fortune cookies from the relative Linux package, which are all about "Bastard Operators From Hell" excuses.. They are some short funny sentences about IT which an imaginary Operator (sysop, sysadmin, you name it) could say as excuse to justify issues.
Example?
BOFH excuse #266:
All of the packets are empty.
I have the same script running on gemini, at gemini://woodpeckersnest.space/cgi-bin/bofh
Basically it's some python spaghetti which runs the fortune
command, does some formatting to the resulting text and sends it over gemini, or in the case of @wpn chat, over webhook to one other bot, which then posts its content to XMPP. It's more complicated to explain than do it 😀
P.S. @wpn support MUC is not publicly listed, so even if I'm posting links which may be used to join it, it should be treated as limited to @wpn users only.
New VPS Location: Hub Europe
Written by Simone
Last evening, at around 22:00 CET, Contabo migrated my VPS from old Hub at Nuremberg to the newly built "Hub Europe".
They rebooted it and everything came back up as usual.. I wasn't at home when it happened, didn't even notice anything until I connected and found no tmux
session running. Even my phone which was connected to wireguard
, quietly continued working and sending notifications 😎
Meanwhile, my friends and I watched "The Creator" on Disney+
Can't really say I do recommend it, but for some casual evening/entertainment, it wasn't half bad.
Changes for blog posts' license
Written by Simone
I've been rethinking about the publication license of these blog posts.
Changes I made:
- Some "public" posts were turned to "CC BY-NC-SA"
- Some "all-rights-reserved" posts were turned to "CC BY-NC-SA"
At the moment there are still other public and all-rights-reserved posts.. Most of the public ones are from me, while some are from friends who told me to publish them with such license.
The all-rights-reserved ones are mostly from content I grabbed over the net and published here, where I wasn't able to contact the original authors (so credits are to themselves) and some others are e.g. posts with pictures I took myself.
So.. From now on, all these types of licenses will co-exist and each post will be tagged with the correct/relative one (hopefully).
Disclaimer: If not specified, you can assume it's "CC BY-NC-SA" by Simone "roughnecks" Canaletti
prosodyctl commands and examples
Written by Simone
prosodyctl shell
Launch the shell:
# prosodyctl shell
Delete pubsub node (the ">" sign at the beginning is important and also dangerous, as it lets you do anything!):
>prosody.hosts["pubsub.example.tld"].modules.pubsub.service:delete("blog", true)
Delete ALL pubsub nodes
>local service = prosody.hosts["pubsub.example.tld"].modules.pubsub.service; for node in pairs(select(2, assert(service:get_nodes(true)))) do service:delete(node, true); end
Check subscription by user:
>prosody.hosts["pubsub.example.tld"].modules.pubsub.service.subscriptions["user@example.tld"]
Change affiliation on pubsub nodes (make user owner):
>prosody.hosts["pubsub.example.tld"].modules.pubsub.service:set_affiliation("blog",true,"user@example.tld","owner")
Unsubscribe from node
>prosody.hosts["pubsub.example.tld"].modules.pubsub.service:remove_subscription("blog",true,"user@example.tld")
Subscribe to node
>prosody.hosts["pubsub.example.tld"].modules.pubsub.service:add_subscription("blog",true,"user@example.tld")
prosodyctl commands
Asking for help:
# prosodyctl shell help
List registered users:
# prosodyctl shell user list example.tld
List existing MUCs:
# prosodyctl shell muc list [component name]
Activate a component:
# prosodyctl shell host activate some.component.example.tld
Generate Invites: create a new invite using an ad-hoc command in an XMPP client connected to your admin account, or use the command line:
# prosodyctl mod_invites generate example.tld
Reset forgot passsword: "doesn't seem to work - see below"
# prosodyctl mod_invites generate example.tld --reset <USERNAME>
Automatic Certificates Import: prosodyctl has the ability to import and activate certificates in one command:
# prosodyctl --root cert import HOSTNAME /path/to/certificates
Certificates and their keys are copied to /etc/prosody/certs (can be changed with the certificates option) and then it signals Prosody to reload itself. –root lets prosodyctl write to paths that may not be writable by the prosody user, as is common with /etc/prosody. Multiple hostnames and paths can be given, as long as the hostnames are given before the paths.
This command can be put in cron or passed as a callback to automated certificate renewal programs such as certbot or other Let's Encrypt clients.
Import All:
# prosodyctl --root cert import /etc/letsencrypt/live
Reset forgot password
# prosodyctl install --server=https://modules.prosody.im/rocks/ mod_password_reset
Reload prosody configuration then use ad-hoc commands to generate a reset link for given JID
eggdrop script: search on SearXNG instance, by cage
Written by Simone
You can try this script on #fediverso at irc.libera.chat, where me, cage, ndo and other friends hang out
bot: "verne", running on @wpn
SearXNG instance: https://search.woodpeckersnest.space/
Thanks to cage for the script and ndo for creating the channel o/
# © cage released under CC0, public domain
# https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
# Date: 16-08-2024
# Version: 0.1
# Package description: do a web search using your searxng instance
# Public ones won't probably work because of "limiter"
# Authorize your channel from the partyline with:
# .chanset +searxng #your-channel
# Do a search
# .search <query> | .search paris (this query goes to default engine)
# .search +<engine> <query> | .search +wp paris (this query goes to
# wikipedia)
# .search !images paris | this query search only paris' images
# List of engines: https://docs.searxng.org/user/configured_engines.html
# tcllib is required
############## configuration directives ############################
# url of the HTTP(S) server of the search engine
set searxconfig(website_url) "https://example.com/searxng"
# serach command to trigger the search
set searxconfig(cmd) ".search"
# default search engine
set searxconfig(default_engine) "ddg"
# maximum number of search results printed
set searxconfig(max_results) 3
# time tracker file
# NB: when this script runs any file with the same name within the path in the
# working directory (depending of what is considered the working
# directory of the script) will be erased and overwritten!
set searxconfig(file_millis) "searx_millis.tmp"
# Minimum search frequency in milliseconds.
# This is the minimum time that must pass between two consecutive
# search
set searxconfig(max_freq) 30000
############## configuration ends here #############
# tcllib is required
package require csv
setudef flag searxng
if { !([info exists searxconfig(lastmillis)]) } {
set searxconfig(lastmillis) 0
}
bind pub - $searxconfig(cmd) search:searxng
proc send_message {message} {
putserv "PRIVMSG $message"
}
proc slurp_file {path} {
set fp [open $path r]
set file_data [read $fp]
close $fp
return $file_data
}
proc process_csv {csv channel} {
global searxconfig
set rows [split $csv "\n"]
set count 0
#remove the header
set rows [lrange $rows 1 [llength $rows]]
if {[llength $rows] < 1} {
send_message "$channel :Something gone wrong."
} else {
foreach row $rows {
if {$count < $searxconfig(max_results)} {
set row_splitted [csv::split $row]
set title [lindex $row_splitted 0]
set url [lindex $row_splitted 1]
send_message "$channel :$title $url"
incr count
} else {
break
}
}
}
}
proc encode {query} {
set query [regsub -all { } $query "%20"]
set query [regsub -all {&} $query "%26"]
set query [regsub -all {=} $query "%3D"]
set query [regsub -all {!} $query "%21"]
}
proc get_query_results {engine query} {
global searxconfig
set query [encode $query]
set engine [encode $engine]
set url "$searxconfig(website_url)search?q=$query&format=csv&engines=$engine"
## decomment the line below for debugging purposes
# putlog $url
return [exec curl -sS $url]
}
proc get_last_millis { } {
global searxconfig
if {[file exists $searxconfig(file_millis)]} {
set searxconfig(lastmillis) [slurp_file $searxconfig(file_millis)]
} else {
set fp [open $searxconfig(file_millis) w]
puts $fp 0
close $fp
get_last_millis
}
}
proc set_last_millis { } {
global searxconfig
set fp [open $searxconfig(file_millis) w]
puts $fp [clock milliseconds]
close $fp
}
proc search:searxng {nick host hand chan text} {
global searxconfig
if {!([channel get $chan searxng])} {
send_message "$chan :This script has not been authorized to run in this channel."
return 0
}
set millis [clock milliseconds]
get_last_millis
if { [expr $millis - $searxconfig(lastmillis)] > $searxconfig(max_freq) } {
## test antiflood superato
set_last_millis
set text_splitted [split $text " {}"]
set engine [lindex $text_splitted 0]
set text_length [llength $text_splitted]
set query [lrange $text_splitted 1 $text_length]
if {![regexp {^\+} $engine]} {
set engine $searxconfig(default_engine)
set query $text_splitted
} else {
set engine [string range $engine 1 [string length $engine]]
}
if {$query == {}} {
send_message "$chan :Missing search criteria."
} else {
set csv [get_query_results $engine $query]
process_csv $csv $chan
}
return 1;
}
send_message "$chan :Try again later."
return 0
}
putlog "SearXNG Loaded"`
It was about time!
Written by Simone
@wpn gemini server gets an HTTP proxy
Written by Simone
Yet another small update about gemini.
You can now browse gemini://woodpeckersnest.space
even from regular HTTP, here: https://gemini.woodpeckersnest.space/
I've applied some fixes (like) to HTML and CSS (the latter is pretty much the same used by the @wpn onboarding page, but obviously customized). As for accessibility, I think it should work well for desktop and also mobile browsers; CGIs work as well.
The proxy I used is Loxy. I also already opened an issue on their repo for a problem with query strings
, still waiting for someone to reply. Apart from that, everything checks out.
@wpn gemini capsule changes home
Written by Simone
Hello,
just a brief update on gemini here at @wpn.
I switched TLD from ".eu" to ".space": seemed more appropriate for gemini.