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Re: [Muug] Old MUUG server up for grabs! ($$$)
by MUUG meeting announcements 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

The high bid on the server was $719. If you believe you submitted a higher bid than that, that I’m ignoring or didn’t receive, let board@ know ASAP. -Adam From: Adam Thompson On Behalf Of athompso(a)muug.ca Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 11:51 PM To: MUUG Roundtable <roundtable(a)muug.ca>; MUUG Announce <muug-announce(a)muug.ca> Cc: 'athompso(a)muug.ca' <athompso(a)muug.ca> Subject: Old MUUG server up for grabs! ($$$) We’re getting rid of the old server! It’s up for auction, to MUUG members in good standing only. We’re taking bids for the rest of the month by email. Emailed bids must be received by me no later than Monday 2022-Feb-28 23:59:59 to be considered eligible. We’re doing this as a “blind auction<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-price_sealed-bid_auction>”, where everyone submits their bid to me (Adam Thompson), and at the end of the bidding period, I’ll contact the highest bidder. If they’re unable to follow through for any reason, it goes to the second-highest bidder, and so on. We cannot issue a receipt for tax purposes. The MUUG board (excluding board members who entered bids themselves) shall be the only, and final, avenue of appeal for anything related to this auction. Since we already know some of the board is planning to bid, and I am not, send your bids to me directly: athompso(a)muug.ca<mailto:athompso@muug.ca> (or my usual address, they both wind up in the same place), and not to board@. Please provide name, email, phone#, and dollar amount. If you don’t receive a confirmation from me within a few days, post to roundtable letting me know something’s wrong. And/or try a different email provider.

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MUUG Online Meeting, Tuesday, Mar 8, 7:30pm -- Serverless Web Sites with AWS, tldr
by MUUG meeting announcements 01 Mar '22

01 Mar '22

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, March 8th, at 7:30pm: Serverless Web Sites with AWS What? How do you host websites without a server? Impossible? Join the meeting to find out! Wyatt Zacharias will take us through using AWS to set up so-called "serverless" web sites. RTFM: tldr(1) - a simpler alternative to man(1) This month, Brad Vokey will give us a quick demo of the tldr command that he introduced to us in the December 2021 newsletter (last page). tldr is a Python command-line client to the TLDR pages. The TLDR pages is a free and open-source collaborative software documentation project that aims to be a simpler, more approachable complement to traditional man pages. It's a collection of community-maintained help pages that covers command-line utilities and other computer programs. This will once again be an online meeting. Stay tuned to our muug.ca home page for the official URL, which will be made available about a half hour before the meeting starts. (Reload the page if you don't see the link, or if there are issues with connecting.) The group holds its meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: https://muug.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board, or linking to it on social media: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://muug.ca/

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Old MUUG server up for grabs! ($$$)
by MUUG meeting announcements 16 Feb '22

16 Feb '22

We’re getting rid of the old server! It’s up for auction, to MUUG members in good standing only. We’re taking bids for the rest of the month by email. Emailed bids must be received by me no later than Monday 2022-Feb-28 23:59:59 to be considered eligible. We’re doing this as a “blind auction<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-price_sealed-bid_auction>”, where everyone submits their bid to me (Adam Thompson), and at the end of the bidding period, I’ll contact the highest bidder. If they’re unable to follow through for any reason, it goes to the second-highest bidder, and so on. We cannot issue a receipt for tax purposes. The MUUG board (excluding board members who entered bids themselves) shall be the only, and final, avenue of appeal for anything related to this auction. Since we already know some of the board is planning to bid, and I am not, send your bids to me directly: athompso(a)muug.ca<mailto:athompso@muug.ca> (or my usual address, they both wind up in the same place), and not to board@. Please provide name, email, phone#, and dollar amount. If you don’t receive a confirmation from me within a few days, post to roundtable letting me know something’s wrong. And/or try a different email provider. The server is about 6yrs old, it’s a 1U rack-mount server from ASUS with 12 x 4TB NAS HDDs, 2 x 2.5” SSDs, a Xeon (E3 v3) CPU, 32GB of RAM, 2 x 1G & 2 x 10G(SFP+) ethernet ports. To reiterate that point, we’re selling it with 48TB of mostly 5400rpm SATA “NAS”-type hard drives (and two SSDs) included. All the drives will be ATA Security Erased before you get the unit. (This could make an awesome 40TB FreeNAS unit for storing backups!) The winner can come pick up the server from my place in north Winnipeg, where it’s currently stored. If you can’t come pick it up, there are ways to get it to you but you might be on the hook for delivery charges (modest, if you’re in Winnipeg). You’ll be expected to get the server out of here by March 7th (one week after bidding closes), one way or another. -Adam (see below for lots more words) Detailed server specs: * ASUS RS300-H8-PS12<https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/RS300H8PS12/> * 1U rack server * integrated ASUS P9D-MH/SAS/10G<https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/P9DMHSAS10GDUAL/> microATX motherboard * Xeon E3-1230v3 (any E3-1200v3 processor is supported) * 32GB RAM (4 x 8GB DDR3 Unbuffered ECC) * 1 low-profile PCIe slot is usable in this chassis using a riser (included) * 4 x SATA 6GB/s & 2 x SATA 4GB/s on motherboard, pre-wired to drive bays * 8 x SAS 6GB/s (supports SATA III) on embedded LSI2308<https://docs.broadcom.com/doc/12351997> controller, pre-wired to drive bays * 2 x Intel I210AT 1gbps ethernet * 2 x Broadcom BCM57840 NetXtreme II 10gbps ethernet (see notes) * Built-in ASMB7-iKVM<https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Commercial-Servers-Workstations/ASMB7IKVM/> remote server management with dedicated 100M ethernet port * integrated 400W 80PLUS Gold power supply – looks proprietary? * 4 “warm-swap” carriers holding 3 x SATA HDDs each (see notes) * Proprietary mounting rails are included * 12 x 4TB “NAS”-type HDDs. Mixture of WD RED, Seagate IronWolf, and Hitachi something-or-other. * 2 x 250GB SSDs. Intel 545S & Samsung 850 EVO NOTES * The HDDs range in age from original to recently replaced. * The server must be powered off to replace drives, despite the fact it looks like hot-swap at first glance. * Linux bnx2x kernel driver bugs in some versions of some distros affect the ability to use the onboard Broadcom NetXtreme II 10-gigabit NICs. They’re fine in Debian 9, but unusable in Debian 10. Believed to work fine under FreeBSD (FreeNAS) and other non-Linux kernels… VMware is anyone’s guess. * 1U rack-mount servers have fans running between 10krpm and 24krpm. It will be very loud. * It can only be operated horizontally (e.g. in a rack). It’s also fairly heavy because of the 12x 4TB drives. * The onboard video is, as is usual for servers, unsuitable for desktop use. * Original user manuals are provided. * No warranty. There might be a bit of warranty on one or two drives, but don’t count on it. Otherwise… It could die the moment you plug it in. It could eat your family for breakfast while you’re at work. It could start WWIII. MUUG guarantees nothing more than if we take your money, you’ll get a very large quantity of mostly-metallic molecules in the shape of a server. Having said all that, it ran continuously for 6 years, the only things that died were the various drives, and it was still working perfectly when I removed from the rack at Les.net earlier this month. Pricing/value considerations: (all prices taken from Newegg.ca today) * E3-1230v3 goes for $300 today. A similar modern server CPU (E-2124) runs $270. * 32GB of Unbuffered DDR3 ECC goes for $190 today. 32GB of DDR4 ECC runs $308. * 4TB NAS HDDs go for $100 today. That’s normal pricing, no age or scarcity effects. * 1U “barebone” servers of a similar class/category run around $440 today. (That one doesn’t have 12 x 3.5” bays, but… meh, close enough.) So to rebuild this server with brand-new parts, you’d be looking at almost $2200. THIS server, however, is used and there’s no warranty, so… bid based on what it’s worth to you!

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Reminder: MUUG Online Meeting, Tonight, Feb 8, 7:30pm -- Tactical RMM
by MUUG meeting announcements 08 Feb '22

08 Feb '22

A reminder that the MUUG online meeting will be on BBB this evening... The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, February 8th, at 7:30pm: Tactical RMM This month's presentation is on Tactical RMM, a powerful, self- hosted tool for managing large amounts of Windows computers. Chris Audet will demonstrate some common use cases for TRMM such as patch management, client system health checks, and remoting into client computers to provide support. This will once again be an online meeting. Stay tuned to our muug.ca home page for the official URL, which will be made available about a half hour before the meeting starts. (Reload the page if you don't see the link, or if there are issues with connecting.) The group holds its meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: https://muug.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board, or linking to it on social media: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://muug.ca/

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MUUG Online Meeting, Tuesday, Feb 8, 7:30pm -- Tactical RMM
by MUUG meeting announcements 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, February 8th, at 7:30pm: Tactical RMM This month's presentation is on Tactical RMM, a powerful, self- hosted tool for managing large amounts of Windows computers. Chris Audet will demonstrate some common use cases for TRMM such as patch management, client system health checks, and remoting into client computers to provide support. This will once again be an online meeting. Stay tuned to our muug.ca home page for the official URL, which will be made available about a half hour before the meeting starts. (Reload the page if you don't see the link, or if there are issues with connecting.) The group holds its meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: https://muug.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board, or linking to it on social media: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://muug.ca/

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Reminder: MUUG Online Meeting, Tonight, Jan 11, 7:30pm -- Netdisco and LibreNMS
by MUUG meeting announcements 11 Jan '22

11 Jan '22

A reminder that the MUUG online meeting will be on BBB this evening... The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, January 11th, at 7:30pm: Network Monitoring with Netdisco and LibreNMS Netdisco is "a web-based network management tool suitable for small to very large networks." LibreNMS is "a fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support." Which one is right for you? The answer to that depends on what you're looking to monitor. In this presentation, Gilbert Detillieux will describe and demo both of these web-based monitoring tools, and show some of the unique advantages of each one. This will once again be an online meeting. Stay tuned to our muug.ca home page for the official URL, which will be made available about a half hour before the meeting starts. (Reload the page if you don't see the link, or if there are issues with connecting.) The group holds its meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: https://muug.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board, or linking to it on social media: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://muug.ca/

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Re: [Muug] MUUG server maintenance - starting Friday 2022-Jan-07, around 19:00
by MUUG meeting announcements 09 Jan '22

09 Jan '22

The new server is in place, and running happily. We’ve already seen download activity in excess of what the old server could do, so that’s good. We’ve also fixed one or two broken mirrors, while we were at it. If you notice anything that isn’t working properly, please let board(a)muug.ca<mailto:board@muug.ca> know! -Adam From: Adam Thompson Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2022 11:35 AM To: muug-announce(a)muug.ca Subject: MUUG server maintenance - starting Friday 2022-Jan-07, around 19:00 Hello, all. We’ve been working on the new server for MUUG for quite some time, and we’re ready to (try to) switch over this Friday, Jan 7th around 19:00 (7pm). Since this is a bit of a shoestring operation, we expect this to go well, but not necessarily perfectly. The server currently provides these main public services, and the new server should just continue these (more or less) uninterrupted: * HTTP & HTTP/S access to the MUUG website and the mirror content * FTP access to the MUUG FTP site and the mirror content * Rsync access to the mirror content * SMTP access for individual @muug.ca emails as well as mailman-managed mailing lists * NTP server in the global, north American, and Canadian pools One area of concern is sendmail/mailman, i.e. the mailing lists. So if your emails to roundtable(a)muug.ca<mailto:roundtable@muug.ca> (et al.) aren’t working, there’s probably a good reason for that! The other area that might cause problems for some users, is the content mirroring – some upstream sources apply ACLs such that only the production MUUG server can rsync from them. We’ve done our best to mitigate that, but it’s possible that it could take a day or so to fully catch up. So if you notice anything wrong on Friday or Saturday… meh. Let us know, in case we aren’t already aware? But there’s a fairly good chance we already know and are already trying to fix it. However, if you notice anything wrong next week – definitely, please tell us! That most likely means we’ve missed something. If emails to board(a)muug.ca<mailto:board@muug.ca> don’t seem to work, email me directly at athompso(a)athompso.net<mailto:athompso@athompso.net>. Huge thanks go to Sean Cody and Ken Zorniak from Tangent Animation for allowing MUUG to acquire newer, known-good hardware, at a price more appropriate to a group that only charges a $20/yr membership fee! Some of you will be wondering what the difference is, so here’s the major differences: Item Old server New server Age 6 years old approx. 3 years old Size 1U *rackspace donated by Les.net* 3U *rackspace donated by Les.net* Power 1x PSU *power donated by Les.net* 2x PSU, also roughly 2x the current draw *power donated by Les.net* HDDs 12 x 5400rpm SATA 24 x 7200rpm SAS SSDs 3 (2xSATA, 1xNVMe) 5 (4xSATA, 1xNVMe) Can add at least 5 more NVMe CPUs 1 x Xeon E3-1230v3 (3.3GHz) 8 cores 2x Xeon E5-2620v4 (2.1GHz) 32 cores RAM 32G installed, 32G max 64G installed, 2TB max NICs 2x1G (usable) + 2x10G (unusable) *1G connection donated by Les.net* 4x1G (usable) + 2x10G (finally usable!) *10G connection donated by Les.net* PCIe slots 1 low-profile 7 full-size Speed Can push ~800Mbps, with a tail wind Easily reached 4Gbps in testing That’s all for now, -Adam

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MUUG server maintenance - starting Friday 2022-Jan-07, around 19:00
by MUUG meeting announcements 06 Jan '22

06 Jan '22

Hello, all. We’ve been working on the new server for MUUG for quite some time, and we’re ready to (try to) switch over this Friday, Jan 7th around 19:00 (7pm). Since this is a bit of a shoestring operation, we expect this to go well, but not necessarily perfectly. The server currently provides these main public services, and the new server should just continue these (more or less) uninterrupted: * HTTP & HTTP/S access to the MUUG website and the mirror content * FTP access to the MUUG FTP site and the mirror content * Rsync access to the mirror content * SMTP access for individual @muug.ca emails as well as mailman-managed mailing lists * NTP server in the global, north American, and Canadian pools One area of concern is sendmail/mailman, i.e. the mailing lists. So if your emails to roundtable(a)muug.ca<mailto:roundtable@muug.ca> (et al.) aren’t working, there’s probably a good reason for that! The other area that might cause problems for some users, is the content mirroring – some upstream sources apply ACLs such that only the production MUUG server can rsync from them. We’ve done our best to mitigate that, but it’s possible that it could take a day or so to fully catch up. So if you notice anything wrong on Friday or Saturday… meh. Let us know, in case we aren’t already aware? But there’s a fairly good chance we already know and are already trying to fix it. However, if you notice anything wrong next week – definitely, please tell us! That most likely means we’ve missed something. If emails to board(a)muug.ca<mailto:board@muug.ca> don’t seem to work, email me directly at athompso(a)athompso.net<mailto:athompso@athompso.net>. Huge thanks go to Sean Cody and Ken Zorniak from Tangent Animation for allowing MUUG to acquire newer, known-good hardware, at a price more appropriate to a group that only charges a $20/yr membership fee! Some of you will be wondering what the difference is, so here’s the major differences: Item Old server New server Age 6 years old approx. 3 years old Size 1U *rackspace donated by Les.net* 3U *rackspace donated by Les.net* Power 1x PSU *power donated by Les.net* 2x PSU, also roughly 2x the current draw *power donated by Les.net* HDDs 12 x 5400rpm SATA 24 x 7200rpm SAS SSDs 3 (2xSATA, 1xNVMe) 5 (4xSATA, 1xNVMe) Can add at least 5 more NVMe CPUs 1 x Xeon E3-1230v3 (3.3GHz) 8 cores 2x Xeon E5-2620v4 (2.1GHz) 32 cores RAM 32G installed, 32G max 64G installed, 2TB max NICs 2x1G (usable) + 2x10G (unusable) *1G connection donated by Les.net* 4x1G (usable) + 2x10G (finally usable!) *10G connection donated by Les.net* PCIe slots 1 low-profile 7 full-size Speed Can push ~800Mbps, with a tail wind Easily reached 4Gbps in testing That’s all for now, -Adam

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MUUG Online Meeting, Tuesday, Jan 11, 7:30pm -- Netdisco and LibreNMS
by MUUG meeting announcements 04 Jan '22

04 Jan '22

The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, January 11th, at 7:30pm: Network Monitoring with Netdisco and LibreNMS Netdisco is "a web-based network management tool suitable for small to very large networks." LibreNMS is "a fully featured network monitoring system that provides a wealth of features and device support." Which one is right for you? The answer to that depends on what you're looking to monitor. In this presentation, Gilbert Detillieux will describe and demo both of these web-based monitoring tools, and show some of the unique advantages of each one. This will once again be an online meeting. Stay tuned to our muug.ca home page for the official URL, which will be made available about a half hour before the meeting starts. (Reload the page if you don't see the link, or if there are issues with connecting.) The group holds its meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: https://muug.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board, or linking to it on social media: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://muug.ca/

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Reminder: MUUG Online Meeting, Tonight, Dec 14, 7:30pm -- Jellyfin, Extended Round-Table and Show-and-Tell
by MUUG meeting announcements 15 Dec '21

15 Dec '21

A reminder that the MUUG online meeting will be on BBB this evening... The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting online, on Tuesday, December 14th, at 7:30pm: Jellyfin, Extended Round-Table and Show-and-Tell MUUG has a tradition of making the December meeting more of an informal, social gathering. Because we're still meeting online, we've had to let go of some of the traditional aspects of this year-end meeting (like sharing food), but we will try to keep some of our socail December tradition alive. Show us your favourite gadget! As part of an extended round-table discussion, we'll try to keep the gadget show-and-tell. (This year, you don't have to haul it to the meeting site, but it will have to be small enough to show on your webcam!) If you have a cool device, something unusual, whether brand new or ready for the museum, there will be an opportunity to show it off. Mini-Presentation: Jellyfin This month, Wyatt Zacharias will demonstrate Jellyfin, a suite of free and open-source multimedia applications designed to organize, manage, and share digital media files to networked devices. Harvest Manitoba We won't be able to collect food and cash donations this year, but please remember that the needs for some may be greater than usual. We encourage you to donate to Harvest Manitoba, or your favourite local charity. This will once again be an online meeting. Stay tuned to our muug.ca home page for the official URL, which will be made available about a half hour before the meeting starts. (Reload the page if you don't see the link, or if there are issues with connecting.) The group holds its meetings at 7:30pm on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their web server: https://muug.ca/ Help us promote this month's meeting, by putting this poster up on your workplace bulletin board or other suitable public message board, or linking to it on social media: https://muug.ca/meetings/MUUGmeeting.pdf -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://muug.ca/

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