From NZOSS at etelligence.info Thu Jun 2 16:24:05 2022 From: NZOSS at etelligence.info (DL Neil) Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 18:24:05 +1200 Subject: [Flounder] Meeting Saturday on Terraform In-Reply-To: <2188608.HovnAMPojK@xev> References: <2188608.HovnAMPojK@xev> Message-ID: On 01/06/2022 01.10, Russell Coker via Flounder wrote: > https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-june-2022/ > > On Saturday at 1PM Melbourne time we have the June meeting which is about > Terraform. The training will be done on GCP but Terraform works on most > clouds (I plan to use it on AWS). Free entry and no need to sign up. Have re-advertised at NZOSS. Am I mis-remembering: we don't usually start this early, do we? - for the benefit of those who will find their Kiwi lunch impacted NB not the same as eating a protected-bird for lunch! - says he, who suffered exactly that issue with a four-hour RedHat session today - and nobody sent the pizza around my way (again...) From ianbrown78 at gmail.com Fri Jun 3 10:17:02 2022 From: ianbrown78 at gmail.com (Ian Brown) Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2022 10:17:02 +1000 Subject: [Flounder] Meeting Saturday on Terraform In-Reply-To: References: <2188608.HovnAMPojK@xev> Message-ID: Wouldn't it be 3pm NZ time Neil? Unless you lot over the ditch have a very late lunch.... :) On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 4:24 PM DL Neil via Flounder < flounder at lists.linux.org.au> wrote: > On 01/06/2022 01.10, Russell Coker via Flounder wrote: > > https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-june-2022/ > > > > On Saturday at 1PM Melbourne time we have the June meeting which is > about > > Terraform. The training will be done on GCP but Terraform works on most > > clouds (I plan to use it on AWS). 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URL: From russell at coker.com.au Fri Jun 3 23:53:28 2022 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2022 23:53:28 +1000 Subject: [Flounder] Meeting Saturday (tomorrow or today in NZ time) on Terraform Message-ID: <12014977.O9o76ZdvQC@liv> https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-june-2022/ On Saturday at 1PM Melbourne time we have the June meeting which is about Terraform. The training will be done on GCP but Terraform works on most clouds (I plan to use it on AWS). Free entry and no need to sign up. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From NZOSS at etelligence.info Sat Jun 4 12:22:40 2022 From: NZOSS at etelligence.info (DL Neil) Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2022 14:22:40 +1200 Subject: [Flounder] Meeting Saturday on Terraform In-Reply-To: References: <2188608.HovnAMPojK@xev> Message-ID: On 03/06/2022 12.17, Ian Brown via Flounder wrote: > Wouldn't it be 3pm NZ time Neil? Unless you lot over the ditch have a > very late lunch.... :) Have you not heard of "an executive lunch"? (the confusion started with me vacillating over which word yous-guys might use in EN-AU for mid-day/evening meals...) Silly stuff: it's not merely the two-hour time difference (between my location and Melbourne) but THIS is Queen's Birthday Weekend - the collective inhabitants of 'West Island' apparently take a whole week before catching-on... Serious stuff: repeating advice that stating a local datetime in material aimed at a multi-time-zone audience, should be complemented by same in the International Standard (UTC)... > On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 4:24 PM DL Neil via Flounder > > wrote: > > On 01/06/2022 01.10, Russell Coker via Flounder wrote: > > https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-june-2022/ > > > > > On Saturday at 1PM Melbourne time we have the June meeting which > is about > > Terraform.? The training will be done on GCP but Terraform works > on most > > clouds (I plan to use it on AWS).? Free entry and no need to sign up. > > > Have re-advertised at NZOSS. > > Am I mis-remembering: we don't usually start this early, do we? > > - for the benefit of those who will find their Kiwi lunch impacted > > NB not the same as eating a protected-bird for lunch! > > - says he, who suffered exactly that issue with a four-hour RedHat > session today - and nobody sent the pizza around my way (again...) > _______________________________________________ > Flounder mailing list > Flounder at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/flounder > > > > _______________________________________________ > Flounder mailing list > Flounder at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/flounder From russell at coker.com.au Sun Jun 5 19:58:14 2022 From: russell at coker.com.au (Russell Coker) Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 19:58:14 +1000 Subject: [Flounder] Meeting Saturday on Terraform In-Reply-To: References: <2188608.HovnAMPojK@xev> Message-ID: <19936472.Yz81rIOvuz@xev> On Saturday, 4 June 2022 12:22:40 AEST DL Neil via Flounder wrote: > Serious stuff: repeating advice that stating a local datetime in > material aimed at a multi-time-zone audience, should be complemented by > same in the International Standard (UTC)... Fair point. Ian was going to investigate doing that automatically on the web site, but I guess the pandemic and preparing for his presentation took all his spare time. I can manually put in UTC in email. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ From NZOSS at etelligence.info Sat Jun 18 14:38:39 2022 From: NZOSS at etelligence.info (DL Neil) Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2022 16:38:39 +1200 Subject: [Flounder] Meeting Saturday (tomorrow or today in NZ time) on Terraform In-Reply-To: <12014977.O9o76ZdvQC@liv> References: <12014977.O9o76ZdvQC@liv> Message-ID: On 04/06/2022 01.53, Russell Coker via Flounder wrote: > https://flounder.linux.org.au/events/flounder-june-2022/ > > On Saturday at 1PM Melbourne time we have the June meeting which is about > Terraform. The training will be done on GCP but Terraform works on most > clouds (I plan to use it on AWS). Free entry and no need to sign up. Hi, After Ian's talk, I've been experimenting (yes, you should have ducked BEFORE the explosions started!). Opened a Free Tier account at Oracle Cloud (three attempts over several days to 'persuade' them to talk to New Zealand bank and take ?no money from my Internet Debit Card - typical!) Read the blog post: Create your own web presence with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure using WordPress May 1, 2021 | 3 minute read Jeevan Joseph (https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/create-your-own-web-presence-with-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-using-wordpress) It says ?The Quick Start solution provides the automation to provision the resources in your tenancy. OCI supports several industry standard resource management tools, such as Terraform and Ansible. In this Quick Start, you use Terraform to create and manage the resources.? So, I thought if I went that route, Ian might let me off with a warning... Ran it. It worked. Tried accessing WordPress. It works! Ah, but will it still be $free come the end of the month? Promises, promises! Access to WordPress is by username/password. It works. Tried reading the Terraform Console Log... Woke up some time later. At the end it says: ? generated_ssh_private_key = < References: <12014977.O9o76ZdvQC@liv> Message-ID: <2ad51b31-a89a-e999-7054-c06e2f2f7115@simon.green> On 18/06/22 2:38 pm, DL Neil via Flounder wrote: > Tried reading the Terraform Console Log... > Woke up some time later. > At the end it says: > ? > generated_ssh_private_key = < -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- > etc > ? > - which looks very familiar. I guess I could copy that to a ~/.ssh/file. > > What I can't find is the other-half - the public key. To get a usable public key for SSH purposes, use ssh-keygen: ssh-keygen -y -f privatekey.pem > key.pub -y This option will read a private OpenSSH format file and print an OpenSSH public key to stdout. -f filename Specifies the filename of the key file. If you use Windows, puttygen will private the public key if you provide it with a private key. -- Simon From nzlug at etelligence.info Sun Jun 19 07:30:30 2022 From: nzlug at etelligence.info (DL Neil) Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 09:30:30 +1200 Subject: [Flounder] Meeting Saturday (tomorrow or today in NZ time) on Terraform In-Reply-To: <2ad51b31-a89a-e999-7054-c06e2f2f7115@simon.green> References: <12014977.O9o76ZdvQC@liv> <2ad51b31-a89a-e999-7054-c06e2f2f7115@simon.green> Message-ID: On 19/06/2022 00.05, Simon Green via Flounder wrote: > On 18/06/22 2:38 pm, DL Neil via Flounder wrote: >> Tried reading the Terraform Console Log... >> Woke up some time later. >> At the end it says: >> ? >> generated_ssh_private_key = <> -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- >> etc >> ? >> - which looks very familiar. I guess I could copy that to a ~/.ssh/file. >> >> What I can't find is the other-half - the public key. > > To get a usable public key for SSH purposes, use ssh-keygen: > > ssh-keygen -y -f privatekey.pem > key.pub > > ??? -y This option will read a private OpenSSH format file and print an > OpenSSH public key to stdout. > ??? -f filename Specifies the filename of the key file. > > If you use Windows, puttygen will private the public key if you provide > it with a private key. Thanks Simon! I know how to generate keys (for my own use). Before writing, went looking to see if some file(s) had been (somehow) transferred to my m/c, but no - there was however, the key-set used to access the instances Russell kindly provided for earlier FLOunder meetings/tutorials (for example). This key was generated as part of Terraform's working. I'm not sure why - indeed, even if it was for me! Theory: something I'll need if I ever want to update either/both of the two containers built by the script... -- Regards, =dn From nzlug at etelligence.info Mon Jun 20 10:22:33 2022 From: nzlug at etelligence.info (DL Neil) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:22:33 +1200 Subject: [Flounder] Email server follow-up Message-ID: Spent most of yesterday catching-up with improvements to my personal email server - following-on from Russell's presentations at recent meetings. Came across a series of articles: "Let?s do Postfix slowly and properly", which is interspersed with a companion series "Let?s do Dovecot slowly and properly". The first post is dated Oct 2015, but that didn't worry me particularly - given that my CentOS-based VPS is running 'old' versions anyway. The most recent additions are dated August 2020. The author starts from 'zero', implementing a Postfix which will only talk to in-house machines, and gradually builds-up to add sending and receiving from 'anywhere'. The basis for recommendation is that choices/settings are explained - rather than the usual 'copy me, clickety-click we're done', blas?, one-size-fits-all, approach. Also, he clearly identifies me/small-scale 'home users' as the target audience, and thus his rationale isn't to merely imitate 'the big boys' and tries to be realistic, eg load/size. Here's hoping that you will also find the series, or particular posts, helpful... Start at https://brokkr.net/2015/10/15/lets-do-postfix-again-but-slowly-and-properly-this-time-part-1-a-simple-local-mail-receiving-server/ 1: A simple local mail receiving server 2: Address manipulation 3: Opening up to the outside 4: Virtual domains 5: Relaying from the local network 1: PLAIN as day 2 ? Proper authentication 6: Relay authenticating with SASL 3: LMTP 4: Filtering with Sieve 7: Encryption 8: PTR and SPF records 9: Using Rspamd as a spam milter 10: Restricting access 11: pflogsumm PS/small confession: I haven't implemented Rspamd yet - only got as far as clearing-out SpamAssassin as preparation to see if the former is any less overwhelming. As it happens, before sending this, I waited for midnight UTC and my server's daily pflogsumm report. There's no noticeable difference in that report* compared to 'the usual', nor in the messages arriving in Thunderbird. Makes me wonder. Overkill? Over-sell? Fluke? * the Postfix restrictions don't need any extra help to keep out rat-bags in Poland and Vietnam attempting to use 'dead addresses' which presumably appear on various dark-lists after various purveyors and operators have been 'cracked'. (I tend to give each supplier a unique email address on one of my domains - which makes it really easy to identify who doesn't respect/protect my privacy, and to take steps against the would-be spammers) -- Regards, =dn From ycp at gnu.org Thu Jun 23 13:06:29 2022 From: ycp at gnu.org (Yuchen Pei) Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:06:29 +1000 Subject: [Flounder] Fwd: [Linux-aus] 2022 Linux Australia Grants program is open In-Reply-To: <3258896.ssdUuQR2Vs@xev> (Russell Coker via Flounder's message of "Fri, 18 Mar 2022 20:39:31 +1100") References: <3258896.ssdUuQR2Vs@xev> Message-ID: <87ilosjcy2.fsf@gnu.org> On Fri 2022-03-18 20:39:31 +1100, Russell Coker via Flounder wrote: > If anyone wants help in applying for this then let us know. I'm thinking of > applying for some money towards another Linux phone because the Librem5 that I > have isn't enough. > > https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pro-explorer-edition/ > > PinephonePro Explorer edition is $US400. > > https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-pinephone-pro-keyboard-case/ > > PinephonePro keyboard case is $US50. > > https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-usb-c-docking-bar/ > > Not sure if the Pinephone USB C Docking Bar works with the PinephonePro, it > costs $US25. > > PinePhone Beta edition with "convergence" (presumably means the USB Docking > bar included) is $US200. > > So that would be either $US475 or $US250 depending on the model. > > > Linux phones is my thing at the moment. You can of course apply for totally > different things. But if we get a few of us working on Linux phones that > would be good for productivity. > > ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- > > Subject: [Linux-aus] 2022 Linux Australia Grants program is open > Date: Wednesday, 16 March 2022, 22:36:31 AEDT > From: Jonathan Woithe via linux-aus > To: linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > CC: grants at lists.linux.org.au > > Hi everyone > > Linux Australia is pleased to announce the opening of the 2022 grants > program in support of free and open source systems and communities in > Australia and New Zealand. Funding can be sought by members of Linux > Australia for open source, open data, open government, open education, open > hardware and open culture projects. > > Applications for funding will close at 23:59 on 4 September 2022 anywhere on > earth with grant awards finalised by the end of September unless the grant > funds are exhausted earlier. However, work funded through the program may > continue past this date. Project timelines are negotiable, but in most > cases projects should aim to be completed by the end of 2022. > > For more information and to apply, first log in to the Linux Australia > website at > > https://linux.org.au/ > > Then click on the "Grants" banner or go to > > https://linux.org.au/grants-program/ Is it just me or does this page require signing in as an Linux Australia member to view? > > If you have questions about the Grants program or would like to discuss > ideas, please get in touch with the Linux Australia Council > (council at linux.org.au). > > We look forward to reading your submissions. > > > Jonathan Woithe > (on behalf of the Linux Australia Council) > _______________________________________________ > linux-aus mailing list > linux-aus at lists.linux.org.au > http://lists.linux.org.au/mailman/listinfo/linux-aus > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to > linux-aus-unsubscribe at lists.linux.org.au > > ----------------------------------------- Best, Yuchen -- PGP Key: 47F9 D050 1E11 8879 9040 4941 2126 7E93 EF86 DFD0