It's hard sometimes
from redxef@feddit.org to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 13:05
https://feddit.org/post/8225297

I just spent 2 hours trying to figure out why fail2ban didn’t increment the ban count.

--- a/fail2ban/etc/fail2ban/jail.local
+++ b/fail2ban/etc/fail2ban/jail.local
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [DEFAULT]

-bantime.incremet     = true
+bantime.increment    = true
 bantime.rndtime      =
 bantime.maxtime      =
 bantime.factor       = 1

After I found that I seriously considered becoming a goose farmer.

#selfhosted

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30p87@feddit.org on 20 Feb 13:31 next collapse

Also spent an hour wondering why it didn’t evalute -z “{CMD_OUT_ERROR” as true, despite manually running the script and echoing “‘${CMD_OUT_ERROR}’” evaluating to ‘’… well it’s the missing $.

At least it’s time spent in working hours and being paid for the mess that they use as deployment for IdentityIQ written in kornshell.

nick@midwest.social on 20 Feb 13:45 next collapse

One time I was trying to figure out why the MySQL command wasn’t connecting.

mysql -h127.0.0.1 -p6033

Eventually ended up having four different people help me in a huddle. After two hours we figured it out… it turns out the argument is -P for port.

I wasted several thousand dollars of company time with a casing issue 🥴

frankenswine@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 14:05 next collapse

know the feel. even funkier with ssh/scp and the like with every other tool using a different case argument for the same

that’s how we learn and grow, i guess 🤷

nick@midwest.social on 20 Feb 14:48 collapse

Oh yeah, you can be damn sure I’ll never make that mistake again.

eager_eagle@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 15:43 next collapse

because of garbage like that I always use the long option names in scripts, even when the short one would be obvious

victorz@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 17:33 next collapse

Yeah, for scripts that should be the norm. It really helps with legibility and maintainability, not having to have the manual open for 5 programs while tweaking stuff. 👌

nick@midwest.social on 20 Feb 17:48 collapse

Fair point, I agree. Gets even more fun when I do mtls to MySQL, blech

victorz@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 17:36 collapse

Reminds me of when I was in University and catching up with some lab work over the summer to get a passing grade. Was doing some 3D programming assignment and I spent I think 5 weeks debugging my stuff.

Turns out I needed to transpose two adjacent lines of code. No syntax errors, no runtime errors, just graphics pipeline not outputting what I expected. Was a nightmare. And not even satisfying to figure it out.

nick@midwest.social on 20 Feb 17:47 collapse

Haha Jesus, if it’s not even satisfying to fix that’s a real shame :(

frankenswine@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 14:04 next collapse

happens to the best. if fail2ban were any more resiliently engineered it would have failed to start due to the error in the config file

eager_eagle@lemmy.world on 20 Feb 15:47 next collapse

This is such an underutilized and neglected behavior.

The very least a config parser should do is to log a warning.

Pika@sh.itjust.works on 20 Feb 21:24 collapse

the amount of software I’ve used that lacks this type of system is aggravating. How hard is it to keep an object of property names, and if the name isn’t in it then it errors.

this can be continued into command line as well. if flag -z doesn’t exist, you shouldn’t allow me to run a command with it. It’s clear I am trying to do something (incorrectly) thinking -z is something it isn’t, just error it and tell me that.

sxan@midwest.social on 20 Feb 14:24 next collapse

I have a spelling checker enabled for most non-compiled files. Sometimes it really annoying, but sometimes it catches stuff like this, so I leave it on.

Lojcs@lemm.ee on 20 Feb 14:35 next collapse

Newer sshd versions have built in timeout options btw

nis@feddit.dk on 20 Feb 21:14 collapse

Well… Do you really think you’d do any better at incrementing geese?

redxef@feddit.org on 20 Feb 21:33 collapse

Well, I was hoping they would take care of that themselves