A very #MySoCalledSudoLife day. This morning I:
Created my first cron job (I will look into systemd timers this weekend, just in case)
I bought a Heltec v3 kit - so I can try off-grid mesh communication when I'm at my parents' in Italy later this month
Thanks for all your help and advice with cron jobs! I really appreciate 🙏
About to create my first cron job. Wish me luck! 😅
#AskFedi: is there a script / way to automate the restart of dnsmasq every 24 hours… on a VPS that runs on Debian 12?
(Funny how this would have sounded like a foreign language to me a mere year ago) 😆
Update: THANK YOU for the cronjob recommendation. Now looking for a tutorial that’s easy to follow for a newbie like me 😅
I really appreciate all the advice, YOU’RE THE BEST 🏆
Oh happy day!
First time in a week I can use GoToSocial without restarting dnsmasq 🥳
This is not at all a problem with GoToSocial (to be clear I LOVE it and have zero complaints). It was just a matter of increasing dns-forward-max from 150 to 300.
The #YunoHost Forum is always a fantastic place to find solutions. 
recommended, thank you @yunohost 
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What app is this about, and its version: GoToSocial 0.21.2~ynh1 What YunoHost version are you running: 12.1.39 What type of hardware are you using: VPS bought online Describe your issue Last week I ran a few app upgrades (GoToSocial, NextCloud and PeerTube) and the PeerTube one was botched. Backups didn’t work, so I had to revert back to a VPS snapshot. Since then, everything has been working fine except for my GoToSocial. I basically need to restart dnsmasq every morning if I want to use it. ...
I've spent 3 days combing through system logs... 1000% NOT recommended as a way to have a nice day 
On the upside it's cool to see how comfortable I am moving around terminal. I always have a lot of fun with CLI 
Oh the highs and lows of #MySoCalledSudoLife 🥲
In 10 minutes I leave the house to pick up my little one from pre-school and I look forward to the next few hours away from my computer. Bliss!
New post:
"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 5: Upgrades & Maintenance"
Not exactly the most exciting post I have ever written, but system maintenance is so essential.
And spoiler alert: thanks to a botched #PeerTube upgrade I discovered the wonders of #tmux (thank you @teapot_ben and @drfyzziks for recommending it!)
When I started self-hosting essential digital services via YunoHost in December 2024 I was taken aback by how easy and smooth the process was. Something that had appeared daunting to me just days before became a child’s game. A catalog with hundreds of free-open source apps available at the
SUCCESS!!! 🥳
I was finally able to upgrade my #YunoHost #PeerTube installation (thanks to the advice of Fedi people).
Long story short, yesterday I tried to upgrade using YunoHost's graphical user interface but I lost the connection to the server, my PeerTube installation broke and was automatically removed from my list of apps. I could restore to the pre-update backup but my PeerTube site was still broken, showing a "welcome to nginx" message. Thankfully I had taken a snapshot of my VPS, so I was able to restore everything within a few minutes.
Following my accounts of what happened, @teapot_ben and @drfyzziks recommended I install tmux and do app upgrades from terminal, inside tmux, so that server connection issues wouldn't interfere with app upgrades. So I did. And this time everything worked! (huge sigh of relief)
It's so much fun upgrading YunoHost apps from Terminal. I think this will be the way for me from now on 🤗
Oh happy day!
This newbie #sysadmin is VERY HAPPY because in less than 5 minutes I:
installed tmux (thank you for the recommendation & instructions @teapot_ben and @drfyzziks)
upgraded PeerTube from Terminal using tmux
now the stakes weren't super high because I did this for my second VPS which is running test apps... the real challenge will be to do this on my primary VPS and my in-production PeerTube instance.
Grabbing another coffee, taking a VPS snapshot and trying this.
As always THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT. I couldn't do this without you 💖
Oh but the larger point in this message was to vouch for tmux - it really is super beginner friendly. I know NOTHING and I was able to easily install it and use it. So you could recommend it to your normie friends for sure ☺️
THIS IS A POST IN PRAISE OF SNAPSHOTS.
My PeerTube upgrade was a horror show: lost server connection during the upgrade and then PeerTube was automatically removed from my YunoHost server... the routine backup by YunoHost of PeerTube didn't restore... in short: bad, very bad outcome.
I hyperventilated for a few minutes and then... hit "Restore" on the VPS snapshot I had captured before the maintenance operation and... everything went back to normal.
Heart still beating a little fast but I am in AWE of the powers of SNAPSHOTS, ouf.
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