`Da Elf
WHeeeeee! Triggered Fail2Ban on one of my servers. That would explain some things.
Mar 28 at 8:40pmWeb
Show thread`Da ElfMar 28

And while I"m doing stupid shit ... you can't (say) login, run tmux, ssh from a window in tmux, and then run tmux on the second server. The first login intercepts the meta-key.

I'm like zero for three today.

#SysAdmin #Idiot

Show threadSvenMar 28

@elfin

Run tmux one time & screen the second time?

Show thread`Da ElfMar 28
@doctorwhom That is technically feasible but I haven't used screen since byobu came out. Then I switched from byobu to tmux (though I set meta key to be Ctrl+A because muscle memory) because my distro doesn't have byobu in the repos and I'm too lazy to compile a tool I use 50x/day.
Show threadSvenMar 28

@elfin

I have users that complain when screen is not installed.

Show thread`Da ElfMar 28
@doctorwhom I couldn't live without screen (byobu/tmux) and mosh. I'd go fucking insane logging in to everything a bazillion times a day and bringing up my work.
Show threadSvenMar 29

@elfin

I'm saying I have byobu/tmux installed. No, they want screen.

Show thread`Da ElfMar 29

@doctorwhom Users. Always wanting something.

vi /etc/skel/.tmux.conf
<Put this in ...>

unbind C-b
set -g prefix C-a
bind C-a send-prefix
bind-key "a"

<save>

cd /usr/bin
ln -s tmux screen

They'll never know the difference. Problem fucking solved.

Show thread`Da ElfMar 29

@doctorwhom WHen I switched from byoby to tmux I actually sat down for like three hours and forced myelf to actually learn it ... and created a nice .tmux.conf

My tmux is very pretty ...

ANd I have a script that launches my whole environment depending on what machine I'm on (reads hostname and builds my environment for how I get around that machine.

Show threadSvenMar 30

@elfin

I remember going from VMS to Unix. Seems familiar.

Show threadMarkMar 28
@elfin my you have a short jailtime
Show thread`Da ElfMar 28

@seatek Heh ... nooooo. I'm an absolute dick about it. 24h ban time by default, all ports (I drop ALL THE PACKETZ). Then I start scaling time for repeat offenders.

I jut ssh in from another server (IP in general) and unban my IP.

Show threadMarkMar 28
@elfin honestly, I can't blame you one little bit. It's astonishing how many things are clawing at our stuff 24/7 when you look.
Show thread`Da ElfMar 29

@seatek When people engage me about "hacking", I grab a terminal and:

tail -n 100 -f /var/log/secure | grep -i "fail\|unknown"

And watch it scroll.

"This is what the internet looks like."

Then I explain dictionary attacks and how some fucker just points a script at an IP range and goes to the pub or whatnot. 24/7/365 (holidays being worst as they think nobody is watching, and it's a good guess).