Re: Ruby slow to launch (was L-o-n-g delay for rc.local in systemd on Ubuntu.)

. And every time you'd ssh in to the VM to run top, it'd start going again. Very frustrating. Simply installing haveged first fixed the issue. -Dennis On August 8, 2017 5:47:11 PM EDT, Dennis Straffin <den...@straffin.net> wrote: >VMs lack hardware devices to fill up the pool of rando

Re: Ruby slow to launch (was L-o-n-g delay for rc.local in systemd on Ubuntu.)

VMs lack hardware devices to fill up the pool of random numbers. Installing the haveged daemon will do expansion on the random numbers to keep the pool full. -Dennis On August 8, 2017 3:30:46 PM EDT, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: >On 2017-08-08 15:18, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > >>

Re: Russian incursion... to my bulletin board.

Can't you use something like fail2ban? It watches logs for auth failures to block ips via iptables. Docs for wwiv bbs: http://docs.wwivbbs.org/en/latest/fail2ban - Dennis On May 28, 2018 1:16:42 PM EDT, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote: >Hey, all. I belong to the last of a dying breed, a bulletin board.

Re: systemd and search domains.

Newer Ubuntu systems use systemd-resolved which doesn't seem to support split-horizon dns (at least last time I looked). One solution is to go back to using dnsmasq. * Install dnsmasq: apt get install dnsmasq * Update /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf: [main] ... dns=dnsmasq * Add