#ossasepia | 2019-12-02

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diana_coman: EOD report: I finished the review from last week + published the plan for next week, completed a rough draft of An Outpost of Progress article, and did a 1 hour session reading The Odyssey. I also did a short review of my backup scripts and found that they are not working - my most recent blog article is not backed up. The issue is that my ssh key is being rejected when rsync tries to connect to my account solely made

04:55

whaack

for storing backups of the blog. I believe the first time crontab fired the script that syncs from digitalocean it worked and then the script failed every subsequent time.

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08:01

04:55	whaack	diana_coman: EOD report: I finished the review from last week + published the plan for next week, completed a rough draft of An Outpost of Progress article, and did a 1 hour session reading The Odyssey. I also did a short review of my backup scripts and found that they are not working - my most recent blog article is not backed up. The issue is that my ssh key is being rejected when rsync tries to connect to my account solely made
04:55	whaack	for storing backups of the blog. I believe the first time crontab fired the script that syncs from digitalocean it worked and then the script failed every subsequent time.
		~ 3 hours 5 minutes ~
08:01	diana_coman	whaack: you know, you should always run the crontab manually too as a basic test before letting it be; pfft.
08:01	diana_coman	anyway, fix it, obviously.
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13:55	whaack	diana_coman: Well yes I ran the scripts manually before I put them on a crontab timer. I believe I also scheduled the crontab to fire a few minutes after the point in time I set them up, to make sure the crontab itself was running.
13:56	whaack	diana_coman: In any case I will look into it the problem and fix it right now.
13:56	diana_coman	whaack: so then what changed and moreover did it actually do what was expected that crontab-test run or didn't you check the result or what happened there?
13:56	diana_coman	ok.
13:58	whaack	diana_coman: Either I threw a pebble and did not thoroughly verify that the script worked, which truthfully is the most likely case, or after I set it up the first day I tweaked some setting on digitalocean / digitalocean tweaked some setting for me.
13:59	diana_coman	myeah, did sound like a pebble really.
14:10	whaack	diana_coman: The problem is that crontab runs in a separate environment that by default is not set to used the ssh key my terminal has access to. So my script works manually but not when it is run via crontab. Since there were no changes to the files on my blog since i tested it manually, I didn't notice that rsync wasn't working. If i had checked my terminal mail and looked at the crontabs output, or checked the timestamps of file
14:10	whaack	s, I would have caught this bug.
14:10	diana_coman	aha.
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14:43	diana_coman	eh, whaack, being beaten by someone who knows what they are doing; otherwise it's just broken bones, not growth, lolz.
14:44	whaack	diana_coman: aha
14:44	diana_coman	dorion_road: "a bit" there might be the understatement of the day; but if that was indeed apres apres-ski, I'm rather positively impressed with the result anyway.
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15:08	whaack	diana_coman: Probably not something too important to address but so you're aware the graph of insanity in your article http://ossasepia.com/2017/02/18/the-open-sores-of-monkey-code/ goes all over the sidebar and can't be clicked / doesn't have a readable resolution.
15:10	diana_coman	whaack: myeah, I noticed there are now quite a few of the old images that got messed up by the switch to the mp-wp theme, ugh; it's somewhere down at the bottom of the list but thanks anyway.
15:24	dorion_road	http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/ossasepia/2019-12-02#1011762 << right, I understand there's many bytes of settling yet to do. with that being said, I'll take satisfaction in generating positively impressive results.
15:24	ossabot	Logged on 2019-12-02 10:52:01 diana_coman: dorion_road: "a bit" there might be the understatement of the day; but if that was indeed apres apres-ski, I'm rather positively impressed with the result anyway.
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19:08	diana_coman	jfw: why not just sign the archive anyway?
19:09	diana_coman	for gales initial release I mean.
19:17	dorion_road	jfw mind answering spyked's question about your build by hand X11 recipe. does it produce a statically linked X11 ? or dynamic linked musl ?
19:17	dorion_road	(when you have the chance.)
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19:46	jfw	diana_coman: hm, no strong reason I suppose. Large things are slow to get to my signing machine, but this isn't quite in that territory, I'm not typing base64 by hand or anything.
19:48	jfw	dorion_road: will have a look, but in a word, that was dynamic, on gentoo
19:51	diana_coman	jfw: fwiw I enjoyed reading the gales files; esp after a CS dig, it makes for a refreshing crisp & don't-mess-my-shit read.
19:51	jfw	glad to hear it
19:52	diana_coman	I certainly want to get to give it a try but it might be a while until I dig up some proper chunk of time for it.
19:54	jfw	sure, and perhaps some further wrinkles will be ironed by then
19:54	diana_coman	that would be great.
19:55	jfw	The bootstrap process takes me (including compile times) around an hour, with a fair amount of the copy-pasting I caution against ;)
19:57	jfw	I'm sure it would be scriptable with a bit more thinking through.
20:00	diana_coman	heh; not bad to know it though; for starters it will surely take me longer because of poking-it-everywhere and anyway, it's your one hour after the few years on it.