project:

run openvpn for myself on my colocated raspberry and *drumroll* add ipv6 transport :)
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we want a user “minecraft” without homedir and without password to run and own the minecraft server – also run it in a screen sesssion so we can gracefully exit.

thanks to:
https://gist.github.com/nathanielc/

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just before Fedora 24 I wanted to check out Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and the Gnome flavor.. basically same as last time it feels like 3 years in the past from fedora.
anyway, SystemD is now default and let’s see if I can get it to work as before

One Bummer: Fail2Ban doesn’t work with default settings!
it says in the log that it blocked but I could still connect…

solution: (in jail.local)
backend = systemd

this re-enables the functionality and I verified it works!

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all of a sudden (don’t know when) my sdcard reader stopped working…

seems there is a bug report and discussion since 4.1.8
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109231
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.mmc/34979

this guy seems to have fixed it:
http://www.0xf8.org/2016/01/workaround-for-broken-o2-micro-sd-card-reader-support-since-linux-kernel-version-4-1-8/
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Installing GNS3 for my Cisco studies on my company laptop.. let’s make use of that 16 Gigs of RAM they gave me :]
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Aaaaand once again I grew tired of Ubuntu and wanted a new Fedora install… Seriously, if this continues like this I will start using Arch…
Here is my install log with caveats and tweaks.
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For those moments when you can’t trust the WLAN.. wherever that may be.
Let’s tunnel the connection using openVPN and get some security / bypass the nosey operator of the WLAN
(using Ubuntu server 14.04 here…)
the client side will be using network-manager

DISCLAIMER: we will be breaking some conventions here – the idea is that I will be the only user most of the time and there will be only one instance of openvpn running. Will adjust later if needed :)

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minecraft recommends oracle’s java engine so let’s do this the right way

1) download minecraft.jar
2) install oracle’s jre
3) create a launcher > in fact there is an easier way > the launcher will get the binaries :)
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if you run a server in offline mode you can change client’s username like this:
Linux:
in your homedir in .minecraft
for Windows:
C:\Users\andreas\AppData\Roaming\.minecraft\

open launcher_profiles.json

and change
“displayName”: “YOUR_NAME”,

take care not to go online with this

this is an automated backup approach to save the plex config and metadata away to a NAS every day at 4:30
also will rsync the media directories to the NAS
(cp for the config because.. because.. of this guy!)

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