#sysadminnery

I’m building a toolchain to get OpenSSH 10 running on CentOS 6 on a production box to fix backups, in case anyone is envying my July 4 festivities. #Sysadminnery

I hadn’t built OpenSSL from source in *decades*, and I don’t recall it using so much Perl. I’ve been doing the configure/fix/configure/make/fix/make/fix.. process with a dozen yum and/or cpan invocations as the fixes. Needed on a CentOS 6.10 machine with Perl 5.10 as the base. Oh. The whole test stage of the build is Perl. Cool. #Sysadminnery

Very reminiscent of my time in Big Corp IT. I got asked for a detailed weekly report on the performance of mail servers and spam filters issued weekly. It took me months to get the report form & content just right for the manager that requested it. He left. His replacement didn’t recognize my weekly report mail as something useful and rather than telling me to stop, he just kept marking it as spam. #Sysadminnery @aj@gts.sadauskas.id.au https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/@aj/statuses/01KVZBAX3H4TDKD8T0CETDEDW1