Last spring I was cleaning out an old VPS and found three crontab entries pointing at scripts that didn’t exist anymore. Two had been deleted during a refactor in 2022; one was a project I’d rm -rf‘d a year …
The first time I filled / on a single-drive ZFS box was a Sunday at 2 AM. zfs list said the pool had 800 GB free; df said / was at 100%; the system was unhappy in that quiet, refuses-to-write-but-doesn’t-crash …
I’ve been running fail2ban on this Oracle box since the day I provisioned it. Six months ago I added CrowdSec because I wanted the community blocklist for SSH brute-force IPs. For three months they coexisted and I assumed it was …
The first time I enabled auditd with the default rules on a small VPS, /var/log/audit/audit.log grew to 2 GB in eight hours and I watched the disk fill in real time. The default ruleset is built for compliance audits — …