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submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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I just spent 2 hours trying to figure out why fail2ban didn't increment the ban count.

***
a/fail2ban/etc/fail2ban/jail.local
+++ b/fail2ban/etc/fail2ban/jail.local
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [DEFAULT]

-bantime.incremet     = true
+bantime.increment    = true
 bantime.rndtime      =
 bantime.maxtime      =
 bantime.factor       = 1

After I found that I seriously considered becoming a goose farmer.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago (9 children)

One time I was trying to figure out why the MySQL command wasn’t connecting.

mysql -h127.0.0.1 -p6033

Eventually ended up having four different people help me in a huddle. After two hours we figured it out… it turns out the argument is -P for port.

I wasted several thousand dollars of company time with a casing issue 🥴

[–] frankenswine 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

know the feel. even funkier with ssh/scp and the like with every other tool using a different case argument for the same

that's how we learn and grow, i guess 🤷

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

I came to the comments to mention that exact experience. There must be historical reasons that SCP uses -P and SSH uses -p but I certainly didn't expect it since they're both from the same package (openssh)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah, you can be damn sure I’ll never make that mistake again.

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