Kalcifer

For example, an instance may have blocked lemmy.world, but I can still see their communities in the search from lemmy.world. I'm not sure how to tell if they are blocked or not.

Solution

As mentioned by @[email protected], the solution was to add the flag -H to the chown command. For example, to change the ownership recursively down the file linked by a symbolic link, you would do somehting like

$ chown -HR <symbolic-link>

For reference, see the section on -H:

-H if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it

Edit 1:

Another useful flag is -L:

-L traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered

Original Post

On a server I have some folder, x, that contains many files. x has a symbolic link y. y is shared over the network via Samba. Some client creates some files with within the shared y folder (the files are then owned as client:client since I don't have a forced user configured in samba). I tried to change the ownership of all of those files on the server by doing # chown -R new_user:new_group y, however the ownership of all the files within x stayed the same. I could only change their ownership if I did not chown across the symbolic link.

I thought chown could follow symbolic links?

There exists certain sectors of the market that, by their very nature, end up becoming monopolies, and, therefore, anti-competitive. The most obvious example of this would be utilities (think power distribution (even the poles themselves), water mains, sewage, etc). Is there any way to combat these sorts of monopolies with the existing system, or would a new system have to be devised using decentralized alternatives?

It seems that I can only see the peers for one torrent at a time (click on the torrent in the list, and then the peers tab). Is it possible to simultaneously see the peers for all torrents in a list?

I was thinking of setting up a home surveilance system using Frigate, and integrating it with Home Assistant. I'd probably have somewhere on the order of 10-15 1080p 30fps cameras. I'm not sure what components I should get for the server, as I am unsure of the actual processing requirements.

EDIT 1: For some extra information, I did find that Frigate has a recommended hardware page.

Solution

As mentioned by @[email protected], information can be found here.

TL;DR: mdadm can be configured to notify you, via email, if you are having any hard drive issues.

From the shared link, see "Monitoring RAID Arrays":

You can run mdadm as a daemon by using the follow-monitor mode. If needed, that will make mdadm send email alerts to the system administrator when arrays encounter errors or fail.

Original Post

I would like to set up RAID 1 for a server of mine, but I am wondering if its possible for some form of notification system for that can be set up.

Perhaps a push notification to my desktop, or a prompt when I log in via SSH or some other method. I just don't want to have to run diagnostic commands constantly to check drive health.

I was thinking of setting up a seedbox. Seeding will mean that the hard drive is being read from virtually non-stop. Is it fair to say that hard drives are designed for this? Or would this reduce the operational life-span of the hard drive?

For example, I was trying to find some spec in the Seagate Barracuda hard drive specifications document, but I wasn't able to find anything specific to this (or perhaps I just missed it).

I'm not exactly sure if this is the right community to post this, so let me know if there's a better place for it to go.

When I click the set up 2FA thing in the account settings I then see the following

That button contains a link with a secret key, and some other things. What am I supposed to do with it? I want to set the 2FA up to use my authenticator on my phone.

I'm sure that many are aware of the big names like QxR, UTR, etc. They always add their names to the filenames so that people know that its their torrent; however, this isn't exactly a secure method for people to know that it is indeed their torrent, as anyone can easily impersonate one of those big names by renaming their file. Why don't people just add a signature to the torrents that they release? That way you can verify if the file really does belong to who it says it belongs to. Of course, this would also necessitate some means of distributing a public key.

When I try to add 2FA, I see the following in my settings, but clicking on it tries to open some external program through my browser: I just want to add an OTP through my 2FA app on my phone. Does lemmy not support this? How do I use what it does have? I saw this issue on GitHub, which appears to say that 2FA was added, but I'm not sure if it is referring to this or something else.

How many times can replies be nested (as in I post a comment, someone replies to that comment, then another replies to that comment, and so on)?