I’ve recently bought hardware for a new NAS server build. Some of that is still in the throes of shipping (postal services have been pretty unreliable as of late), but most of it has arrived: A Supermicro mainboard, case, M.2 SSD and a PSU allows me to get started on the build. As I like to live dangerously, I also upgraded the BIOS on the mainboard1. Since the process was somewhat involved, I’m documenting it here....
I’ve been trying to get Wireguard to run on my oldish VServer. The kernel is either too old, or the provider hasn’t compiled it with the necessary modules. wireguard-go seemed like a solution for this problem. However, I did not want to install a Go toolchain on the server, so I built the program locally. Go places a premium on easy distribution, so this might have worked. However, it didn’t: Wireguard-go uses network functions, and so the resulting binaries aren’t statically linked by default....
I've written some useful shell scripts during my time with Linux (which is coming up on 20 years now). I'm posting them here as a) a reminder to myself and b) because they might be useful for other people. In contrast to Stupid ZSH tricks, these are written in Bash to work more universally. ...