#systemd

Chatastrophe: Your server's disasters, delivered by Nostr DM

I built a tool that is making my life a little easier: Chatastrophe https://github.com/dtonon/chatastrophe The idea is simple, a small bash check that runs on a server every 10 minutes and sends a Nostr DM (NIP-17) when something goes wrong: Disk usage above a threshold; Available RAM below a threshold, or swap usage above one; Processes killed by the out-of-memory killer since the previous run; A file (for example a database) larger than a set size; A systemd unit not active, or restarted too many times in the last hour; You can also ping your bot and ask for a server status report. Finally,

Lobsters Newest · EN

systemd With Its Initial Support For Rust

Systemd recently merged support for Rust programs. This initial systemd Rust support is limited to leaf components / individual binaries while eventually they hope to be able to support Rust within root components of systemd. More details on this initiative were shared this week...

Phoronix · EN

Cronjob vs systemd timers - how to create a systemd timer

IntroI’ve been using cronjobs for a long time. More recently I’ve been testing systemd-timers as they allow dependency management, so I don’t have to check (in the script I’m running) to see if certain services are up/running before my scripts can do their work. In this post I’m going to demonstrate how to create a simple systemd timer service which runs a script on a schedule A quick comparison with CronI’m all for learning to use new tools.

ryansouthgate.com · EN

Unranked, systemd, crawls

There’s been some changes to Marginalia Search: Migrated to systemd from docker New unranked query endpoint Wide domains got their own index for faster crawls In brief, this has removed a lot of operational headaches, reduced expensive queries leaving more computational power for the rest, and cut crawl times in half. Let’s tackle them in some order. We have docker at home The system has been migrated off docker compose, and onto bare systemd in production. This has been successful, and solved a number of issues.

Marginalia Blog · EN