SYSADMIN NOTES

sysadmin notes open in nano
Plain text notes open in the Nano text editor

I am not kidding, this is the last time I am figuring out a problem that I already figured out 15 years ago and cannot remember what I did and didn't write it down [dumbass].

So now I write it down. This is not about being organized [it is], or saving time [this too]. This is about not figuring out the same problem over and over again. This is about leveraging your hard earned work.

How you take notes is not as important as actually taking the notes.

I use 2 note . Stone tablet and chisel [kidding]. Notebook and pen. Plain text file. The notebook and pen is the fastest. The only weakness is finding what you wrote by flipping pages. Plain text files are easy to search, and they can be put on a web server so you can get to them from anywhere.

Do you remember this error message from 15 years ago? Vaguely. Do you remember what we did to fix it? No. So now I am solving a problem I solved 15 years ago. Oh yea, now I remember after wasting however long it took to figure it out again.

This is not about being organized [it is], or saving time [this too]. I was tired of figuring out the same problem, over and over again. So I started to write if down [dumbass]. I used a notebook and a plain text file.

This is the last time I am searching how to renew an HTTPS certificate on a Raspberry Pi Apache 2 server. At some point, Google AI will send a notice - Sir, you searched for cert renewal 35 times - WRITE IT DOWN! Dumbass. OK Google, dammit, I am writing it down. Here it is.

This is not about being organized, or saving time. This is about being organized and saving time. Do you remember this obscure error message from 15 years ago? No. Do you remember the iptables settings on the firewall? No, but let me check my notes.

sysadmin notes open in nano
Plain text notes open in the Nano text editor

This is an example of sysadmin search.

user@mba:~/sysadmin> sysadmin cert
# Lets Encrypt Certificates
sudo certbot certificates         # Letsencrypt certs
sudo certbot renew --dry-run      # Renew all certs
sudo certbot renew                # Renew all certs
certbot certonly --force-renew -d example.com #renew one cert

Sysadmin notes are in a text file called sysadmin.txt. To edit or search Sysadmin.txt type the command sysadmin. The sysadmin command runs the nano text editor and opens sysadmin.txt. Typing sysadmin <string> will search sysadmin.txt for the string. This is the sysadmin command bash script. 

#!/bin/bash
sysadmin () 
{ 
    # Type sysadmin to edit the notes
    # Type sysadmin <string> to search the notes 
    if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
        nano -w ~/www/writing/sysadmin/sysadmin.txt;
    else
        grep -i --color=auto  "$1" ~/www/writing/sysadmin/sysadmin.txt;
    fi 
}

Sysadmin.txt lives in a web directory, so it can be displayed in a web browser. This is the web page that displays sysadmin.txt [This web page]. 

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    <meta name="author" content="dave@worldsworstwriter.org">
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<p>
This is the last time I am searching how to renew 
an HTTPS certificate on a Raspberry Pi Apache 2 server. 
At some point, Google AI will send a notice - 
<q>Sir, you searched for cert renewal 35 times - 
WRITE IT DOWN! Dumbass</q>. To prove I am not a dumbass, 
I have been writing it down. It saves a lot of time.
Here it is.
</p>
<pre>user@mba:~/sysadmin> sysadmin cert
# Lets Encrypt Certificates
sudo certbot certificates         # Letsencrypt certs
sudo certbot renew --dry-run      # Renew all certs
sudo certbot renew                # Renew all certs
certbot certonly --force-renew -d example.com #renew one cert</pre>
<p>
Sysadmin notes are in a text file called sysadmin.txt. To edit or search Sysadmin.txt type the command <b>sysadmin</b>. The sysadmin command runs the nano text editor and opens sysadmin.txt. Typing <b>sysadmin <string></b> will search sysadmin.txt for the string. This is the sysadmin command bash script. 
</p>
<pre>
#!/bin/bash
sysadmin () 
{ 
    # Type sysadmin to edit the notes
    # Type sysadmin <string> to search the notes 
    if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
        nano -w ~/www/writing/sysadmin/sysadmin.txt;
    else
        grep -i --color=auto  "$1" ~/www/writing/sysadmin/sysadmin.txt;
    fi 
}
</pre>
<p>
Sysadmin.txt lives in a web directory, so it can be 
displayed in a web browser. This is the web page that 
displays sysadmin.txt [This web page]. 
</p>
<pre>
</pre>
<p>The current sysadmin.txt file is listed here.</p>
<pre><object id="textobject" data="sysadmin.txt" type="text/plain" width="600" height="4096">
<a href="sysadmin.txt">No Support?</a>
</object></pre>
<p class="center">dave@worldsworstwriter.org 2023-07-16</p>
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The current sysadmin.txt file is listed here.


No Support?

dave@worldsworstwriter.org 2023-07-16