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.

  • nick@midwest.socialEnglish
    471·
    2 days ago

    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 🥴

    • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      26 minutes ago

      Only several thousand? There was a guy when I worked for Facebook who pushed a config change incrementing a timeout from 5 seconds to 30 seconds in the caching layer. Config changes roll out instantly. Brought down all of Facebook for about two hours. Probably cost them many millions. I mean, good for him.

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      30·
      2 days ago

      because of garbage like that I always use the long option names in scripts, even when the short one would be obvious

      • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, for scripts that should be the norm. It really helps with legibility and maintainability, not having to have the manual open for 5 programs while tweaking stuff. 👌

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Reminds me of when I was in University and catching up with some lab work over the summer to get a passing grade. Was doing some 3D programming assignment and I spent I think 5 weeks debugging my stuff.

      Turns out I needed to transpose two adjacent lines of code. No syntax errors, no runtime errors, just graphics pipeline not outputting what I expected. Was a nightmare. And not even satisfying to figure it out.

    • frankenswine@lemmy.worldEnglish
      81·
      2 days ago

      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 🤷

      • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        10 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)