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
    421·
    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 🥴

    • Eager Eagle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      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
        12·
        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
      8·
      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
      71·
      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 🤷