XMPP Service Operators - 2021-05-25

I use plaintext

you use plaintext? i use paper

the packets sent back and forth go through the USPS

Amolith: i respect your adherence to tradition

Amolith: i am also a big fan of using fountain pens

I have a few 👌️

That's awesome!

My daily driver is a lamy2k

what's the problem with RSA?

nothing, just long keys

> not using IPoCP

> it almost sounds like a routing issue from your server How can I look at that? I tried things like ping which work.

mimi89999: Something wrong with your biboumi?

25.05.21 13:00:22 - Error from irc.gnome.org@biboumi.lebihan.pl: Component unavailable 25.05.21 13:00:23 - Error from irc.freenode.net@biboumi.lebihan.pl: Component unavailable 25.05.21 13:00:23 - Error from irc.gnome.org@biboumi.lebihan.pl: Component unavailable 25.05.21 13:00:23 - Error from irc.freenode.net@biboumi.lebihan.pl: Component unavailable 25.05.21 13:00:23 - Error from irc.gnome.org@biboumi.lebihan.pl: Component unavailable 25.05.21 13:00:23 - Error from irc.freenode.net@biboumi.lebihan.pl: Component unavailable

Martin: No, just a reboot

But I will check

Ok

Should be OK now

thx

Biboumi is starting just after Prosody, but Prosody is not accepting connections yet, so Biboumi exits.

fwiw I have the following in my service file: [Service] [..] Restart=always RestartSec=3s

In an override exactly, so that it doesn't conflict with the one provided by the distribution

dunno if it's worth fixing in biboumi. I don't remember the reason this behaviour got in in the first place

https://lab.louiz.org/louiz/biboumi/-/issues/3363

mimi89999, pep. , you can just put a After=prosody.service in your biboumi service file

moparisthebest, that doesn't mean prosody is ready to accept components, even though it's quite likely

true, that's not the only problem with the biboumi server file either, I had to remove the systemd watchdog stuff

sometimes biboumi wouldn't respond fast enough and systemd would just restart it, sometimes only once a month, sometimes multiple times a day

moparisthebest, Hi I was having a problem with boboumi where i'd get many reconnects from oftc, it sounds plausible that my problem was biboumi getting restarted a bunch...

There's something in the .service file I could change?

diane, if you do `systemctl edit biboumi` this is what I have in there: ``` [Unit] After=prosody.service [Service] Type=simple ExecReload=/usr/bin/true WatchdogSec=0 ```

by default it's: ``` [Service] Type=notify ExecReload=/bin/kill -s USR1 $MAINPID ``` which is the problem...

ah ok....

what about upping WatchdogSec a bunch? maybe something like 300 or 600 seconds?

you could, I was fed up :)

I was too. I stopped biboumi while waiting for time to figure out what was wrong

Out of curiosity are there any xmpp to matrix bridges?

I've never had problems from doing this, it stays running for months without issue

re matrix bridges I've heard of bifrost but almost nothing but bad things :D

Fair enough...

Thank you for the hint about biboumi

oh wow, i just looked up bifrost. I too have heard many poor things about libpurple

diane: be careful with bifrost, you cannot leave once joined https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost/issues/53

it's the hotel california of bridges

Your full jid is also disclosed with bifrost

yuck. i already get enough carder spam

diane: I haven't since I started blocking messages with Cyrillic characters lol

Ooh... that'd be useful... how did you do that?

I don't remember which platform asks in their webmail settings what languages you want to let through so that they don't automatically get filtered

the downside of adding my family to my xmpp server is now i feel worse if i break it by messing with the prosody firewall module

yea I recently set up another server to play around with for that reason...

diane: ``` %PATTERN cyrillicchar: [\208-\212][\128-\191] %SEARCH body: body# COUNT: cyrillicchar in body > 10 DROP. ```

Oh thank you! moparisthebest

» <diane> the downside of adding my family to my xmpp server is now i feel worse if i break it by messing with the prosody firewall module i use and rely on my home server for my daily communication. email too. If it's down it's my problem

i don't have 99.9999% uptime and no HA-failover, but it's stable enough

for my usage and my family/friends

I do enjoy being able to do something if it's broken as opposed to the sitting around waiting for someone else to fix it

however i do have monitoring and automatic health checking+ forced restart

if a healthcheck fails it dumps ring debug log ringbuffer and forces a restart of the daemon

that's provided by OpenRC-supervisory

ah ok....

it's really nice

it has just the good parts of systemd, but implemented in a sane and simple way that doesn't break all interop and posix compat, unlike soystemd

heh.

you can override any function if you need to just by specifying a subroutine in the openrc-run shell

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenRC/openrc/master/supervise-daemon-guide.md