One thinks there’s only one problem, but then when one looks, here’s more than one. Here’s what needs to be done and what I have done before.
To Do
- On the real PI, there is a problem with sudo, and it seems
whatsnewI have written some new subroutines for whatsnew, but it doesn’t really take us forward. interestingly I could not get comm to work, so wrote my own. See if the sudo logs suggest anything, update the master version ofwhatsnew. - Might I need a new image for the Pi. If so, should I refresh the current one, buy a new one, or switch to AWS? I have a Pi 3, Model B Rev 1.2. Is there a version of the OS that is not hardware backward compatible, (looks like its OK, by Google Gemini), and how can I back up the system or just the web site and particularly the transmission files and configuration? The web site has a dev version, and I have backed its source up into a github repo.
- if I rebuild the site, I should encapsulate it in a docker container, for which I need to learn how to install my certs, and run the service as a daemon.
- and encapsulate the source in github repo, or download the theme from a github repo.
- if I go with AWS, maybe I should move davelevy.info to AWS, the IONOS performance is not good.
My articles on Docker and Systemd are bing maintained. Below you’ll find, other article on this wiki, tagged “raspberry-pi”
by Dave on January 4, 2026 at 12:24 pm
One thinks there’s only one problem, but then when one looks, here’s more than one. Here’s what needs to be done and what I have done before. To Do My articles on Docker and Systemd are bing maintained. Below you’ll find, other article on this wiki, tagged “raspberry-pi” To see the rest of what I…
by Dave on November 2, 2025 at 6:41 pm
This post talks about scripting on raspbian. I have two problems, cron and privilege and running a java script … cron & privilege My script, run_aptjob requires sudo authentication and so asks for it from the gui when run from crontab despite being defined in the root crontab file and called using the sudo command….
by Dave on July 23, 2025 at 11:25 am
I am rebuilding my virtual pi, I think we have the basics, buster, git, gh, ssh, xrdp, ufw, vsftpd, postfix, mailutils, & apache2. (I need to fix my whatsnew for buster.) So next steps … What’s next Today I posted a thread to the Virtual Box forums on installation and guest-additions. I said something like…
by Dave on November 27, 2022 at 12:22 pm
Installing an SSL certificate and enabling https was a faff, here are my notes. Now including postfix and dovecot… Firstly, my DNS provider is NOIP, and I chose to get a TrustCOR certificate through their portal. Their free service offers a single certificate as a bundled feature. Basically, the process is in three parts, get…
by Dave on October 31, 2022 at 10:02 am
I turned off my Raspberry Pi a couple of weeks ago, I was concerned about its energy draw. FFS. 😲 Also the projects I planned had stalled but like the No 11 bus, another one has come along, So I decided to install a Raspberry Pi in my virtual box instance. Here’s how … I…
by Dave on May 24, 2021 at 10:01 am
My recent problem with the Raspberry Pi is an event monitoring and notification problem. It’s one, that over my career, I have spent a lot of time considering, but today, I only have one server. I don’t think I need or want to afford something like Zabbix, which comes with a series of event monitors…
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