Quick way to make HDD light blink
I needed a quick and dirty way to make a specific hard drive LED blink so that I could identify which drive to replace. I stumbled across this post that worked well for me. The simple trick is to run...
View ArticleUnbind vfio driver from device in Proxmox
I found myself with a Proxmox server that wouldn’t do anything with its network card. It took me a while to realize that at one point I had bound it to a VM. Even after removing it from the VM, the...
View ArticleInstall Apache Guacamole 1.5.5 with docker-compose
I decided I needed to update my Apache Guacamole instance to their latest version – 1.5.5. Unfortunately the git repo I provided in my last article about it –...
View ArticleDocker for old Java-based IPMI systems
As time goes on it’s getting harder to access the remote console on one of my older systems. It requires an old version of Java that just doesn’t work right on modern operating systems. Fortunately,...
View ArticleChange ceph network
My notes on changing which network your Proxmox CEPH cluster lives in. In my case I wanted to switch from a 10 gig network to a 40gig network in a different subnet. Source:...
View ArticleMulti click workaround for single click buttons in Home Assistant
I recently bought a Leviton Decora Smart Controller Switch with the hopes that I could put it in my bathroom for quick and easy music selection. I was dismayed to find out that the device doesn’t...
View ArticleConfigure Proxmox Mail Gateway to use AnyMX relay
I needed to configure Proxmox Mail Gateway to use an authenticated SMTP relay for outgoing mail. There is no way to add a username and password in the PMG GUI; however, you can do it in the command...
View ArticleLoad balancing behind Nginx Proxy Manager
Nginx proxy manager is a really convenient UI wrapped around nginx. It covers the most common use cases very well. If you have more advanced needs, then it requires some custom configuration. In my...
View ArticleRecursively find files with the same filename
I needed a way to find files with the same filename, but were not identical files. Thankfully Reddit had the solution I was looking for: a combination of find, sort, and while loop with if statements....
View ArticleAdd NVIDIA GPU to LXC container
I followed this guide https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/nvidia-drivers-instalation-proxmox-and-ct.156421/ to get NVIDIA drivers working on my Proxmox machine. However when I tried to get them working...
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