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
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    2 months 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
      1·
      2 months 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
      1·
      2 months 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.