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
    541·
    1 month 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
      36·
      1 month 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
        19·
        1 month 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
      13·
      1 month 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
      81·
      1 month 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 🤷

      • poweruser@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        I came to the comments to mention that exact experience. There must be historical reasons that SCP uses -P and SSH uses -p but I certainly didn’t expect it since they’re both from the same package (openssh)

    • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 month ago

      Only several thousand? There was a guy when I worked for Facebook who pushed a config change incrementing a timeout from 5 seconds to 30 seconds in the caching layer. Config changes roll out instantly. Brought down all of Facebook for about two hours. Probably cost them many millions. I mean, good for him.

    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      My team once spent an entire afternoon trying to figure out why an API call was returning either incorrect data, or just no data at all.

      Basically we were in the middle of migrating the API call from one API to another and we didn’t update the URL in the variable, so it was still hitting the old API 🙃