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What advice can you give to a beginner?
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this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2024
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Ditto. Started 20 years ago with one service I wanted. Complicated it a little more every time some new use case or interesting trinket came up, and now it's the most complicated network in the neighborhood. Weekend projects once a year add up.
If you have the resources, experiment with new services on a completely different server than everything else. The testing-production model exists for a reason: backups are good, but restoring everything is a pain in the ass.
I also like to keep a text editor open and paste everything I'm doing, as I do it, into that window. Clean it up a little, and you've got documentation for when you eventually have to change/fix it.
Smart stuff that is leaving me feeling dumb for not having thought of it myself, shell history is a poor substitute.
For linux this is as easy as script , ex:
[user@fedoragaming ~]$ script 20240313InstallingJellyfin.log
Script started, output log file is '20240313InstallingJellyfin.log'.
[user@fedoragaming ~]$ exit
exit
Script done.
edit: and for Windows I recommend using putty, it can also save sessions to logs.
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