Yunohost

I’m very impressed by it! Makes everything really easy, I remember the last time I had to install stuff manually. After 48h 9/10, some things surprised me (removing root ssh access…) but they were always mentioned in the relevant docu I hadn’t read.

Official docu is quite okay, but rarely appeared when I was googling my problems. My instinct is to Google the problem instantly - sometimes they should actually be to find and check any existing official documentation/README first, then google. (An even better instinct would be to skim any official documentation before starting, as religiously as I do it for unknown real-life 3D things.)

Adding subdomains for Yunohost

This took me too long to find, has info about correct DNS records: DNS and subdomains for the applications | Yunohost Documentation

By trial and error the complete process is:

1. Add DNS record for subdomain like last examples here:

   @         A            XYZ.XYZ.XYZ.XYZ
   @         AAAA         1234:1234:1234:FFAA:FFAA:FFAA:FFAA:AAFF
   *         CNAME        mydomain.com.
   agenda    CNAME        mydomain.com.
   blog      CNAME        mydomain.com.
   rss       CNAME        mydomain.com.
   

2. Add new domain to yunohost, input the domain with subdomain (subdomain.my.domain) as it if were new
3. Do a diagnostic, which does DNS checks too, which are needed for Letsencrypt
4. Install letsencrypt certificate from the usual Yunohost panel

I kept messing up NAME and DATA of the CNAME records because I was following more the other ones Yunohost created, a row of

Name: xmpp-upload.my.domain
Data: @

For subdomainname.my.domain I needed this (kinda-sorta-reversed from the above; as usual, dots are significant):

Name: my.domain.
Data: subdomainname

Random / colored fonts generator / CLI

cfonts is like figlet, but with many more settings (colors and alignment blew my mind!)! Link has a lot of colorful examples. I might get a nice colorful motd and/or banner soon. :)

Setting a new hostname linux

There’s a command for that: hostnamectl set-hostname new-hostname

Symbolic links and ~/.local/bin

I like the idea of having ~/.local/bin in my $PATH, and putting there symbolic links (ln -s TARGET LINK) to my usual folder where I have programs/executables. I’d even have a separate thing in $PATH for shell scripts and binaries, which will get rid of so many stupid CLI aliases I have whose function is to point to a single executable with a long path. TODO - look at my aliases and commands I run often and see how many of them can I symlink