The anti-scanner rules dropped 53-byte Steam query packets above 1/hour with a
burst of 2, per source IP, on the theory that only scanners send queries and
that real players would already have been marked verified by the priority-2
rule when they sent something larger.
That premise is inverted. A client's first contact with the server IS a 53-byte
query, so nobody can be verified before querying, and nobody can query more
than twice an hour without being dropped. The counters said so plainly: five
packets had ever matched the verified-accept rule, against 30,563 drops.
fail2ban then banned each dropped player for a week -- 32 live bans, 550 total,
firing every ten minutes, every one of them a residential address.
Keeps the shape of the protection and moves the threshold somewhere no real
client reaches: opening the server browser or retrying a connection is a
handful of queries, a flood is thousands. Removes the old rules first so hosts
carrying them converge instead of stacking a second copy.
The bans themselves were also hooked into INPUT for tcp only, so they never
blocked the UDP game traffic they were meant to -- the drop rule was doing all
the damage on its own. Cleared the outstanding 32.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The logrotate config added with the Sophie overhaul claimed to bound PZ's own
logs. It did not. data/Logs had reached 18 GB across 112 entries and 146k
files, and rotation had never once fired there.
Two reasons, both wrong assumptions on my part. PZ rolls its logs into dated
directories -- logs_2025-12-14/ through logs_2026-08-26/, up to 279 MB each --
so the Logs/*.txt glob only ever matched a handful of loose files at the top.
And it rotates by size: not one file in that tree exceeds 100M, because the
growth is in the number of files, not the size of any of them.
Age-based pruning is the right tool, so this adds a daily zomboid-log-prune
timer keeping 14 days and deleting the emptied directories behind it. It runs
under podman unshare, since the files belong to the container's UID.
logrotate keeps server-console.txt, which is a single ever-growing file and
genuinely is what it is good at. Narrowed its scope to say so rather than
implying coverage it never had.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The deployment had drifted badly. It was pinned to the Steam `-beta unstable`
branch, which stopped being right the moment B42 became the default at 42.20,
and it wrote every mod ID with the `\` prefix that B42 required only during
that unstable period and now rejects. Three server profiles were carried
around (vanilla, modded, b42revamp) whose mod lists were hand-curated blobs
from a Steam collection that has since moved on.
Moves to the Sophie 42 community preset, vendored from GerDeathstar/sophie-pz
("Sophie 42 Files.zip", 2026-07-31 == the b42 release tag): 283 mod IDs, 256
workshop items, map_distanciado over Muldraugh, plus its SandboxVars,
spawnregions and spawnpoints. Sophie's gameplay settings are kept exactly as
shipped -- PVP with its damage modifiers, the safety system, MaxPlayers=32,
PauseEmpty, no sleep, safehouses off. Only the keys this deployment actually
owns are templated over the top.
The modlist is stored as YAML lists rather than the INI's semicolon blobs, so
the next Sophie update produces a diff you can read. Exclusions live in
zomboid_mods_excluded with a reason each, seeded with IconsInventory -- already
absent upstream, listed so a re-vendor cannot quietly bring it back.
Config is now seeded before first boot instead of patched after it. The old
approach could not write the INI until the server had generated one, so every
setting went through lineinfile guarded on a stat; seeding the whole file from
the preset removes the chicken-and-egg and puts the config in git. force is
off by design: these files are a starting point, not managed state, so the
server can be stopped, hand-edited and regenerated without Ansible clobbering
the edits. Push them again deliberately with -e zomboid_config_force=true.
The B41 Discord keys were dead. B42 replaced DiscordChannel/DiscordChannelID
with DiscordChatChannel, which takes a channel name rather than a snowflake,
so the DiscordChannelID=... this role had been appending was a key the server
ignores and the chat bridge has not been working.
Renaming the server to debbzoid is what starts the new world: PZ derives the
INI, save directory and player DB from the name, so gregboid stays on disk
untouched as a rollback.
Re-enabled, because the reason it was off is now fixed. It was disabled for
saturating the SSD -- ~10 MB/s of log writes into the shared journal, which
starved Gitea CI badly enough to stretch a firmware build to 17 minutes. The
container now logs to its own rotating k8s-file instead of the journal every
other service shares, and logrotate caps the server's own server-console.txt
and Logs/ at 100M keeping 3. copytruncate is mandatory there: PZ holds those
fds for its whole life, so a rename would leave it writing into an unlinked
inode. Memory is unchanged; idle draw is nowhere near MAX_RAM.
Also stops the entrypoint recursively chowning the install tree on every boot.
With 256 workshop mods that is a large inode walk and pure churn once the
first run has set ownership.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
TrueNAS was power-cycled, the CIFS mounts failed, and systemd never retried
-- mount units are not restarted on failure. SMB came back, nothing
remounted, and immich-server served an empty library for days while its
database still listed 14,181 assets pointing at /mnt/media/originals.
fstab carried no _netdev, no nofail and no automount, so there was no path
back without a human. Now:
x-systemd.automount any access re-attempts the mount; failure stops
being terminal
_netdev / nofail ordered after network-online, dead NAS cannot block boot
soft I/O errors instead of blocking forever, so the
container can be restarted rather than wedging in
uninterruptible sleep
idle-timeout unmount when unused, clearing stale handles
resilienthandles SMB3 rides out brief blips
ansible.posix.mount mounts directly and never starts the generated
.automount unit, leaving the on-access trigger inactive -- enable it
explicitly, or the headline fix silently does nothing.
The containers are systemd USER units while the mounts are SYSTEM units, so
RequiresMountsFor= is unavailable. cifs-watchdog bridges the scopes: checks
health, recovers, and restarts ONLY immich-server (the sole consumer of both
paths; postgres/redis/ML use local volumes).
Two bugs the umount test caught, both worth knowing:
- `ls` cannot test mountedness. An unmounted mount point is an ordinary
empty directory, so ls succeeds and recovery was skipped entirely.
- A drop repaired within a single run leaves prev=healthy, so keying the
restart solely on the stored state skipped it while the container still
held its stale view.
Also moves the SMB password out of /etc/fstab, which is 0644 and was
readable by every local user, into a 0600 credentials file.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Extends the Nextcloud backup machinery rather than adding a second
mechanism. cloud-backup.sh.j2 gains three guarded options, all no-ops for
the existing callers:
backup_podman_user Gitea runs rootless under `git`, not `podman`
backup_db_type postgres (Gitea) and mysql (BookStack) alongside
mariadb; each engine's completion trailer differs,
and grepping for the wrong one fails every run
backup_sqlite_dbs `sqlite3 .backup` for live WAL-mode SQLite, gated on
`pragma integrity_check` before promotion -- rsync
is either stale (no -wal) or torn (with it)
New instances: gitea-debyl, skudak-gitea, bookstack, partsy-skudak. The
alert handler is rendered once and shared, so its wording is now generic
rather than per-product; TAG stays nextcloud-backup because an external
Graylog rule matches on it.
`apply:` on the includes is load-bearing -- tags on a dynamic
include_tasks do not reach the tasks inside it.
Business data (skudak-gitea, bookstack, partsy-skudak) goes to TrueNAS
and on to Skudak's own iDrive account; the personal bucket's
/skudak*/** excludes are permanent, not a stopgap.
Removals: PartKeepr is superseded by Partsy, and its teardown never
finished -- it targeted /etc/systemd/system/podman-partkeepr*.service,
wrong prefix and wrong scope, leaving enabled user units in failed state.
Pi-hole's role was already orphaned (absent from deploy_home.yml); its
port 53 rule went with it after confirming nothing listens there.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ups role: NUT server on home.debyl.io for the CyberPower PR1500RT2U that backs
both it and truenas.localdomain, with staged shutdown (TrueNAS sheds at t+2min,
host at 10% charge) and best-effort IPMI power-on when mains returns. The 10%
threshold leans on ignorelb + override.battery.charge.low rather than a custom
poller, because CyberPower asserts its own low-battery flag far too early.
Credentials come from vault vars; nothing sensitive is templated in the clear.
Nextcloud background jobs: both instances have backgroundjobs_mode "cron", which
expects an external caller every ~5 minutes, and nothing was calling. The
personal instance had not run a background job since 2026-05-14 and skudak since
2024-11-20. Consequently trash and file versions never expired, stale chunked
uploads accumulated, calendar reminders never fired, and nextcloud.log was never
rotated -- which quietly made the existing log_rotate_size cap inert. Added a
systemd timer per instance, skipping cleanly when the container is down or in
maintenance so deploy windows don't show up as failed units.
Trash retention on the personal instance: the default "auto" only expires when
disk space demands it, so 66 GB of >30-day deletions sat on a host with 1.3 TB
free -- effectively unbounded. "auto, 30" makes the 30-day expiry unconditional
while still purging early under pressure.
Image bumps:
nextcloud 33.0.0 -> 34.0.2 (both cloud and skudak-cloud)
greg-time-bot 3.9.25 -> 3.10.0
fulfillr 20260723.2044 -> 20260728.2155 (prod and dev)
The fulfillr bump records what is already deployed: both containers were rolled
to that image on 2026-07-29 for SCRUM-156 (digital product releases + customer
update campaign). Committing it keeps the repo from claiming an older tag than
the host is actually running, which would otherwise roll fulfillr backwards on
the next clean-checkout deploy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The data-only rsync left no way to restore a working instance: mysql/ and
config/ were never backed up, so a recovery would have files but no shares,
users or metadata. Dump the database before syncing files (a DB older than
the files is repairable with occ files:scan; a newer one references blobs
that never made it into the backup) and ship config/ alongside it.
Capture the --chmod=Du=rwx,Dgo=rx flag that had been hand-added to the
deployed skudak-cloud script. It was outside git, so every deploy silently
reverted it. It now lives in backup_rsync_extra_args.
Add OnFailure= alerting. The units failed silently before, which is how an
iDrive sync failure sat unnoticed since May. msmtp rather than the esmtp
already installed: the OpenSRS relay is port 465 (implicit TLS) and libesmtp
only speaks STARTTLS.
Exclude nextcloud.log* from the sync and cap log_rotate_size. skudak-cloud
was running at loglevel 0 and had written a 64 GB log that was being rsynced
and pushed to S3; set it to 2 to match the home instance.
Stagger the timers (04:00 / 04:30) so both finish before the 05:00 TrueNAS
snapshot task, and bound TimeoutStartSec so a wedged rsync cannot leave the
unit activating forever and skip every subsequent trigger.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Ollama role and SearXNG container backed FISTO AI responses in the
greg-time Discord bot. greg-time 3.9.6 drops both (plus the Gemini path)
in favor of a single xAI Grok backend, so:
- remove the ollama role and its wiring in deploy_home.yml
- remove the searxng container task, template, and searxng_path default
- gregtime: swap OLLAMA_*/SEARXNG_URL/GEMINI_API_KEY env for XAI_API_KEY,
bump image 3.6.5 -> 3.9.6
- vault: add xai_api_key, drop gemini_api_key
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
SSH keys moved to /etc/ssh/backup_keys/ (ssh_home_t) and backup scripts
to /usr/local/bin/ (bin_t) to fix SELinux denials - container_file_t
context blocked rsync from exec'ing ssh. Also fixes skudak key path
mismatch (was truenas_skudak, key deployed as truenas_skudak-cloud).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces old 168-mod collection (3636931465) with new 385-mod collection.
Cleaned BBCode artifacts from mod IDs, updated map folders for 32 maps.
LogCabin retained for player connect/disconnect logging.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add ollama role for local LLM inference (install, service, models)
- Add searxng container for private search
- Migrate hostname from home.bdebyl.net to home.debyl.io
(inventory, awsddns, zomboid entrypoint, home_server_name)
- Update vault with new secrets
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Benchmarked uncensored models for the gregtime FISTO bot. dolphin-mistral
produces the best uncensored creative content, dolphin-phi is faster fallback.
Added OLLAMA_NUM_PREDICT env var (300) and bumped image to 3.3.0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add uptime-kuma-personal container on port 3002
- Add Caddy config for uptime.debyl.io with IP restriction
- Update both uptime-kuma instances to 2.0.2
- Rename debyltech tag from uptime-kuma to uptime-debyltech
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Deploy systemd timer that writes zomboid container stats to
zomboid-stats.json every 30 seconds for gregtime to read.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit finalizes the comprehensive migration from nginx + ModSecurity + manual LetsEncrypt
to Caddy v2 with automatic HTTPS. The migration eliminates over 2000 lines of complex
configuration in favor of a single, simplified Caddyfile.
## Major Changes:
### Infrastructure Transformation
- **Web Server**: Replaced nginx with Caddy v2 for automatic HTTPS and simplified configuration
- **SSL/TLS**: Removed manual LetsEncrypt management, now fully automated by Caddy
- **Security**: Replaced ModSecurity WAF with Caddy's built-in security features
- **CI/CD**: Decommissioned Drone CI infrastructure completely
### Configuration Simplification
- **Before**: 20+ nginx site configs, ModSecurity rules, LetsEncrypt cron jobs
- **After**: Single Caddyfile with automatic HTTPS, security headers, and IP restrictions
- **Reduction**: 75% less configuration code while maintaining all functionality
### Files Added
- Caddy container deployment and configuration tasks
- Single Caddyfile template replacing all nginx configs
- Updated documentation (CLAUDE.md, TODO.md)
### Files Removed
- Complete nginx role and all site configurations (24 files)
- SSL role with LetsEncrypt management (6 files)
- Drone CI infrastructure (1 file)
- nginx static files and ModSecurity includes (2 files)
## Verified Functionality
All websites confirmed working with HTTPS certificates automatically provisioned:
- photos.bdebyl.net, parts.bdebyl.net, cloud.bdebyl.net
- wiki.skudakrennsport.com, cloud.skudakrennsport.com
- fulfillr.debyltech.com (with IP restrictions)
- Proper security headers and WebSocket support
🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.ai/code)
Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
