Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow8472, and today I am rebuilding Joystick, Button Mash\u2019s twin Rocky Linux server. Let\u2019s get started!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is a revival of my photo scanning project, first and foremost. I need to get it working, and while I will afford myself some time to experiment with doing it right, it\u2019s more important I get it done. Once I have it working better than Button Mash, I can move my production flag over to Joystick and remodel Button Mash \u201cproperly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And by \u201cproperly,\u201d I mean rootless Podman access to a network attached storage. I have explored NFS (Network File System) extensively, but Podman does things with userspace that NFS doesn\u2019t support. I may need to be open to an alternative or using root. SSHFS lays a file system over SSH, but<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I did my usual stuff when installing Linux. I remembered ahead of time that Joystick doesn\u2019t work with Ventoy, so I flashed a USB (Balena Etcher) large enough for the full 10 GB image I downloaded. I did a clean install over its previous Rocky Linux installation. I also adjusted Joystick\u2019s boot order so Rocky 9.4 loads by default. The system is dual booted with Linux Mint, where I did an apt update\/upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Booted to Rocky, I enabled Cockpit web interface for remote management, a feature I selected for installation with the system. I created a limited user for running Podman, enabled lingering on it, got Cockpit logged into it as a \u201cremote host,\u201d and disabled normal password interactions. I pulled Podman containers for Caddy, Nextcloud, MariaDB, Redis, BusyBox, and Vaultwarden, and gave each a directory with a start.sh and a mountpoint. I excluded Pi-Hole and Unbound from my planned lineup because those functions are now handled by our router and would have required messing with special ports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NFS fought me hard though. It didn\u2019t help that Cockpit\u2019s terminal kept glitching out on me. I noticed this behavior on ButtonMash\u2019s Cockpit as well. Rebooting and refreshing didn\u2019t do anything, but I found a control by navigating my browser away and back. I eventually got to thinking about what other parts it might be, and I came up with a bad version of Firefox, or Wayland. I ran Firefox over SSH on a machine still running Xorg server; it was Wayland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And at this point, my workstation had a record bad meltdown, which ate my remaining blog time. Be sure to read about it next week!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Takeaway<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Projects get interrupted. Something comes up and grand plans wait in the background. I\u2019m tired of server doing just that, but it\u2019s happened again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Final Question<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My longest enemy remains: Rootless Podman vs. Network Storage. How do I do it? I look forward to hearing from you in the comments below or on my Socials<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good Morning from my Robotics Lab! This is Shadow8472, and today I am rebuilding Joystick, Button Mash\u2019s twin Rocky Linux server. Let\u2019s get started! Project Goals This is a revival of my photo scanning project, first and foremost. I need to get it working, and while I will afford myself some time to experiment with … <\/p>\n