Mattermost runs as a Docker container and is excellent. You can create channels and groups which is incredibly useful.

And amazing is is. It has almost completely replaced my use of Google Photos 👍

Man, I feel you. I hate Mattermost for its utter inability to run on anything else than port 8065 specifically.

Yes, but given the fact that there can we weeks between incidents, that is going go be a long time to be without my services.

That’s a good idea, didn’t know Docker had such capability. I will read up on that - could you give me some keywords to start on?

You know you are right, and I’ve tried. I can manually monitor but it doesn’t happen just then. I don’t know yet what causes it, I can only assume it’s one of the Docker containers because the machine is doing nothing else.

I am doing this to find out how often it happens, how quickly it happens, and what’s at the top when it happens.

Thank you for these ideas, I will read up on systat+sar and give it a go.

Also smart to have the script always running, sleeping, rather than launching it at intervals.

I know all of this is a poor hack, and I must address the cause - but so far I have no clues what’s causing it. I’m running a bunch of Docker containers so it is very likely one of them painting itself into a corner, but after a reboot there’s nothing to see, so I am now starting with logging the top process. Your ideas might work better.

thank you! 🤩

Nope, haven’t. It says I have 2 GB of swap on a 16 GB RAM system, and that seems reasonable.

Why would you recommend turning swap off?

This issue doesn’t happen very often, maybe every few weeks. That’s why I think a nightly reboot is overkill, and weekly might be missing the mark? But you are right in any case: regardless of what the cron says, the machine might never get around to executing it.

This insane torture is why there are post-it notes under the keyboards.

I see these posts everywhere, and they are friggin’ annoying :-(

You are right, it’s not cheap. I delayed buying one for literally years but once I did, it was a game changer.

Brother ADS-1700W is amazing!

• no PC or USB required: place it anywhere
• WiFi
• scans a page double-sided to PDF in two seconds!
• sends file to network share, ready to be consumed by Paperless
• fully automatic, no button presses needed!
• tiny footprint
• document feeder
• use with separator pages to bulk-scan many documents in one go

😍

This is how you lose data. Hope you have a good backup on a NAS?

PiVPN offers both services, Wireguard and OpenVPN.

What app do you use on Android? And on Windows?

I used Zerotier before and I still use it now. It is also the solution I am now going to continue with.

I wanted to try Wireguard to get away from a centrally managed solution, but if I can’t get it working after several hours, and Zerotier took five minutes - the winner is clear.

Obviously :) and make sure to forward to the correct LAN IP address, and make sure that machine has a static IP (or DHCP reservation).

PiVPN is elegant. Easy install, and I am impressed with the ascii QR code it generates.

But I could not make it work. I am guessing that my Android setup is faulty, orrrr maybe something with the Pi? This is incredibly difficult to troubleshoot.

Thank you for providing specific steps that I can take! I will look into this.

No I do not use cloudflare tunnels, just regular cloudflare to publish my services to the whole world - which is a concern of course.

Going with a connection from my device via wireguard sounds like just the right thing to do.