4 January 2023 — historical installation report

The setup of Mystic BBS in an LXC container is beginning. I am following “The Mystic Guy” videos to learn about the system and preparing a how-to for Debian 11. It covers systemd startup scripts, running as an unprivileged user and maintenance tasks. Log files have dated names and links to the standard filenames, for example mutil.yyyymmdd.log and mutil.log, updated by an MIS event at midnight. Fail2ban integration is also part of the work. I am looking for a way to export Mystic performance data to Grafana.

Before finishing the configuration inside the BBS, I want to get the background tasks in order.

Ideas at the time included Zabbix monitoring, Prometheus/Grafana metrics, Proxmox Backup Server and SMS notifications through a USB GSM modem and smsd.

This report records the 2023 setup, not the current installation procedure. See the project pages for current development.

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