WARNING: I’ve had some major issues running Alpine Linux on my Raspberry PIs. Most incidents happen due to update process of diskless “Alpine Linux” and having only 4GB of memory. switched to Raspberry PI OS aka Debian. I’m done with Alpine Linux as regular operating system.
Some time ago, I started to set up the “Network UPS Tools” (NUT) for my uninterruptible power supply (UPS) “Eaton 3S”. It’s a UPS which can be connected to a computer via USB cable.
I bought an “Eaton 3S” uninterruptible power supply (UPS) some time ago. It is supposed to support my servers with power in case of a power loss. I also wanted to get notified about those “power down” events, so I looked for an open-source software to monitor the UPS hardware. I found the “Network UPS Tools” (NUT). In this article, I describe some of the pitfalls I came across.
WARNING: I’ve had some major issues running Alpine Linux on my servers. Most incidents happen due to changes in the kernel and broken file systems. I switched to Debian. I’m done with Alpine Linux as regular operating system.
If you need to share files from your local system with others, you’ve got plenty of options. For some of them you need a client installed locally and an account at a remote website. Fortunately there are easier options available as most programming languages come with an HTTP server. In most cases it’s able to serve files from a local directory and is sufficient for a lot use cases. In this article I am going to show you, how I solved the problem by “writing” a local web server in Go running on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X.
