gopherdashboard: Sysadmin via Gopher

gopherdashboard.

Anonymous forum software written for the Gopher Protocol in Haskell. You may want to read my article on using the Gopher Protocol.

Some core things I learned or did:

• systemd daemon managed
• release management
• packaging for debian
• worrying about privileges/infosec (I am, after all, allowing people to configure the dashboard to execute potentially any arbitrary command they want)

Cool features:

• Execute arbitrary commands if you want (flag to enable this not-so-safe feature)
• Monitor arbitrary files
• Configure through a JSON file

How I use it

Some configuration I have as of March 7, 2024 is:

• Ability to query/get status of arbitrary services
• Look at disk usage
• Show the uptime and various backup ages
• Quip of the latest APC UPS events (ability to view full log)
• debsecan report, with CVEs found count displayed on dashboard
• chrootkit log
• restic backup information (for server)