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A process using curl (rtorrent) was giving the subject error after the remote system updated their secure cert from SHA1 to SHA256. this page provides an answer; openssl needs to be updated: “It requires at least OpenSSL 0.9.8o for a … Continue reading →

In the local network, we have a samba share that doesn’t require a password. Most computers can access this share without any trouble. For some reason a new machine running Windows 7 Professional can’t access it without seeing a login … Continue reading →

After power failures, our MySQL slaves sometimes stop replicating. The error is: Could not parse relay log event entry. The possible reasons are: the master’s binary log is corrupted (you can check this by running ‘mysqlbinlog’ on the binary log), … Continue reading →

While trying to install openssl-1.0.0n and httpd-2.2.29, configure was giving an error like this: checking for SSL_set_cert_store… no configure: error: … Error, SSL/TLS libraries were missing or unusable make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop. make: *** … Continue reading →

I have a mail server on a LAN and other servers on the same LAN have trouble sending to local addresses because they resolve the mail server to the public ip address but then can’t get there. To fix this, … Continue reading →

This was difficult to find so I’m noting it here for future reference. To block all ports with fail2ban, change the jail file’s port value to “0:65535” For example, here’s my SSH Jail file: [ssh-iptables] enabled = true filter = … Continue reading →

When converting a machine using the VMWare Standalone converter, I got the subject error. The process tries to find an ip address with DHCP but that’s not available on this network. The solution is to specify the ip address of … Continue reading →

On later versions of Ubuntu, the /var/log/messages is not on by default. Since I use it for some applications, here are the steps I used to enable it: Edit the file /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf and uncomment the four lines: (starts at line … Continue reading →

Replaced a linux router with pfsense to handle NAT. Before stunnel worked from a remote site to a port on the linux router that forwarded to an internal mysql server. Now I haven’t been able to get it working with … Continue reading →

Was trying to add some nifty jquery slider and all seemed great except safari on ipad was crashing consistently. This answer on StackOverflow was the key: Finally found it wasn’t the javascript or any weird characters, but the CSS -webkit-transform … Continue reading →