I’ve recently set up ZNC – an IRC bouncer, to help me stay logged in on IRC. Although I’m not yet done with the whole setup, I’ve decided to add a valid certificate. Of course, I use Let’s Encrypt for this purpose. To issue a certificate you can use: certbot
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This one is fairly simple. All of thee zone info files are located in /usr/share/zoneinfo/, divided by region. I’m in Croatia so setting up time to be the same as in Zagreb is done by sym-linking appropriate zone file to /etc/localtime: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Zagreb /etc/localtime As I use jails on
Using Ansible with FreeBSD as a managed node might not be straight forward as using some Linux distribution as, by default, FreeBSD doesn’t have Python interpreter installed which is needed for remote command execution in Ansible. To bootstrap the FreeBSD host you first need to install python and needed dependencies
Although I use tmux primarily for my “multiplexing needs” I hop into screen from time to time as well. Below are few tips for managing regions inside of GNU screen. Your basic screen window probably looks somewhat like: Ignoring hardstatus settings you basically have one session and one window inside
I’ve been using password-store utility for saving my passwords in GPG encrypted files. Since I’m also using 2 factor authentication I’ve opted in to use pass-otp as a convenience. As this extension is not in the official OpenSUSE repositories you will need to install it manually. If you’re reading this
I’ve been using mutt for reading my emails for some time now. It is simple, fast, configurable, and yeah, did I mentioned it is a command line email client? Anyhow, only thing I have been fighting with was on how to securely store password without putting it to .muttrc file
Basically, something is broken while attempting to install SVN module for PHP via “Modules installer” option. To manually install extension follow these steps: Download the SVN PECL package: wget pecl.php.net/get/svn-1.0.3.tgz Extract the package: tar xzf svn-1.0.3.tgz Run phpize for appropriate PHP version: /opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/phpize Configure with appropriate PHP configuration: ./configure –with-php-config=/opt/cpanel/ea-php56/root/usr/bin/php-config
This should be a short article mentioning few options I generally change in sshd_config and recommend that you change them too. Change port number I usually change port number to something random to avoid millions upon millions of failed SSH connection generated by various bots on the interwebz in my
Day or two ago I encountered a customer that had their server partitioned in a way that there was around 250GB of non-allocated space on disk. There were two partitions (sda1 and sda2) that were set up as /boot and LVM pool containing / mount point respectively. Naturally I’ve replicated
