Author Archives: Andy Fragen

Add Alarm to Events Calendar PRO

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Andy Fragen

Thanks to Joey Kudish and Jonah at Modern Tribe, Inc., I’ve converted my original hacked together code to add an alarm to a calendar event created using the Events Calendar PRO WordPress plugin into a plugin of my own. You … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Sophie

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Andy Fragen

Happy birthday Sophie! Today it has been eleven years since you’ve blessed us and you continue to do so daily. I love you — Daddy

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chroot’d SFTP on Mac OS X server

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Andy Fragen

So here you are finding that you need to grant someone else SFTP access to your server. There are lots of reasons to do this, in my case it’s because I needed to grant access to someone’s web designer. We … Continue reading →

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RIP Steve

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Andy Fragen

It appears that Steve Jobs has finally lost his long battle with pancreatic cancer. I am saddened by the loss as Steve has greatly enriched my life through his creativity and genius. There are very few people in the world … Continue reading →

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Squirrelmail Plugins

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Andy Fragen

Just an FYI post. I save all my added Squirrelmail plugins in /Users/Shared/squirrelmail_plugins/. Consequently if I need to reinstall any or all of them all I have to do is issue the following… Activate the plugins, save, quit and you’re … Continue reading →

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Sixteen Candles

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Andy Fragen

Today is my son’s sixteenth birthday. Since I know he doesn’t read this blog I’m going to out our present to him of a new iPhone 3GS. He’s going to make out like a bandit as his grandparents are getting … Continue reading →

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Setting up WebDAV Share in Mac OS X Server

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Andy Fragen

As I attempt to transition from a laptop to an iPad, with no specific reason other than the iPad is sooooo kewl; I need to create my own online storage. Yes I have a Dropbox account, but I don’t control … Continue reading →

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Updating DNS settings

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Andy Fragen

Just to document. I’ve updated the settings in /etc/named/named.ca by using the following command and then restarting DNS. sudo curl ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root -o /var/named/named.ca Not sure how often this should be done. I also added the following to /etc/named.conf to reduced … Continue reading →

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Fail2ban Problems and Solutions

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Andy Fragen

If you use Fail2ban then you are probably aware of the fact that you must add a rule number to the ipfw deny rule for actionban in ipfw.conf. If you don’t add a rule number then there is no way … Continue reading →

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Checking Fail2ban regex

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Andy Fragen

I’ve just stumbled across a great command in Fail2ban to check whether or not your filter will actually score a hit from your log file. From the command line. fail2ban-regex /path/to/logfile /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/myfilter.conf regex_to_ignore As an example. fail2ban-regex /var/log/secure.log /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/sshd.conf (myusername|myIPaddress) … Continue reading →

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