Author Archives: Andy Fragen

Happy Birthday Sophie

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

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

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

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… sudo cp -R /Users/Shared/squirrelmail_plugins/PLUGIN_FOLDER \ /usr/share/squirrelmail/plugins sudo … Continue reading

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Sixteen Candles

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

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

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

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

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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Printopia

AirPrint is one of the most welcome additions of late to iOS 4.2. Unfortunately Apple removed the ability to print to shared printers. Fortunately, creative software developers such as Ecamm have created Printopia as a solution for those of us … Continue reading

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