Category Archives: code

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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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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Fail2ban and OS X Server, part deux

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Andy Fragen

As some of you might know I run my own installation of OS X Server. I’ve since updated it to Snow Leopard Server and I think I’ve got most of it running well. As I check my server logs frequently … Continue reading →

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Server-Side Email Filtering with Sieve

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Andy Fragen

Another post for the peripheral brain. When I first set up my own server lo these years ago, I never really thought about email message filtering. After all, I had rules in Mail.app that would send my incoming message to … Continue reading →

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Don’t Send iCal Replies

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Andy Fragen

I came across a great hint in Mac OS X Hints today. It seems that there’s an easy way to interrupt the process of sending an email reply when accepting iCal invites. As I tend to play around with iCal … Continue reading →

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Fail2ban on Leopard Server

Posted on September 24, 2009 by Andy Fragen

So here I am running my own server — for almost 2 years now. It’s been a real learning experience and I’ve tried to share. My latest add-on has been fail2ban. I got tired of looking into my logs and … Continue reading →

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VoodooPad Pro Blogging

Posted on May 7, 2009 by Andy Fragen

Please note that VoodooPad Pro has been renamed to VoodooPad. It’s time to package up all my VoodooPad blogging scripts and assorted web export plugins so that I can Remember what the heck I was thinking. Remember what all these … Continue reading →

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iCal - Exchange Time Zone Fix - Chapter 3

Posted on December 28, 2008 by Andy Fragen

I’ve updated the iCal-Invite-Fix script again. This time to allow for adding multiple Exchange servers to the script so that you should only need a single script. The set-up is slightly more complex. As the image above shows there are … Continue reading →

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Importing Mail Message Attachments into Aperture

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Andy Fragen

So I’ve just gotten my new Unibody MacBook and Aperture. Immediately I find myself wanting for a Quick Look > Add to Aperture just like there is for iPhoto. Unfortunately it’s nowhere to be found. Fortunately Aperture is scriptable. Version … Continue reading →

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