Dr Fragen in the operating room

Andy Fragen

  • 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 him an iPad 2 also. I love you Jonathan, Happy Birthday.

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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 Dropbox. Here’s what I did, YMMV. From Server Admin, make new Web > Realm and…

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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 the error logging. I got that tidbit from google groups logging { category lame-servers {…

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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 for fail2ban to delete the rule after it expires. The problem lies in that you…

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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. [code lang=bash] $ fail2ban-regex /path/to/logfile /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/myfilter.conf regex_to_ignore [/code] As an example. [code lang=bash] $ fail2ban-regex /var/log/secure.log /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/sshd.conf (myusername|myIPaddress) [/code] This seems like a great way to…

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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 with networked or shared printers. The simplicity of this Preference Pane is amazing. It takes…

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