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  • The Events Calendar Category Colors Plugin

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    It’s been a wild couple of days figuring this one out. Special thanks to Jonah West for all the help and encouragement. This plugin seeks to greatly simplify the ability to create background colors for your categories in the month view when using The Events Calendar plugin. It requires The Events Calendar v2.0.5 or greater.…

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  • Add Alarm to Events Calendar PRO

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    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 can see/follow the original discussion on the Modern Tribe forum. This plugin requires the Events…

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  • chroot'd SFTP on Mac OS X server

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    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 initially worked it out by him emailing me files and me SFTP’ing them up to…

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  • Fail2ban Problems and Solutions

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    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

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    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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  • Fail2ban and OS X Server, Part Deux

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    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 I find that there are all sorts of script kiddies attempting to log in to…

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