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The Power of Pipes
Dec 5
Okay guys, the log if filling with
sshd[20117]: Invalid user pi from 142.93.118.186 port 50416 sshd[20117]: input_userauth_request: invalid user pi [preauth] sshd[20117]: Received disconnect from 142.93.118.186 port 50416:11: Bye Bye [preauth] sshd[20117]: Disconnected from 142.93.118.186 port 50416 [preauth] sshd[20119]: Invalid user cubie from 5.189.227.161 port 39772 sshd[20119]: input_userauth_request: invalid user cubie [preauth] sshd[20119]: Received disconnect from 5.189.227.161 port 39772:11: Bye Bye [preauth] sshd[20119]: Disconnected from 5.189.227.161 port 39772 [preauth] sshd[20121]: Invalid user guest from 208.68.37.169 port 42858
Short how-to use the save virtual users both for receiving emails via IMAPS, and sending via SMTP, or just rants for myself:
Source for the ideas and setup
/etc/postfix/main.cf must contain:
smtpd_sasl_local_domain =
smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes
Rant on Apache2
Jul 23
Recently I was trying to move my sites to SSL – for various reasons.
The test site went fluently, while the work machine refused to serve SSL content. While testing with ‘wget’, the error I received was
GnuTLS: An unexpected TLS packet was received.Every time package is removed via `apt-get remove`, a tiny piece of its configuration can be kept in your system. If you ever need to reinstall the package, this information can be re-used. These packages has status ‘rc’ in the output of `dpkg -l`. But if you want to keep your system tidy and clean, you may want them to be removed.
The miraculous command is
dpkg -l | egrep ^r | cut -d ‘ ‘ -f 3 | xargs apt-get remove –purge -y
I had a little disc and database crash, so the site was not updated recently.
Well, WordPress was updated easily, but i had problems with Gallery2.
I need a multisite deployment of Gallery2. Although it is supported from the installer, some important steps are missing.
In order multisite Gallery2 to work, you will need to add some symlinks to every deployment of the Gallery2:
After migration from 2.6.18-6-amd64, a newly installed kernel 2.6.26-2-amd64 failed to load:
[ 2.871916] Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.7.5 (April 29, 2008)
...
[ 3.631838] firmware: requesting bnx2-06-4.0.5.fw
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I’ve seen a lot of these entries in logfiles recently:
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Unable to print file to
And the printing is stopped, of course.
The solution is simple:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /etc/init.d/samba restart
In short:
/var/log/cups/error_log shows a lot of
E [
CUPS requires UTF-8.
In the case of default login in Debian, the console IS in UTF-8, but is not if you have customized it and use `su` for administrative tasks.
C’ia.
Long time ago i’ve bought Netgear WG511 PCMCIA WiFi card. It’s version 2, and is supported by prism54 module. the basic info is in jkx page, but at least 3 years have passed 😉
In order to run in Linux, you need:
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