Here is a simple script to backup your Linux/FreeBSD server or your macOS on storage.rcs-rds.ro. I’m not associated with Digi Storage, I just know they have many users who can find this useful. As always, […]
Category: bsd
netcat – The Mighty One
Once in awhile sshd will break on your server, maybe after an update and you need to send long lines, maybe a cipher list from one server to another. Typing on console it’s an option […]
Enable Debug For Shell Scripts
Debugging shell scripts comes handy, especially when unexpected things happen. Trust me, they do. I use two different approaches, based on what’s needed: debug while running it or when ran in the background, maybe by […]
duplicity oauthlib.oauth2.rfc6749.errors.InvalidGrantError
If you are having below error in duplicity probably your token has expired and you need to generate a new one. To generate a new one simply run duplicity and follow the steps, you are […]
.vimrc
vi and vim are two out of many text editors on Unix, this is my .vimrc. I put this here mostly so I can easily grab it.
newsyslog: don’t rotate empty log files
My idea about not to rotate empty log files on FreeBSD has made it to newsyslog, yay 😀 ! Big thanks for Dan Langille who made this happen!
CFengine
DNS Blacklist on WRT
Recently I found a forum entry with a script for blocking ad’s via DNS for WRT (or any other OS using sh and dnsmasq). However it was missing two features: a white list and a […]
Easy SSH On macOS
Using public key authentication for ssh is safer than password. But you should really use a passphrase protected private key. Now you are safe but you still need to type in your passphrase. This isn’t […]
newsyslog – config check
On FreeBSD the best way to rotate logs is using newsyslog. After you set up you want to try what would happen when log rotation occurs, this can be done with -n and -vv -n […]