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This Blog contains a collection of posts starting in the mid 2000's down to the present. Mostly it catalogs day to day experiences in IT
DHCP to Static Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Ubuntu Server VM Original DHCP Config /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml # This file is generated from information provided by the datasource. Changes # to it will not persist across an instance reboot. To disable cloud-init's # network configuration capabilities, write...
N-Able Alert ssh STOPPED
Getting an alert to say ssh daemon has failed on an install of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS MAX RemoteManagement has detected an error, details are below. A fault has been reported at MyCustomer site MySite, device MyDevice-Linux-01 The test Daemon Check - ssh failed. Additional...
Opnsense – Expand Disk – Grow partition FreeBSD
Azure VM Size Standard B1ms (1 vcpu, 2 GiB memory) Recommended VM size https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/hardware.html https://docs-archive.freebsd.org/doc/11.4-RELEASE/usr/local/share/doc/freebsd/handbook/disks-growing.html Boot to single user mode by pressing the 2...
Add your SSH Public Key to a Cisco 2960 Switch
Windows WSL linux cd /mnt/c/Users/username/.ssh fold -b -w 72 ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub # sample output ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAADAQABAAABAQDIv/op3vgavpEV2gz7hvBBlwFC+FvRgIW1 PIIGYUTZOypj3vqp9XiSPkcU7OW+yZdo6iHoOkb/iM1P/w3FKXSOlmxdTF5KFqIev5ZsKC9z...
Oh wow the future is here
Just looking at my server logs and sky net is connecting to some of my posts "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; ChatGPT-User/1.0; +https://openai.com/bot"
Using nginx to detect the real client IP and return a Status 403 Denied when your site is proxied by Cloudflare
When you setup a website sitting behind the Cloudflare Free Plan Cloudflare sends a CF-Connecting-IP header to tell your webserver what the real IP of the connecting client is. You can't see this in the default nginx logs....
WSL2 no external network access after return from standby
I have to do the following to get my WSL external network access back every time I return from standby wsl --shutdown wsl # check external access ping 1.1.1.1 PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=57 time=9.47 ms 64 bytes...
SSH show key finger print
Just in case you need to check the key fingerprint of an SSH Key ssh-keygen -l -f id_ed25519 # enter passphrase if prompted # output 256 SHA256:oSvuAOotnIB08e0RTxY93n+mrGdQoYb8auT6xD7f5Jw domain\user@TGN-PC (ED25519)
another instance of pfsense-upgrade is running. try again later
Trying to do package upgrades from the pfsense GUI and get "another instance of pfsense-upgrade is running. try again later" So logged in via the ssh console and did the following to successfully upgrade or remove packages. pkg-static clean -ay ; pkg-static install...
13 Jan 2025
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