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October 17, 2008 at 11:36 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: apple
Don’t like the fact that the new MacBook’s lack a FireWire port or that the new Pro’s lack a Matte screen option?
Amazing VPN software for OSX
July 14, 2008 at 4:52 pm | Posted in sysadm | Leave a commentTags: vpn, networking, sysadm, mac, software
I hate most of the VPNs out there; unfortunately most of the time, each single firewall/router/whatever requires a particular client software which is of course incompatible with its cousins.
I was about to create the usual Windows virtual machine to use a new amazing VPN client required by one of my customers, then I discovered a little gem for OSX called VPN Tracker Professional.
So far I managed to connect my MacBook to more than ten different VPNs, and I can’t believe how it works well; it’s not cheap, but if you need to manage many connections be sure to check out the trial version.
Another good alternative is IPSecuritas (free); if you want to try it out alongside VPN Tracker, I advise you to unload the VPN Tracker kernel extension, as simple as:
su kextunload -b com.equinux.VPNTracker
The VPN Tracker kernel extension will be reloaded at the next program launch.
Note to self: SElinux and duplicity
March 22, 2008 at 2:15 am | Posted in sysadm | 1 CommentTags: sysadm selinux linux reference
A box with RHEL5 or Centos5 and SElinux enabled could make duplicity fail with this error:
ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/_librsync.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied
To fix it, run the following command:
chcon -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/duplicity/_librsync.so
Clear the OS X dns cache
May 8, 2007 at 3:09 pm | Posted in osx, sysadm | Leave a commentSometimes I need to to some DNS related work, and usually OS X pisses me off by seemingly keeping a cache of recently resolved names 🙂 .
To clear this cache, simply execute this command in a terminal:
lookupd -flushcache
Blog primary URL changed
May 8, 2007 at 10:42 am | Posted in sysadm | Leave a commentI’ve changed the primary url of this blog to http://fabio.corneti.com; in case you were wondering, my name is Fabio Corneti 🙂 .
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