http://localhost:4000 RSS feed for Sundive Networks Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100 http://localhost:4000/archive/2010/ipmi-sensors-on-freebsd.html Reading sensor data from the IPMI module on Dell servers Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0100 2010-04-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2011/the-art-of-alan-richards.html A gallery of Cornish artist Alan Richards, build around a simple filesystem based content management approach. Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:00 +0100 2011-07-30T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2013/the-rise-of-not-now.html I’ve noticed a trend that seems to becoming increasingly prevalent in all forms of websites and apps and that’s “not now”. Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00:00 +0100 2013-06-09T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2014/logging-with-sinatra-and-passenger.html If you read around about logging in the wonderful Sinatra framework you'll tend to find something that suggests you just reopen STDOUT and STDERR in your `config.ru` file. That worked fine and has served me well for quite a while. All that changed with more recent versions of the Passenger Gem which I tend to use in concert with Nginx to deploy my Ruby web applications. You see Passenger now seems to use STDOUT to do a lot of chatting to itself on and re-directing it in the above fashion just breaks things. Here is the way I work around that. Sun, 16 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000 2014-02-16T00:00:00+00:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2014/pkg-ng-jail-audits.html We used to use jailaudit to produce a portaudit for all our jails, but it would seem that `portaudit` and `jailaudit` need some work before they are happy in the newer ecosystem. However new _pkg ng_ tools can audit things directly including jails. This is great, but we were lacking an easy way to audit all our jails as we used to. Thu, 13 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0000 2014-03-13T00:00:00+00:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2014/monitor-mongo-replication-lag.html A shell script to report replication lag on a mongo replication set Thu, 08 May 2014 00:00:00 +0100 2014-05-08T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2014/bash-cve-2014-6271-freebsd-10.html So yesterday a 20-odd year old bug in the popular `bash` shell was announced. In essence the bug allows a user to set a environmental variable it is possible to include additional _executable_ code. Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0100 2014-09-25T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2015/mysql-database-table-sizes.html As part of administering our customer MySQL databases we often want to know the size of databases, tables and indexes. These are a few of the commands we commonly use on MySQL and Percona 5.6. Fri, 07 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0100 2015-08-07T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2015/freebsd-on-aws-ec2.html FreeBSD's support for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is better than ever. This short tutorial shows you how to create a FreeBSD 10 VM on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) and use it to serve web page with nginx. Tue, 08 Sep 2015 00:00:00 +0100 2015-09-08T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2016/gmail-pop-collection-spf-checks.html Gmail performs additional SPF checks when collecting mail via POP3 that can cause spurious SPF failures. Thu, 01 Sep 2016 00:00:00 +0100 2016-09-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2017/nginx-proxy-pass-404.html Client getting 404 error with what looked to be a correct nginx proxy configuration. Sun, 15 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2017/freebsd-pkg-libpkg.so.3-undefined-symbol-openat.html /usr/local/lib/libpkg.so.3: Undefined symbol "openat" when using pkg to install software Mon, 13 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000 2017-02-13T00:00:00+00:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2017/wordpress-nginx-php-fpm-chroot-remote-server-did-not-respond.html Wordpress failing to fetch media during an import down to php-fpm chroot configuration. Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0100 2017-07-20T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2018/sending-utf8-emails-with-mail-command-line.html How to send UTF-8 formatted emails using the standard UNIX mail tool. Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 2018-02-07T00:00:00+00:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2018/bypassing-strict-hosts-checking-with-ssh.html How to temporally bypass strict hosts checking with SSH Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0100 2018-04-24T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2019/request-ip-with-sinatra-behind-nginx-proxy.html Real IP address when using custom upstream proxy servers with Sinatra Thu, 11 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0100 2019-04-11T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2020/repository-freebsd-meta-has-wrong-version.html pkg: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2 and pkg: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No error: 0 Thu, 18 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0100 2020-06-18T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2021/tried-to-load-unspecified-class-time-psych-disallowedclass.html pkg: repository meta /var/db/pkg/FreeBSD.meta has wrong version 2 and pkg: Repository FreeBSD load error: meta cannot be loaded No error: 0 Sun, 29 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0100 2021-08-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2022/teltonika-rut-custom-ssl-cert-and-key.html Sun, 01 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100 2022-05-01T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2023/signing-documents-with-your-website-certificate.html Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0100 2023-06-29T00:00:00+01:00 http://localhost:4000/archive/2024/disabling-s-mode-something-happened-and-we-couldnt-start-the-upgrade.html Tue, 11 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0100 2024-06-11T00:00:00+01:00 2024-06-11T00:00:00+01:00