This little APRS-tracker from the late 90’s or early 00’s is a neat little device, however pretty old. It uses an external GPS receiver (via RS232) and connects to a radio, like a HT for example. According to the manual, the configuration utility runs under Windows 95 or 98 (yes, indeed old stuff). I have […]
I got my hands on a used HP Proliant server with P420i raid controller, however was unable to create a logical raid drive using the ACU. A message while booting shows “Hardware RAID support is disabled via NVRAM Configuration Setting“. It turns out the raid had been disabled by enabling hba mode. This can be […]
On a Joomla! 3 site I got the error “You can’t remove your own Super User permissions.” when trying to save global configuration. It turned out some previous admin had set the file permissions on this file so the system wasn’t allowed to write to it. I set rw permissions to it using FTP connection […]
On a site with a valid SSL certificate, sometimes a page load would result in a warning about being insecure. When inspecting the certificate, it turned out to be an old self signed certificate that shouldn’t be in use any more since the site now has a valid “real” SSL certificate. Reloading the page a […]
Suddenly some of my slave servers stopped processing the job queue. Ispconfig version 3.2.9. Investigating the log files. /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log shows: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: Data truncated for column ‘warnvirusrecip’ at row 1 in /usr/local/ispconfig/server/lib/classes/db_mysql.inc.php:302 See this discussion: https://forum.howtoforge.com/threads/uncaught-mysqli_sql_exception-data-truncated-for-column-warnvirusrecip-at-row-1.90116/ This is how I solved it. On the master server: mysqldump -uroot -p –add-drop-table dbispconfig spamfilter_policy […]
I use a couple of Teltonika RUT-240 and RUT-950 routers. One of them I bring with me when I travel. To save 4G data I usually hook it up as a wifi client against the hotel wifi. After a while I realized the performance was really poor with a lot of packet loss and loosing […]
Checking to web server logs reveals: Got error ‘Access to the script ‘/var/www/XXX/web/logbook’ has been denied (see security.limit_extensions)’ The URL of the logbook showed https://DOMAIN/index.php/logbook Solution Add the following to php.ini for the site: cgi.fix_pathinfo=1
I’ve hade problems with the Joomla! breadcrumbs module being cached, so the wrong breadcrumb is being displayed. The problem is that the module is being cached. This has been reported as a bug and it has the status as being fixed. However, in an old Joomla! install, which is updated to the latest version, I […]
Zoneminder version 1.37.28. The installation had been running for years without problem but somehwere in the 1.37 version problems started to occur. Some cameras did not give visible streams in Zoneminder from time to time. Checking the cameras video directly, they where ok, so the problem was in Zoneminder. Some cameras was “capturing” but analyzing […]
If you need to monitor a VNC service without logging in, the following check_command can be used. Edit your nagios configuration file and add: # VNCdefine command{ command_name check_vnc command_line $USER1$/check_tcp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p $ARG1$ -w 5 -c 8 -e “RFB”} Then on the service you want to monitor use: define service{ use generic-service ; […]