FreeBSD – Page 28 – Dan Langille's Other Diary

stunnel “local socket: Protocol not supported”

3 Comments / FreeBSD / By Dan Langille / October 16, 2008 October 11, 2012

Tonight I encountered this problem when starting stunnel: 2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG7[43534:134656000]: Private key loaded 2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG7[43534:134656000]: SSL context initialized for service 6000 2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG5[43534:134656000]: stunnel 4.25 on i386-portbld-freebsd6.3 with OpenSSL 0.9.7e-p1 25 Oct 2004 2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG5[43534:134656000]: Threading:PTHREAD SSL:ENGINE Sockets:POLL,IPv6 Auth:LIBWRAP 2008.10.17 02:46:02 LOG6[43534:134656000]: file ulimit = 11095 (can be changed with ‘ulimit …

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Good bye IPsec. Hello OpenVPN.

2 Comments / Bacula, FreeBSD, FreshPorts, Open Source, The FreeBSD Diary / By Dan Langille / March 7, 2007 October 11, 2012

I’ve been playing with OpenVPN since mid December. I like it. I like it better than IPsec. Why? Because OpenVPN can give me direct access to all my systems wherever I am. I can cvsup from my cvsup server at home from a hotel in Toledo (if I’m ever there). IPsec can do that. But …

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cacti – remove injection exploit

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, Open Source / By Dan Langille / January 12, 2007 December 21, 2014

Ever had a cactus remotely injected? Sounds painful. Not really.

Burst and Google make a good team

Leave a Comment / FreshPorts, The FreeBSD Diary / By Dan Langille / August 1, 2006 October 11, 2012

Just about everyone has been putting ads on their websites. I’ve been with BurstMedia since early 1999. They are very reliable. Their cheques have always arrived on time and I have never had reason to question their results. Then Google AdSense arrived. I started using AdSense in April 2006. I was still using Burst, but …

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Fundraising for new hardware

Leave a Comment / FreshPorts, The FreeBSD Diary / By Dan Langille / July 23, 2006 October 11, 2012

I’m asking for donations to purchase new hardware. Details are in this FreeBSD Diary article. Thank you.

Over 1 year of uptime

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD, Open Source / By Dan Langille / September 23, 2005 December 21, 2014

This is the webserver you’re reading from: $ uptime 5:31AM up 366 days, 12:48, 1 user, load averages: 0.45, 0.41, 0.50 This server does about 10 websites, and about 45GB a month, and does mail for about 15 domains.

Avoiding deadlock on FreshPorts

Leave a Comment / FreshPorts, PostgreSQL / By Dan Langille / July 17, 2005 December 21, 2014

FreshPorts is an automated reporting mechanism for the FreeBSD ports and package. You may be familiar with freshmeat, upon which FreshPorts is loosely based. The major difference is that FreshPorts is 100% automated; everything operates off scripts. Features The key features of FreshPorts includes a powerful search tool and the ability to create custom watch …

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Firewall upgrade – progress

Leave a Comment / FreeBSD / By Dan Langille / July 17, 2005 October 11, 2012

I’m getting through the firewall upgrade process. The first error was forgetting to set up the NAT rules. That was a silly error. Right now, I just have to get stunnel installed and configured. I used that for publishing my websites. From the web server, I run cvsup and get the latest files from my …

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Upgrading the Firewall

Leave a Comment / Bacula, FreeBSD, Open Source / By Dan Langille / July 15, 2005 October 11, 2012

I have a firewall that’s running FreeBSD 4.11. I’m planning to upgrade to 5.4 tonight. The backups are running (via Bacula [of course!]) now. I installed 5.4 on a separate HDD a few weeks ago, but have not copied over the configuration files etc. I’ll have to do that tonight. I’ll be documenting what is …

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