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stunnel “local socket: Protocol not supported”

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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cfengine – practical examples

In a sea of inadequete cfengine examples, one stands out: http://www.sysadmin.hep.ac.uk/wiki/Cfengine. I’m in the early stages of developing an administration strategy for a jail server I’m setting up. It will run regression tests for Bacula. I’ve already found ezjail, which will help me create the jails. What I needed was tool for administering the jails.

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Bacula – restoring to Windows

Today, as I was writing up an invoice, I accidentally saved it over another. No worries!  Bacula to the rescue.  I managed to get the original files back from tape. One hint: include your pathnames in “quotes” so they are correctly parsed.  Like this: $ dir ———- 0 root wheel 0 1969-12-31 19:00:00 c:/ $ cd “c:/Documents and Settings/Dan Langille/My Documents/Technologies” cwd is:

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