Problem: if you have Windows and Linux on the same computer, windows shows the wrong time shifted by your timezone (dst) after rebooting from Linux. Discussion: Linux stores UTC in the computers hardware clock usually. This makes multi user, multi timezone, and dst handling easy, because it knows hardware clock is always UTC, and calculates […]
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Problem: (5. September 2022) when fetching Devuan updates you get the following error: Discussion: The devuan key to sign the repository list has expired on 3. September 2022. This is an embarrassing fail from Devuan. But the solution is quite simple Solution: Install the new keyring manually: Version: tested with Devuan 3 (beowulf), Devuan4 (chimaera)
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As an IT professional it’s quite common that have to connect web servers with invalid certificates, for different reasons. For expample opening a management GUI of an appliance may be necessary to change its own certificate or TLS settings. Problem: sometimes chrome won’t let you open this website, and gives you no “Proceed on” button.
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Problem: In syslog you find a line like this: But when you check with “smartctl -a” you find a reallocated sector count of zero: Discussion: The harddisk had actually no reallocated sectors, but Smartctrl (Smartmontools) reported a wrong error, because when it was started a different harddisk with errors was found as /dev/sda, but with
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Problem: When pasting commandos to the shell, the shell no longer executes the command but shows the pasted text highlighted and shows the line feed but does not process it. Discussion: Devuan4 and Debian11 upgraded the readline library with a new default “feature” that should prevent noobs from accidentally pasting commands into the shell. But
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Every Cisco switch has a serial number that shows information about it’s production location and year. As you see this switch is very old and was running very long. Without any issues btw. The serial number here is shown as “Processor board ID”, you might also find “System serial number” or similar. The format is
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Some protocols need more than one TCP or UDP connection. For NAT to work the firewall needs to open additional ports to allow client server connection automatically. Examples are FTP (port 21 handshake, additional ports for data), PPTP (port 1723 for handshake, proto GRE 47 for payload) Since Linux kernel (~) 4.7 these helpers are
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Problem: curl php wget and others show a cert error like the following since 6. Oct 2021, even though the cert has not expired: The asked server uses a Letsencrypt certificate. Discussion: Currently Letsencrypt includes two chains for validation of the certificate: Cert -> R3 -> ISRG Root X1 (in new trust store) Cert ->
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Admins who prefer a Unix style operation system and don’t like the centralized “one tool doing it all” approach of systemd, switch to Devuan. This mostly improves uptime over boot time. Admins of servers don’t care about boot time and prefer uptime. This list keeps track of the related versions of Devuan and Debian. Debian
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There are at least two pieces of software you can update in a Cisco ASR-1001-X. The ROMMON (firmware) and the IOS itself. This router uses “Cisco IOS XE Software”. Which is an IOS process on a Linux kernel as far as I know. Cisco recommends specific ROMMON releases for different generations of software. You can
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