August 2022

Chrome Won’t Let You Proceed to Website with Invalid Certificate

WebDevelopment / /

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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Smartd Reports “Reallocated_Sector_Ct” erroneously

CLI, Linux / /

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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