Archive for the ‘Tips’ Category
Friday, November 6th, 2009
If you have trouble with NetworkManager overwriting your search and domain configuration after every startup and you're using DHCP, add the following line to your /etc/dhclient.conf:
append domain-name " company.local other.company.local";
So whenever your DHCP server doesn't provide these information (the one in my company does not), it'll add this
domain company.local
search company.local ...
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
If you get this error ssl_error_rx_record_too_long when browsing an SSL-secured virtual host and wonder what the heck is going on (hey, it worked the day before), ensure that you've noticed that your admins have changed the IP address of the machine and that you have to adapt the IP-based VHost ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
If you wonder why
$ php -r "setlocale(LC_TIME, 'de_DE.UTF-8'); echo strftime ('%A %e %B %Y', mktime (0, 0, 0, 12, 22, 1978));"
gives you Freitag 22 Dezember 1978 on most systems like f.e. openSuSE and Ubuntu, but Friday 22 December 1978 on Debian, you need to remember that the Debian guys ...
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
If you follow this guide to setup your own CA and your certificate requests contain subjectAltNames (i.e. to match multiple virtual hosts with the same certificate), don't forget to add
copy_extensions = copy
under the [ CA_default ] section of the default openssl.cnf file. Took me a while to realize...
Happy signing!
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
...and you're a bloody novice like me, you'll probably stumble upon Marc Merlin's "Very detailled and featureful configuration example". If you use that one and you wonder why on earth people can't authenticate against your local SMTP via PAM, you seek hours and hours in different places, forums, IRC and ...
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
So I was about to SSL-secure my new webmail setup, created a new cert on CAcert, installed it, configured my vhost accordingly, went to the webmail login page and... boom. Login was not possible. No error message, no log message, nothing.
What happened?
To make a long story short, the PHP superglobal ...
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