David Andrzejewski

Dovecot Fails to Start after Enabling MySQL

If you get the following errors after installing Dovecot with MySQL support on FreeBSD 10: Jul 24 10:17:28 ramrod dovecot: auth: Error: auth: environment corrupt; missing value for DOVECOT_ Jul 24 10:17:28 ramrod dovecot: auth: Fatal: unsetenv(RESTRICT_SETUID) failed: Bad address Jul 24 10:17:28 ramrod dovecot: master: Error: service(auth): command startup failed, throttling for 60 secs […]

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When fail2ban just won’t match… check the time and time zone.

I was trying to set up a fail2ban jail for wordpress inside a FreeBSD jail, but I just couldn’t get the rules to match.  The fail2ban instance was running on the host machine, checking a log inside the jail.  Turns out the time zone in the jail was incorrect, and fail2ban was not matching log

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Apple Internet Recovery and Transparent Proxies

If you are running a transparent HTTP proxy on your network, you may have trouble with running Internet Recovery and Apple Hardware Test on Macs that support it.  You’ll see a “-4403D” or “-4403F” error.  For some reason, Apple’s servers return a 403 when they see the “via” header that many proxy servers send.  Here’s

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