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Fail2ban doesn’t ban but regex works

One of my Debian server with fail2ban has a problem to ban ip from brute force attack, however testing logs with fail2ban-regex worked perfectly. My solution has been found through this page. The cause of my issue was related to the timezone of the system. To solve this problem, i used the command bellow to reconfigure timezone and then fail2ban started to ban as usual.

Mssql differential restoration error

After trying to restore differential backup after a full backup, i got this error message : The log or differential backup cannot be restored because no files are ready to roll forward. To be able to complete differential restoration, full backup needs to be restored with “WITH NORECOVERY” option as follow:

Geektool : Display system information on your MacOS X desktop

If you would like to display system information on your desktop of your Mac OS X, Geektool is the right utility you need. First download and install geektool : https://www.tynsoe.org/v2/geektool/ Open geektool app. Drag and drop Shell on your desktop, and click on command button Paste this code bellow to display your local ip and public ip. But you will need to replace 192.168.101 by your network ip address. Result :

Odoo dashboard mobile

Odoo dashboard is a simple app that displays predefined widgets set on Odoo server, this app requires an additional module available on Odoo store. – Create, rename, delete, reorder and reload dashboards.– Add, remove, reorder and reload widgets from dashboard.– Fast loading, data is retrieved by the server and cached. Odoo Dashboard Widgets – WidgetXVsY: displays 2 numbers, difference and variation is calculated.– WidgetLastX: it could be used to displays x last months orders / invoices, etc…– WidgetSingleX: displays a relevant numbers Odoo server module Odoo dashboard Remote database access Connect to remote databases (MSSQL, local postgreSQL, MySQL not implemented yet) …

Stealthy tunnel with stunnel, OpenVPN on Mac OS and Debian

OpenVPN is more and less banned in some countries, therefore to be able to use it there, we need to make it stealthy by installing a 3rd party software like Tor, SSH Tunnel or Stunnel which hides openVPN traffic from governmental firewall detection. The principle is quite simple, we create a tunnel between our computer and the openVPN server which is encrypted by a certificate, then we send our openVPN traffic through this tunnel. Debian 8 stunnel server installation First OpenVPN should be configured to use TCP instead of UDP, on this example we open port number 1000 and redirect …