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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 :

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.

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 …

Problem with Godaddy VPS upgrade

I recently had a problem with Godaddy ubuntu 16.04 VPS, after updating and upgrading the system: SSH port wasn’t anymore reachable, it’s the only access we have to the server, however other services are working normally, so the system is still running. I tried many times to restart, call the support, but it didn’t solve the problem. The only solution was to destroy the server and rebuild it from scratch + restoration of backups. I’ve also tested the upgrade with a clean and freshly installed system, same issue occurred. If you’re running Ubuntu 16.04 VPS on Godaddy, Do not upgrade …

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DKIM Zimbra 8.6

DKIM is an email authentication method designed to detect email spoofing, for more detail : Wiki DKIM, i’m describing in this post how to enable it with Zimbra. Make sure your DKIM has been enabled in your mail server. Add DNS TXT record: 148ERADC-FCE5-11E6-AF44-005A1B26B745._domainkey IN TXT v=DKIM1; k=rsa;p=MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQDg2uVLIssdfsfgu62+c7n0sxugzm8Lpr4A7o7veL4kIeifat2hD53P2KKQTV978HxBTQKrEFByLbG0WZuNracNJU9L5NOKtmYnE7ksxF9ODMKqFK+ltsmM9qkVxbU3xQOVdufDlV2Zk8Ya0WMkYWzKgWIwIDAQAB Test DKIM signature by sending email using this website: http://dkimvalidator.com/