# 20220718 – updated with some things I’ve learned since I wrote the original post. # 20240527 – I’m reinstalling pihole from scratch and finding a few things have changed… like lighthttpd not automatically loading mod_openssl and external.conf is not a thing anymore. Updating these instructions as I go along. I’m going to assume you’ve…

It took a few minutes of googling around to find instructions for this that work, so I’m going to put some very specific ones here for my future reference. I’ve been attaching SSDs to my RPi 4’s and finding good cables has turned out to be more of a challenge because of lack of proper…

Recently noticed time skew across my workstations and servers at home and put together a Stratum-1 NTP server for the local network using the Adafruit Ultimate GPS hat and an RPi 4. I’ll post the write up later. In the meantime, here are the commands I’m using to point all the rest of my RPis…

I posted this on the freenas forums.. Here’s a short write-up on how I got SSL going with LDAPS against AD for authentication. I used the plugin and am working out of / in the jail. keytool is located at /usr/pbi/subsonic-amd64/bin 1) Create a cnf file to be used for generating the csr. [ req…

1)  Get the latest PBIS Open Edition from BeyondTrust (formerly Likewise): http://download1.beyondtrust.com/Technical-Support/Downloads/PowerBroker-Identity-Services-Open-Edition/?Pass=True 2)  chmod 755 the file, execute it, then install it. chmod 755 pbis-open-7.1.0.1203.linux.x86_64.deb.sh ./pbis-open-7.1.0.1203.linux.x86_64.deb.sh cd pbis-open-7.1.0.1203.linux.x86_64.deb ./install.sh 3)  Join the domain sudo domainjoin-cli join guammie.com administrator 4)  Add domain group to sudoers sudo visudo %GUAMMIE\\domain^admins ALL=(ALL) ALL 5)  Make domain logins use Bash…

I always forget this when I need it most and there are 10000 entries on Google with the wrong info. To add an DNS server in Ubuntu server, edit the following file as you would a resolv.conf file: /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base. Any entries manually added to /etc/resolv.conf get erased when networking is restarted.

I don’t know why, but I’ve been thinking about putting a proxy on my home network. Actually I do know why. It was because I tried to replace my SSG5 with a stupid ASA 5505 and wanted the web filter and inline AV scanning capability back. So I began building out a Squid server to…

I made a post over at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1609521&highlight=ventrilo, but here’s a startup script I put together for Ventrilo 3.0. #!/bin/sh#### BEGIN INIT INFO# Provides:          ventrilo_srv# Required-Start:    $network $remote_fs $syslog# Required-Stop:     $network $remote_fs $syslog# Should-Start:      $named# Should-Stop:       $named# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5# Default-Stop:      0 1 6# Short-Description: Ventrilo version 3.0### END INIT INFO NAME=ventrilo_srvDESC=”Ventrilo 3.0″DAEMON=/usr/local/ventrilo/ventrilo_srvPIDFILE=/usr/local/ventrilo/$NAME.pidDAEMON_ARGS=”-f/usr/local/ventrilo/ventrilo_srv -d”VENT_USER=ventrilo…

I find Squid to be very useful and have been disappointed that 3.1 is still not in any repositories.  I googled a little to see if anyone has already done this, since reinventing the wheel is not really my thing.  There are a couple tutorials/howtos, but I didn’t really like either approach.  One approach uses…