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vsftpd Configuration for TLS and Passive Mode

by bill_mcgonigle • 2012/11/27 • HOWTO, Internet, Linux, networking, Open Source, sysadmin, unix • 0 Comments

The vsftpd standard FTP daemon on Fedora 17 comes configured to not work. It doesn’t work in normal mode (chroot problems) it doesn’t handle TLS, it allows anonymous by default, and it doesn’t handle passive mode in a way that works with the iptables firewall (because of TLS). Goal: TLS, no chroot-ing, no anonymous,Passive...
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‘watch’ for Solaris (or any other machine with bash)

by bill_mcgonigle • 2011/11/30 • Open Source, solaris, sysadmin, unix, zfs • 0 Comments

Solaris variants (i.e. Nexenta) seem to lack the ‘watch’ program that’s so useful on Linux/BSD. There are several people asking for this on various forums. There might be a port available, but not stock on machines, and if your machine is inside a restrictive firewall, it might be hard to get. In a pinch,...
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Expanding a ZFS filesystem on LUKS/md-raid

by bill_mcgonigle • 2011/08/31 • backup, BFC Computing, fedora, Hardware, Linux, Open Source, RAID, sysadmin, zfs • 0 Comments

I run my backups on a stack that consists of: md-raid mirror LUKS encryption ZFS zvol This works nicely as it’s easy to split off an encrypted backup disk to take offsite, but since ZFS encryption hasn’t come to Linux yet, it’s still a stack of technologies to manage. My backup set gets ever...
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