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Trying to get a list of your firewall rules out of your Barracuda F80 and into Excel or Google Sheets so can easily review them? If you use the standard “export to clipboard” in Barracuda Firewall Admin, then paste into a sheet you will get what I assume is JSON: All you need to do… Continue reading How to export Barracuda F80 Firewall Rules to Excel/Sheets
Configuring Lightsail Network To make sure you can connect, make sure that Port 22 (default) is open. If you have a fixed IP address, make sure to check “Restrict to IP address” and add your address/es. Remotely Connecting Before we set up the server, let’s go over a couple key items: You’ve create the instance… Continue reading Add additional SSH user to Amazon Lightsail
Use Get-Content and Get-Item in Powershell Looking for the tail command on Windows? Get-Content will do the trick. Here’s a link to the command page. Open PowerShell: Show the last line/s: Get-Content C:\inetpub\logs\LogFiles\W3SVC1\u_ex200711.log -Tail 1 Or use get-item Get-Item -Path .\LineNumbers.txt | Get-Content -Tail 1 Stream the file like tail -f Get-Content path-to-file -wait Example:… Continue reading Linux tail -f replacement on Windows
There are two main reasons why you might get “Log in failed. If this instance has just started up, try again in a minute or two. CLIENT_UNAUTHORIZED [769]” in Amazon Lightsail browser based SSH login. You will need SSH login from Putty, etc. Your machine’s clock is wrong Check time with https://time.is/UTC (AWS is in… Continue reading How to fix AWS Lightsail CLIENT_UNAUTHORIZED [769]
This might work on Ubuntu 18, as well, but I have not tested it. Also, there is no official build release for it. You might need to compile it on your own. Note: if you are getting the “GLIBC_2.7′ not found” error, it could be that you need to uninstall and then reinstall a specific… Continue reading How to install WKHTMLTOPDF 0.12.1.4 on Ubuntu 16 Xenial
ProcessIO is now running SSL for free thanks to LetsEncrypt. It took about 5 minutes to get set up, so if you haven’t done it, do it. Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS I used Certbot, so I went to the site and selected my web server and OS, then followed the instructions. Important! Amazon Lightsail has a firewall… Continue reading LetsEncrypt SSL on Amazon Lightsail Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS
You’ve installed Vagrant and run vagrant up and then vagrant ssh successfully. You then start VirtualBox Manager and it shows that it is powered off: In order to see the actual status, press SHIFT then right-click on the icon for Virtual Box, then click Run as Administrator You will see that it reports the VM… Continue reading Vagrant status is “running” but VirtualBox shows “Powered Off” Windows 10
This installation covers my experience with installing only OpenVas VERSION 9 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial only. There are a variety of resources out there that will help you install previous versions like these: https://launchpad.net/~mrazavi/+archive/ubuntu/openvas https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-install-openvas-vulnerability-scanner-on-ubuntu-16-04 https://hackertarget.com/openvas-9-install-ubuntu-1604/ Again, this works for Verion 9 only. Update Ubuntu sudo lsb_release -a sudo apt-get -y update && upgrade sudo reboot (if possible) Add… Continue reading How to install OpenVas 9 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial
Simple fix for the GitHub Desktop application opening, but the window appearing off screen. I tried ALT+M to move, etc, without any luck. The easiest way I found: Close the app and go to: %APPDATA%\GitHub Desktop\ Delete window-state.json Restart. That’s it.
PHP Manager is a useful tool for configuring PHP in IIS. It is no longer supported, however, and a Registry trick is required to install it. Overview PHP Manager allows you to configure multiple versions of PHP for multiple VHosts on an IIS server. While it adds some overhead to the configuration, it can be… Continue reading How to install PHP Manager in IIS 10 or higher