Linux Maintenance

Linux: PERL SSL verification error:14090086

Posted by on January 17, 2012 at 4:09 am

error: LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown errorerror:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed at /usr/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 51. Solution: There are other solutions available but the one we needed was to turn off the verification we ran export PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 Thanks to https://community.sourcefire.com/questions/running-into-an-ssl-issue-with-nexpose-connector

Linux: GET Command

Posted by on January 17, 2012 at 2:44 am

If you were like me then trying the find which package has the GET command was like pulling teeth. Hopefully this will save you some time. the GET command is part of the libwww-perl package Ubuntu list http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy-updates/all/libwww-perl/filelist Man Page http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/natty/man1/lwp-request.1p.html

Vi: Found a swap file by the name

Posted by on November 11, 2011 at 10:34 am

If you encounter the message (1) Another program may be editing the same file. If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two different instances of the same file when making changes. Quit, or continue with caution. (2) An edit session for this file crashed. If this is the case, use [...]

LibreOffice: Open source M$ Office alternative

Posted by on November 9, 2011 at 3:27 am

While OKB fully supports the Open source community. We enjoyed our time testing out a new Office application called LibreOffoce . This project is backed by The Document Foundation . We found the application to be comparable with Microsoft Office suit 2000 up to version 2010. You can save in docx, xlsx, doc and xls. [...]

Crond: enable logging

Posted by on November 6, 2011 at 6:31 am

Depending on your distro , you will need to locate the syslog file. This file is normally found under /etc/syslog.conf open this file and uncomment the line starting with cron.* Restart syslog and cron /etc/init.d/syslog or sysklogd restart /etc/init.d/crond restart The logs are normally stored under /var/log/cron