How To Get SSH Logins Working Again In macOS Ventura

Author: , February 24th, 2023

SSH login from older hosts running OS X Yosemite 10.10.5 to macOS Ventura 13.2.1 was not working. SSH failed with a “No hostkey alg” error. To correct the problem, I added the following two lines to the bottom of BOTH /etc/ssh/ssh_config and /etc/ssh/sshd_config on the Ventura side:

Be sure to stop and start Remote […]

How To Use AWS CloudTrail For Intrusion Detection To Monitor Your AWS Account For Unwanted Activity

Author: , December 30th, 2022

Summary Use AWS CloudTrail as the basis for a simple Intrusion Detection System to monitor your AWS account for unwanted activity. Background While I follow best practices for security, it is always possible that a bad actor could obtain my credentials and gain access to my AWS account. Once access is gained, such criminals could […]

How To Fix “iCloud Account Could Not Be Removed” Error on OS X Yosemite 10.10.5

Author: , November 24th, 2022

PROBLEM: Unable to sign out of iCloud on OSX Yosemite or disable Keychain SOLUTION: Delete the following, then reboot:

How To Disable Automatic Updates in WordPress

Author: , September 19th, 2022

To disable automatic updates in WordPress, simply edit the wp-config.php file in your WordPress root directory and add the following line:

How To Fix WPDataTables Error “You are trying to load a table of an unknown type” in WordPress

Author: , September 7th, 2022

If you get the following error in WordPress when using the WPDataTables plugin, follow these steps to fix it: “You are trying to load a table of an unknown type. Probably you did not activate the addon which is required to use this table type.” SOLUTION SUMMARY: You must update the plugin files manually, deactivate […]

How To Preserve Quotes In Bash Arguments

Author: , April 18th, 2022

If you want to preserve quoting to pass shell arguments to a called command, use the four characters “$@” (including the double quotes) instead of the two characters $*

How To Disable Email Bounce Messages In Postfix

Author: , March 18th, 2022

How To Fix Server Ownership When Files Have Been Altered By Mistake

Author: , March 16th, 2022

Situation: Newbie mistake, used copy-and-paste to create a script that used variables with the incorrect variable name, then ran chown -R / OUCH Resolution: Since I had aa clone host nearby, I decided to export the remote root fs via NFS, mount it on the fouled nnode, and use find magic to repair. Here are […]

How To Solve Grafana Error “failed to load its application files”

Author: , February 23rd, 2022

Try a newer browser before anything else! I was using an older version of Safari on Mac and got this:

I switched to the latest version of FireFox and was fine.

How To Prevent SSH From Prompting When The Host Is Unknown

Author: , January 26th, 2022

If you are asked “Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?” when trying to connect via SSH, then the remote host’s identification key has not yet been stored in your ~/.ssh/known_hosts file. This then requires you to type the full string “yes” in order to proceed because the default value for ssh is […]