I was having issues shutting down another user’s Virtualbox virtual machines. Specifically, my virtual machines run as a particular user, but my UPS software’s shutdown script runs as root. Root cannot find any VMs registered to it. I combined instructions… Read More
Setting up an open VPN server on Digital Ocean
This script is excellent. Note that it can be passed arguments to allow operation from non-standard ports. This is useful because I have had issues connecting out from home because of problems with my OVPN client receiving packets from the home… Read More
Setting up a simple dns server with dnsmasq
I am setting up a VPN server and need to be able to route dns traffic through the VPN to pick up appropriate geo specific IPs from DNS servers near the VPN endpoint. However, I need to fudge a particular local… Read More
Zone minder problem: no image in monitor
Solution:https://forums.zoneminder.com/viewtopic.php?t=24265 Two tweaks must be applied. Part 1 In the web interface, go to options -> paths, and update PATH_ZMS from “/cgi-bin/nph-zms” to “/zoneminder/cgi-bin/nph-zms” Now, I get the following errors in the apache error log: ==> error.log <==[Tue Feb 09… Read More