LibreVPN between two linux boxes
[ link: librevpn | tags: vpn linux ipsec | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:09:26 -0400 ]
I have seen a lot of howtos for doing a lan to lan VPN on linux with openswan/freeswan/libreswan/etc, on the innernets. But when it came time for me to implement one for myself, It seems like there was a lot of misinformation and missing information in a lot of these howtos. I will document here a proceedure that will hopefully be of real use to someone else out there.
Disabling visual ctrl-c "^C" in ssh sessions
[ link: disable_ctrl-c | tags: linux bash | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:12:08 -0400 ]
After upgrading my bash shell at some point, I noticed that when whenever I hit ctrl-c, ^C would annyingly show up on my terminal.
X11 forwarding setup failed
[ link: x11forwardingfail | tags: linux X11 ssh | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:12:08 -0400 ]
When trying to set up x11 forwarding over an ssh session to a remote server with the -X switch, I was getting an error like Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding.
vncserver wont start with 'fixed' font error
[ link: vncserverfixedfont | tags: vnc linux | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:12:08 -0400 ]
Installed vncserver vnc-server on a redhat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 server and when I try to start up vncserver as a user, it fails with "could not open default font 'fixed'"
thunderbird wont open HTTP links with firefox
[ link: firefoxlinks | tags: linux thunderbird firefox | updated: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:12:08 -0400 ]
Im not sure why, but at some point, I lost the ability to click http links in my thunderbird email program and have them automagically open up in firefox. Read on for a sure fire fix!