Monthly Archives: August 2020

ping and traceroute Unable to Resolve Hostnames While Other Programs Work Fine

Posted on August 29, 2020 by joe

I was chatting with a fellow OpenBSD user on IRC. He was having some very strange problems with name resolution on his OpenBSD machine. Name resolution as his non-root user worked fine with host or nslookup. Most programs would work … Continue reading →

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Build Alpine 2.23 on OpenBSD to Fix Hang When Sending Mail

Posted on August 25, 2020 by joe

Once again, I love the Alpine MUA. Simple and robust, it just works, and is much faster than a GUI mail client. During a recent OpenBSD install (6.7) I ran into a issue where Alpine 2.21 from Ports (alpine-2.21p4) hangs … Continue reading →

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A Journey with the Alpine Mail User Agent (MUA) in OpenBSD or How To Safely Fix: [Folder vulnerable – directory /var/mail must have 1777 protection]

Posted on August 24, 2020 by joe

Let me start by saying how much I love the Alpine mail client. It’s fast and easy. I can hit the “d” key ten times and delete as many messages in the amount of time I can click on one … Continue reading →

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Fix T_SPF_HELO_PERMERROR in Spamassassin

Posted on August 23, 2020 by joe

So I thought I had my spf (Sender Policy Framework) records setup correctly. They all passed the various test sites. Nevertheless I kept seeing this one error in my spamassassin produced headers: I was unable to find a lot of … Continue reading →

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Hello world!

Posted on August 23, 2020 by joe

OK. You kinda gotta have a Hello World, right? So, yes, there was an old version of this blog a few years back. The DB got corrupted, and I have been too busy/lazy to extract it form backups and get … Continue reading →

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Fix “File Not Found” with PHP on OpenBSD httpd

Posted on August 23, 2020 by joe

When setting up my WordPress site on OpenBSD 6.7 using this nice tutorial I ran into an error during installation of PHP. Every time I tried to load a .php page all I got was a message saying: Not very … Continue reading →

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Fix: Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in …

Posted on August 23, 2020 by joe

When setting up my WordPress site on OpenBSD 6.7 using this nice tutorial I ran into an error during installation. I enabled Debug mode in WordPress by setting WP_DEBUG to true in wp-config.php This allowed me to to see the … Continue reading →

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Fix Let’s Encrypt 403 Errors in OpenBSD 6.7 with acme-client

Posted on August 23, 2020 by joe

This still applies to OpenBSD 6.9 and 6.8 as well, likely other versions too! This is not another tutorial on how to use acme-client or how to setup SSL/TLS with httpd in OpenBSD. There are a number of good ones … Continue reading →

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