Mac : Issue with Divvy and Universal Access on OSX Mavericks

If like me you love managing your windows with Divvy on OSX, you might ran into this issue on Mavericks 10.9. The symptoms are : – Divvy is not showing up when pressing the key shortcut combinations ; – You may also see the following error in the system logs (/var/log/system.log) ; Dec 30 00:00:00… Read More »

Category: Mac

Mac : Cannot add account in Office 2011

Having issue adding a new account with Office Outlook 2011 on Mac OSX Mavericks 10.9? The strange behaviour I observed is that nothing happen when you click on “add account” and the Preference pane freeze up! I also noticed the following error messages in the logs (/var/log/system.log) : Dec 24 00:00:00 hostname.domain.tld Microsoft Outlook[433]: OTAtomicAdd8 is… Read More »

Category: Mac

Servers : How to manually test a SMTP connection using Telnet

Here is the steps required to test and send an e-mail using the command prompt and Telnet. See the commands required below : EHLO MAIL from: RCPT to: DATA From: To: Subject: . QUIT Here is an overview of what you’ll get with the commands in bold : # telnet smtp.domain.tld 25 Trying 0.0.0.0… Connected… Read More »

R1Soft : Could not authenticate agent

Having this error while trying to test connection between your machine and R1Soft server? ERROR: Could not authenticate agent ERROR: Agent authentication failed. ERROR: AGENT: host (0.0.0.0) port (00000) failed authentication ERROR: AGENT: RSA decrypt failed This mean your server have a different authentication key than expected. You need to remove the current key and… Read More »

JunOS : bgp_recv: peer (Internal AS 00000): received unexpected EOF

Have you seen this in the logs of one of your iBGP router? rpd[0000]: bgp_recv: peer 0.0.0.2 (Internal AS 00000): received unexpected EOF You can also notice this related error on your eBGP router : rpd[0000]: bgp_listen_accept: Connection attempt from unconfigured neighbor: 0.0.0.2+00000 This mean you have a inexistant or unconfigured community for this neighbor trying… Read More »

Linux : pam_fprintd.so: cannot open shared object file

Have you recently noticed the following error message in  /var/log/secure with RHEL/CentOS 6? PAM unable to dlopen(/lib64/security/pam_fprintd.so): /lib64/security/pam_fprintd.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory PAM adding faulty module: /lib64/security/pam_fprintd.so There is several bug reports regarding this. I think PAM is trying to load an inexistant module. You should be concerned only… Read More »

Linux : newrelic.so: undefined symbol: php_end_ob_buffer after PHP upgrade

Getting this error for NewRelic module after PHP update from 5.3 to 5.4? newrelic.so: undefined symbol: php_end_ob_buffer in Unknown on line 0 This mean the module is not compatible with your new PHP version. To resolve this matter, follow these easy steps. Uninstall NewRelic completely : yum remove newrelic-daemon newrelic-sysmond newrelic-php5 newrelic-php5-common Then reinstall : yum… Read More »

Linux : Zimbra backup return error ServiceException: system failure: exception during auth

Having this error with Zimbra backups? 2013-11-13 11:26:32,788 INFO [qtp1377413258-164433:https://0.0.0.0:7071/service/admin/soap/GetMailQueueInfoRequest] [name=user@domain.tld;mid=15;ip=0.0.0.0;ua=ZimbraWebClient – GC30 (Mac);] SoapEngine – handler exception com.zimbra.common.service.ServiceException: system failure: exception during auth {RemoteManager: mail.domain.tld->zimbra@mail.domain.tld:22} ExceptionId:qtp1377413258-164433:https://0.0.0.0:7071/service/admin/soap/GetMailQueueInfoRequest:1384359992787:2ad736ecb0b90e52 Code:service.FAILURE This might be caused by the Zimbra user cannot establish a loopback SSH connection to the server. Zimbra rely on the network interface IP to establish the… Read More »

Linux : Apache fail to start Invalid command ‘SSLEngine’

Get this error message while trying to start Apache? Invalid command ‘SSLEngine’, perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration Make sure you are loading mod_SSL by having this statement in your configuration file (such as httpd.conf, ssl.conf, vhost.conf) : LoadModule ssl_module modules/mod_ssl.so