Archive for June 26th, 2018

OpenBSD -stable upgrade

Tuesday, June 26th, 2018

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23579/how-to-apply-updates-on-openbsd-netbsd-and-freebsd/103661#103661
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20130509120042
https://stable.mtier.org/

pptp client linux: quick and dirty

Tuesday, June 26th, 2018

root@lexus:~# cat /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

# Secrets for authentication using CHAP
# client server secret IP addresses
user_name PPTP PpTpPaSs 85.233.x.x

Create connection config file /etc/ppp/peers/SLC

pty "pptp 85.233.x.x --nolaunchpppd"
name user_name
remotename PPTP
require-mppe-128
file /etc/ppp/options.pptp

Create a script to auto-add route to the target host, to which you want to connect via VPN (172.24.10.13) /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/routes

#!/bin/sh
/bin/ip route add 172.24.10.13 dev ppp0

Fire!

pppd call SLC

Disconnect:

killall pppd

rsyslog: do not collect logs from some application

Tuesday, June 26th, 2018

If there’s no settings in the application itself, you can configure rsyslog not to write apps logs.

CentOS 6.6, rsyslog 5.8.10-10.el6_6:
Asterisk is configured to write logs to remote syslog server (syslog02.core) but still writes not only there but also locally.
To prevent this:
create ‘/etc/rsyslog.d/10-asterisk.conf’ with lines

:syslogtag, contains, "asterisk" @syslog02.core
& stop

Debian 9.4 Stretch, rsyslog 8.24.0-1:
Asterisk is nt configured to write to remote syslog, but also writes everything to local rsyslog.
Create ‘/etc/rsyslog.d/10-asterisk.conf’:

if $programname == "asterisk" then {
stop
}

https://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/filters.html
https://www.rsyslog.com/discarding-unwanted-messages/