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How to convert CER to PFX | SSL Certificates

We recently had to deploy a wildcard SSL certificate to an Microsoft Azure web app. The company we buy our certs from, issues them in .crt format by default, we have to convert them to .pfx ourselves. This isn’t a big deal and we’re going to see how to do…

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ZFS on Linux

Requires: kernel(posix_acl_valid) = 0x7add44b5

We got this error when trying to install ZFS on a server recently: Error: Package: kmod-zfs-0.7.13-1.el7_6.x86_64 (zfs-kmod) Requires: kernel(posix_acl_valid) = 0x7add44b5 Installed: kernel-3.10.0-1127.19.1.el7.x86_64 (@updates) kernel(posix_acl_valid) = 0xc89bfa92 Available: kernel-3.10.0-1127.el7.x86_64 (base) kernel(posix_acl_valid) = 0xc89bfa92 Available: kernel-3.10.0-1127.8.2.el7.x86_64 (updates) kernel(posix_acl_valid) = 0xc89bfa92 Available: kernel-3.10.0-1127.10.1.el7.x86_64 (updates) kernel(posix_acl_valid) = 0xc89bfa92 Available: kernel-3.10.0-1127.13.1.el7.x86_64 (updates) kernel(posix_acl_valid) =…

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configure: error: could not find required sqlite3 library

We were faced with this error while trying to install vnstat from source on one of our servers. checking for sqlite3_prepare_v2 in -lsqlite3… no configure: error: could not find required sqlite3 library As to what this error is about, well SQLite is a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine. It is used…

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Mount Windows share on Linux

To mount a Windows share on a Linux machine you’ll need CIFS. To install CIFS, issue the following at shell: yum install cifs-utils sudo apt-get install cifs-utils Create an empty folder at the location you want to mount the drive: mkdir /location/share To mount the windows share issue the following:…

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Windows cannot access shared drive

“Windows cannot access drive. You do not have permission to access \share. ” We were stumped by this error on one of the internal machines we had set up as a shared server. We turned off password protected sharing but it still did not fix the issue. Reading the initial…

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