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OSX VPN Error

DKidd — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:45:14 +0000

Occasionally my Mac will refuse to connect to work’s IPSec VPN with the error message:
“A configuration error occured. Verify your settings and try reconnecting”

There’s a process called “racoon” – it performs key exchange operations to set up IPSec tunnels. Kill it (using kill or activity monitor) and your VPN will start working again.

I just typed sudo killall racoon; at the terminal and worked great.

I found this recommendation while at a site called BrainLint.

Restart Apache on OSX

DKidd — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 01:38:48 +0000

To restart the Apache webserver service you can run the following command in a Mac OS X Terminal window:

sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl restart

I was trying to remember how to do this, and finally figured it out, so I figured that I should post it so I can find it again.

OSX Broken Pipes

DKidd — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:08:57 +0000

So I have been working on fixing John’s computer this morning and the solution to the problem was much easier then people were making it out to be, so I wanted to write out these steps so that next time John has this problem, it will be much easier to fix.

So the problem that John was having is that his computer somehow got corrupted or something and it wouldn’t allow him to install any DMG files. So after doing research the solution was to install a patch, but that patch is provided in DMG format, which he can’t open. So the solution. Reboot the problem computer, hold down the T key upon reboot so that it will start up the hard drives but not the OS. Then connect a working computer to this computer via FireWire cable. And then open the dmg file that can’t be open, then move the PKG file that is within the DMG file, and put it on the broken computer. Then reboot the broken computer, and then run the PKG file.

Then after the broken computer runs the PKG file, it will probably reboot a few times, but then it will be working again. So this is my brief solution on how to let a computer that can’t open DMG files to open DMG files.