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Geektool : Display system information on your MacOS X desktop

If you would like to display system information on your desktop of your Mac OS X, Geektool is the right utility you need. First download and install geektool : https://www.tynsoe.org/v2/geektool/ Open geektool app. Drag and drop Shell on your desktop, and click on command button Paste this code bellow to display your local ip and public ip. But you will need to replace 192.168.101 by your network ip address. Result :

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Kill remote desktop session

Remote desktop sometimes gives me this error message “The terminal server has exceeded the maximum number of allowed connections.” It means my previous remote desktop session has been lost or allowed connections are full. I order to solve this, if you don’t mind losing your unsaved work, you will need to kill a session to open a new one, replace 192.168.1.1 by your server’s IP on the following command.

Odoo 11 how to avoid loading the homepage after module upgrade

​ Download on GitHub Download upgrade module Odoo 11 redirects the user to his homepage after a module upgrade, to avoid this trouble I made a small modification of the module upgrade behavior. Additional module is available here. It inherits only the model “ir.module.module” and override “_button_immediate_function” method.

Problem with Godaddy VPS upgrade

I recently had a problem with Godaddy ubuntu 16.04 VPS, after updating and upgrading the system: SSH port wasn’t anymore reachable, it’s the only access we have to the server, however other services are working normally, so the system is still running. I tried many times to restart, call the support, but it didn’t solve the problem. The only solution was to destroy the server and rebuild it from scratch + restoration of backups. I’ve also tested the upgrade with a clean and freshly installed system, same issue occurred. If you’re running Ubuntu 16.04 VPS on Godaddy, Do not upgrade …

Fail2ban Odoo 9 Authentication

Odoo 9 community doesn’t come with autoban security. Fail2ban is an alternative to secure Odoo authentication. For more information concerning fail2ban click here Let’s start with creating a new filter: Paste the content from bellow code: Add those line in jail.local Change the value of syslog in the /etc/odoo/openerp-server.conf Restart Odoo then fail2ban to apply modification.

Add menu in dropdown list on tree view – Odoo 9

To add an additional menu in action dropdown list on tree view, we need to register “ir.actions.server” and “ir.values” on the qweb/xml file as follow. Note that code field name is using old Odoo python API. In your sale order model create the method as bellow with Odoo new API. Restart odoo and upgrade your module, you’ll have now cancel menu on your sales order tree view.