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There may be more, at least I don't see the difference between
TLS and shared key for most settings, except certificate setup.

The client traffic redirect is probably also wrong, but for now
provide consistency with TLS.

PR: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=3908.0
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o > 16 hours of randomisation is too much, let cron jobs
  run within 15 minutes.
o Move to `jot' utility for better visibility/portability.
o switch the default bogons invoke to right now, only
  defer the run if `cron' argument was given.

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Submitted by: @fbrendel

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This is the proper way to handle bootup output for the
console: request it and don't output ever time it's called
during boot....

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(hassync) trigger xmlrpc sync before service action, for https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/1217

(cherry picked from commit 7c82fe62)

PR: https://github.com/opnsense/core/issues/993

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(ui) add modal form in legacy template to signal the user about pending service action (stop,start,restart)

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(crashreport) limit output chunks to 5MB, if we can't find </head> within that area it's very unlikely that it exists in the output.

report:
PHP Fatal error:  Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 35997807 bytes) in /usr/local/www/csrf/csrf-magic.php on line 144

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