This is one of those things where the procedure's easy, but I use it so infrequently that I always have to look it up.
When a service is due, the S60 will display the message "Time for Regular Service". This documentation details the procedure to reset it once you've done the service.
My 2003 S60 had a chip in the headlight lens, which over time, expectedly, developed into a crack.
This documentation details how to replace a headlight unit on Volvo S60's up to 2003 (there are some slightly different mountings on models from 2004 onwards). The procedure is more or less the same for both sides
The entire process doesn't take long, at most it should take a couple of hours
I had an issue recently on my S60 - when the car was first started from cold, there'd be a rhythmic thumping noise from under the bonnet.
Lifting the bonnet, the auxilary belt tensioner was jumping backwards and forwards as slack came into the belt and then was taken up.
Further investigation showed that the Alternator Pulley had started to fail - modern alternator's no longer use a solid flywheel, instead using a clutch-based pulley called an Overrun Alternator Pulley (or OAP). The pulley manufacturer (INA) recommend that it be changed whenever the aux belt is changed.
My aux belt had been changed at the result of an emergency cambelt change (following a water pump collapse). Unfortunately, in VIDA, Volvo list the pulley as a separate service item, rather than listing it as being part of an aux belt change, so the garage missed it.
Because of the time it took to track down and obtain a suitable pulley, the belt was pretty badly chewed by the time I was able to swap the pulley, so I opted to change that as well.
This documentation details the steps required to change the alternator belt and pulley on a Volvo S60 (D5 engine). All images should be clickable.
Network-manager, simply, sucks. But sometimes you have little choice but to use it.
Unfortunately, despite a bug being sat idle for some time, Network-manager-openvpn doesn't support various OpenVPN client options such as max-routes. Unfortunately, if your OpenVPN server is pushing more than 100 routes, this is sufficient to prevent you from connecting at all.
This documentation details a way to work around that limitation. It's dirty and hacky, but so far, is the only solution I've found
For those who haven't come across it, LetsEncrypt allows you to obtain free DV SSL Certificates but requires a server side script to be run periodically in order to renew the certificates (for better or worse, a 90 day expiration period has been used).
Although the provided script has plugins to allow support for automatically generating SSL certs based on NGinx and Apache configurations, the script assumes that the server is the origin and that the relevant docroot is available for writing to.
In the case of a reverse proxy - this won't be the case. We want the certificate on the Reverse Proxy (being the endpoint the client connects to) but the websites files are hosted on another server.
This documentation details a simple way to work around that on a NGinx reverse proxy (it should be possible to adjust the config for Apache's mod_proxy if needed).