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Maintenance: Monday
These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies … done! [ebuild U ] sys-libs/timezone-data-2007k [2007j] USE=”nls” 346 kB [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libpcre-7.6 [7.4] USE=”cxx%* unicode zlib%* -bzip2% -doc” 785 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/pciutils-2.2.9 [2.2.8] USE=”zlib -network-cron” 229 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/less-418 [416] USE=”unicode” 293 kB [ebuild U ]…
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maintenance: Monday
ebrake@medusa ~ $ emerge -pvuDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies… done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.76 [2.75] USE=”nls” 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-libs/com_err-1.40.4 [1.40.3] USE=”nls” 0 kB [ebuild U ] sys-libs/ss-1.40.4 [1.40.3] USE=”nls” 0 kB [ebuild U ] dev-libs/glib-2.14.5 [2.14.3] USE=”-debug -doc -hardened” 0 kB [ebuild…
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Maintenance:
These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies … done! [ebuild U ] app-editors/nano-2.0.7 [2.0.6] USE=”ncurses nls unicode -debug -justify -minimal -slang -spell” 1,332 kB [ebuild U ] sys-apps/findutils-4.3.11 [4.3.8-r1] USE=”nls (-selinux) -static” 2,003 kB [ebuild U ] net-misc/openssh-4.7_p1-r3 [4.7_p1-r1] USE=”pam tcpd -X -X509 -chroot -hpn -kerberos -ldap -libedit (-selinux)…
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maintenance: late changes
New Features install bittorrent It’s six minutes past midnight but I’m gonna install bittorrent anyway.
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simpler is better
I first considered logsurfer+, but when I discovered that it didn’t come with any rules ready to go immediately. I switched to logsentry instead. While logsurfer+ has more gee-wiz options and capabilities; logsentry is dead simple to get going. logsentry starts out being overly verbose but it’s simple to customize it. logsentry combined with some…
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Woohoo! iptables works
I got iptables properly configured where I set the policy for INPUT, FORWARD, and OUTPUT to DROP. Amazingly everything appears to still work. I set the server to be in the DMZ. Despite this I’m still totally stealthy according to GRC’s Shields Up!. I’ve got logging setup and working well. It only catches the surprise…
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Maintenance: 1/17/2008
New Features Add log monitoring with logsurfer+. Add filtering with iptables. With iptables I could safely put the machine in the DMZ and have a grand ole time watching portscans and other crud coming from the Internet. Learning iptables will definitely be a interesting mental challenge. Package Updates These are the packages that would be…
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!Danger! Will Robinson
Setup a logging daemon. Check. Setup crond. Check. Setup ssmtp. Check. Setup a log watching script. hmm… There are more than a few options as usual. logsurfer+ swatch logsentry