Snort is an “Intrusion Detection and Prevention System”, or – in other words – a program that can detect attempts to attack your network and prevent them. It does this through a series of “rules” that try to detect if the traffic arriving / passing through is legitimate or suspicious.
These rules are regularly updated (as [...]
The developers of Cacti released two new patches for version 0.8.7g recently, one to fix an issue with the ping library, another to fix an issue with 1-minute polling intervals.
This brings the total number of patches for this version to seven.
I submitted the updated SlackBuild script to SlackBuilds.org and uploaded the new package to my [...]
The distributed build system has been working fine for the last few days / nights, so I managed to build several packages for ARMedslack.
These are now available for download on my site:
viewvc + Pygments (browser interface for cvs and svn)
xspacewarp (Time-Trek like game for X-Windows)
inadyn (Dynamic DNS updater)
nagios + nagios-plugins (IT monitoring system)
ntop + GeoIP [...]
No, I did not abandon ARMedslack, the official port of Slackware to the ARM architecture… It was simply a matter of lack of time (or a question of priorities, depending of your point of view).
But this weekend I finally found some time to setup a clean build environment based on the stable ARMedslack 13.1 version.
The [...]
Nagios released version 3.2.2 of Nagios Core this week.
It contains several fixes and a new configuration interface (although I don’t use it, I do all my configuration with Vim ) A detailed ChangeLog can be found here.
As a happy and satisfied user of Nagios, I updated my SlackBuild script immediately and after a [...]
It was time to update the monitoring packages on my server, so I spent some time to get them all up-to-date to the newest versions that were released recently:
First of all, there is new version of cacti, with several patches from upstream. It corrects a few bugs that appeared after the release of version 0.8.7g. [...]
After the problems with Cacti release 0.8.7f a few weeks ago, the updated version 0.8.7g was released this week.
I successfully updated my server, which was a very simple process.
After installing the new package, the web-page automatically redirected to the upgrade-page and with a single click Cacti was up-and-running again.
The new SlackBuild is in [...]
Last Monday rrdtool-1.4.4 was released. It contains some bug fixes and improvements you can read about here.
The SlackBuild was also improved to solve some problems with the lua, tcl and ruby bindings, that are all installed in the correct paths now.
The new SlackBuild has been submitted and new packages can be downloaded from my site.
A few weeks ago the Cacti developers released version 0.8.7f of Cacti, but it was removed from their site shortly after the release because of some new bugs that were introduced.
While we’re waiting for the new version to be re-released, I built a package for the current release (0.8.7e) with all the patches that upstream [...]
Last week RRDtool 1.4.3 was released. It solves several minor bugs in the previous 1.4.2 version and adds a few new options. See here for the updated change log.
I updated the SlackBuild script and submitted it to SlackBuilds.org. Pre-built packages for Slackware 32+64 bits and ARMedslack can be downloaded from the usual page.
Dutch guy living in Brazil. Has worked in the IT business since it was invented (well, almost...). Interests: Slackware, Lego, Star Wars.