My new router / firewall
My old router / firewall machine in my home office started to fail. Almost every day one of the Ethernet interfaces were lost. When I was lucky, it was outer interface, so I could ssh in and reboot it. When not so lucky, then I had to use to serial console to access the machine.
Your password for a rubber bone!
While we pay too much attention to network security and data security problems, we often forget that technology is no longer such a high risk as the users themselves. Even if we have successfully introduced the best security systems, we cannot stop there, since we also have to train users actively so that they become [...]
syslog-ng 3.1 backport arrived for Ubuntu Lucid
A backport of syslog-ng 3.1 was released for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) yesterday. I tested it on my machines, and works fine. Check https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports for details how to install it!
patterndb homepage
Since our new website with a wiki engine has launched (finally) I started to write the patterndb project homepage, which you can find at http://www.balabit.com/wiki/patterndb. From a set of links there’s also a new article describing how to deploy the patterndb rules in a syslog-ng installation. Hopefully it’ll make experimentation easier.
patterndb classification
As you probably know one goal for patterndb is to implement message classification. E.g. in addition to extracting information from log messages, it also associates a “class”, later available in the “${.classifier.class}” value. Right now, syslog-ng doesn’t really care what this string is. But the XML schema validating patterndb file lists the following four classes [...]
syslog-ng backports for Debian and Ubuntu
The latest stable releases of Debian and Ubuntu contain an ancient syslog-ng release, version 2.0.9. While it was a great release, many interesting features were added to syslog-ng in the past few years. These include SSL, database support and pattern-db. Those who use the testing branches of the distributions already have version 3.1 of syslog-ng [...]
Do you speak English?
I would like to announce a new casual labor opportunity. We are looking for someone who can speak English fluently and has experience in telemarketing. If you have these two competences, write an email to Attila Kiss: attila.kiss@balabit.com Balázs
I am Balázs Antal
Dear Visitor, In honour of my first blog post, I introduce myself: My name is Balázs Antal and I work at BalaBit since February 2010. I’m 22 years old and I have started to work here as a marketing trainee. After my graduation I had the opportunity to stay here and continue my job (my [...]
multi-threading coming in syslog-ng OSE 3.3
As posted on the mailing list already, I’m planning to turn syslog-ng into a fully-multi-threaded application in order to improve performance on multi-core systems. Since I don’t want to start destaibilizing 3.2 (rather to push dub that as stable soon), this will become part of OSE 3.3. During my holidays I’ve worked a little on [...]
A tiny music server
Those who know me are aware, that I’m a big fan of “alternative” music and computer architectures. I have hundreds of CDs and many PowerPC and ARM based machines and developers boards. Recently I was looking for a solution to have easy access to my CDs, without needing to walk to my HiFi to change [...]
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