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August 26th, 2011 by Niels Horn in , , |

A few days ago ntop 4.1.0 was released so it was time to update my SlackBuild script again
This release is focused on stability and speed, solving some of the problems the 4.0.x series had.
Some "older" protocols have been removed (but may come back in rewritten form in future versions), making space for newer [...]

February 13th, 2011 by Niels Horn in , , , |

The year 2011 started with changes and lots of work, so I have been without time to work on most private projects, including the SlackBuild scripts I maintain.
But things are clearing up and I found some time this weekend to update some scripts - the ones most people asked me about
Actually, this was [...]

December 26th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

December has been a busy month until now and probably will continue like this…
But today is Christmas, a good day to give some new packages to my visitors
Recently version 1.6 of lbench was released, a benchmark utility.
And last week version 2.9.0.3 of snort, the Intrusion Detection software, and version 0.5 of daq, the [...]

November 20th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , |

The beginning of this month a new version of Snort was released - 2.9.0.1. The companion Data Acquisition library (daq) was also upgraded to version 0.3.
I updated my SlackBuilds and installed the new versions on my server. I waited a bit before releasing the packages as there had been some reports on a new "Unknown [...]

October 10th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

A few days ago Snort 2.9.0 was released. The official announcement can be read here.
This new version brings some essential changes to Snort that needed special attention.
New dependencies
libdnet is a "simplified, portable interface to several low-level networking routines" and has a SlackBuild on SlackBuilds.org.
daq is a new "Data Acquisition library" that can use several [...]

October 9th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Just over a month ago I wrote about the release of Nagios 3.2.2 and now it's time to update already
Nagios announced the release of version 3.2.3 a few days ago, resolving a few bugs. According to the announcement updating your installation is recommended.
Since the ChangeLog is quite short, I copy it here:

Fixes problem where [...]

September 23rd, 2010 by Niels Horn in , ,

Introduction
I have set up Snort a few times on a network to check for possible intrusion attempts. It is a very powerful tool to discover these attempts, based on rules that are frequently updated. Snort is a so-called "Intrusion Detection System" (=IDS), that can also be setup as a "Intrusion Prevention System".
Recently I needed Snort [...]

September 19th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

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 [...]

September 7th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , , , |

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 [...]

September 5th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , , |

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 [...]