http://blog.lobstertechnology.com "I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of peers suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced." Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:40:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The version of the Videolan Client (VLC) for Fedora Core 5 from freshrpms does not include DVB support. [foo@localhost ~]$ vlc --program 4704 dvb:12207000:0:3:27500000 VLC media player 0.8.5 Janus status change: ( new input: dvb:12207000:0:3:27500000 ) status change: ( audio volume: 256 ) status change: ( play state: 1 ) [00000295] main input error: no ... http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/2006/10/06/dvb-support-for-the-videolan-client-on-fedora-core-5/ Hard Drive Jenga A term used to describe removal of Hard Drives from a RAID storage array where the objective of the game is to remove as many drives as possible without the array collapsing causing catastrophic data loss. Not for the faint hearted! Not to be confused with Hard Drive Dominoes ... http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/2006/07/14/it-terminology-hard-drive-jenga/ sshdfilter is a great tool which monitors system logs for repetitive failed login attempts and actively updates iptables to block offending ip addresses. However, there is a slight shortfall it its design as there are no exceptions to its blocking rules as I found this morning: Subject: sshdfilter event for 127.0.0.1, ... http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/2006/07/13/what-not-to-do-when-youve-installed-sshdfilter/ Just a quick snippet of my /etc/yum.conf file which includes the ATrpms and FreshRpms repositories. [main] cachedir=/var/cache/yum keepcache=0 debuglevel=2 logfile=/var/log/yum.log pkgpolicy=newest distroverpkg=redhat-release tolerant=1 exactarch=1 obsoletes=1 gpgcheck=1 plugins=1 metadata_expire=1800 [atrpms] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/fc$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable [freshrpms] name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/2006/07/13/fedora-core-5-yumconf/ A quick bit of shell magic to empty a Trac wiki database in a freshly installed Trac environment. In this example /var/www/html/trac is assumed to be the Trac environment you created with trac-admin. $ for page in `trac-admin /var/www/html/trac wiki list | cut -d' ' -f1 | grep "^[A-Z]" | grep ... http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/2006/07/11/trac-emptying-a-wiki-database/ Matt announced a release for Wordpress today on the Wordpress Development Blog. This release addresses several bugs and a security issue raised on Bugtraq. Files changed in this release: wp-admin/admin-db.php wp-admin/admin-functions.php wp-admin/admin.php wp-admin/categories.php wp-admin/cat-js.php wp-admin/edit-comments.php wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php wp-admin/edit-form-ajax-cat.php wp-admin/edit-form-comment.php wp-admin/edit-link-form.php wp-admin/edit-page-form.php wp-admin/edit-pages.php wp-admin/edit.php wp-admin/import/mt.php wp-admin/inline-uploading.php wp-admin/link-categories.php wp-admin/link-import.php wp-admin/link-manager.php wp-admin/list-manipulation.js wp-admin/list-manipulation.php wp-admin/moderation.php wp-admin/options-discussion.php wp-admin/options-general.php wp-admin/options-misc.php wp-admin/options-permalink.php wp-admin/options.php wp-admin/options-reading.php wp-admin/options-writing.php wp-admin/page-new.php wp-admin/plugin-editor.php wp-admin/plugins.php wp-admin/post.php wp-admin/profile.php wp-admin/profile-update.php wp-admin/templates.php wp-admin/theme-editor.php wp-admin/themes.php wp-admin/upgrade.php wp-admin/upgrade-schema.php wp-admin/user-edit.php wp-admin/users.php wp-comments-post.php wp-content/plugins/akismet/akismet.php wp-content/plugins/wp-db-backup.php wp-includes/cache.php wp-includes/capabilities.php wp-includes/classes.php wp-includes/comment-functions.php wp-includes/default-filters.php wp-includes/functions-compat.php wp-includes/functions-formatting.php wp-includes/functions.php wp-includes/functions-post.php wp-includes/kses.php wp-includes/links.php wp-includes/pluggable-functions.php wp-includes/registration-functions.php wp-includes/template-functions-general.php wp-includes/template-functions-links.php wp-includes/vars.php wp-includes/version.php wp-login.php Unfortunately I havent had time to look into the security issue itself and detail its effects / how it has been patched, the ... http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/2006/06/01/wordpress-2-0-3/ This morning I took the opportunity to install mod_evasive on my Apache Web Server after being hammered by zombies last night. Quote from [www.nuclearelephant.com]: mod_evasive is an evasive maneuvers module for Apache to provide evasive action in the event of an HTTP DoS or DDoS attack or brute force attack. It ... http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/2006/03/29/patch-to-mod_evasive-to-enhance-reporting/ Fedora Core 5 was released yesterday, I attempted to upgrade my existing Fedora Core 4 installation in VMWare Workstation 5.5.0 and encountered a problem. Fedora isn’t automatically detecting the VMWare SCSI device, it presents a warning that there were no hard drives were detected. I found you can resolve this by ... http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/2006/03/21/fedora-core-5-on-vmware-55/ Matt announced a security release for Wordpress today on the Wordpress Development Blog. This release addresses unannounced XSS problems apparently with comment posting & registration. The files affected by this release are: wp-admin/admin-functions.php wp-admin/admin-header.php wp-admin/admin.php wp-admin/edit-pages.php wp-admin/import/blogger.php wp-admin/list-manipulation.php wp-admin/menu-header.php wp-admin/post.php wp-admin/user-edit.php wp-comments-post.php wp-includes/classes.php wp-includes/comment-functions.php wp-includes/functions.php wp-includes/js/tinymce/langs/en.js wp-includes/js/tinymce/plugins/wordpress/langs/en.js wp-includes/js/tinymce/tiny_mce_gzip.php wp-includes/template-functions-general.php wp-includes/template-functions-links.php wp-includes/version.php wp-register.php wp-settings.php Here is a short summary of some of the notable changes: wp-admin/admin-functions.php - Forced default values of $_POST['comment_status'] = 'closed' & ... http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/2006/03/10/wordpress-2-0-2/ This is a pretty significant release of SpamKit Plugin which provides some cool new features. This is checked into Subversion over at WP-Plugins.org and you can download the new version here spamkit-plugin.php. Released as version 0.4: * Added options page, this required sanity checks to prevent double definition of functions, implemented ... http://blog.lobstertechnology.com/2006/03/06/spamkit-plugin-0-4/