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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
If your not familiar with Prowl, then check it out. It allows your growl notifications to be sent to your iPhone via push. I use this in several different ways on my home computer to notifications when I'm out at about. You can also access the prowl service directly with ...
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
There are several different ways to get notified by nagios when there is a problem. The most common way is via email. This is usally just fine, except when the service that goes down is the mailserver. There are ways to mitigate this of course.
One simple was is to get ...
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
I'm checking the snort basically like i'm checking most processes, if you've been following allong then you'll already have a check_procs setup.
So I simply edit my localhost.cfg and add:
define service{
use ...
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Monday, January 4th, 2010
To get base up and going with snort already installed I did the following.
1. Downlaod ADOdb (database abstraction library for PHP) : http://sourceforge.net/projects/adodb/files/
The version I got was adodb510.tgz
2. Unzip and untar the file
tar -xvzf adodb510.tgz
3. Move the folder
I did:
cp -R adodb5/ /Library/WebServer/Documents/adodb5/
4. Download base: http://sourceforge.net/projects/secureideas/ The version ...
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Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
1 Download Snort2 Download pcre
3 Untar pcre
4 Cd to pcre
5 ./configure
make
make install
(NOTE: Install prefix .................. : /usr/local)
6 Untar Snort
7 CD to snort
8 ./configure -enable-dynamicplugin --with-mysql --with-mysql-includes=/opt/local/include/mysql5/ --with-mysql-libraries=/opt/local/lib/mysql5/mysql/
9 make
10 sudo make install
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 './snort.8' '/usr/local/man/man8/snort.8'
test -z "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig" || /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs "/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig"
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 'snort.pc' '/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/snort.pc'
11. Get the ...
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