Dropbear

Year: 2013

  • Debian's procps 3.3.9

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    While the upstream procps which was released last week has a new pidof, the Debian package will continue to not have that binary and the Debian sysvint-utils package will continue to have that file. That stops any messy procps splits and putting one part into Essential etc. This may mean that one distributions pidof doesn’t…

  • procps-ng 3.3.9

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    Procps version 3.3.9 was released today.  As there has been some API changes and fixes which means the library has changed again.  There is a fine balance between fixing or enhancing library functions and keeping the API stable, with the added problem it wasn’t a terribly good one to start with. Besides the API change,…

  • XBMC with MythTv

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    I have had MythTV running on my server for quite some time. Once I got past the weird problems you often have with the local ABC channel, it has worked very well. One tip, put the recordings into their own partition. MythTV will happily fill it and deleting files only marks them for deletion. This…

  • WordPress password bots

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    Browsing through my logs I noticed that one particular IP address was continuously trying to go to wp-login.php After a few more greps, it seems he really likes this URL. So, Mr 37.115.188.210 congratulations for testing a few things and welcome to the blocklist. I love fail2ban, but initially I didn’t have it for the…

  • Quieting dbus

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    I run a program called logcheck which regularly scans the logfiles looking for “interesting things”. One of these interesting things (to logcheck, not to me at first) was dbus complaining about mythtv.  The logs look something like this: Nov 17 05:08:18 elmo dbus-daemon[1621]: dbus[1621]: [system] Rejected send message, 2 matched rules; type=”method_call”, sender=”:1.236″ (uid=999 pid=3669…

  • Damn you, unworking r8168

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    I really don’t know why ethernet device makers insist on making it hard for to use their products.  Ethernet has been around for many, many years; surely its not too much to ask for drivers that “just work”. And so that’s the problem I currently have with my new computer. It has an onboard Ethernet…

  • Changed Twitter Handle

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    For my birthday I thought I’d fix my twitter handle. The old one was a bit fiddly and hard to remember. So the new one is @smallsees  Pretty easy to remember; my surname and my ircname. Sorted, done. Now all I need to do is stop these birthday things.  

  • Goodbye mygbiz

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    Google seems to try to invent new and interesting ways for spammers to spam me (and many others).  I’ve still not worked out a good way to block “fake googlegroups” which follow this method: Make new fake gmail login Make new fake google group Add lots of people’s email addresses to the group Send lots…

  • jqGrid in TurboGears2 Admin Screens

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    I wanted to use the jqGrid for my admin pages as I liked that look and it matches some of the other screens outside the admin controller.  The admin controller, or rather the CrudRestController out of tgext.crud, has a way of exporting results in json format. So surely its a matter of changing the TableBase…

  • Odd WordPress pingbacks

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    I’m getting some odd log messages for the apache module modsecurity.  Essentially its xml parser is breaking when random places are sending pingbacks. The requests go to xmlrpc.php and the response headers are ok, but the body is binary.  The message in the modsecurity log looks like: Message: XML parser error: XML: Failed parsing document.…