i stumbled upon this blog post over at /. and i found it to be a good read — if you’re into linux. it tells of how the guy checked and confirmed if the linux box was really cracked.
moral of the story is use a passphrase instead of a password.
smoothwall just released express 3.0 (polar) with lots of nice new features. the download is small (69mb for the i386 and 71mb for the 64-bit version) compared to other firewall distros.
make sure you download the installation and administrator guides and read them before doing anything.
here’s the script use to run rsync — with a little modification to the names and ip addresses for security reasons — but its essentially the same. i have to run this through cron because the server is headless — no monitor. i just access it via the ssh or browser from another computer.
#!/bin/sh
DATETMP=`date +%Y.%m.%d`
RSYNC=/usr/bin/rsync
SSH=/usr/bin/ssh
KEY=/rsyncuser/.ssh/id_ppib
RHOST=remote.ip.addr.ess
RPATH=/remotedata/
LPATH=/localdata/
LOGFILE=/rsyncuser/rlog.$DATETMP.log
EXCLUDES=/rsyncuser/ppiexcludes
OPTS=”–exclude-from=$EXCLUDES”
RUN=`ps [...]
linux vs windows vs mac. the neverending comparison. at times i find the exercise futile if not close to pointless. but then again we humans aren’t exactly predictable.
i’ve believe its a matter of personal preference. no matter how hard we push one or the other it still falls on whether it fits the user’s comfort [...]
for an offsite backup project that i have, i decided to use rsync over a clark connect (cc) server. cc is configured in standalone mode — the firewalling duties is done by a separate server running smoothwall.
rsync is not included in the default installation config of cc 4.1 sp1 (community edition) so i had to [...]
