For a while now, I’ve been trying to find a way to run a sniffer at some location and monitor it remotely via a web page or some curses based GUI. I’ve been working with Snort for years. The web interfaces like Base are ok, but I’ve always wanted a Read more…
I was tasked with turning a bunch of LG TVs on and off for a digital signage project, so I wrote a little C program with some borrowed code from LinuxMCE. Had to compile in Windows with dev-c++. Below is the source code. Now I just set up batch files Read more…
If you want to restrict a user to only their home directory while using sftp or ssh, you will want to first restrict the user to their home directory. First change the users shell to rbash, then jail them into their home directory. cd /bin; ln -s bash rbash edit Read more…
I recently installed one of these at my house, and have to say that I’m very impressed. It was easy to install and tweaking the hardware wasn’t too bad. The admin web interface makes it all worth it. The TV UI is amazing. Imagine controlling every device in your home Read more…
This is one of the easiest and cheapest ways to move a physical linux server to vmware. 1. Boot to the Acronis server cd.2. Create a backup image of the entire disk.3. Create an Ubuntu virtual machine in VMware workstation using drive size equivalent to the source server. You do Read more…