I’ve started moving some (very!) old projects to GitHub. This one deserves a mention since it’s still useful: SSHDShield is a daemon that monitors your sshd log looking for signs of a brute force attack and reacts to them. When I created this small tool, back in 2005, I needed something to protect SSH servers …
Category: SysAdmin
Connecting a Synology DiskStation to a NUT server
Synology DiskStations internally use NUT to interface with several UPS devices. You can also configure DSM to act as a server, to connect several of them together. But what if you want to connect the DSM to an already existing NUT setup? The only thing that you can configure from the control panel is the …
Keeping script kiddies at bay with mod_evasive and iptables
mod_evasive is a nice Apache module that helps to protect your server against DoS attacks. However, when a client is blocked, it will keep on using resources on your server. Even if the request will result in a 403 error, it’s still a connection that needs to be handled. In some cases, it might require …
Serendipity to WordPress
I’ve moved a couple of my blogs from Serendipity to WordPress (mostly because I’ve discovered that Serendipity has some issues with newer PHP setups, but also because I’m getting lazy and WordPress’ admin panel is nicer than s9y’s ;-)). Luckily someone else did already write a s9y->WP importer plugin. Sadly it didn’t support nested categories, …
LogMiner 1.23
Version 1.23 of LogMiner, my Apache/IIS log analysis package, is now available. This release mainly fixes some build problem on modern distributions. Also it finally includes the cleanup function I was talking about some days ago…