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 …
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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…
Who’s linking to your site?
If you’re using LogMiner to analyse your Apache/IIS logs, here’s an easy recipe to be notified of sites that send visitors your way. First, let’s define a Pg/PLSQL function to extract the new referrers: 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748CREATE TYPE new_referrer AS ( site_id int8, site_name text, …
Mac OS X version statistics through CFNetwork analysis
Recently I needed to gather some statistics about the distribution of the different Mac OS X versions installed by users of a certain application. Since the application has an update-check feature, I thought I’d use the web server logs to infer the data I was interested in. The only thing I could use was the …
LogMiner 1.21
Version 1.21 of LogMiner, my Apache/IIS log analysis package, is now available. This release sports a new report: Networks. It allows you to monitor where your visitor come from, in terms of organization and network. To use this report, you need to define a list of organizations and a list of networks owned by them. …