To install in Alpine Linux you need a specific installer that doesn’t need glibc so download that from your MeshCentral server (replace meshcentral-server.com with your server url): # wget –no-check-certificate https://meshcentral-server.com:446/meshagents?id=33 If it has downloaded and included the query string in the filename then remove it # mv meshagents\?id=33 meshagents… Continue reading
This is an update to the previous CentOS installation of OSSEC 3.6 ( here https://cheesefather.com/2020/06/install-ossim-ossec-agent-centos-7/), updating it to 3.7. You need one more library installed before OSSEC can update: dnf -y install systemd-develwget https://github.com/ossec/ossec-hids/archive/3.7.0.tar.gztar xzf 3.7.0.tar.gzcd ossec-hids-3.7.0/./install.sh Or to install from scratch, just change the first command and add the… Continue reading
I recently needed to have a look at moving some services to a different VPS provider for redundancy so I decided to benchmark my options to compare them. The plan selected was whichever had 16GB of RAM (though Google is 15GB). The selected datacenter was always London (Azure only says… Continue reading
Fail2ban hasn’t been working for me, I still have people running brute force attacks on my Postfix server, so I though I’d rig up something myself. This consists of a bash script that identifies multiple failures and bans them, run on cron every 10 minutes. It checks for both smtp… Continue reading
dmraid is a software raid/fakeraid/onboard raid tool. As far as I can tell, the only error reporting that dmraid does is by hooking into logwatch – which emails me a very long file I don’t often read and I would like to know immediately if my raid array is degraded…. Continue reading
