Random thoughts

Lucid discs

etank — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:27:36 +0000

I’ve seen some blog posts on the planet lately about groups getting their Lucid discs. Ours (KY) haven’t arrived yet. Last time somehow my email request got lost in the shuffle. Hope that wasn’t the case this time. :/

Happy Pi Day 2010

etank — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:16:24 +0000

Just a quick note to wish everyone a happy Pi day.

Rock It

etank — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:34:17 +0000

As many have seen, Fedora 13 has a slogan now. That would be “Rock it”. I think this is a great slogan. The other nominations can be found here. The release name for Fedora 13 will be “Goddard” named after Robert H. Goddard a real life rocket scientist. Maybe it is because I have kids but whenever I here Goddard I don’t think of rockets. I think of Jimmy Neutron’s robot dog that shares the name. That is probably caused by the numerous hours that the 3 of us spent watching the show.

Image borrowed from here

Weird things on my server

etank — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:01:26 +0000

I mentioned a post or so ago about a new application that I have started to run called logwatch. One of the things that I noticed in the output that I was getting from log watch was a fair number of failed ssh log in attempts. I looked like most of the attempts were automated hits using root/password to get in. This got me looking into a way to stop these types of attempts from happening. A quick google search lead me to denyhosts. It is a really simple but effective app that watches for failed attempts and will put the offending IP address in your /etc/hosts.deny.

The only issue that I had once installing it was that my own IP was being blocked from my laptop while on my wireless connection (weird). To fix this I edited /var/lib/denyhosts/allowed-hosts to add my IP info to keep me from being blocked.

Running grep sshd: /etc/hosts.deny | wc -l I can see that my hosts.deny file has gone from having no entries to having 100. And that is just in the timespan of a month or so.

First Fedora Planet post

etank — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:44:31 +0000

This is just a test post. If all goes well then this should show up on the Fedora Planet.