rpm -V and prelinked binaries
I’v been asked this question a few times over the last year or so, so I thought I would explain some of why you might see some issues on a Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux system (or any other Linux distribution that uses prelinked binaries) when trying to track down strange MD5/SHA1 changes to [...]
Some quick git tips
As I’ve been git-ifying some stuff around here, I’ve run into a few tips that might be useful for other git beginners. The first is to setup some global options, some of which are nice for folks coming from Subversion. Having a global ignore file is useful. Mine has the following contents: *~ *.orig *.rej [...]
Christmas 2011 Recap
So I had about a week and a half off this year around Christmas. My initial plans were to do the family things one normally does around Christmas time, and there was plenty of that… visits with the parents and in-laws, dinners and whatnot. Too much food as usual, but that’s what the exercise bike [...]
Merged Annvix.org with linsec.ca
So today I spent a lot of time manually merging the annvix.org mediawiki data into my linsec.ca wiki (in a new Annvix namespace). There are some various automated tools and mediawiki import/export stuff, but I didn’t have a lot in terms of pages so taking a few hours to do this manually was no big [...]
Time to change the look
The blog is going all new, which means it’ll probably change over the next few days as I find time to tweak it and make it look the way I want it to. I like the theme I’ve got at the moment, but it needs some more personalization, so keep an eye out for new [...]
rsec and AIDE+gpg now on github
Ok, so the last of my git-related topics today (I need to get back to washing windows, sadly). I’ve pulled out AIDE+gpg and rsec from the Annvix tools subversion repository and they are now on github: AIDE+gpg on github rsec on github The next step, maybe for around Christmas, is to turn these into Fedora [...]