I recently upgraded kernel on one of my servers from hardened-sources-2.6.28-r7 to hardened-sources-2.6.28-r9 and immediately had problems after reboot. Rebooting that server, I was greeted with the following message: Booting 'Gentoo (bzImage-2.6.28-hardened-r9)' root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage-2.6.28-hardened-r9 root=/dev/sda4 [Linux-bzImaeg, setup=0x2a00, size=0x165990] Decompressing Linux… Parsing ELF… done. Booting the kernel.… Continue reading Issues with hardened-sources-2.6.28-r9

So I’ve seen the commercials on TV about GoToMeeting for a while, but I never had a opportunity to try it out. Yesterday, I had a conference call with a web client about a application we’re developing and going over some server requirements to pull it off. Early in the call, the client recommend that… Continue reading My first time with GoToMeeting

A few weeks ago, I saw that snort needs to update to 2.8.4.1 (up from 2.6.1.3-r1), but with this update, it no longer has support for snortsam. This sucks! I posted a thread about this on the Gentoo forums, but no response yet. Because of this I’m not updating my production boxes, that use snortsam… Continue reading Recent package updates are making me nervous (Snort and Mod_Security)

I started seeing emails posted via contact forms with this message body. All sites on multiple servers starting experiencing this. I believe this is just a probe to test if contact forms are requiring captcha or this could be a initial set up for backscatter, etc. Either way, I don’t like it. The first piece… Continue reading Good site, admin