May, 2010

Building a FreeBSD MAC Kernel – Part 1

No not a Mac as in Apple, a MAC as in mandatory access control kernel with biba! To build your own MAC kernel or any FreeBSD kernel you will need to get the source tree, you can do this by using cvsup and a config file. Mine is called supfile, and it looks like this.

*default...
			

Automating system tasks with Perl – Part 2

Here is a more complicated example that I created for Expect. Set up the connection again.

        my $ssh = Net::SSH::Expect->new (
            host => "myserver.com",
            password=> 'pass87word',
            user => 'bnegrao',
            raw_pty => 1
       ...
			

Microsoft May Release Notice

There is two bulletins for this month, one for Office and the other for Windows both rated critical. The windows update does require a restart according to the release and the office one may require one. The windows vulnerability being patched appears to go from Windows 2000 to Windows 7 (...

Root DNS Server update

In case you missed it the root DNS servers were updated with DNSSEC early this week, it seems the updates went well I have not heard of any issues. Here is some more information on DNSSEC from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Extensions For those of you...