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There are a number of tools sysadmins should be looking at in order to make their life less hellish when it comes to configuration management.

Some tools that I have found so far are:

• cfengine
• Puppet
• Bcfg2

Upgrading my kernel to 2.6.18 appears to have fixed the issue I was having with aircrack.

Now just need to write a script to make things a bit easier.

Finally got a 1/2 decent wireless card that will do packet injection.

All I need to do is wait for my kernel to compile again to remove SMP support. At which point I can get on with this tutorial.

Just when you thought you were safe...

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-November/050812.html

Have tested this and it works as described:

nathan@holly /tmp $ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1
nathan@holly /tmp $ ~/tmp/tarxyz > foo.tar
nathan@holly /tmp $ mkdir -p xyz/home/foo
nathan@holly /tmp $ echo "Hello" > xyz/home/foo/hello.txt
nathan@holly /tmp $ tar -rf foo.tar xyz/home/foo
nathan@holly /tmp $ rootdo mkdir /home/foo
nathan@holly /tmp $ rootdo chown nathan /home/foo
nathan@holly /tmp $ rm -rf xyz
nathan@holly /tmp $ tar -xf foo.tar
nathan@holly /tmp $ ls -l xyz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nathan users 1 Nov 22 00:03 xyz -> /
nathan@holly /tmp $ cat /home/foo/hello.txt
Hello
nathan@holly /tmp $ 

I, and other people on my server, are having SPAM issues again. Spamassassin is great but it eats RAM for breakfast about the same rate it eats SPAM.

After some hunting I think I have found a solution:

Bogofilter is a mail filter that classifies mail as spam or ham (non-spam) by a statistical analysis of the message's header and content (body). The program is able to learn from the user's classifications and corrections.
Bogofilter Home Page

Happy SPAM munching.