Browsing the 2009 March archive
With a few commits to s2u and msec source, msec finally got the long-announced desktop notifications support.
It is still too basic, and not-too-fancy, but it works. So with this item, I’d say that the msec rewrite for Mandriva 2009.1 is done. There are still some bugs to fix, and strings to translate, and implement the support for AppArmor as soon as updated packages are released, but all those items are quite simple to do.
Besides, msec works quite well on other distros as well. It wasn’t my main focus until now, but I was thinking on making packages of it for some other distros. And maybe writing a Fedora/CentOS/RH plugin to support selinux relabeling from msec, or add support for DPKG checks from within msec, or finally get to implement snort/ossec plugins.. the list of ideas is quite long, soon we’ll find out what will happen 
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I’ve catched some terrible flu last week (around 39.5 of fever most of the week, and all sort of problems that come together with that), so development was going not that fast as I hoped. I finally got better around Friday, and managed to go to Iron Maiden’s show in São Paulo (biggest Iron Maiden show EVER – about 100000 people watching! Amazing!), and also finish some long-time pending tasks.
One of such tasks was the drakfirewall support for NFS. This one was a bit tricky, because it required modifications to nfs-server and nfs-common to enable NFS to listen on fixed ports. My initial idea was to simply put it into nfs-utils configuration files, but this approach was not well-received on cooker list . So I went to the second solution – implementing on-the-fly configuration of such ports in drakfirewall. This required some additional (transparent) steps in firewall configuration, but the resulting structure became quite flexible. Right now, drakfirewall configures NFS to use fixed ports automatically, and also detects custom user changes and adapts itself accordingly.
The funniest part of this is that it was the oldest bug in my queue (#7689), dating back to 2004. A blast from the past .
Besides this fix, there were lots of other bugfixes in drakx-net over the last few weeks (14 bugfixes at all, according to the changelog). And also some fixes for pre-historic draknetprofile bugs. The draknetprofile is still horribly broken, and not updated since about 2004 I think, so at some point it will receive the same treatment as msec had.
Speaking of msec, I also moved all pam-related code to pam plugin, continuing the modularization. I also added some ideas for msec for Mandriva’s google SoC page. There is not much left to do to implement everything I had in mind for 2009.1, and probably I’ll finish it over the next few weeks.
On a not-so-bright sight, my assigned bug count right now is of 325 (I also started maintaining iptables, kexec-tools and imagemagick). About 80% of those bugs are related to drakx-net, and about 50% of those drakx-net bugs require specific hardware to test a possible fix for them. As I don’t have the required hardware, nor know anyone who has it, I am still trying to figure out a way to work on them. The most annoying of those bugs is the support for b43-based wireless cards, which require loading two different kernel modules just to be able to see the device. If anyone has any such card, and is able to provide a remote ssh access to a cooker installation, this would be just amazing . Otherwise, I’ll do some guessing on what must be done, and pray for the Holy Penguin to be right .
A Smiley movie .
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Leave a comment | Filed under UncategorizedExtremely funny. hehehe.
Um video muito MUITO bom.
World Builder from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.
Devido a maaais problemas com integração twitter com esse blog, desativei os digests do twitter temporariamente…
Assim que sair nova versão do twitter tools, e se ela funcionar, existe uma probabilidade deles voltarem aqui. Ou não .
- Autenticação por pam_blue rules! Para que usar tokens? Celular é o que há . http://tinyurl.com/dc8nvb #
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- Autenticação por pam_blue rules! Para que usar tokens? Celular é o que há . http://tinyurl.com/dc8nvb #
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- T-12 days to Iron Maiden in São Paulo. #
- Isso sim é promoção! Petra Bock, no extra São Carlos, foi de R$ 12 para R$ 1.99! Para ficar melhor é só poder comprar com visa vale! #
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- T-12 days to Iron Maiden in São Paulo. #
- Isso sim é promoção! Petra Bock, no extra São Carlos, foi de R$ 12 para R$ 1.99! Para ficar melhor é só poder comprar com visa vale! #
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