Monday, July 19, 2010
CIS Apache Web Server Scoring Tool
The Apache Benchmark Tool assesses target systems for conformance with the CIS Benchmark for Apache Web Servers.
Here’s the link to the code:
CIS Apache Web Server Scoring Tool for the 2.1.0 Benchmark v1.0.0
This is free but unsupported software from the nonprofit Center for Internet Security.
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Making mail list archives searchable
In a previous post I mentioned the alternatives for maintaining mail list archives under GNU Mailman. Making those archives searchable was not discussed.
Most solutions for search presuppose an open list hosted on the Internet that can be accessed by search engines like Google. This is obviously not going to work for an internal corporate list that needs to be kept confidential.
One solution for internal lists might be to integrate mailman with another open source product, called Swish-e.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Windows is SO helpful or, cache is evil
It’s not Microsoft’s fault that desktop computing, computer in general really, is built on a foundation of sand, always threatening to give way and leave you homeless without warning.
I am, of course, speaking of how Windows caches network information. Read on for my solution.
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Server Side Includes on RHEL 5 Apache 2.2
The Apache Group’s own Apache Tutorial: Introduction to Server Side Includes is the best starting point for this. There’s a brief mention in the RHEL 4 Reference Guide, but it’s barely worth skimming, except for its pointing out that the “Options +Includes” or “Options +IncludesNoExec” directive needs to be enclosed in a <Directory> container (or an .htaccess file) to be effective. That last is something assumed by the Apache doc (we all know that Options directives have to be within a <Directory> container, don’t we?), but not spelled out.
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Monday, July 5, 2010
D-Link DNS-321
Just got my very own D-Link DNS-321 a couple of days ago. Spent the holiday weekend hacking it.