Analog is a fast and flexible web log analysis tool. Its configuration can consist of several files nested using include statements. This allows common configuration items to be grouped in separate files. The minimal site specific configuration items can be contained in small include files. Similarly, time period specific include files allow for reports by […]
Author Archives: Bill Thorsteinson
Monitoring with Munin
Munin is a system monitoring program designed to capture and graph performance statistics with minimal configuration. It is significantly easier to configure than MRTG and has a wide variety of plugins. The Ubuntu (Debian) installer will setup a reasonable configuration on installation. It requires one server, and a client daemon on all monitored servers including […]
Installing WordPress on Ubuntu
WordPress is available as a packaged application for Ubuntu. However it requires a bit of post installation configuration. The installation will install the apache2 multi-user server if no server is installed. I modified the installation to run over top of an existing site. The default installation creates directories under /var/www, which I move to /srv.
Setting up Windows
The following guide is intended to help install Windows on system in a secure manner. The steps here are intended to limit the exposure of the system to malware during installation. However, it does not guarantee that malware will not infect the system. There are many known vectors used by malware, some of which are […]
OpenWRT and Ubuntu dnmasq setup
Now I have replaced my old firewall with OpenWRT, I needed to enhance the configuration of dnsmasq to support the network. The old Ubunutu based firewall was already running dnsmasq, as does the DNS server on the LAN. I run a mixed network with wired and wireless clients on separate address ranges. DHCP services are […]
OpenWRT syslog-ng Installation
When I went to process my remote firewall log output from OpenWRT, I noticed that the entries were truncated. A quick check with tcpdump indicated that the syslog packets were truncated to 256 characters. As syslogd and klogd are both provided by BusyBox, I decided to replace them both. The obvious solution was to replace […]