Category: it

snort / openvas / cain

installed snort-mysql  / acidbase on debian testing and did a base configuration in 5 minutes; after installing the necassary sql files, i only had to uncomment one line in the snort configfile, set the subnet to scan, define the nic – done. always really impressive what you can do/see with this piece of free software after 10 minutes. also installed a openvas server – it seems like there is no windows client out there. nice so see that the cain & abel toolkit is still under development.   i need these systems for a demo / lecture on wednesday …

edit: the openvas-client using macports under os x works pretty good.

dislike 32bit / M$ operatingsystems

need to sync every day about 1 million files from disk to network share. so far no problem, but the sync application eats up massive amounts of ram – in this case a problem because the ibm x3250 w2k3 32bit machine only got 4gb of ram.  32bit – disused. maybe a solution would be to use an os wich isn`t such a colossal turd…

my workstation

workstation @ work:

14:47:36 up 113 days,  2:50, 12 users,  load average: 0.29, 0.10, 0.03

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU    Q9400  @ 2.66GHz

nVidia Corporation G86 [Quadro NVS 290] (rev a1)

Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset PCI Express

Intel Corporation 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)

MemTotal:        8128484 kB

HDD WDC WD3000HLFS-01G6U1

Linux metrox 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri Sep 17 21:50:19 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux Debian testing

new virtualization project

i`m planning a new virtualization structure for a customer. this time based on three ibm x3650 m3 machines; one machine as iSCSI target, the other two machines with vmware ESXi 4.1, for sure it will be real fun to configure one x3650 m3 as a iSCSI target – hoping debian stable will install clean without patching the kernel for raid modules or something ….  🙂

M$ sql server debugging

got errors backing up transaction logs of a ms sql server 2008:

Task ‘Datenbank sichern’ (COMDB01\XXXXX))
Datenbanken:yp: Transaktionsprotokoll
Vorhandene anfügen
Fehler:(-1073548784) Fehler beim Ausführen der Abfrage ‘BACKUP LOG [xxxxxxxx] TO  DISK = N’F:\\Backup\\BWP…’: ‘Die BACKUP LOG-Anweisung ist unzulässig, wenn das Wiederherstellungsmodell EINFACH verwendet wird. Verwenden Sie BACKUP DATABASE, oder ändern Sie das Wiederherstellungsmodell mithilfe von ALTER DATABASE.
BACKUP LOG wird fehlerbedingt beendet.’. Mögliche Ursachen sind folgende: Probleme bei der Abfrage, nicht richtig festgelegte ResultSet-Eigenschaft, nicht richtig festgelegte Parameter oder nicht richtig hergestellte Verbindung.

simple solution:

just change the “wiederherstellunsmodell” for the corresponding databases with the gui from simple to full, run a full backup, then the problem should be solved. you can do all online.