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Your password for a rubber bone!

Submitted by admin on 2010, September 7 - 17:07
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While we pay too much attention to network security and data security problems, we often forget that technology is no longer such a high risk as the users themselves. Even if we have successfully introduced the best security systems, we cannot stop there, since we also have to train users actively so that they become [...]

syslog-ng 3.1 backport arrived for Ubuntu Lucid

Submitted by admin on 2010, September 7 - 12:12
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A backport of syslog-ng 3.1 was released for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) yesterday. I tested it on my machines, and works fine. Check https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports for details how to install it!

patterndb homepage

Submitted by admin on 2010, September 7 - 09:34
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Since our new website with a wiki engine has launched (finally) I started to write the patterndb project homepage, which you can find at http://www.balabit.com/wiki/patterndb. From a set of links there’s also a new article describing how to deploy the patterndb rules in a syslog-ng installation. Hopefully it’ll make experimentation easier.

patterndb classification

Submitted by admin on 2010, September 3 - 20:14
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As you probably know one goal for patterndb is to implement message classification. E.g. in addition to extracting information from log messages, it also associates a “class”, later available in the “${.classifier.class}” value. Right now, syslog-ng doesn’t really care what this string is. But the XML schema validating patterndb file lists the following four classes [...]

syslog-ng backports for Debian and Ubuntu

Submitted by admin on 2010, September 3 - 13:28
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The latest stable releases of Debian and Ubuntu contain an ancient syslog-ng release, version 2.0.9. While it was a great release, many interesting features were added to syslog-ng in the past few years. These include SSL, database support and pattern-db. Those who use the testing branches of the distributions already have version 3.1 of syslog-ng [...]

Do you speak English?

Submitted by admin on 2010, September 1 - 11:57
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I would like to announce a new casual labor opportunity. We are looking for someone who can speak English fluently and has experience in telemarketing. If you have these two competences, write an email to Attila Kiss: attila.kiss@balabit.com Balázs

I am Balázs Antal

Submitted by admin on 2010, September 1 - 10:17
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Dear Visitor, In honour of my first blog post, I introduce myself: My name is Balázs Antal and I work at BalaBit since February 2010. I’m 22 years old and I have started to work here as a marketing trainee. After my graduation I had the opportunity to stay here and continue my job (my [...]

multi-threading coming in syslog-ng OSE 3.3

Submitted by admin on 2010, September 1 - 09:22
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As posted on the mailing list already, I’m planning to turn syslog-ng into a fully-multi-threaded application in order to improve performance on multi-core systems. Since I don’t want to start destaibilizing 3.2 (rather to push dub that as stable soon), this will become part of OSE 3.3. During my holidays I’ve worked a little on [...]

Trip to Montenegro

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 31 - 14:20
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I was on vacation last week and I spent a beautiful relaxing week in Dobre Voda, in Montenegro. I can frankly offer this country as a possible holiday destination to everybody because everything was more then perfect! Montenegro is one of the most beautiful countries I’ve ever seen. There are great forests, high mountains and [...]

A tiny music server

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 31 - 14:17
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Those who know me are aware, that I’m a big fan of “alternative” music and computer architectures. I have hundreds of CDs and many PowerPC and ARM based machines and developers boards. Recently I was looking for a solution to have easy access to my CDs, without needing to walk to my HiFi to change [...]

Holiday

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 29 - 06:51
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I’ve spent the last 1.5 weeks at lake Balaton with my family as holiday. That’s why i was missing from the syslog-ng mailing list and from this blog. I’ll try to finish my backlog in the coming days.

First post

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 25 - 13:13
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Hello, this is my new Blog.

syslog-ng in the Home Theater

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 25 - 11:07
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We just found, that syslog-ng is an essential ingredient when building a Home Theater PC.  For details, check http://www.fubar.si/2010/8/23/gentoo-ion-330-and-xbmc-perfect-htpc , a nice description, how to build the perfect HTPC using Gentoo Linux. The default syslog implementation is syslog-ng on Gentoo, which is a nice, hacker friendly Linux distribution.

New partner in Asia

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 19 - 13:20
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I am happy to inform everybody, that we have got a new partner in Asia, in Sri Lanka. The company is VS Information Systems (Pvt) Ltd. They have signed the reseller agreement about a month ago. VS Information was founded about one and a half year ago. It belongs to VS Group, like VS Hydro, [...]

Blog moving

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 17 - 19:14
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Hi, We are moving this blog to a wordpress instance deployed on our company webserver, under this period, you may encounter temporary problems on this blog. Thanks and sorry for the confusion.

pdbtool test improvements

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 16 - 18:52
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I have added some more functionality to “pdbtool test” which I needed while working on the official syslog-ng patterndb patterns. It now can process several pdb files in a single invocation and also it is now able to validate the patterndb XML files against the official schema. This is the shell command I’ve used: $ [...]

Header files

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 15 - 18:22
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On Friday we had a short debate in the room with the guys about the role of header and cpp files. I didn’t support to separate unit tests to header and implementation part, because I guess in this case it’s not necessary. Why? Data types (i.e. classes) have abstract and concrete aspects. We store the [...]

syslog-ng & open core, why we think it is different

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 14 - 07:40
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As you may have seen in my last post, syslog-ng was quoted as an example of “open core” development model, which has problems in the eyes of some Open Source purists. I was trying to do my homework and understand their point of view and see what we can do about it. If you are [...]

Creating graphs from SAR output

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 10 - 11:25
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You must know that sar is a very effective tool to collect system activity or performance information from your system. To collect all information: sar -o test.log -A 1 3 2>&1 >/dev/null This command will make a binary file from output, and you can display it with sadf command: sadf -t -d test.log — -A [...]

LWN: syslog-ng rotten to the (Open) Core?

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 8 - 14:23
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This was first posted as a comment under an article on lwn.net, but I thought it was important enough to post it here for others not reading lwn. Please go ahead and read the original article which is about the “Open Core” business model and its problems from the Free Software community point of view. [...]

syslog-ng 3.2alpha2 released

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 7 - 18:58
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I’ve just uploaded syslog-ng 3.2alpha2 to the release directory. The last alpha release didn’t compile on all supported platforms and the automatic test-suite was disabled, because it only worked if syslog-ng got installed first. These obstacles have been overcome and together with some fixes and a couple of new features, 3.2alpha2 is now available. I’ve [...]

syslog-ng name-value pair naming

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 6 - 21:26
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I was giving a lot of thought recently to the topic of naming name-value pairs in syslog-ng. Until now the only documented rule is stating somewhat vaguely that whenever you use a parser you should choose a name that has at least one dot in it, and this dot must not be the initial character. [...]

Welcome!

Submitted by admin on 2010, August 6 - 17:01
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First of all, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Edit Tusjak and I work at BalaBit as an international sales representative and this is my first post on the BalaBit official blog channel. I work at the ROW international sales team and we sell IT security products for countries worldwide. I have [...]

Hello World!

Submitted by admin on 2010, May 5 - 15:40
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hello world!

Hello world!

Submitted by admin on 2010, May 4 - 15:13
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