This how-to will cover how to set up an SMS (Short Message Service) gateway using your own hardware and software. The intended audience is people that are reasonably comfortable with Linux/Unix and some type of scripting language.
Disclaimer: Use these instructions at your own risk. I assume no responsibility for any damage resulting from information contained [...]
If you run FreeBSD, have you ever noticed adjkerntz -a in your periodic list and wondered what the heck it is? Well, you’re not alone. It’s actually the kernel local time clock (or time zone) synchronisation utility.
As taken from the adjkerntz man page:
adjkerntz: adjust local time CMOS clock to reflect time zone changes and keep [...]
Notice this in your logs?
named[18681]: starting BIND 9.3.0 -c /etc/namedb/named.conf
named[18681]: command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
named[18681]: command channel listening on ::1#953
named[18681]: zone 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA/IN: loading master file master/localhost.rev: file not found
named[18681]: zone 1.0.etc…IP6.ARPA/IN: loading master file master/localhost-v6.rev: file not found
named[18681]: zone 1.0.etc…IP6.INT/IN: loading master file master/localhost-v6.rev: file not found
Did you RTFM? Not to worry, this is easy [...]
Thanks to everyone that attended the 2005 AUUG Digital Pest Symposium, it was a great chance to network and exchange ideas.
My presentation focused on understanding and combatting Spyware. If you’re after the URL’s, here they are:
http://www.trendmicro.com
http://www.symantec.com
http://www.securityfocus.com
http://isc.sans.org
http://www.cert.org
http://www.auscert.org.au
http://www.microsoft.com
http://www.definitivesolutions.com (BHO Demon)
I also gave a talk on System Monitoring for Network Security using Nagios and other Open Source Tools, [...]
