Author: Ryan Parker
I'm a former captain of the Cyber Defense team form Cal State San Bernardino. I also have a side job helping small to medium business with anything technology, including but not limited to servers, networking, and end user devices. One of my hobbies is building out infrastructures for myself, friends, and clients. I current maintain a homelab with about 400GB of RAM, 100+ TB of storage, and tons of CPU.
Each distro needs different packages to compile the code there are pre-made binaries available, Build Dependencies Each distro needs different packages to compile the code Install the appropriate packages for you distro. I’ll update them as I discover them Ubuntu 16-18 apt install -y unzip build-essential zlib1g-dev libsqlite3-dev libpcre2-dev wget unzip make gcc php php-cli
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Get the windows binary from atomicorp. https://updates.atomicorp.com/channels/ossec/windows/ At the time of writing, the latest is 3.6.0. Download and install the exe. During the installation, you will get an error. Ignore it. Next, we need to download the libpcre2-8-0.dll from the git-sdk-64 Github page in mingw32/bin/libpcre2-8-0.dll and stick it in the osscec-agent folder at C:\Program
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I was having issues getting this working initially. I came to find out that the Mellanox ConnectX-3 adapter I was using had a driver fault that made this not work. I got a CHELSIO CC2-N320E-SR instead and it worked fine. If this does not work, it might be a driver issue. This post is more
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SSH truly is the best protocol ever invented by humans in my opinion, and you can quote me on that. It is a Swiss army knife, and in the right hands, it can be used for any situation. One of the things it can be used for is a Layer 2 VPN through a TAP
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I encountered the following error after installing the AMDGPU Pro drivers on my Arch Linux machine: error: internal error: process exited while connecting to monitor: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libvirglrenderer.so.1: undefined symbol: gbm_bo_unmap The error is caused because the thing it is looking up does not exist. Luckily the fix is easy. Add the
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ELK (or Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) is a set of three technologies by elastic that can be combined to collect and visualize log data. Think of it as rsyslog on steroids and with pretty colors. First off, this guide is written using examples from an Arch Linux host. Theoretically, you should be able to follow
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So recently I ran into an issue where I needed to create a virtual disk 20TB in size. Unfortunately, XCP-ng does not allow doing this through its manager because it uses an older disk system. However, you can manually create an LVM partition and map it to the VM. Here is what you need to
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Below is a collection of useful Bash one-liners that we have come across and use semi-often (or at least often enough to not want to lose them). Honestly we mostly made this just in case we need them again and have lost them elsewhere, but hopefully they end up helping some of you as well!
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Some of you may be asking… are you deranged? Well let me tell you first why I choose to use Arch Linux as my server (and desktop) OS of choice in order of importance in my eyes. Rolling release – Because Arch Linux is rolling release, your server (if you update it) is always on
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Have you ever wanted to import an OVA into services like Linode, Vultr, AWS, and others? Have you ever wanted to get your VM off of one of those services? Well let me introduce the magic of SSH, dd, and Gzip. To get started, you need to boot Linux on both VM’s and have
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