Chucks Blog

I just uploaded my first batch of 68k macintosh software to a site I have set up to be old macintosh friendly.
Some of the software includes:
Ircle 1.51
SIMS (E-mail server)
Virtual Desktop
Disifectant
SoftwareFPU
Basic Black (Screensaver)
VNC 68k

I plan to upload more at a later time, as well as put a few old machines I have to work compiling NetBSD [...]

This post is slightly related to my last one, but i figured why not take one of my old Macintosh computers for a spin using A/UX?
For anyone who doesn’t know, A/UX was Apple’s attempt at creating a MacOS and UNIX operating system together as one before OSX. While it’s no longer easy to find the [...]

Digging around in my closet today I noticed alot of old 68k mac machines. Then I remembered: I have several gigs of 68k mac software hanging around too that I should upload somewhere indexable!
So for the next few weeks whenever I get the chance I’m going to upload all the 68k mac software I have, [...]

Running ClamAV and Spamassassin with postfix, without having to use Amavis. How-to specifically designed for a Debian-based system

SSH has a nifty feature included with it that allows it to act as a SOCKS server. To use it simply try
ssh -D port account@server
And setup your local configuration files to use the server localhost:port as a SOCKS server. Every connection will then be relayed through server, which allows you to bypass filters the local [...]

awstats (at least on Debian) seems to default its configuration for log-file type to a “common” log, which for most of us is completely useless. This is mainly because common log files don’t provide enough information to justify running awstats in the first place.
So, in order to change this behaviour add/modify this in your awstats.conf [...]

The previous theme was wonderful and all, but way to common. So I’ve replaced it with a much less common theme and played around with the CSS stylesheet to make everything look like it should.
So if anyone encounters any problems with the theme let me know so I can address them quickly.

Consistently I see SSH brute force attacks on my server that show up like the following in my /var/log/auth.log file
Apr 9 07:34:15 wine sshd[2323]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname=
uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=122.160.86.167 user=root
Apr 9 07:34:20 wine sshd[2325]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for
abts-north-static-167.86.160.122.airtelbroadband.in failed – POSSIBLE BREAK-IN ATTEMPT!
Apr 9 07:34:20 wine sshd[2325]: [...]