Mark Dastmalchi-Round

Mark Dastmalchi-Round

I’m a DevOps architect, musician, animal lover and all-round geek. If it’s got shiny lights on it, makes loud noises or purrs/wags its tail when you stroke it, I’m all for it. When I’m not writing code or fiddling with computers for a living, I produce my own music and provide the low-end rumble for my band in West Sussex.

mod_php, libstatgrab and nessus updates

Updated:

Note : This page may contain outdated information and/or broken links; some of the formatting may be mangled due to the many different code-bases this site has been through in over 20 years; my opinions may have changed etc. etc.

A bit of a bumper update from me… several packages are now available for testing at http://www.blastwave.org/testing. Any comments welcome - providing no major glitches are uncovered, these should make their way out to the main pkg-get repository and mirrors in a week or so.

They are :

mod_php 4.3.11

mod_php-4.3.11-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz mod_php-4.3.11-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz

This is PHP 4.3.11 for CSWapache. It is built linked against the new libpq 8.0.3, and also has had mbstring support added at the request of a user. Hopefully, this will be one of the last “monolithic” releases, and future PHP packages will be split into modules. One thing to note with this package is it appears that the HTTP and Mail PEAR libraries are no longer bundled with this release. If you are using them, you’ll have to grab the latest versions from PEAR. Other changes over the previously released 4.3.10 package include FreeTDS (MSSQL and Sybase support) and UnixODBC extensions.

libstatgrab 0.11.1

libstatgrab-0.11.1-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz libstatgrab-0.11.1-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz

This is bumped to 0.11.1, a minor bugfix release. It is a library that provides cross platform access to statistics about the system on which it’s run (CPU usage, memory utilisation, disk usage, network traffic, etc.). It also includes a couple of useful tools - “saidar”, which is a tool for giving an overview of the system in a “top”-like manner, and “statgrab”, which can be used in shell scripts to get statistics through a sysctl-style interface.

nessus 2.2.4

libnasl-2.2.4-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz libnasl-2.2.4-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz nessus-2.2.4-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz nessus-2.2.4-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz nessuslib-2.2.4-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg nessuslib-2.2.4-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz nessusplugins-2.2.4-SunOS5.8-i386-CSW.pkg.gz nessusplugins-2.2.4-SunOS5.8-sparc-CSW.pkg.gz

THE open source security scanner. Install nessuslib, libnasl, nessus and nessusplugins in that order. A good walkthrough is available at http://www.nessus.org/demo if you’re interested in trying this package out. Note that starting the server and logging into the client for the first time can take a while, as it has to load and scan all the plugins (it’s faster after it’s done it once).

Update : Packages now heading out to the mirrors. Mod_php is on hold at the moment, as I’m overhauling it and looking at providing an Apache 2 SAPI as well.

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