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For someone that wants to begin securing his or her network. What would be the starting point ? I guess in sort of a check list format. I mean as of now Im not administering a network. But in the old company I used to work for. Security was a big problem there were no polices in place. And in what ways can one reduce the amount of work it take to keep up with securing and monitoring a diversed

...ret" locations, > preferably encrypted? Losing logs makes it hard to do a risk assessment. > For all I know, I'm still vulnerable after updating bind. As for safe logging I suggest serial lines onto a standalone box. This is recommended in such well-regarded places as Chapman & Zwicky's book "Building Internet Firewalls", ORA, page 106. When I came to do this I could find no software so I wrote some (at work, unpublished). Essentially what you want is a bit of serial traffic code lifted from the HOWTOs in both a source and a sink: source: syslog sends to a na...

Any progress here? Does anyone know if this will be fixed in 7.1 latest, or should we start looking for different backup solution (in this case I would suggest to remove dump from the source tree - having a backup tool that doesn't work is worse than having none). After upgrading we basically cannot backup our servers. Shouldn't this issue be on

I was wondering if anyone here has or knows how to implement ttysnoop w/ssh ?

Hi, I was wondering if there have been any conversations with backup vendors like Veritas or EMC regarding better integration with ZFS. While I understand they can use the "native" mode of reading files from the filesystem, it would be great if there were agents that had options like making a snapshot and storing a "zfs backup" datastream that could be used for zfs restore.