Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:43:02 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Redundant setup on a budget?? Message-ID: <200107261043.f6QAh3v02375@Magelan.Leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <5632231526.20010725201645@buz.ch>
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On 25 Jul, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > >>> realtime (basically, I could agree on using any solution that >>> doesn't create more than a 10 to 15min lag, even on big >>> mailservers with hundred of thousands of files and dirs). >> Perhaps you want to implement it on your own too... > > It's just that I just started coding C++ (after several years of > Python, PHP and Perl) and never did any Kernel hacking so far. If > somebody'd provide me with the filelist, I'd be all ears to do it. > >> For ufs: >> man 2 kqueue > > Hmm. This is FreeBSD >4.0... Not exactly portable, but I suspect We are talking in FreeBSD-isp... and you didn't want to use 3.x because of the not fixable local root exploit (the fix is to upgrade to 4.x). So what? > there's no such thing as a portable approach to something like this. A portable solution would have to poll... and we didn't want to do that, right? > On the first glance it looks pretty complex but... It depends... >> If you decide to implement it (there are interfaces to other >> languages - at least to python - in the ports), please make the >> program modular in a fashion it would be usable as a realtime >> tripwire replacement (e.g. let it call 3rd party apps with "path" >> and "type of change" as arguments... I already thought about this a >> little bit, but unfortunally I didn't have time to implement it >> myself, but you're perhaps interested in some ideas I have). > > I currently prefer to work on my monitoring system until it at least > is alpha quality (i.e. enough for inhouse use ;-) but after that I'm > interested in this kind of stuff. Just call me back then. Bye, Alexander. -- Where do you think you're going today? http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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