Linux

Downgrading Glibc in Gentoo

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While refining some automated setup scripts at some point I upgraded to a testing/unstable version of glibc. When I attempted to get the box back on to the …

File in Wrong Format

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I have been recently attempting to cross compile a custom Gentoo profile targeting a Xilinx board as I found their distribution to be unmanageable (PetaLinux as …

Gentoo Fstab Failure

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I use Gentoo with OpenRC quite a bit both for my personal servers and as a compilation test bed for new software since I can control the dependency versions …

Cron Daemon

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Cron is a pretty standard utility and there isn't much to it. I generally use cronie as my cron daemon with the associated anacron helper for systems that …

Investigating LVM From Dracut

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In my my last post, I covered finding logical volumes that were missing from LVM from within a live CD (which is effectively a whole standard environment). …

Visible Yet Missing Logical Volumes

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While working on an automated install script for an embedded board, I hit an issue with the logical volumes never showing up in /dev/mapper, and in turn unable …

Linux Audit Rule Paths

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I encountered a little bit of confusion while rewriting my auditd rules which some Googling did not help me solve. When monitoring a file or directory there are …

The Case of an Empty Executable

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I recently came across a short article written about a decade ago. It was a curious thing already as it was hosted in a user's home directory off a web server …

Auditd

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Auditd collects any configured syscall execution with critical security metadata associated with the event. This can help enrich other security tools such as …