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.
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