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Code-commenting log messages
Sunday, March 6, 2011 @ 05:03 PM Author: Péter Gyöngyösi
[NOTE: this is just a cross-post of my mail to the syslog-ng mailing list for the IMAP-impaired :)]
Most of the pattern database-related projects I've seen here started off
from the log side of the whole issue: investigating the messages an
application produces and trying to create patterns based on them
(manually or via patternize). Of course, this ...
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SSB 2.0.1 released
Friday, March 4, 2011 @ 06:03 PM Author: Péter Gyöngyösi
I'm glad to inform you all that the latest maintenance release for the long-term-supported SSB 2.0 line has been released. It contains lots of bugfixes, so you're definitely advised to upgrade to it if you're currently running SSB 2.0.0 or an engineering or update/security released based on that. For the detailed list of changes, see ...
Using upstart in a chroot — a.k.a. the evil inside the init process in Lucid
Friday, January 21, 2011 @ 04:01 PM Author: Péter Gyöngyösi
The base of our appliance products, SCB and SSB are heavily customized Ubuntu distributions. Most of them are based on the Dapper release, but starting with SCB 3.1, we started migrating them to the newest LTS, Lucid Lynx. Doing a direct upgrade from a 4 years old OS and switching from 32-bit to 64 at ...
patternize update and my syslog-ng 3.2 branch
Monday, September 20, 2010 @ 05:09 PM Author: Péter Gyöngyösi
As the patterndb community project is starting to gain some momentum I thought it'd be the right time to port my patternize tool to the new, plugin-based 3.2 codebase as the first step towards getting it integrated -- and to be able to use the fancy new pdbtool features along with ...
Graduate with BalaBit!
Friday, March 26, 2010 @ 05:03 PM Author: Péter Gyöngyösi
BalaBit has always had strong connections with the academia: we give lectures at universities, accept interns for the summer, offer scholarships and consultation on diploma thesises. Also, we're not afraid to hire talented students for part-time work: it's good for them to get some real-world experience before graduation and it's good for us to get ...
2.5 years of XCB
Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 12:03 PM Author: Péter Gyöngyösi
It was in November 2007 when the initial commit of X Control Box was pushed to our VC server -- the idea was to create a framework based on the current Shell Control Box codebase that can act as a base for all our future appliance-like products. We took the chance to rewrite everything that ...
Butterfly effect
Sunday, February 14, 2010 @ 08:02 PM Author: Péter Gyöngyösi
A couple of weeks ago we put together a maintenance release for the old SCB 1.x line. It contained only tiny fixes and security updates for the 3rd party packages we use in it, but as every release, it had to go under a thorough release test. Everything went fine, everything seemed to work as ...
Graduation and the sales kick-off meeting
Monday, February 1, 2010 @ 01:02 AM Author: Péter Gyöngyösi
I haven't had the time to brag about it last week, but on last Monday I managed to defend my thesis and graduate to finally become a certified software engineer. Having spent, well, quite a bit more time in the programme than originally planned and cca. 5 years working in IT, it was high time ...
VersionOne with Bugzilla quips
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 @ 07:01 PM Author: Péter Gyöngyösi
Bugzilla has a rarely used feature called quips. It just displays random quotes on the top of each page from a database to which clever new sentences can be added incredibly easily. Here at BalaBit we love this feature: it contains ~400 entries from the last 5-6 years and serves as a collective memory ...
Introducing pdbtool patternize
Monday, January 11, 2010 @ 01:01 AM Author: Péter Gyöngyösi
As Márton has already written about it, lots of guys here spent a good part of their summer creating a pattern database for some 200+ often-used applications. Just like every manual process, this was a tedious task which begged to be automated. Of course it cannot be fully automated as no algorithm can replace ...