Monthly Archives: December 2011

Unix domain sockets are files

Probably not a first for many seasoned Linux administrators, and probably not correct accordingly to more advanced users than myself, but I just found out that Unix domain sockets are files. Even when they’re not. I have been looking at … Continue reading

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Gentoo WiKi & Knowledge Base

I have been playing with the Gentoo Wiki the last few days and am very impressed with the work that both the wiki teams as well as existing contributors have already done to the place. The look and feel is … Continue reading

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Supporting fix scripts for XCCDF content and maintaining the documents

One of the features supported through OVAL (and Open-SCAP) is to generate fix scripts when a test has failed. The administrator can then verify this script (of course) and then execute it to correct wrong settings. So I decided to … Continue reading

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SELinux Gentoo/Hardened state 2011-12-19

On december 14th, the Gentoo Hardened project had its monthly online meeting to discuss the current state of affairs of its projects and subprojects. Amongst them, the updates on the SELinux-front were presented as well. Since last meeting, the follow … Continue reading

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