linux

So, I was looking at my logwatch report the other day, and saw one of my webservers was getting hammered via sshd. No big surprise, it happens, but, I started thinking about denyhosts, which was suggested to me by a friend a while back. It may work, but because its a log parsing application, it falls prey to a couple of oportunities which I am not interested in. Such as spoofing the user/pass name on the SSHD log to lock the localhost out, or to lock out the root user.

So, I have some plans for some different pieces of computer equipment, and this has caused me to realize that I need to backup my external HD to DVD and reformat it to better use it. It is currently storing about 400Gb of data from OS X, and is formatted HFS+. I went over a couple of different options, and then on a whim figured I would just plug it into my linux box, and see if it would read it. The good news is that it popped right up and is fully readable, I didn't check if its writable, but I don't care, as long as I can read it to burn the DVDs from I will be fine.