Linux

RSYSLOG is the rocket-fast system for log processing. After syslog, now rsyslog comes pre-built with the Linux systems, meant for local and remote logging. In any system, you will want to: (a) Log the system and application logs on the local machine, and/or (b) Log the system and application logs to a remote machine Below given are 2 cases, useful for forwarding OS logs and application logs: Forwarding only OS logs Add the below given line at the bottom of the /etc/rsyslog.conf file, and later restart the rsyslog service: ...

Honeyd is a small daemon for Linux (now also available for Windows) to simulate multiple virtual hosts on a single machine. It is a kind of an interactive honeypot. The latest release can be downloaded from Honeyd release page. For my project, I have been working with honeypots, and Honeyd is one of them. During the initial stage, I faced some problems while starting the basic setup of some personalities with Honeyd. Here I recall those problems and some misconfigurations which can result in errors (mainly: config file parse error) and can be a problem for first time users. ...