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Installation Nessus on Fedora (part 1)

At Insecure.org , they call Nessus as the best free network vulnerability scanner available and they still number one as a network security tools for many years, I remember the last time I install Nessus 2.2.9 on CentOS without no problem, the installation using their installer run smoothly. But if you want to install Nessus in Fedora (mine version 5), you need to do some tweak on your Fedora box. I'm suggest you to install Nessus version 2.2.9 because starting version 3 Nessus no more open source, pity :(- . There are some libraries and package you need to install like flex, yacc, bison, gcc, gtk+-devel etc. You just using yum bla bla bla, to be continue...sorry

Can we put -current in slapt-getrc?

I'm always asking slack people can we put -current branch in slapt-getrc (slapt-get configuration file) because I'm not sure about this, see here . After do some googling I found this. So, read those tutorial and you'll find the answer. The most important things, always read ChangeLog. :)-

Oracle 9i class

Oracle class again, its terrible! We finished our class yesterday at 9.00 pm , believe it or not (not Reply).

Oracle 9i

Hari ni masuk hari kedua aku berkursus Oracle9i:SQL, kursus ini pada dasarnya ialah untuk mendedahkan penggunakan Oracle database pada sistem TMS (Training Management System). Aku telah mengikuti kursus seumpama ini beberapa bulan lepas dan kali ini adalah refreshment atau retraining (tajuk kursus pada memo pun macam tu :)) untuk kursus ini. Di bandingkan dengan kursus lepas, kursus kali ini lebih menjurus kepada penggunaan syntax SQL dengan menggunakan SQL*Plus. Pada aku sepatutnya kursus ini perlu menggunakan OS Linux sebagai platform kerana TMS menggunakan Linux sebagainya platform kepada Oracle. Walaupun penggunaan Oracle adalah sama pada mana-mana platform iaitu pada Windows atau Linux tetapi terdapat beberapa perbezaan kecil pada kedua-duanya. Pengajar kali ini Mr Eugene lebih baik dan 'bersopan' dibandingkan dengan Mr Bala dulu yang selalu duduk atas kerusi. Beliau lebih menekankan penggunakan command SQL itu sendiri (Linux adalah CLI). Oracle lebih pantas dan ringan pada Linux dibandingkan dengan Windows.

Slackware 11. 0 Changelog

Version 11.0 still rock-solid, here a few minor update

VERSION = current (do not put on your production server)

The last post I'm talking about on how to configure Swaret, my advise here don't put VERSION = current if you use it for production, put VERSION = stable in your swaret.conf

How to configure Swaret

Here some basic info on how to install/configure Swaret

root@matt:/home/download# wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/swaret/swaret-1.6.3-noarch-2.tgz
root@matt:/home/download# installpkg swaret-1.6.3-noarch-2.tgz
root@matt:/home/download# vi /etc/swaret.conf.new
reading /etc/swaret.conf.new

Change anything you want in swaret.conf.new, here mine :
change VERSION=current
uncomment the line REPOS_ROOT=LinuxPackagesDOTnET%http://www2.linuxpackages.net/packages/Slackware-11.0
change DESC from 0 to 1 so you get a short description of the packages while installing.
change DSEARCHM to 1 so it will use slocate to check for missing libraries.

root@matt:/home/download# mv /etc/swaret.conf.new /etc/swaret.conf
root@matt:/home/download# swaret --update
swaret 1.6.3-2

[ http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/slackware/slackware-current ]
### Fetching CHECKSUMS List File... DONE!
### Fetching FILELIST List File... DONE!
### Fetching PACKAGES List File for Packages... DONE!
### Fetching PACKAGES List File for Extra Packages... DONE!
### Fetching ChangeLog... DONE!
=> Generating List Files... DONE!
[ http://www2.linuxpackages.net/packages/Slackware-11.0 ]
### Fetching 'LinuxPackagesDotNet' CHECKSUMS List File... DONE!
### Fetching 'LinuxPackagesDotNet' FILELIST List File... DONE!
### Fetching 'LinuxPackagesDotNet' PACKAGES List File for Packages... DONE!
=> 'LinuxPackagesDotNet'... DONE!
=> Generating 'LinuxPackagesDotNet' List Files... DONE!

root@matt:/home/download# swaret --upgrade -a

Htop

Here my Htop output on my Slack server. The CPU and memory process still in a good condition.

More Slackware Reviews

I found this "Like fine wine, this distro gets better with age" and this Review of Slackware 11.0, but the second more detail and complete, the author show his /proc/cpuinfo and lspci output. His got a good memories with Slack " Slackware holds a special place in my heart being my first distro and I'll always support them". I think the author using OpenBSD, that's why he love Slack. :}

Slackware Package Management Tools

There are no special tools for package management system in Slackware. If i'm not misktaken, Swaret and Slackpkg was introduced in /extra since version 9.1 but did not install by default. Swaret then was removed from the distribution since Slackware 10.0 but is still available as a 3rd party package. Slapt-get and SlackUpdate become an alternative as a third party tools. Besides all the tools above, I found some other tools that really worth to check out, there are Slackmatic, EMERDE a port of Gentoo's package system, PortPKG similar to BSD's port, Slack-get and a new improvement for pkgtool like Spkg and Tukaani Pkgtools. I'm not try yet some of the tools above but as a Slackware lover, why not give them a try especially EMERDE and PortPKG. Here a good link for Slackware package management tools.