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Mirroring Traffic in Preparation for Setting Up Snort

By nPm November 20, 2023Logs, Networking, Raspberry Pi, Security, Snort, Tutorial, Ubuntu

Now that I finished my LPIC-2 certification, I am going to working on some security stuff. One of the things I wanted to learn more about was the IDS Snort. It is an open source IDS (Intrusion Detection System) and very popular so I figured it would be worthwhile to…

Easy Backups for Concerto Digital Signage

By nPm October 23, 2023Backups, Concerto Digital Signage, Linux, Logs, Systemd, Tutorial, Virtual Machines, Virtualization

If you have read any of my earlier posts you know that I am running the pre built VM of Concerto. You should still backup your instance, otherwise, you may find yourself having to rebuild the whole setup, including all your screens and content, should something go horribly wrong. I…

Maintaining Concerto Digital Signage Step 1 – Log Management

By nPm October 15, 2023Concerto Digital Signage, Debian, Linux, Logs, Tutorial, Virtual Machines

After I got Concerto running at work, everyone was super happy with it, it was working great and was very reliable. I barely touched it for the first 60 days that it ran. The HR folks made their updates and all was good with the world, until it wasn't. I…