Posts from — March 2009

While bringing up firewalls for my test server, I thought of doing a little check on my machine. The logs raised both my eyebrows. Dear Google told me, I was not the only one.

Leopard introduced application based firewall, while the old ipfw still exists with just one default rule (Accept everything from everything!)

65535 allow ip from any to any

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Once your OS is grown enough to play (I mean installed), you have to sit down with it and do the SECURITY TALK.

A little on the philosophical side of it, I think sense of security is just a fad and a perception. You are secure when you start feeling it, or we can keep on going paranoid tweaking it deeper and deeper, there will always exploits to to be known, more tools to be learnt, more WMDs to be discovered!

Always have a second plan- backup your data.

Lets get back to our Linux Box.

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Moving ahead on the new project, I decided to install a versioning system. I kinda have a crush on Git, however have not been using it regularly. So what better time to rekindle the old fire?

I have used SVN in the past, however CVS is still the old faithful dog hosting Drupal repositories. I wanted to concentrate on using Git, while wanted easy way to update drupal installations.

After a number of blog reads, here is my workflow (atleast planned one…)

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