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A new version of BGPWatch is written and being tested. The new version uses /proc instead of the output from ps for maintaining a list of processes.
The most important thing about this change is that it has allowed me to close up a security issue that has been around from the beginning. With current versions a user can name any of their executables, such as eggdrop, to the name of one of...
2007-01-26 16:47:19 UTC in BGPWatch
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BGPWatch-2.3.1 is finally released after several weeks of running on one of my servers with no issues. There are no new features this time around, just a bunch of optimized code to do away with placeholder variables and temporary files.
2006-06-17 02:30:55 UTC in BGPWatch
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Well, the new BGPWatch I announced some time ago has finally been installed on one of my production servers. I'll leave it running there for a few days to make sure it doesn't do anything crazy and then put it on here for all of you to use.
2006-05-20 00:08:32 UTC in BGPWatch
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BGPWatch has undergone some significant changes.
* Disk I/O has been reduced to only reading the config files on startup, rather than writing all user processes to disk and then reading those files again seconds (or less) later.
* Multiple unnecessary loops through arrays have been removed.
* Several excess temporary or placeholder scalars and arrays have been removed.
2006-04-11 00:27:32 UTC in BGPWatch
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bgpwatch-2.3 has been released after running on a production box for around 2 months with no issues.
I have added a test mode (defaults to on) which will just tell you which processes would have been killed rather than actually killing them. This should make testing to make sure you've got everything configured properly a lot safer.
Support for using full usernames rather than the...
2005-09-24 13:47:16 UTC in BGPWatch
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I put test mode into v2.3 last night and it seems to work as intended. I think this will be very helpful in ensuring that you've got bgpwatch configured how you want it before you let it start killing processes.
2005-08-19 14:31:12 UTC in BGPWatch
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bgpwatch 2.3 is almost here, finally. I got around to writing code so that you can use full usernames in your config files instead of the username as it appears in the output of ps (which shortens longer names). This functionality is being tested by myself and a few volunteers.
Before releasing I plan to add a test mode which will just list which processes would have been killed with their...
2005-08-18 14:17:41 UTC in BGPWatch
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You can now downloaded the correct 2.2.2 code that should actually work. Again, I'm sorry about taking so long to fix this. I have been inactive with this project and for some reason my 2.2.2 source that I run did not have the error in the code.
Also, in the last news I said line 183. It should have been line 154. Don't fix code and play WoW at the same time.
2005-05-19 22:26:32 UTC in BGPWatch
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It appears that on line 183 there is a bug:
Sorry it took so long, but I found it. Line 183 is the problem.
next FIRST if $procname =~ /\b$_\b/";
That line needs the " removed so that it is
next FIRST if $procname =~ /\b$_\b/;
Sorry it took so long to get this fixed as the bug was pointed out to me quite some time ago but I've been fairly inactive with this. I'm not...
2005-05-18 23:39:31 UTC in BGPWatch
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Logged In: YES
user_id=569494
Hm, it's been awhile since I've done any work on this or
logged in here to look at stuff. I'll try to remember to do some
testing and see what I can figure out.
2005-05-04 14:28:35 UTC in BGPWatch
