shotgun scanning
UDP scanning has always been slow. Slower than slow, slower than molasses, really fucking slow. So when I started being interested in scanning for IPMI out in the wild, which...
reading wtmp
Have a wtmp file you need read? A nice perl one liner to do so: perl -we '@type=("Empty","Run Lvl","Boot","New Time","Old Time","Init","Login","Normal","Term","Account");$recs = ""; while (<>) {$recs .= $_};foreach (split(/(.{384})/s,$recs)) {next...
…losing a half day of my life… and I’m running out of half days.
This line did it: $ENV{'PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME'} = 0; Net::Nessus::XMLRPC, which calls LWP::UserAgent, didn’t emit any hints why something that had been working for many months suddenly doesn’t when I am forced to...
restoring mysql tables….
Note to self… use this perl program+backup…. http://blog.tsheets.com/2008/tips-tricks/extract-a-single-table-from-a-mysqldump-file.html And since things break over time… the program. Not mine, use at your own peril, etc… just don’t ask why I needed...
and now… custom fields
Useful little things. Beat on that old perl script and added support… a few lines of code, a lot of beating my head against the wall, but I didn’t see...