On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, nux@li.nux.ro wrote:

To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: nux@li.nux.ro Subject: Re: [CentOS] tcptrack for Centos 5.5 32bit rpm

Keith Roberts writes:

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Hi list.

I have rebuilt tcptrack now.

Wow, wasn't aware of this program. Looks very nice/useful. They should rename it to tcptop :) Could come in handy instead of jnettop.

Cheers for that!

That's OK Nux - YW.

Keith :)

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On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Kai Schaetzl wrote:

To: centos@centos.org From: Kai Schaetzl maillists@conactive.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] tcptrack for Centos 5.5 32bit rpm

Keith Roberts wrote on Sun, 16 Jan 2011 21:07:20 +0000 (GMT):

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http://www.karsites.net/centos/downloads/5.5/tcptrack-1.3.0-1.el5.i386.rpm

why would you do that? I mean, the latest version is available on rpmforge and the one above is not the latest. Maybe you are not aware that there are some good, recommended external repo's out there?

No, I wasn't aware that this package is available somewhere else.

Thanks for the update :)

Keith

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On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] tcptrack for Centos 5.5 32bit rpm

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Keith Roberts keith@karsites.net wrote:

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Hi list.

I have rebuilt tcptrack now.

You can get it from here:

http://www.karsites.net/centos/downloads/5.5/tcptrack-1.3.0-1.el5.i386.rpm

Oh, boy. Keith? We may love you and think you're cool and your tools handy, but we have *no idea* of the safety or reliability of your source code. Please be sure to publish your SRPM with it. If you don't do this, you may also run afoul of the GP. (I just checked: the current tcptrack is under GPLv2). The home page is at http://www.rhythm.cx/~steve/devel/tcptrack/

To avoid this kind of problem, I suggest you take a look at http://rpm.pbone.net/ to see if there are RPM's for your particular OS when writing packages. Sure enough, version 1.4.0 is available at RPMforge. And RPMforge is very amenable to adding interesting packages, and pretty good about checking packages for their provenance: I've been submitting .spec files packages there for quite some time.

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It's not signed, so to install it with yum as root user, do:

# yum localinstall --nogpgcheck tcptrack-1.3.0-1.el5.i386.rpm

Please don't! You've not published source code for this, and a network monitoring tool built without good provenance is begging to send interesting packets offsite to an unknown repository. Not that you've done this, Keith, but as a general approach, random software packages off the net should be reviewed before installation.

It's right in RPMforge, which has source code and a more recent version. I personally install the rpmforge-release package, then disable default access to it to protect my base systemm from conflicts with EPEL or the base OS, and pick and choose packages as necessary. (The subversion and rsync updates are very useful.)

Hi Nico. Thanks for all those tips :)

Yes, that's what I do with 3rd party repos as well.

I have pulled the plug on tcptrack-1.3.0-1.el5.i386.rpm, and all that's left now is:

2317 Dec 19 13:16 Fedora6-GPG-public-key.asc 148276 Jan 23 16:23 qps-1.9.18~6.src.rpm 187376 Dec 19 13:13 qps-1.9.18~.i386.rpm

I got the qps source from Fedora's koji site. The F6 public key is for anyone else that wants to rebuild qps - maybe for a different linux distro.

I do intend to set up a proper 3rd party repo for Centos, as soon as I have the time to read up on things.

Kind Regards,

Keith

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