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