A script used to backup a site or other FTP contents to a folder and then archive it. Deletes files that are more than 60 days old.

#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Download all contents via FTP using ncftpget
# Version 0.1 RDG 20080421
 
my $configdir = "/usr/local/scripts/ftpscript";
 
my $year = (localtime)[5] + 1900;
my $month = (localtime)[4] + 1;
my $day = (localtime)[3];
if ($month [...]

I just started this site not too long ago, and I’m already inundated with Bulgarian comment spam. I moderate the comments of course, but I guess the subject matter attracts such.
80.80.143.218 - - [14/Apr/2008:15:06:51 -0400] “POST /blog/comments-post.php HTTP/1.0″ 302 - “http://www.ryangreenier.org/blog/posts/2007/12/21/ceh-preplogic-review/” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060728 Firefox/1.5.0.6″

Depending on who’s over your [...]

I do a lot of firewall work, and from time to time I come across something that is out of the ordinary. This isn’t new, but I thought of it today and how ridiculous it really is. NATing the source and the destination address for a particular connection. At the end of the day, there [...]