Site updates

Posted by jerry as Uncategorized

So, I’ve taken some time to do things I’ve been intending to for a while.  I deep 6′d Pligg on the NetworkStrike.com site.  Pligg is a very nice package for what it does, but it really doesn’t do what I needed.  After some investigation, I settled on drupal.  Drupal turned out to be even better than I expected.  I was ready to write an RSS importer, but found that there were already some very mature importers available, and unlike a lot of tools like this, it actually worked out of the box.  I’ll be slowly getting Networkstrike back to where it was previously.  It was interesting to watch Pligg go unmanaged.  Most of the story submissions were about alien abductions and other crazy things like that.

On syslog.org, I added a new section that specifically deals with syslog-ng.  Having moderated the syslog forums for many years now, I’ve finally come to the realization that syslog-ng is a great tool, it’s just not well organized or supported on the Internet.  How-to’s, docs and whatnot are spread far and wide.  So I decided to try to fill the void.  We’ll see how useful it is.  As it’s a wiki, I’m hoping that people will opt to contribute their bit of knowledge as well.

On a related note, I added a link to syslog.org into a few entries in wikipedia.  Wow, that site must get some serious visitors, because the number of referrals from wikipedia to my site is pretty impressive.  An order of magnitude lower than google provides, but on par with what Yahoo does.