Hey Tim,
thanks for your email!
Those addons look great. Quite neat and tidy code and probably they are scratching an itch for some people.
On Thu, 2018-11-29 at 21:11 +0000, Tim FitzGeorge wrote:
I've written a couple of addons for my installations of IPFire. They're available on github and some other people have tried them; they seem to be fairly well received and it's been suggested that it may be worth making them available through pakfire as official addons.
Where did you publish them before?
The first addon provides the ability to send status emails. You can define multiple schedules and the items to be included in each email. By choosing parameters carefully it's possible to get it to send emails on some error conditions. The emails can be encrypted with GPG. The architecture makes it easy to add further items to be reported on.
Could you send an example email what it looks like? I do not see any reason why this should not be part of the distribution and would like to ask you to submit this as a patch that can be merged into mainline.
Maybe we can extend this over time and have it send more information if there are any requests.
Would you be up for maintaining this long-term?
Did you develop this for yourself or for work or has this been sponsored by someone else?
The second addon handles the setting up and updating of IP Address Blocklists in the firewall. It includes options to select which lists to use, and some control over how frequently to check for updates.
I guess Peter might be quite excited about this :)
I personally do not have much use for this, but again, why should this not become part of IPFire?
I did not install any of these yet, so could you maybe excuse lazy me and send screenshots? :)
Both include WUI pages for configuration and language files. They're fully functional, but would require some checking and minor updates. The source can be seen at https://github.com/timfprogs .
I have seen a third one which updates Snort rules. I am sure that you have heard about us changing to suricata soon (test images are available). However, the rules are roughly the same and the same update tools can be used. So, again, would you be interested to have this in the distribution and maintain it?
I'm aware that there other people have made addons for both these purposes, which maybe suggests that it's functionality that is worth adding.
Best, -Michael
P.S. Did you get any help building these or do you speak four languages?