I’ve migrated my nanoblogger based weblog to the Strato Weblog Basic which is based on WordPress
The migration was very error prone, because Wordpress adds a “br” after each line. Also Strato does not
allow to use a custom theme and the build-in theme has only a width of 800px.
So, the most blog entries are readable but not very nice. The Nanoblogger page was ways nicer.
Here a short summary:
Strato Weblog Basic (WordPress) Advantages / Disadvantages
++allows users to comment a blog entry
+easy management via web sites
+easy upload of files
–The default theme is limited to 800px width
–Strato doesn’t allow a custom theme
-The management via web sites is slow
Ive create a new version of the commandline videograbber tool MDGrab. (see downloads)
New Features:
-send keep alive packets
-authentication added
-webcam control added (up,left,right,down,nightshot)
-some fixes
It required the following jars which you can find here: http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/
-commons-logging
-commons-httpclient
-commons-codecs
Example command to view live video on linux:
java -cp
commons-httpclient-3.0.1.jar:commons-logging.jar:commons-codec-1.3.jar:MDGrab.jar
de.dietzm.webcam.MDGrab 192.168.0.55 - admin adminpw | mplayer - -demuxer mpeg4es -msglevel all=1
A detailed description will follow.
The Ovislink Airlive WL-5460CAM has a security hole which allows you to access the buildin Linux system, read and modify
configuration files.
How ?
-Open the web interface of the webcam
-Choose configuration
-Store/backup your configuration into a file
-Open this file with a text editor
-Search the section with the /sbin/ifconfig …. line, this section is the backup of your /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
-Everything you write into this section will be executed on startup (but be careful that it does not block/hang)
-For Example: Add a new line “ls -l /etc >> /etc/hosts” this will list all files in /etc and print the result in /etc/hosts
-Now restore your modified configuration file and reboot the webcam.
Why print to /etc/hosts ?
Because it is the next section in you backup configuration, after reboot you can read the result in your configuration backup.
Try it out ! If your Webcam doesn’t start anymore, you can reset it to the factory defaults.
With some effort it should also be possible to install a telnet or ssh binary to get remote access
Please keep me informed If you managed to get remote access.
Here is the process list of my webcam:
PID Uid VmSize Stat Command
1 root 316 S init
2 root SW [keventd]
3 root SWN [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
4 root SW [kswapd]
5 root SW [bdflush]
6 root SW [kupdated]
8 root SW [mtdblockd]
9 root SW [ftld]
10 root SW [khubd]
13 root 312 S init
14 root 396 S /bin/sh /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
36 root SW< [loop0]
156 root 208 S /usr/sbin/chkbutton
158 root 220 S /bin/op_server 0 0 0
183 root 584 D go-server
184 root 416 S ipv_server
186 root 388 S /bin/sh /etc/rc.d/rc.init.sh
188 root 416 S ipv_server
189 root 416 S ipv_server
196 root 288 R /bin/ps x