Is using Octopress a good idea?

Octopress [http://octopress.org/docs/setup/] seems to become more popular these days. As it looks great at a first view, I see two problems. Ruby 1.9.2 All documentations and howtos requires to install ruby 1.9.2 via rvm. Maybe anybody can tell me, why I could…

Monitoring dualstacked service with Icinga

Having monitoring for dualstack connectivity inplace [https://devlog.cyconet.org/2012/03/09/monitoring-dualstacked-systems-with-icinga] helps a lot. Unfortunately in most cases we are running also services we want to offer dualstacked. In the past we just monitored in those cases IPv4 only or created a separate check for the same…

Monitoring dualstacked systems with Icinga

Since some ages we are deploying IPv6 in our network and also for some selected services. Some days ago we discovered, that anybody has enabled accidentally a router advertisement daemon in a network where this shouldn't happen. As result of this, IPv6 enabled systems got (additional) IPv6 addresses…

Monitoring related package updates

* nagios-plugins [http://packages.qa.debian.org/nagios-plugins] * stable: uploaded 1.4.15-3squeeze1 fixing #623702 [http://bugs.debian.org/623702] * testing: entered 1.4.15-4 [http://packages.debian.org/source/testing/nagios-plugins], this basically reduced the dependency footprint of nagios-plugins-standard (#569028 [http://bugs.debian.org/569028]) * squeeze-backports: uploaded 1.4.15-4~…

Virtualisation on HP ProLiant hardware with squeeze

In case you are using HP ProLiant G6-series or G7-series with Intel-based hardware and you are thinking about virtualization (e.g. booting the hypervisor), you should have a look into this [http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c02495237&lang=en&cc=us&taskId=…

small announcement: Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2011

This weekend we did run a booth [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011/live/691] at Chemnitzer Linuxtage [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2011]. As always, it was a joy to be at this event. We had great discussions and talks with guests and exhibitors, I also enjoyed a small number of…

package updates

After Debian Squeeze was released [https://devlog.cyconet.org/2011/02/06/debian-6-0-squeeze-released/] last weekend, development will speed up again. Today I uploaded [http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/postfwd/news/20110210T083825Z.html] a new postfwd [http://postfwd.org/] package which ships also the postfwd2 script, a prefork server version.…