At first we need to install Icinga [https://www.icinga.org/] and lighttpd [http://www.lighttpd.net/]: # aptitude install icinga lighttpd We need to enable the lighttpd cgi and authentication module: # lighttpd-enable-mod cgi && ighttpd-enable-mod auth Let's create a config for Icinga (in a subdir of the…
As some of you might have noticed, the Site PHP.net [http://php.net] was infected [http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/10/phpnet-site-infected-with-malware.html] yesterday with Malware [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware]. If you are running a shared hosting environment, you are also be faced with similar Malware problems.…
Also this year the Debian [http://www.debian.org/about/] project was present at Chemnitzer Linuxtage [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2013/], this time right next the debianforum.de [http://debianforum.de] booth. The booth folks arriving on Friday organized a flashmob at Expitas [http://espitas.de] after booth setup. Unfortunately…
Some of our customers are using central CUPS [http://www.cups.org/] systems for managing their printer infrastructure. In the last years the demand for support printing (called Airprint [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPrint]) from mobile apple products increased. This worked well for us on Debian [http://www.debian.…
If you are comming from an old SCM like subversion, you may have difficulties to internalize the new workflow. Peter Cottle [http://petermcottle.com/] created Learn Git Branching [http://pcottle.github.com/learnGitBranching/] which is really nice.…
Server management on daily basis in a growing environment could be a challenge. Most of the tasks is here done with ClusterSSH [http://clusterssh.sf.net] in help with a homebrew mail notification [http://ftp.cyconet.org/debian/archive/restricted/config-apt-update]. Unfortunately this workflow is not scaling well for 200+…
Usually I'm monitoring stuff with Icinga [http://www.icinga.org] (Nagios in the past). But for my small network, I primary needed monitoring of bandwidth. In our commercial environment we are using a closed source software for accounting traffic. There is also a license for testing purpose with…
You may have noticed that I recently started posting more updates again. The reason is, I switched over from Wordpress to Octopress [http://octopress.org] as blogging engine. The idea was driven, cause my used theme K2 [http://getk2.com/] got stuck and with the upcoming release of Debian [http:…