Some of you might have noticed there is a new nagios-plugins [http://nagiosplugins.org/] version in the row [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=31356051]. To support upstream in evaluating bugs and bringing the code to a wider audience, I uploaded [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nagios-devel/…
Roundcube [http://www.roundcube.net/] is one of the well known [https://www.google.com/search?q=webmail+opensource] OpenSource solutions for accessing Mails via webinterface. Unfortunately the package [http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/roundcube.html] in wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy] is ~2 years old. In…
Since 2 weeks I'm faced with some problems at a Xen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen] hosting environment based on Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/]. The issue is, that one specific domU is regularly failing network. The investigations showed, that…
Mailscanner [http://www.mailscanner.info/intro.html] is an e-mail security and anti-spam solution for e-mail gateways. In combination of postfix [http://www.postfix.org] it uses a very ugly way [http://www.mailscanner.info/postfix.html] messing around in postfixs queue directories. Anyways .. if you are still interested, keep…
If you updated recently your system to Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/] and you are using vsftpd [https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html#about] with enabled chrooted local users ... [~] # grep -i ^chroot_local_user=yes /etc/vsftpd.conf | tail -1 chroot_local_user=…
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.…