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+…
We are searching a motive for a painting or a painting itself for a quite while now. This should find it's place in our living room. Unfortunately we didn't found one, which matched our both prospect and/or wasn't compatible with the rest of…
Are you consuming a way too much coffee and have reached the junkie level like me? Maybe coffeestats.org [http://coffeestats.org] can help out and visualize your coffee usage.…
Today we where packing back our holiday decorations into boxes. We also had a music box to put away. Do you see the defect in the picture? ;) No? Okay ... some years ago my oldest daughter broke it into some pieces and a friend of us (Hi muempf! ;) did glue all…
Today short before ending business hours I was noticed that there is a problem with a server system (domU). Login with unprivileged user was possible but using "su" didn't worked, also login in as root via privkey failed. Fortunately I was able to connect via xen…
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…
Today I planed to move my FTP server to a new system running Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/]. Usually I'm running vsftpd [https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html#about], so this was also the plan for the new host. As this…
This issue is about a bit specific situation in Germany and it's (mainly tax-financed [http://service.rundfunkbeitrag.de/service/]) public service broadcasting [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96ffentlich-rechtlicher_Rundfunk] . If you think you are not interested, please skip this entry. :) Just beginning from scratch... In Germany we…