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…
Also this year the Debian Project [http://www.debian.org] is running a booth [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2012/live/886] at Chemnitzer Linux-Tage [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2012]. Unfortunately this year we are lacking a bit manpower compared to the last years. Actually we have 6 persons at our…
Today I was wondering that I had almost no new mail in my inbox in the morning. After a while I decided to have a look into the server logfiles .... so I learned that postfix wasn't able to deliver mails via lmtp cause of: Oct 7 07:45:…
After visiting [http://www.flickr.com/photos/95546688@N00/sets/72157627049888216/with/5872524240/] the great [http://youtu.be/TqaZ2iedlcU] Deadmau5 [http://www.deadmau5.com/] concert of his Europe Tour in Berlin 7 weeks ago, I'm involved into a traditional cultural event on the technical side on the next…
Sometime it happens, that there are school holidays. As my lovely girl used to be a teacher, she has some time off at that period. So she left me with our kids yesterday to visit the grandparents. It was two hours after leaving, when I was really surprised that I…
* 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~…
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=…
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…