Last night here at BSP [http://wiki.debian.org/BSP2010/Moenchengladbach] I released nagios-plugins (1.4.14-1), which has a couple of fixes and enhancements. For more information, see the changelog [http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/n/nagios-plugins/current/changelog] . The main change may be, that with this…
# xm list | grep <VMName> # xm block-list <VMName_Number> # xm block-detach <VMName_Number> <VMName_Vdev> -f # xm block-attach <VMName_Number> file:///iso/disk.iso \ hdc:cdrom r…
We ordered a couple of the new HP DL160 G6, cause they can be equipped with a lot of RAM. Unfortunately it's always the same with HP and the brandnew ProLiant 100 series ... the driver for the NICs is missing/too old in the latest stable debian release…
A try with OpenWRT [http://openwrt.org] 8.09 in April to setup a WDS [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System] with additional AP functionality and encryption, like described in the documentation [http://downloads.openwrt.org/kamikaze/docs/openwrt.html#x1-210001.2.2], failed [https://dev.openwrt.org/…
For some reasons, you may need to clone/backup NTFS based systems. Lets say your NTFS system is located at /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 is a spare partition where you can store your image. At first you need to boot a live system to take an image: # mount /dev/…
Today I uploaded a new nagios-plugins package to unstable. At first I thought I will wait for the next upstream release, but after the announcement to release soon, the months passed by. While we skipped the last stable release due the lenny freeze, there are a couple of bugs fixed…
Maybe some of you have noticed, svn.kvirc.de was running under heavy load recently while it was smashed by search engine crawlers. First we tried to tweak the trac installation, which caused the heavy load, when running the spiders trough. But it turned out, that this doesn't…
I'm on vacation the 1rst two weeks of June in Manerba del Garda [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manerba_del_Garda] at Lago di Garda [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Garda]. If some dudes are around for beering / chatting / keysigning, feel free to contact me til Friday.…