Short before Debian is freezing [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/06/msg00006.html] the upcoming release of a new version of nagios-plugins [http://nagiosplugins.org/] is scheduled for Wednesday. The good news is, that a recent version is available in unstable and testing. Upstream only fixed some check_ping…
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 and some…
* 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~…
After Debian Squeeze was released [https://log.cyconet.org/2011/02/06/debian-6-0-squeeze-released/] last weekend, development will speed up again. Today I uploaded [http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/postfwd/news/20110210T083825Z.html] a new postfwd [http://postfwd.org/] package which ships also the postfwd2 script, a prefork server version.…
I'm experiencing since some time (out of the blue) spontaneous reboots of some of my dom0s on lenny/i386 (others don't have this effect). As result of this, I started rolling out linux-image-2.6.32-bpo.5-xen-686 from bpo and backported xen and xen-common from testing: # dpkg -l | grep xen | grep…
Alexander Wirt was so kind to upload [http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/icinga/news/20101006T174717Z.html] the latest icinga (1.2) [http://www.icinga.org/2010/10/06/icinga-1-2-unified-stable-released/] release to unstable. This will be the next candidate for lenny-backports-sloppy [http://backports.debian.org/news/lenny-backports-sloppy_created/]. If you…
In the last days I uploaded several (new) packages to backports.org [http://backports.org]: * mailscanner [http://packages.qa.debian.org/mailscanner] 4.79.11-2~bpo50+1 * icinga [http://packages.qa.debian.org/icinga] 1.0.1-3~bpo50+1 (NEW queue [http://www.backports.org/debian/new.html]) * nagios3 [http:…
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 [http://www.…