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…
As announced [https://log.cyconet.org/2012/02/26/booth-at-chemnitzer-linux-tage-2012-clt14] 3 weeks ago, the Debian project was present at Chemnitzer Linuxtage [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2012/]. Several talks and workshops where held by people related to the Debian project. At the booth we had talks and discussions with exhibitors and…
Octopress [http://octopress.org/docs/setup/] seems to become more popular these days. As it looks great at a first view, I see two problems. Ruby 1.9.2 All documentations and howtos requires to install ruby 1.9.2 via rvm. Maybe anybody can tell me, why I could…
Having monitoring for dualstack connectivity inplace [https://log.cyconet.org/2012/03/09/monitoring-dualstacked-systems-with-icinga] helps a lot. Unfortunately in most cases we are running also services we want to offer dualstacked. In the past we just monitored in those cases IPv4 only or created a separate check for the same…
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…
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:…
* 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=…