Got Hardware Donation

Last weekend I got a hardware donation from muempf [http://blog.pigwidgeon.de]. It's a new 1U server with the following specs: > Supermicro P8SCi Systemboard [http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/E7221/P8SCi.cfm] Intel P4 3.00GHz 2x 512 MB DDR2 533MHz unbuffered ECC Systemmemory…

Taking Xen guests (domU) alive via routed network

The xend config looks like this: playground:~# grep -v ^# /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp (network-script 'network-bridge netdev=dummy0') (vif-script vif-bridge) (dom0-min-mem 196) (dom0-cpus 0) Creating volume group for Xen domU (/dev/hdb2 was allready created with id 8e): playground:~# pvcreate /dev/hdb2 Physical volume "/dev/hdb2" successfully…

Getting started with XEN on etch

Today I thought it's time to look deeper into the Xen [http://www.xensource.com/] hype. So I decided to install xen on etch [http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/]. I followed Ganneffs recommandation [http://kosh.ganneff.de/~joerg/clt2007_xen.pdf] playground:~# aptitude install bridge-utils iproute \ xen-ioemu-3.…

MySQL5 support in php5 packages on backport.org

I'm stuck of the requests linking php5 on backports.org [http://backports.org] against "MySQL5". You need support of MySQL5 or the mysqli extention for your php5 packages for sarge? So the packages on backports.org [http://backports.org] are not what you want. The packages…

vroot support gone in debian kernel 2.6.18 ... why?

# grep -i vroot /boot/config*-vserver* /boot/config-2.6.16-2-vserver-686:CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT=y /boot/config-2.6.17-2-vserver-686:CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT=y /boot/config-2.6.18-3-vserver-686:# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT is not set /boot/config-2.6.18-4-vserver-686:# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VROOT is not set Does anybody know, why…

last weekend on CLT

Reduced the work queue after the nice weekend on CLT [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/info/], I have some time to write a summary. After 2 years I was able to be there again, cause I blocked the weekend early in my timetable. The event was organized quite well like…

Music and Debian

Today I found a way to combine consuming my favorite Radio Station [http://www.friskyradio.com/] and using my favorite System Distribution [http://www.debian.org/]. On working hours and most of the time at home I'm listening to Frisky Radio [http://www.friskyradio.com/], founded by Faisal…

Reduce spam significant

With policyd-weight [http://policyd-weight.org/] you are able to reject mails before the body is received by your MTA, here postfix [http://www.postfix.org]. No bounce mails, less wasted bandwidth and cpu time. policyd-weight scores characteristics of the mail positive or negative, is a defined value reached, it got…