Bye bye Nagios-Plugins

Last night it seems the so called 'Nagios Plugins' project [http://www.nagios-plugins.org/] was cut off. The story started a decade ago when development of the plugins compatible with Nagios [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios] was taken over by an independent group of developers [https://www.…

Crossbuilding Debian packages with sbuild (for Raspbian)

Yesterday I asked [https://log.cyconet.org/2013/11/24/running-icinga-with-lighttpd-on-a-raspberry/] myself, how to setup a crossbuild environment on a Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/]/amd64 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86-64] to build binary packages compatible [http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianFAQ#Can_…

Running icinga with lighttpd on Debian whezzy (and a Raspberry)

At first we need to install Icinga [https://www.icinga.org/] and lighttpd [http://www.lighttpd.net/]: # aptitude install icinga lighttpd We need to enable the lighttpd cgi and authentication module: # lighttpd-enable-mod cgi && ighttpd-enable-mod auth Let's create a config for Icinga (in a subdir of the…

PHP.net infected with Malware and Linux Malware Detect

As some of you might have noticed, the Site PHP.net [http://php.net] was infected [http://blog.spiderlabs.com/2013/10/phpnet-site-infected-with-malware.html] yesterday with Malware [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware]. If you are running a shared hosting environment, you are also be faced with similar Malware problems.…

Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2013!

Also this year the Debian [http://www.debian.org/about/] project was present at Chemnitzer Linuxtage [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2013/], this time right next the debianforum.de [http://debianforum.de] booth. The booth folks arriving on Friday organized a flashmob at Expitas [http://espitas.de] after booth setup. Unfortunately…

Airprint support broken in Debian wheezy?

Some of our customers are using central CUPS [http://www.cups.org/] systems for managing their printer infrastructure. In the last years the demand for support printing (called Airprint [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirPrint]) from mobile apple products increased. This worked well for us on Debian [http://www.debian.…

Learning Git Branching

If you are comming from an old SCM like subversion, you may have difficulties to internalize the new workflow. Peter Cottle [http://petermcottle.com/] created Learn Git Branching [http://pcottle.github.com/learnGitBranching/] which is really nice.…

Server Management

Server management on daily basis in a growing environment could be a challenge. Most of the tasks is here done with ClusterSSH [http://clusterssh.sf.net] in help with a homebrew mail notification [http://ftp.cyconet.org/debian/archive/restricted/config-apt-update]. Unfortunately this workflow is not scaling well for 200+…