Usually I'm monitoring stuff with Icinga [http://www.icinga.org] (Nagios in the past). But for my small network, I primary needed monitoring of bandwidth. In our commercial environment we are using a closed source software for accounting traffic. There is also a license for testing purpose with…
You may have noticed that I recently started posting more updates again. The reason is, I switched over from Wordpress to Octopress [http://octopress.org] as blogging engine. The idea was driven, cause my used theme K2 [http://getk2.com/] got stuck and with the upcoming release of Debian [http:…
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…
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.…
Our baby [http://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/] was released [http://identi.ca/notice/63798194] just some moments ago. Many thanks to all who made this happen, I'm very proud! Also many thanks to the release team, ftpmaster, cd people, www-team, press folks and all who worked so…
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/…