Nagios Plugins 1.5 released

Today the Nagios Plugins Development Team [https://www.nagios-plugins.org/team.html] released [https://www.nagios-plugins.org/doc/release-notes/1-5.html] the long awaited version 1.5 of the Nagios Plugins. It contains several bug-fixes as well as new features. The project moved to a new home at nagios-plugins.org…

ownCloud for Debian wheezy

Unfortunately ownCloud [http://owncloud.org] is not available in Debian wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy]. Even if it was promised [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-owncloud-maintainers/Week-of-Mon-20130304/000434.html] to provide a package via backports [http://backports.debian.org/], this seems [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/…

nagios-plugins: Call for testing

Some of you might have noticed there is a new nagios-plugins [http://nagiosplugins.org/] version in the row [http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=31356051]. To support upstream in evaluating bugs and bringing the code to a wider audience, I uploaded [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-nagios-devel/…

Updated roundcube for wheezy

Roundcube [http://www.roundcube.net/] is one of the well known [https://www.google.com/search?q=webmail+opensource] OpenSource solutions for accessing Mails via webinterface. Unfortunately the package [http://packages.qa.debian.org/r/roundcube.html] in wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy] is ~2 years old. In…

Frag is bigger than frame.

Since 2 weeks I'm faced with some problems at a Xen [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xen] hosting environment based on Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/]. The issue is, that one specific domU is regularly failing network. The investigations showed, that no network…

Debian (wheezy) 7.x and mailscanner

Mailscanner [http://www.mailscanner.info/intro.html] is an e-mail security and anti-spam solution for e-mail gateways. In combination of postfix [http://www.postfix.org] it uses a very ugly way [http://www.mailscanner.info/postfix.html] messing around in postfixs queue directories. Anyways .. if you are still interested, keep…

500 OOPS: vsftpd: refusing to run with writable root inside chroot ()

If you updated recently your system to Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/] and you are using vsftpd [https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html#about] with enabled chrooted local users ... [~] # grep -i ^chroot_local_user=yes /etc/vsftpd.conf | tail -1 chroot_local_user=…