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…
Today I planed to move my FTP server to a new system running Debian [http://www.debian.org] wheezy [http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/]. Usually I'm running vsftpd [https://security.appspot.com/vsftpd.html#about], so this was also the plan for the new host. As this…
This issue is about a bit specific situation in Germany and it's (mainly tax-financed [http://service.rundfunkbeitrag.de/service/]) public service broadcasting [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96ffentlich-rechtlicher_Rundfunk] . If you think you are not interested, please skip this entry. :) Just beginning from scratch... In Germany we…
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:…
After taking a photo session [https://log.cyconet.org/2012/12/27/roast-goose/] I thought it would be cool to have some more shiny Image functionality in octopress. FancyBox [http://fancybox.net/] seems to be bleeding edge, so I did have a look into it. Devin Weaver had a solution…
This year it turned out that we had to care the first time for ourself about Christmas dinner. So we decided to try a roast goose [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roast_goose#European]. Obtaining the goose is a different story and will maybe told later. The second challenge was…
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…