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[fun] Integrate nagios users with system ones

cyco — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:10:53 +0000

While I normaly don’t care much about Ubuntu, I’m subscribed to lauchpad.net for the packages I’m involved within Debian.
Sometimes apears informative stuff there, which reminds me about my todos or just pointing me to real problems. Most of the time, I’m just ignoring the reports, as the are useless or just unrelated to me packages in Debian.
But in some cases the reports are just making my day.

[selfnote] Find the DUN Channel of your bluetooth device

cyco — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:59:06 +0000

In the last days, I replaced my Nokia E90 with a Nokia N97 mini. As I’m using my mobile from time to time to hook up to the internet when traveling, I thought I just need to replace the MAC in my /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf and that’s it. As always … Murphy striked back. After debugging for hours I realized the DUN channel seems depending on the model.

You can discover your DUN channel something like:

# hcitool scan
Scanning …
3C:F7:2A:1A:4D:2A Cycophone
# sdptool browse 3C:F7:2A:1A:4D:2A | \
grep -9 “Service Name: Dial-Up Networking” | \
tail -10 | grep Channel
Channel: 22

So your /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf should now look like:

…
rfcomm0 {
bind yes;
device 3C:F7:2A:1A:4D:2A;
channel 22;
comment “Cycophone”;
}
…

new nagios-plugins (1.4.14-1), now also installable on kfreebsd and hurd

cyco — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:03:06 +0000

Last night here at BSP I released nagios-plugins (1.4.14-1), which has a couple of fixes and enhancements. For more information, see the changelog.
The main change may, that with this version, the package should be installable on non-linux archs, where iputils-ping is not available. The downside of using inetutils-ping is, that its behavior is different from iputils-ping. As result of this, check_ping will timeout much often, even if there isn’t any problem and you will have false positives. As suggested long ago, at least on this archs, you should consider to replace the use of check_ping with check_icmp.

dkms rocks … or … how to get the Intel 82576 GBit NIC running on Lenny

cyco — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:07:18 +0000

We ordered a couple of the new HP DL160 G6, cause they can be equipped with a lot of RAM. Unfortunately it’s always the same with HP and the bandnew ProLiant 100 series … the driver for the NICs is missing/too old in the latest stable debian release. The DL160 G6 is shipped with a Intel 82576 GBit NIC, which isn’t recognized by Lenny, see also #522922.
I installed the system with another NIC installed (not really, but this is a way it works :) and wanted to get free the PCI-X slot again. So I did backport dkms and downloaded the latest igb driver. A short look into /usr/share/doc/dkms/HOWTO.Debian did advice me the way to create the DKMS driver package. Just after a couple of minutes I did roll out the igb-dkms_2.0.6_all.deb to the target maschine(s).
On the target systems I just installed dkms, the DKMS package and appropriate linux-headers and … sim, salabim … there was the interfaces. :)

nagios-plugins 1.4.13+git200906171200-1 uploaded

cyco — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:26:35 +0000

Today I uploaded a new nagios-plugins package to unstable. At first I thought I will wait for the next upstream release, but after the announcement to release soon, the months passed by. While we skipped the last stable release due the lenny freeze, there are a couple of bugs fixed in the latest svn snapshot and within the package itself:

[...]
* new upstream
– check_http doesn’t enforce port (Closes: #494835)
– check_http –onredirect=sticky follows using the same IP address
(Closes: #502529)
– Fixed buffer overflow in check_ntp/check_ntp_peer (Closes: #528686)
– Fixed check_mrtg returning UNKNOWN instead of OK (Closes: #335871)
– Fixed check_by_ssh interpretation of quotes in -C parameter
(Closes: #425312)
– Fixed coredump from check_nt when drive not found (Closes: #521097)
– Removed -n option in check_smtp’s help and usage output (Closes: #525307)
– Fixed check_icmp –help output for warn and critical thresholds
(Closes: #530553)
– Fix potential buffer overflow in check_snmp – enforce MAX_OIDS limit
(Closes: #460405)
[...]
* add trailing $ to check_httpname, thanks Daniel Pocock (Closes: #524629)
* add informations into README.Debian how to use plugins (Closes: #525168)
* add check_nscp which uses the default port of NSClient++ (Closes: #528262)
[...]

So I thought it would be comfortable for the users to upload the svn snapshot instead to wait longer for a stable upstream release and leave the bugs unfixed or incorporate the bugfixes into latest stable release, which have to be sorted out again with the next stable release.
If there are no show stoppers, a backport will appear hopefully short before debconf at backports.org.

While we are at it, yes I’m at debconf too from 23th to 31th. Hopefully see you there.

[vacation] 30/05/09 – 14/06/09 Manerba del Garda

cyco — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:02:51 +0000

I’m on vacation the 1rst two weeks of June in Manerba del Garda at Lago di Garda. If some dudes are around for beering / chatting / keysigning, feel free to contact me til Friday.
In case of urgent actions (for example #530271), I’m without regular internet access there. Feel free to NMU if needed, but try to avoid breaking things. For secuirty related issues please coordinate with team@security.debian.org.
Since I’m probably most of the rest of the week busy with organising our camping, please send a short ping, if I’m not responding by time, please go ahead.

Oh happy day …

cyco — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 10:01:20 +0000

What a happy day … on the wedding anniversary of our civil marriage we got a great gift. Our favorite distribution released a new major version.
Like every time … it’s the best distribution our project released so far. Many thanks to all those people who did make that happen. If you not married today, maybe you have the possibility to dedicate Lenny to your valentine. :)

Thanks

cyco — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:21:22 +0000

To make it short: many thanks to wouter, myon, weasel and especially santiago and panthera … you made my month, definetly!

postfwd 1.10pre7c-1 in experimental

cyco — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 20:12:35 +0000

postfwd 1.10pre7c-1 has been accepted and did hit experimental yesterday.
If you using policyd-weight you might want to give it a try, since its active development stoped. If you are annoyed by too much spam, it maybe a good idea as well.
Please have a look on postfwd.cf, there is no default config provided, since the configuration depends heavily on your environment. But maybe you have a look at /usr/share/doc/postfwd/examples, there is what you expect.
If you have any comments, send a mail to the maintainer or if there are bugs I didn’t spotted yet, please fill one!
In case I don’t respond quit fast, maybe I’m in the delivery room or anywhere else in the hospital or something like that, so please give me some extra time.
In case there are no big issues, I plan to upload the package to unstable in a reasonable time.

off for vacation

cyco — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:36:17 +0000

I’m off for vacation for just a week without any internet access (Oh my good, I will hate my inbox). This break will give me some time for my wife and my daughter before my second daughter will arrive in this world which is scheduled for mid june.
If there anything strange happen with my packages, just feel free for a 0day NMU.
Just after this week, I will attend to RIPE 56 where my latency will just a bit lower than normal.