bind: rndc addzone and also-notify
Notice to my future self: If you add zones to bind by rndc addzone please remember that those zones will be stored in /var/cache/bind/*.nzf. If you have to change your nameservers, you also need to...
View ArticleFun with broken harddisks
Today I needed to replace a faulty harddisk, which had a GPT, in a software RAID1. A GPT is a Guid Partition Table and is normally needed for partitions > 2TB. But wait, my external harddisk has 4TB...
View ArticleFun with puppet — runinterval
Notice to my future self: The default interval between two runs of puppet is 30min or 1800s. In case this is too short you can add something like: runinterval = 28800 to the [main] section of the...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in April 2018
FTP master This month I accepted 145 packages and rejected 5 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 260. Debian LTS This was my forty sixth month that I did some work...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in May 2018
FTP master This month I accepted 304 packages and rejected 20 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 420. Debian LTS This was my forty seventh month that I did some...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in May 2018
FTP master This month I accepted 304 packages and rejected 20 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 420. Debian LTS This was my forty seventh month that I did some...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in June 2018
FTP master This month I accepted 166 packages and rejected only 7 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 216. Debian LTS This was my forty eighth month that I did some...
View ArticleImport git repository from alioth-archive.debian.org to salsa.debian.org
All repositories that had not been migrated before the shutdown of alioth are still available at the alioth archive. There you can find a compressed tarfile of the bare repository. So to move such a...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in July 2018
FTP master This month was dominated by warm weather and I spent more time in a swimming pool than in the NEW queue. So I only accepted 149 packages and rejected 5 uploads. The overall number of...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in August 2018
FTP master This month was again dominated by warm weather and spending time outside is more enjoyable than spending time in NEW. So I only accepted 177 packages and rejected 2 uploads. The overall...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in September 2018
FTP master As promised in an earlier post, I raised the number of accepted packages to 215, as well as the number of rejects to 69 this month. The overall number of packages that got accepted this...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in October 2018
FTP master This month I accepted 211 packages, which is almost the same amount as last month. On the other side I was a bit reluctant and rejected only 36 uploads. The overall number of packages that...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in November 2018
FTP master This month I accepted 486 packages, which is twice as much as last month. On the other side I was a bit reluctant and rejected only 38 uploads. The overall number of packages that got...
View ArticleFun with puppet: Is puppet really running?
I am using puppet to configure most of my machines. Unfortunately I am not perfect and introduce errors in my modules. Of course I only test such modules on machines that are not affected. On an...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in December 2018
FTP master This month I accepted 276 packages, which is bit more than two months before. On the other side I rejected 34 uploads, which is the same as last month. The overall number of packages that...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in January 2019
FTP master This month I accepted 363 packages, which is again more than last month. On the other side I rejected 68 uploads, which is almost twice as last month. The overall number of packages that got...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in February 2019
FTP master The freeze is approaching, so I only accepted 149 packages and rejected 5 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted this month was 229. Debian LTS This was my fifty sixth...
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My Debian Activities in March 2019
FTP master The was again a rather quiet month and I only accepted 25 packages and rejected 2 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 60. But this month also several new trainees...
View ArticleFun with openvpn: how to jam a line
After upgrading my internet connection from something like 50MBit/s download and 5MBit/s upload to 100Mbit/s download and 50Mbit/s upload, my openvpn connection to an external server became really...
View ArticleMy Debian Activities in April 2019
FTP master This was again a quiet month and I only accepted 70 packages and rejected 11 uploads. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 102. As with every release, people still upload new...
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