Tue, 30 Jun 2009
Dear Richard,
in answer to your open letter Why free software
shouldn't depend on Mono or C#
I like to explain a small
misunderstanding that seems to have been spread pretty wide recently.
Debian has not to include Mono in the default installation, for the
sake of Tomboy
. The default installation – or to be more
precise: The default GNOME installation (there are installation media which
install an KDE, Xfce or LXDE desktop by default, too) – hasn't
changed. It still installs a more or less minimal Gnome Desktop without
tomboy and without mono. As far as I know there haven't been major changes
in package selection for the GNOME installation media, nor are there major
changes planed.
What really has changed is that one of our meta packages, which are mainly used to install a set of packages. Indeed our meta package to install everything gnome related got a dependency on Tomboy and will indeed pull in mono, too.
That doesn't have any effect on the default installation
(which
doesn't use that package) nor does it effect a major part of Debian's GNOME
users, who prefer to install gnome-desktop
(a meta package to pull in a simple GNOME Desktop) or even the gnome-core
meta-package (which installs the bare necessities to run GNOME
applications). Please see the numbers at our popularity
contest system for yourself.
So, Debian didn't change the default installation
(whatever
that's supposed to be) but the dependency of a package which is used by a
minority of our users who explicitly wishes to install everything GNOME
related (which is to the best of my knowledge in accordance with upstream
developers who added tomboy to the default GNOME installation, too).
Yours truly,
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl
Debian Developer and Spokesperson
postet at 15:45 into [Debian] permanent link
Wed, 10 Jun 2009
Search xrdp know how
Dear Lazyweb,
I often need to access my workplace's desktop from Windows machines. xrdp comes in handy, since it
allows to connect via the usual remote desktop
available on all of
our Windows computers (in contrast to putty or an X-Server).
While it works very well, I have two problems with that, and haven't found any solution so far. First problem is how to choose the locale for my remote session. xrdp seems to use posix and I haven't found a setting for that, yet.
The bigger Problems is, that in contrast to the usual remote desktop behaviour, xrdp will start a new session instead of picking an existing up. Well, actually I don't need that feature. But what I want is to use some Mozilla applications which just refuse to start, since there is already an instance running.
It seems I could just use two separate profiles for all Mozilla applications, but I actually don't like that solution, since I would need to synchronize settings I do in my profiles by hand.
So, dear lazyweb, is there a solution for running Mozilla applications via xrdp in a convenient way?
postet at 17:50 into [Debian] permanent link
Tue, 09 Jun 2009
I'm going to DebConf9
See you there!
postet at 10:23 into [Debian/events/DebConf9] permanent link
Thu, 14 May 2009
From the chapter Things, that are so obvious... once they failed
Configuring your monitoring system via DHCP, and wondering why the malfunction of one single server can cause so dramatic alerts in your entire infrastructure.
postet at 09:23 into [Debian] permanent link
Wed, 18 Mar 2009
Slides from CLT talk available
The slides from my talk at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage are now available. As promised I added additional screenshots of the parts I showed directly.
Again many thanks for showing up in my talk and the feedback I got so far!
Update: I should mention, that the topic was Projektmanagement
mit Subversion und Trac
and the talk as well as the slides are in
German.
postet at 23:18 into [Debian] permanent link
Fri, 13 Mar 2009
Dear Lazyweb,
Since a recent update of one of my systems, amavisd-new keeps on spamming me. I get mails containing stuff like bayes: synced databases from journal in 0 seconds: 674 unique entries (742 total entries). The reasons seems to be a cronjob from amavisd-new (which can be deactivated via debconf):
grep amavisd-new-cron /etc/cron.{d,daily}/*
/etc/cron.d/amavisd-new:18 */3 * * * amavis test -e /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob && /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob sa-sync
/etc/cron.daily/amavisd-new:test -e /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob && exec /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob sa-clean
However, the called script contains:
egrep "sa-sync\)|sa-clean\)" -A 2 /usr/sbin/amavisd-new-cronjob
sa-sync)
do_amavis_cmd "/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync >/dev/null"
;;
sa-clean)
do_amavis_cmd "/usr/bin/sa-learn --sync --force-expire >/dev/null"
;;
Note that output is redirected to /dev/null, so I should only mails if an error occurs, shouldn't I? I'm really baffled... To the best of my knowledge I shouldn't get these mails. Where am I wrong, and how to formulate that in a bug report?
postet at 15:42 into [Debian] permanent link
Sun, 15 Feb 2009
Greetings...
... from Samoa!
Have fun with Lenny!
PS: Next time, if we release on Valentines, let's choose a single to fly around the globe just to send some mails out...
postet at 21:51 into [Debian] permanent link
Tue, 27 Jan 2009
localhost nagios checks via nrpe
I'll write it down, so maybe I won't forget it: If you want to check
localhost via Nagios nrpe (e.g. because you are lazy and want to reuse all
the nrpe configuration you already have for other hosts), but it fails with
CHECK_NRPE: Error - Could not complete SSL handshake.
, then make
sure, that you allowed 127.0.1.1 in your allowed_hosts.
postet at 15:37 into [Debian] permanent link
Tue, 02 Dec 2008
Dear Lazyweb,
after my call for help when searching a backup solution for kind of special needs, I got a lot of feedback. Actually: I got more feedback than I'll be able to answer ;)
So I take this way to thank you for all the hints, proposals and scripts!
Special thanks to Bubulle for insisted me on using bacula and to Wouter for pointing out, that the default configuration will back up it's database automatically.
Works like a charm and it was some fun to install it, play with it, test it. Oh, and I even understood how to restore files from the backup ;)
postet at 22:41 into [Debian] permanent link