It looks like debian etch just received its first point release, updating many useful packages with little nagging details that didn't make it into the first release.
Aside from the security fixes, one update i'm particularly happy to see
is the fix of the libneon26 kerberos/GSSAPI authentication mechanism,
which …
I had trouble recently with a few xen etch instances built off the
typical etch xen packages. The problem was that the domUs all reported
time natively in UTC, despite my having used tzconfig to set it to my
local timezone (i'm not in UTC).
Within the domU, while i …
I have a simple Xen setup with two domains, a dom0 and a domU. The
physical disks are handled by LVM in the dom0, and certain logical
volumes from the dom0 are exported to the domU as /dev/sda1, etc.
If i resize one of the logical volumes from the …
When i set up a new machine these days, I often disable password-based
ssh access by setting PasswordAuthentication and
ChallengeResponseAuthentication to no in /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
This protects my users (and the machine) from dictionary attacks based
on the crappy passwords that humans seem to traditionally prefer.
However, /usr/sbin …
For a normal server running with the kernel console over a serial line, you can get Magic SysRq behavior by sending a "break" signal, followed by the character of the command you want triggered. How does that work for dom0 of a Xen install?
I've just set up a xen …
is anyone else having trouble accessing the debian mirror at
debian-mirror.mirror.umn.edu?
I'm in the US, and ftp.debian.org is resolving to this host for me,
but the host itself is not responding (since last night, if my
cron-apt logs are accurate).
I haven't been able to …
I'm trying to figure out if the linux 2.6 kernel's “wait” cycles include cycles waiting on network I/O or specifically just waiting on disk access.
If network I/O is included, it would change my interpretation of a system with spiking “wait” percentages. Maybe the disk controllers aren't …
My impression was that the i386 debian distribution could run fine on an amd64 processor (though i recognize that it wouldn't get the full benefit of the 64-bit platform).
I have a machine which i'm trying to do this on, though, and while it's up and running, i'm getting serious …
I have never needed to do Optical Character Recognition (turning scanned documents back into text form), but it appears i may soon need to (in english, FWIW).
Does anyone have a preferred tool/suite that is packaged for debian?
A scan of the archive turns up
gocrocradunpaperclara …Prompted by Steve's request for an SSL cert, i'm going to air some grievances i have with the X.509 PKI that tends to go along with SSL and TLS. The current real-world X.509/TLS infrastructure gets in the way of real trusted, secure communication. It favors the creation …