http://www.fladi.at Waiting for the revolution ... to be televised. Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:15:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.fladi.at/2010/07/19/mailsystem-upgrade-pending/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/07/19/mailsystem-upgrade-pending/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:12:20 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/2010/07/19/mailsystem-upgrade-pending/ On Sunday, August 22nd 2010 there will be a outage of the mailsystem from 13:00 to 17:00. The reason is the installation of a new SMTP system. I ‘am migrating from Courier-MTA to Exim4, ultimately bringing some new features to the mail system like Sieve, greylisting and two-stage-spamassassin-checks. Downtime is intended to be kept at [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/07/19/mailsystem-upgrade-pending/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/06/02/large-freedos-boot-image/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/06/02/large-freedos-boot-image/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 14:05:57 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2187 I wanted to upgrade the BIOS of my desktop at work which is a Dell OptiPlex 960. Dell provides some minor help on flashing a new BIOS version under GNU/Linux but as of today it’s outdated and unusable. Sadly they do not provide images for use with flashrom either, so one is stuck with their [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/06/02/large-freedos-boot-image/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/25/using-sssd-for-single-sign-on/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/25/using-sssd-for-single-sign-on/#comments Tue, 25 May 2010 12:44:01 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2175 I have the need to work on some of my systems with my LDAP/Kerberos5 user while not being connected to any network. By now I have managed to get around this by using pam-ccreds and nss-db which would locally cache user credentials. Now there’s a new approach to this whole situation: SSSD, a project introduced [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/25/using-sssd-for-single-sign-on/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/14/several-ssl-certificates-on-one-ip-with-apache/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/14/several-ssl-certificates-on-one-ip-with-apache/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 12:40:41 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2172 For years there has been the problem with SSL/HTTPS requiring a separate IP per X.509 certificate. Almost all webservers serving unencrypted plain HTTP/1.1 support a mechanism called name-based virtual hosts which enables a theroeticaly unlimited number of different doamins on on IP. This was not the cast for HTTPS since SNI arrived. Now it was [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/05/14/several-ssl-certificates-on-one-ip-with-apache/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/27/openldap-with-smbk5pwd/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/27/openldap-with-smbk5pwd/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:35:21 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2167 A new package has made it into the Debian repository: slapd-smbk5pwd It’s purpose is to provide a way to synchronize LDAP passwords with Kerberos5 and Samba passwords. For instructions on how to set it up can be found here: http://student.physik.uni-mainz.de/~reiffert/smbk5pwd.html]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/27/openldap-with-smbk5pwd/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/23/official-debian-packages/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/23/official-debian-packages/#comments Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:31:32 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2165 I’m proud to announce that I found a sponsor for my first four packages which were uploaded to the official Debian repository: django-auth-ldap django-countries django-markupfield django-picklefield They are currently in Unstable and are awaiting migration to Testing if there are no bugs filed against them. Thanks to my mentor Jakub Wilk for guiding me through [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/23/official-debian-packages/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/14/switched-ipv6-from-go6-to-he/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/14/switched-ipv6-from-go6-to-he/#comments Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:40:04 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2140 For the last week I was without IPv6 connectivity on all of my client machines. Running traceroute6 from the tunnel-end-point worked fine, although i could not get any further than to the first hop from the clients. The IPv6 prefix is advertised over a IPv4-OpenVPN from the server running the tunnel. I dug really deep [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/04/14/switched-ipv6-from-go6-to-he/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/03/22/django-weave-and-xul-ext-weave/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/03/22/django-weave-and-xul-ext-weave/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:19:32 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2125 I’ve spent the last week on helping Jens Diemer to develop a Weave server for the Django framework: django-weave By now the result is a fully working Weave server, already in use at my own server and syncing my bookmarks and my history across 4 devices: all Debian desktops, yet no mobile device, testers are [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/03/22/django-weave-and-xul-ext-weave/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/03/16/new-debian-python-packages/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/03/16/new-debian-python-packages/#comments Tue, 16 Mar 2010 12:42:55 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2120 Several new and updated Python packages have been uploaded to my repository: django-reversion django-auth-ldap django-avatar django-auto-slug Meanwhile I’m still working on getting my first Python package into official Debian repository: django-picklefield Kudos to Jakub Wilk for pointing out my initial mistakes on packaging.]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/03/16/new-debian-python-packages/feed/ 0 http://www.fladi.at/2010/02/25/monit-test-repository/ http://www.fladi.at/2010/02/25/monit-test-repository/#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:03:44 +0000 Michael Fladischer http://www.fladi.at/?p=2114 I’ve been using monit to monitor the processes on my servers for several years now. During this time I’ve written test-cases for several daemon processes, especially tailored for Debian GNU/Linux (Unstable/Squeeze): apache2 apt-cacher-ng atd avahi bind clamav couchdb courier-auth courier-imap courier-mta cron dhcpd dovecot ejabberd gnump3d slapd memcached mysql nagios3 nscd ntp postgresql-8.4 puppet samba [...]]]> http://www.fladi.at/2010/02/25/monit-test-repository/feed/ 0