Makura no Soshi

Dank neuen Rechners durfte ich letztens meine Programme neu­installieren und nutzte die Gelegen­heit um PC-BSD auszuprobieren.

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BSD Stand@Linuxtag 2009 (Bild des LinuxTag e.V.)

Die letz­te Woche habe ich auf dem Linux­Tag ver­bracht, spe­ziell am BSD-Stand dort. Read the rest of this entry »

Just updated to FreeBSD 7.2 and I already like it. — Finally I can use IPv6 adresses for my jailed websites :-)

“A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer unusable.” (L. Lamport)

Warte schon den ganzen Nachmittag darauf dass cvs.NetBSD.org nach Leitungsproblemen wieder erreichbar wird …    :-/

Lustigerweise antwortet mir research.microsoft.com, wo ich schnell eine linkbare Quelle für das Zitat suchen wollte, auch nicht %-)

Und nun der obligatorische Eintrag live vom BSD-Stand auf den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen.
Mein eigener Vortrag zu den Syslog-RFCs lief gut. Grunix hat auch schon erste Bilder.

Many systems send status e-mails from their periodic {daily,weekly,monthly} cronjobs. But just as with log messages you probably stop reading them because there are too many mails (one or two mails per day and host) and they are very repetitious (on healthy systems they should not change too much). — This demands automation.

A simple solution is to eliminate variable fields from the periodic output and only send an e-mail if the output is different from the expected or the previous output.

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Due to the BLIT preparations I nearly missed the important event for my GSoC project: I made it into the NetBSD CVS.  :-)

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