Today one of my rsync backups began failing with: inflate (token) returned -5 rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at token.c(604) [receiver=3.0.3] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 373 bytes [generator]: Broken pipe (32) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(1544) [generator=3.0.3] It was repeatable when trying [...]
By default, a Linux host on an IPv6 network will listen for and solicit router advertisements in order to choose an IPv6 address for itself and to set up its default route. This is referred to as stateless address autoconfiguration (SLAAC). If you don’t want a host to automatically configure an address and route then [...]
On this day we reflect that one or more hard disk sectors may have died for your sins; the Debian mdadm checkarray script was created so that your array may have constant life. Debian loves you. Amen.
If you recently installed this update: gnutls26 (2.4.2-6+lenny2) stable-security; urgency=high * Non-maintainer upload by the Security Team. * Fixed CVE-2009-2730: a vulnerability related to NUL bytes in X.509 certificate name fields. (Closes: #541439) GNUTLS-SA-2009-4 — Giuseppe Iuculano <iuculano@debian.org> Sun, 01 Nov 2009 21:29:06 +0100 and then found that your applications began failing to connect to [...]
Recently my fileserver, becks, was not only getting filled to capacity but was also undergoing some severe performance problems. It’s by no means a poorly-specced machine (not for home use anyway) but my use of rsnapshot has grown so much in the last 6 months that it was no longer up to the job. Read [...]
Martin, why would you want voting private? In most societies and voting systems people are entitled to their opinions, to state them, and campaign on behalf of others if they like. Note that I’m not expressing any opinion on the content of these posts (I haven’t been following it and I’m not a DD anyway, [...]
Linux Gazette has an interesting article on Configuring Apache for Maximum Performance. It’s a good read and I can’t find fault with anything said, although it would have been nice if it touched on some of the alternative lightweight web servers out there, especially for the static content, e.g. Lighttpd (now in Sarge backports!). But [...]
The last two days I’ve been getting the following breakage email from the daily updates script on one of my etch Xen domains: /etc/cron.daily/local-apt: W: GPG error: http://admin.curacao.strugglers.net etch Release: The following signatures couldn’t be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 010908312D230C5F W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct [...]
BitFolk