System Administration

It’s been awhile, I know, but there were few reasons for that and I will write about it somewhere in the near future. Mostly what I’ve done in the last few days: * Lots of cleanings – all old and no longer supported packages were cleaned from repositories. * Preparation for

Awhile ago, on my G+ account, I asked following question: Dear lazyweb. I’m looking for some SSH connection manager for Linux with tabs and logging. Any suggestions? There were few answers with suggestions, however none of them offered ultimate solution for all mentioned points. Today, I found the answer

I’m happy to announce that, finally, Marlin has been ported to Debian. I used Marlin Daily PPA as an base. I had to drop libunity dependency, as there’s no Unity in Debian, and pack some other libraries to satisfy rest of dependencies: Varka Library and Extended Actions. New

Today my GNOME 3 told me, that my root partition is filling in pretty quickly and there’s not much space left. I looked into it and figured that 1 GB of additional space will suffice for some time. Since version 2.02.86 of lvm2package, there’s a new

Recently I had some disk issues on my server and unfortunately it went to load average above 20 (which was killing for this machine). It forced me to power down the machine completely and to investigate it further. (It turned out that issue was with space on /home partition – sharing

I’m using my stationary PC for building packages, so most of the time I’m accessing this server via SSH. Almost everything is working fine, except pinentry (curses) which isn’t asking for a password during repository signing. Fortunately, reprepro has option that you can pass in command line