Dropbear

Year: 2011

  • When a dynamic library and program share functions

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    This is about making procps have a proper library but it really is a generic sort of question.  Say you are making a library and a program that uses that library.  Now at times you may have convience type functions; procps has them for things like escaping command names or allocation different sorts of memory. …

  • procps-ng 3.3.1 released

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    Procps-ng, the Debian, Fedora and OpenSuSE fork of procps had another release today.  This is a bugfix release that fixes some important bugs that have cropped up in 3.3.0 pgrep crashes, pgrep -u not finding processes and a problem with top forest view have all been fixed. An important addition to this release is that…

  • New procps 3.3.0 for Debian

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    Coming soon after the upstream procps 3.3.0 being released, the Debian packages have been uploaded tonight.  The Debian packages have had the added benefit of being a day late by having a tiny 2 line patch to stop pgrep from crashing. One regression that is on purpose, watch is currently not 8-bit clean again until…

  • procps-ng 3.3.0 Released

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    Tonight procps-ng, a fork of procps by developers from Debian, Fedora and SuSE was released.  The main goal of the team for this release was to reduce the number of patches we all carry in our respective distributions and learn from each other.  As an added bonus, we had one of the original authors of…

  • @ 0x28

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    It doesn’t look so old in hex; Zero, x, Two, Eight  but I finally got there.  So on this day, what other landmarks am I up to? I’ve been programming, on and off, for 28 years (thanks for teaching me Chris – anyone still use LOGO?) Writing Free Software for 17 years (thanks Terry for…

  • ncurses library split

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    The new ncurses library that is currently sitting in the NEW queue will have a significant change that, if we’ve done it right, should be an invisible change.  If we’ve got it wrong, then the BTS (and us) may be a little busy. What has happened is that the low-level terminfo library has been split…

  • Getting music into the iPod Shuffle

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    Sounds easy doesn’t it?  You got a nice Debian computer filled with mp3s and you got an iPod Shuffle. You want to get the mp3s onto the Shuffle, simple really! Well, no. I’ve got a 2nd Generation iPod Shuffle; its a little blue thing the size of a postage stamp with no screen. Specifically a…

  • Debian turns 18

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    In Australia, 18 means you can do things like vote and drink. While most don’t get terribly excited about the first, the second usually happens on your 18th. And so 18 years ago Ian Murdock brought together the new Debian distribution. I’ve been along for the ride for 14 of those 18 years and it…

  • Be careful with dspam and multi-arch

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    Do you use the Debian dspam packages, specifically with one of the database backends? Recently upgraded the packages? Does noone email you anymore? You might be bitten by a bug, or perhaps undocumented misfeature, that bit me this morning. No emails were coming in and yet the mailserver logs said they were coming in, but…

  • Making peace with Network Manager

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    Painless they say, automatically they say.  This is what the NetworkManager manual page describes the daemon.  I’d like to say annoying and intrusive and I know there are a lot of people out there that feel the same.  The program is used to set-up network connections and provides a system tray thingy for Gnome and…