Tag: Linux

  • WordPress 4.0.1 fixes for Debian stable

    Previously I posted a short article about the WordPress package for Debian and how that SID was getting the updated WordPress 4.0.1 which had some security fixes. The question a lot of people were asking was: What about stable (or Wheezy).  After way too much time due to other pressing issues, I have just uploaded…

  • Linux Capabilities

    I was recently updating some code that uses fping. Initially it used exec() that was redirected to a temporary file but I changed it to use popen.  While it had been a while since I’ve done this sort of thing, I do recall there was an issue with running popen on setuid binary.  A later…

  • WordPress 3.9.1

    The Debian package of WordPress version 3.9.1 was uploaded to the ftp master recently.  While the update was pretty simple, the upload took a lot more doing. I’m not sure why the Debian ftp-master server didn’t like me, but it was so slow. Strangely, even dcut uploads were slow and they are only a few…

  • WordPress update needed for stable too

    Yesterday I mentioned that wordpress had an important security update to 3.8.2  The particular security bugs also impact the stable Debian version of wordpress, so those patches have been backported.  I’ve uploaded the changes to the security team so hopefully there will new package soon. The version you are looking for will be 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u2 and…

  • psmisc 22.21 Released

    Today as it was raining and I couldn’t do much gardening, psmisc version 22.21 was released. The files are located up on sourceforge at https://sourceforge.net/projects/psmisc/files/latest/download or at your favorite distro repository soon.  Once again, thanks to all patch submitters, bug reports and translators for all their help in getting this out. Apologies to the translation…

  • WordPress 3.8 for Debian

    Well if you can read this then you know it’s working.  After way too many weeks, Debian will have WordPress version 3.8.  Thanks to Raphaël for his kind assistance and answering my questions about how it was built.  The upload is still gurgling along and will make it there in its own time. He said…

  • Damn you, unworking r8168

    I really don’t know why ethernet device makers insist on making it hard for to use their products.  Ethernet has been around for many, many years; surely its not too much to ask for drivers that “just work”. And so that’s the problem I currently have with my new computer. It has an onboard Ethernet…

  • pidof moving to procps

    pidof is a program that finds the PID of a named program. In some ways it is like a cut-down pgrep found in the procps package.  pidof currently sits in sysvinit-tools. There are plans to move all utilities that use the proc filesystem under one package which will make the maintenance of them simpler, which…

  • props-ng 3.3.8

    Procps-ng 3.38 was released yesterday.  Besides the bug fixes,there have been two main enhancements: NUMA and systemd support. top comes with NUMA support which is a soft dependency, meaning that if compilied with the support, top will try to link at runtime to libnuma. The new key presses are ‘2’ and ‘3’ which will show…

  • procps-ng 3.3.7 Released

    procps-ng version 3.3.7 was released today.  It has some new and interesting features in the top program that Jim has been busy working on.  There is a new filter feature which can exclude fields that match a value for example. The remainder of the changes are small bug fixes and getting the compile warnings count…