Dropbear

Author: dropbear

  • procps using GitLab CI

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    The procps project for a few years has been hosted at Gitorious.  With the announcement that Gitorious has been acquired by GitLab and that all repositories need to move there, procps moved along to GitLab. At first I thought it would just be a like for like thing, but then I noticed that GitLab has…

  • Backporting and git-buildpackage

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    For working with Debian packages, one method of maintaining them is to put them in git and use git-buildpackage to build them right out of the git repository.  There are a few pitfalls with it, notably around if you forget to import the upstream you get this strange treeish related error which still throws me…

  • Renaming RoseNMS

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    Today I have pushed all (or hopefully all) the required differences in the source files to change the name of the project.  Originally it was called Rosenberg NMS, named after a lizard or heath monitor that lives in this parts.  The name was cute but cumbersome. I’ve cut it down now to just RoseNMS with…

  • Juniper Firewalls and IPv6

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    I found an interesting side-effect of the Juniper firewalls when you introduce IPv6.  In hindsight it appears perfectly reasonable but if you are not aware of it in the first place you may have a much more permissive firewall than you thought.  My setup is such that my internet address changes every time I connect…

  • Mudlet 3 beta

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    A break from wordpress, I was trying to get the beta version of mudlet 3.0 compiling. On the surface the program looks a lot like the existing v2.0 that is currently within Debian.  The developers have switched from qt4 to qt5 which means a lot of dependency fun for me but I got there in…

  • WordPress 4.1 for Debian

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    Release 4.1 of WordPress came out on Friday so after some work to fit in with the Debian standards, the Debian package 4.1-1 of WordPress will be uploaded shortly.  WordPress have also updated their themes with a 14-day early theme called twentyfifteen.  This is the default theme for WordPress 4.1 on-wards.

  • WordPress 4.0.1 fixes for Debian stable

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    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…

  • WordPress 4.0.1 for Debian

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    WordPress recently released an update that had multiple security patches for their (then) current version 4.0. This release is 4.0.1 and includes important security fixes.  The Debian packages got just uploaded, if you are running the Debian packaged wordpress, you should update to 4.0.1+dfsg-1 or later. I am going to look at these patches and…

  • IPv6 and bridges

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    I’ve reported a bug on bridge-utils, but perhaps someone has already seen this and has a fix. My virtual IPv6 machines often lose connectivity from time to time. Tracking this down, it seems that the router sends Neighbor Solicitations (IPv6 ARPs basically). The physical interface of the bridge group receives it, but the vnet0 one…

  • How not to get Galaxy Tab into Safe Mode

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    For weeks my Galaxy Tab 10.1 has reasonably consistently gone into safe mode. Not booting into it but I’d use it fine then put it away and next time I looked at it, Safe Mode was there. It wasn’t every time, but averaged to be about every second time. So the first thing was a…