Process MonitoringProcess Monitoring
Since forking the Mon project to etbemon [1] I’ve been spending a lot of time working on the monitor scripts. Actually monitoring something is usually quite easy, deciding what to[...]
Converting Mbox to MaildirConverting Mbox to Maildir
MBox is the original and ancient format for storing mail on Unix systems, it consists of a single file per user under /var/spool/mail that has messages concatenated. Obviously performance is[...]
Observing ReliabilityObserving Reliability
Last year I wrote about how great my latest Thinkpad is [1] in response to a discussion about whether a Thinkpad is still the “Rolls Royce” of laptops. It was[...]
QEMU for ARM ProcessesQEMU for ARM Processes
I’m currently doing some embedded work on ARM systems. Having a virtual ARM environment is of course helpful. For the i586 class embedded systems that I run it’s very easy[...]
Running a Tor RelayRunning a Tor Relay
I previously wrote about running my SE Linux Play Machine over Tor [1] which involved configuring ssh to use Tor. Since then I have installed a Tor hidden service for[...]
Apache Mesos on DebianApache Mesos on Debian
I decided to try packaging Mesos for Debian/Stretch. I had a spare system with a i7-930 CPU, 48G of RAM, and SSDs to use for building. The i7-930 isn’t really[...]
Forking Mon and DKIM with Mailing ListsForking Mon and DKIM with Mailing Lists
I have forked the “Mon” network/server monitoring system. Here is a link to the new project page [1]. There hasn’t been an upstream release since 2010 and I think we[...]
More KVM Modules ConfigurationMore KVM Modules Configuration
Last year I blogged about blacklisting a video driver so that KVM virtual machines didn’t go into graphics mode [1]. Now I’ve been working on some other things to make[...]
SE Linux in Debian/StretchSE Linux in Debian/Stretch
Debian/Stretch has been frozen. Before the freeze I got almost all the bugs in policy fixed, both bugs reported in the Debian BTS and bugs that I know about. This[...]
Video Mode and KVMVideo Mode and KVM
I recently changed my KVM servers to use the kernel command-line parameter nomodeset for the virtual machine kernels so that they don’t try to go into graphics mode. I do[...]