Archives mensuelles pour décembre, 2009
How to configure local mail delivery
I have a separate server which hosts my database. Each night, a cron script is run to dump the databases contents and rsynced the backups to another server. The backup script will log the backup in /var/log, but also send a mail. Most of the time I’m using ssmtp to use my ISP SMTP server as a relay. However my database server most of th [...]
As a linux sysadmin I do care about
This testimonial comes after reading a blog post from Albert Astals Cid : Consistency. Indeed I do find useless the debate about UI and buttons consistency ( which is different from buttons order issue ). So here are the point for which I do care as a Linux sysadmin with nearly 75 workstations running Linux, 5 notebook running Linux + Windows [...]
Mandriva: Nine Priorities for Mandriv...
As everybody^wnobody know, Hervé YAHI is no longer the CEO of Mandriva. So I decide to rip off an article from The VAR Guy to issue an open letter to the Mandriva direction. So here are 9 priorities for the new Mandriva staff :
A New Community: Sure, Mandriva has a strong open source community. And ??? will should work to strengthen that com [...]
The point on some Mandriva community ...
There are many communities based Mandriva derivatives, but few of them are known. So here is a ( not comprehensive ) list of some Mandriva based derivatives or projects :
One 64 community : 64bits edition of the Mandriva One LiveCD. A KDE edition and GNOME one are available for download.
LXDE LiveCD : The german community is releasing a Ma [...]
Oh time suspend your flying 2
Some days ago, I talk about the fact that some underlying technologies were changing too fast. I was mostly talking about HAL vs DeviceKit/libudev/… saga. Today I’ve discovered another one : PolicyKit vs polkit. Indeed once upon a time, someone consider that su/sudo/consolhelper mecanisms were not
sufficient. So they introduced a [...]
Oh time suspend your flying
I do remember when less than 2 years ago we had to handle the HAL support in xorg.conf … This was painful as there were several issues :
HAL need to be started or else you may end up without mouse and keyboard
By default HAL setting up a US keyboard layout ( QWERTY )
There was the need to find a way to configure the keyboard layout, an [...]
Experimental Mandriva Moblin LiveCD
Thomas Lottmann is providing experimental Mandriva-based Moblin LiveCD images. Theses images are provided in order to help testing Mandriva Moblin implementation.
The announce has been done on the Cooker ML. Please note this is a Mandriva community initative. A tracker bug is available on Mandriva bugzilla for thoses willing to track and repo [...]
Where is Unix spirit ?
Where is Unix spirit ? Since some years, i had the feeling that the Unix spirit was more and more forgotten.
Today I’ve read an interesting article about a new (mis)feature in Fedora : packages installation by unprivileged users . I must admit that I’ve been shocked when I read this : by default all local users can install package [...]