The Linux kernel is an ingenious piece of software and I’m pretty confident in compiling it by myself since quite a while – so I was trying to step up the game by doing debian packages. But now as the Kernel supports LTO, it’s time for me to give it a spin. But to be honest, useful documentation […]
Working my way to automatic kernel builds
It’s pretty obvious, that me maintaining the debian kernel repository which I announced in this post is a lot of work as I offer up to 4 flavors – which are ‘vanilla’, ‘vm’ and both for the gentoo patchset, I had to improve my setup. First of all, the introduction of ccache did shave off a few seconds […]
Bash files vs configuration
You guys know me, I do script a lot of stuff to make my life easier. Starting from my (smart)home to my server maintenance – it just saves too much time. And today I would like to share some ideas on how (not?) to work with configuration stuff in bash. First of all: Configuration on some scripts may […]
Yubikey for system auth
Linux is a beautiful system that can be customized in very many ways – it amazes me everytime how easy or which features I can add to my system for making life easier for me. Today: Login using the Yubikey. System Authentication is pretty easy on Linux system if we stick to PAM, which allows us to mix […]
Central logging vs dns targets
Oh boy – I was not ready for a hit like that. But let me start with the whole picture, shall we? I do run a central syslog using graylog and I tend to ship my logs to that device for easier searching and poking around in those. No big deal until I looked at my DNS traffic […]
ccache on kernels
As I am building debian packages of recent kernels, I have to build the same thing over and over again – pretty much three times to be exact. Once for ‘vanilla’, second time for virtual machines and third time for gameservers using the gentoo patchset. If you check back on my post about ccache on gentoo you might […]