Mandrake 9.1 has been released which resulted in much more bandwidth consumption. Instead of the usual 30-50MBit/s it is now always more than 200MBit/s and all 500 available ftp connections are in use.

Reboot was necessary to patch the kernel (ptrace exploit fix)

Just a status report, that the new kernel is operating without any apparent problems.

Right now we are running again without any bandwidth shaping which immediately resulted in a tripled bandwidth consumption. This server is the machine which produces the highest amount of traffic in the BelWü. Should this make us proud?

Short, unannounced, downtime to upgrade the kernel. Now a pure and selfmade 2.4.20 is powering this server.

Maintenance reboot to install two new SCSI controllers. This leads to that this server is now independent of any other server and no data is mounted via NFS but locally available. Two hours later after trying to unmount the last NFS-mounted file-system the system froze again completely. Another reboot and time to install a new and better kernel.

The new RedHat beta (phoebe) has been released. This is the third version of this RedHat beta release. The apt repository has also been updated.

Two crashes today. The kernel halted after an unmount of loopback mounted iso image.

The apt repository from rawhide seems now fully functional.

debian-security is now mirrored from security.debian.org and debian from ftp.de.debian.org. Both were previously mirrored from ftp.rfc822.org.

The mirror of ftp.gimp.org is now updated again.

The RPMs mirrored from redhat are availabe via apt-get.

The new Red Hat beta “PHOEBE” is available.

New mirror added: knoppix

New mirror added: freshrpms.net

Public rsync access available

New Hardware