http://cormander.com/blog yet another linux engineer Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:14:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So today I'm driving home from my daughter's appointment at her pediatrician's office. On the corner of a busy intersection is a guy in a Darth Vader suit holding a cardboard sign. It reads: The Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star. Please Help! There are a lot of panhandlers around here. This one ... http://cormander.com/blog/2010/03/darth-vader-panhandler/ So I setup new jobs in my Hudson server to track the "latest" kernel. It pulls in the latest changes, builds the kernel image, and with the -xenU ones, does a test boot. The current latest as of today is linux version 2.6.33. It works on 32bit: http://build.cormander.com/job/linux-2.6.latest-i686-vanilla-xenU/2/console It does not work on ... http://cormander.com/blog/2010/03/linux-2-6-33-64bit-xen-domu-and-config_debug_rodata/ I'm sorry phone, but it looks like you are about to be replaced. Your screen on the outside has been broken for quite some time, and I have to open my phone to see who is calling me. In order to do that without actually answering it, I have to ... http://cormander.com/blog/2010/03/its-about-time-for-a-new-phone/ So I mentioned in a previous post that even after lzma and xz support are added to centos5's version of RPM (4.4.2.3 + heavy patches), installing stuff from fedora 12 return an error about the md5sum. Well, after looking through the code, the use of "md5sum" is misleading because rpm supports ... http://cormander.com/blog/2010/03/backporting-sha256-checksum-support-to-centos-5/ The other day I went ahead and uploaded some new packages for gradm and paxctl. You can download this to your /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory: http://rpm.cormander.com/repo/grsec/rouge-beret-grsec.repo And then: yum install gradm paxctl This is a new version of gradm with the "grsecurity" dependency removed. No reason why you can't install it on a non-grsec host, the ... http://cormander.com/blog/2010/03/updated-gradm-and-paxctl-packages/ When fedora 11 started development, I noticed that pulling in the .src.rpm files and rebuilding them on centos5 wasn't so straight forward. Long story short, beginning in fedora 11 (and more so in fedora 12) the RPM files started to be compressed by lzma and xz, which exist in the ... http://cormander.com/blog/2010/03/rpm-xz-and-lzma-support-for-centosrhel-5/ My wife and baby were discharged from the hospital this evening, everyone is healthy. We can't help but keep calling the baby Phoebe, as she looks EXACTLY like she did as a newborn. So I keep telling myself; "The baby's name is Hazel, the baby's name is Hazel." Hopefully I'll ... http://cormander.com/blog/2010/03/home-with-the-baby/ This morning at about 5:29 AM my daughter was born, weighing in at 6 lbs 9 oz, and 19 inches long. This is my 4th child. We're naming her Hazel. Here are some pictures: http://cormander.com/blog/2010/03/its-a-girl/ So today I have to start class again in order to retain student status; you can only take so long of a break. I'd rather start after my wife has the baby, which should be any day now, but alas I don't get that choice. So I login this afternoon to ... http://cormander.com/blog/2010/03/a-break-from-school-has-come-to-an-end/ My wife did this so I thought I might as well do it as well. Instructions: Copy the list, bold the ones you've done (with explanations if needed), share with friends. 1. Started your own blog (well, duh...) 2. Slept under the stars 3. Played in a band 4. Visited Hawaii 5. Watched a meteor shower 6. Given ... http://cormander.com/blog/2010/03/99-things-i-ought-to-have-done/