July in the archive – a view from the Ubuntu Server Team

Another month passed on the road to the Intrepid Ibex. Two alpha releases have been pushed out the door and the Debian Import Freeze has been in effect for one month. Does this mean that the intrepid archive has been quiet ? Not really… Here are some highlights for the month of July:

DKIM verification is on by default

For those of you that deploy mail servers we’ve added another component for your spam fighting toolbox: DomainKeys Identified Mail. As mentioned earlier this month more testing of this new feature is welcome.

Default ssl virtual host in apache2

Amongst other things the apache2 package comes now with a default ssl virtual host. One more step closer to add support for SNI.

Improved autochanger support in Bacula

The new version of Bacula – 2.4.1 – comes with a major rewrite of the storage daemon autochanger and reservation code. Those of you using multiple drive autochangers should see more reliable operations.

Openldap update

The new upload saw an update to 2.4.10 and also the package renamed from openldap23 to openldap. It should bring in more stability (especially in the replication sub-system) and less confusion for the end user as to which version of openldap they’re running.

Smartcard support in Openvpn

The new package reenables PKCS#11 support.

Samba 3.2

At the begining of the month the Samba team released version 3.2. Shortly after it was uploaded to the archive. Lots of new features have been added: clustered file server support, encrypted network transport, ipv6 support and better integration with the latest version of Microsoft Windows© clients and servers. It should also be noted that Samba 3.2 is licensed under the GPLv3.

Dustin Kirkland’s Ubuntu Server posts

Byobu Custom Status Notifications in 3 Easy Steps!

Richard Johnson blogged a really cool hack for Byobu a couple of days ago. He created a custom script to retrieve his next appointment from his calendar and display it in Byobu's status bar. This is really cool ;-)Many Byobu users have asked me for this sort of functionality over the last year -- the ability to add custom status items to the lower bar. […]

Byobu Featured in Linux Identity Magazine

I wrote an article on Byobu for the Ubuntu 9.10 issue of Linux Identity Magazine.The article is in full color, with lots of screenshots. If you're interested in Byobu, or generally in Ubuntu 9.10, I suggest you pick up a copy! There are several other interesting articles, and also comes with Ubuntu 9.10 DVDs.http://www.linuxidentity.com/us/index.php?nam […]

Results of the Ubuntu Virtualization Survey

A big thanks to everyone that participated in the Ubuntu Virtualization Survey. I am pleased to share the results with you now.ResultsAnswersI will provide a few of my own observations, but we are very interested in your own conclusions!There were a total of 354 responses -- excellent feedback!Nearly 2/3 of all responders use virtualization on Ubuntu every d […]

Kees Cook’s Ubuntu Server posts

happy holidays 2009!

Happy Holidays! Or, as my firewall reported this morning: Dec 25 04:39:18 firewall kernel: [1054241.000084] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] ABORT operation started ... Dec 25 04:40:10 firewall kernel: [1054292.072173] raid1: sdb2: redirecting sector 3490144 to another mirror I guess I’m getting my firewall a new hard drive for Christmas. :)

install from official repositories only

As quickly pointed out by Rick, don’t install random software that isn’t in the official distribution archive unless you really know what you’re doing (and copy/pasting commands from a website doesn’t count). You’re just asking to be made part of a botnet.

karmic and log rotation

In Ubuntu’s Karmic and and Debian’s Lenny, sysklogd was replaced with rsyslog. This is fine, since rsyslog will have converted your /etc/syslog.conf to /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf. However, if you modified the (maddeningly strange sysklogd-specific) log file rotation in /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd or /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd, you’ll want t […]

Mathias Gug’s Ubuntu Server posts

RFC: Boot-time configuration syntax for UEC/EC2 images

As part of the Boot-time configuration for UEC/EC2 images specification a configuration file can be passed to instances as user-data to customize some part of the instance without writing and maintaining custom scripts. The goal is to support most common operations done on instance boot as well as help to bootstrap the instance to be part of an existing conf […]

RFP: packages to promote to main and demote to universe for Lucid Lynx LTS

The Ubuntu Server team is requesting feedback on the list of packages to be promoted to main and demoted to universe during this release cycle. Lucid being an LTS release we wanna make sure that packages in main are maintainable for 5 years. Useful packages should be promoted to main while packages that provide duplicated functionalities or are not maintain […]

Sep 20 – Sep 25 Wrap-up

Spent most of my week in Portland to attend conferences. Conferences Attended LDAPCon 2009 and published report. Attended LinuxCon 2009. Image Store Proxy Updated image-store-proxy to 1.0. This version brings support for gpg signed images. Still need testing against the real-world Canonical Image Store infrastructure.

Thierry Carrez’s Ubuntu Server posts

UDS Lucid

This week, Dallas hosts the Ubuntu Developer Summit for the Lucid Lynx release. This is the key moment where we define what will be done for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and discuss how it will be done. There will be plenty of interesting sessions in all the tracks, and sometimes I wish I could attend two sessions at the same time. In the server track, Monday will have […]

Run your own Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, part 3

In part 1 and part 2 of this series, we saw how to set up a minimal cloud infrastructure and bundle a basic image (and test it). In this final article, we’ll play with our cloud from an end-user perspective. Setting up the web UI First of all, before accepting end users, as the administrator of the cloud you will have to setup a few things on the web U […]

Run your own Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, part 2

In part 1 of this series, we saw how to install the cloud infrastructure. In this article, we’ll bundle and upload an EMI (Eucalyptus Machine Image), based on Ubuntu Server 9.10 Beta, and validate that we can run an instance of it. Download required elements Go to the cloud/cluster controller and download the required items. For a 64-bit image: $ URL= […]

Jamie Strandboge’s Ubuntu Server Posts

AppArmor sVirt security driver for libvirt

Serving up Sftp and AppArmor

AppArmor now available in Karmic — testing needed

After a lot of hard work by John Johansen and the Ubuntu kernel team, bug #375422 is well on its way to be fixed. More than just forward ported for Ubuntu, AppArmor has been reworked to use the updated kernel infrastructure for LSMs. As seen in #apparmor on Freenode a couple of days ago: 11:24 < jjohansen> I am working to a point where I can try upstre […]

Soren Hansen’s Ubuntu Server Posts

What Ubuntu Server *could* be

I'm glad Thierry started this discussion. About six months ago when we were first beginning to talk about what to do in Jaunty, I sat down and wrote a bunch of notes that I meant to turn into a blog post, but it never made it farther than an e-mail to a few people, but now that we're sharing visions, I thought I'd post it. Disclaimer: These ar […]

gtk-vnc and virt-viewer mozilla plugins

Another cool thing that's new in Jaunty that I've never gotten around to bloggin about is the fact that the virt-viewer and gtk-vnc packages in Ubuntu now provide mozilla-virt-viewer and mozilla-gtk-vnc, respectively. This means you can now put something like or this: in a web page and have access to virtual machines or other VNC servers directly i […]

Announcing Eucalyptus

I'm very pleased to announce the availability of Eucalyptus in Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope! From the package description: EUCALYPTUS is an open source service overlay that implements elastic computing using existing resources. The goal of EUCALYPTUS is to allow sites with existing clusters and server infrastructure to co-host an elastic computing service th […]

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1 ScottK Friday, 1 August 2008 at 10:57 pm

Slight update on the dkim testing …

I’ve removed the packages from my PPA (in fact I’ve deleted all the PPA packages in PPAs I run). I think that until the current wave of DNS cache poisoning attacks has been beaten down asking people to install software from unsigned repositories is not responsible.

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