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Debian Project piange la perdita di Frans Pop

Il progetto Debian è in lutto per la scomparsa di Frans Pop deceduto il 20 agosto. Frans era un maintainer di perecchi pacchetti…… August 31st, 2010 The Debian Project has lost a member of its community. Frans Pop (fjp) died on August 20th. Frans was involved in Debian as a maintainer of several packages, a supporter of the S/390 port, and one of the most involved members of the Debian Installer team. He was a Debian Listmaster, editor and release manager of the Installation Guide and the release notes, as well as a Dutch translator. The Debian Project honours his good work and strong dedication to Debian and Free Software. Frans’ broad technical knowledge and his ability to share that knowledge with others will be missed. The contributions of Frans will not be forgotten, and the high standards of his work will continue to serve as an inspiration to others. About Debian The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who volunteer their time and effort in order to produce the completely free operating systems Debian GNU/Linux. Contact Information For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to . Debian News

DebConf10 DPL report

Dear developers, here is the promised DPL report from DebConf10. I post it not only as the usual periodic report, but also to point at some DebConf10 events which might be relevant for future project activities. Communication ————- I’ve delivered the classic “bits from DPL” talk [10] at DebConf. I won’t discuss it here, but both slides [11] and recordings [10] are available. [10] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/569.en.html [11] http://git.upsilon.cc/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=talks/201008-debconf10-dpl.git;a=blob_plain;f=dpl-bits.pdf;hb=pdf I’ve also had two interviews with social science researchers (Gabriella Coleman and Fernando) on several Debian/DPL-related topics. The texts will be available, although it might take some time to write it down as the interviews were tape recorded. CUT (Constantly Usable Testing) BoF ———————————– Before DebConf10 we had yet another discussion that stumbled upon Joey Hess’ CUT proposal [6]. As I’m mean *g*, I started annoying^Wprodding Joey to have a CUT BoF at DebConf10. He agreed and ended up organizing, together with Lucas Nussbaum, one of the most crowded BoF of the conference [7]. I’m personally quite excited about CUT, as it has the potential to provide a quite unique in the context of today FOSS distributions. After the BoF, an Alioth project has been spawned [8] and discussions are flourishing on its mailing list [9]. If you are interested check out the archives or wait for a summary on -project which AFAIK is being prepared these days. [6] http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debian/cut/ [7] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/681.en.html [8] https://alioth.debian.org/projects/cut [9] https://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=100532 RC squashing activities ———————– I’ve hosted a BoF on RC bug squashing via NMUs [12]. While it is not strictly DPL-ish, I mention it here because it gave to the participants the clear impression that (properly done!) NMUs are welcome and considered a very useful tool to release in a more “collaborative” manner. Such a culture is important for the sustainability of our release process and to help the release team, especially these days, when we are close to the Squeeze release. Watch the video and go NMU an RC bug fix [12] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/609.en.htm Along the same lines, shortly before DebConf10 Micah Anderson contacted me to organize some RC bug squashing activity during the conference. The result of discussions with him, Gregor Hermann, and Mehdi Dogguy (in fact, they did most of the work) has been RCBC [3,4] a Release Critical Bug squashing Contest, with prize contributions from generous sponsors such as Marvell, HP, and Pearson. RCBC stats are impressive, with more than 200 bugs fixed in both Squeeze and Lenny. For more info see check the wiki page and the closing DebConf10 plenary [5]. [3] http://wiki.debconf.org/wiki/DebConf10/RCBC#RC_Bug_Squashing_Contest [4] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/07/RCBC_-_release_critical_bugs_contest/ [5] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/645.en.html init system(s) ————– When I attended the Ubuntu Development Summit (UDS) a few months ago, I chatted with Scott James Remnant (Upstart upstream) about how to best evaluate Upstart support in Debian. One of my suggestions has been to have a BoF on the matter at DebConf, which he kindly volunteered to organize [13]. The BoF has been attended by people as varies as upstream authors, boot loader maintainers, policy team, etc. While I’m by no mean an authoritative voice in wrapping up the BoF, I’m quite excited at an idea which was quite popular during the BoF: instead of *transitioning* from one init system to another, Debian can rather show how to *support* multiple init systems. The first needed step to go there will be support in policy for that and AFAIK it will be worked on by the policy team in the near future; check the policy BTS for info. [13] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/635.en.html Derivatives ———– After my talk at UDS a few months ago, I invited Ubuntu folks to do the same at our conferences. Jorge Castro—Ubuntu responsible of collaboration with upstream—has kindly accepted and delivered an interesting “Collaboration between Ubuntu and Debian” talk [18]. Additionally, Matt Zimmerman hosted a “Debian derivatives BoF” [19]. Unfortunately the BoF room didn’t have video coverage, but minutes have (just) been posted to the -derivatives@lists.d.o mailing list. [18] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/636.en.html [19] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/669.en.html Collaboration with SFLC ———————– Being in New York I took the chance to meet in person some FOSS sensitive entities which are in the area and care about Debian. In particular, I’ve been talking a lot with Eben Moglen and other people from SFLC (which, BTW, has contributed to the success of DebConf10, both in terms of monetary sponsoring and in terms of events organized for/with us) about collaboration possibilities. During the question time of the “Patent Absurdity” video projection [14], we have announced the start of collaboration in writing reports that will help Debian, and other distribution like us, to better understand and document legal implications of our day to day activities. A proper collaboration announcement is being prepared and will follow soon. [14] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/613.en.html DebConf & Debian —————- Following some pre-DebConf10 discussions among myself and the DebConf orga team on the topic of conference budget, a couple of BoFs have been organized. In particular, Pablo Duboue has hosted one on the topic of travel sponsorship [15], while myself and Holger Levsen have hosted one on the long outstanding issue of the (formal) relationship between DebConf and Debian [16]. Of course, no decision has been taken during the BoFs, as not all interested parties could be assumed to be present. On both subjects, discussions will re-start shortly on the debconf-team mailing list, aiming at clarifying both aspects before the full “release cycle” of DebConf11. [15] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/622.en.html [16] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/658.en.html [17] http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team Wrap up ======= The above pointers to DebConf10 events are by no means exhaustive, they are only those somehow related to DPL activity. There is interesting stuff for the Debian community in possibly any single DebConf10 event. Thanks to the outstanding work of the video team, recordings of almost all DebConf10 events are available [1]. In case you have missed a specific event or the conference all together, I encourage you to check out the recordings. In the same spirit, I encourage all speakers and event organizers to provide slides, minutes, and other support material as attachments in Penta [2] and to post them to the most relevant mailing lists, so that they are more widely available. [1] http://video.debian.net [2] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events.en.html Happy Squeeze hacking, Cheers. PS the usual boring day-to-day activity log, including DebConf10 days, is available at DebConf10 DPL report

DUCCIT 2010

Il 17/18/19 settembre a Perugia si terrà la Italian Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference 2010. Il comunicato stampa. Grazie per la segnalazione a n3x e MadameZou

DPN n.10

Welcome to this year’s tenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian turns 17 * Screenshots atpackages.debian.org * Some bits from ARM porters * Join the DebConf Team * Progress of the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port * Bits from the MIA team * … and much more. ———————————————————————— The Debian Project http://www.debian.org/ Debian Project News debian-publicity@lists.debian.org August 26th, 2010 http://debian.org/News/weekly/2010/10/ ———————————————————————— Welcome to this year’s tenth issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include: * Debian turns 17 * Screenshots atpackages.debian.org * Some bits from ARM porters * Join the DebConf Team * Progress of the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port * Bits from the MIA team * … and much more. Debian turns 17 ————— The seventeenth birthday of the Debian Project caused quite [1] some [2] media [3] echo [4], birthday parties [5] and congratulations [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20]. 1 : http://www.tecchannel.de/pc_mobile/news/2030272/debian_wird_17_jahre_alt/ 2 : http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analysis/open-sauce/41241-how-to-thank-debian-for-17-great-years 3 : http://www.dobreprogramy.pl/Debian-ma-juz-lat,Aktualnosc,19930.html 4 : http://www.marlexsystems.org/debian-festeja-17-anos-de-existencia/11374/ 5 : http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDay2010 6 : http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/478 7 : http://jonathancarter.org/2010/08/16/happy-birthday-debian-2/ 8 : http://news.debian.net/ 9 : http://blog.venthur.de/2010/08/16/happy-birthday-debian/ 10 : http://digitizor.com/2010/08/16/happy-17th-birthday-debian-and-some-interesting-history/ 11 : http://www.stormos.org/node/2327 12 : http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/happy-17th-birthday-debian-826722/ 13 : http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/happy-17th-birthday-debian.html 14 : http://lists.debian.org/20100816111701.717D7C818@nereida.gnuservers.com.ar 15 : http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/blog/?p=541 16 : http://andrew.mcmillan.net.nz/blog/thank_you_debian 17 : http://www.itoperationz.com/2010/08/happy-birthday-debian/ 18 : http://blog.irwan.name/?p=1520 19 : http://insidesocal.com/click/2010/08/happy-belated-birthday-debian.html 20 : http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/08/happy_birthday_debian/ As a surprise present for most Debian contributors, Maintainers and Developers, users were asked to submit their thanks via the website thanks.debian.net [21], and birthday balloons pointing to that page were added to several of Debian’s web services. 21 : http://thanks.debian.net About 3000 submissions [22] were received, ranging from plain “Thanks” in various forms, up toheartwarming [23] messages in (to most of us) foreign languages [24]. We would like to thank all users for their feedback, which really strengthened our project’s morale and motivation! Thanks! 22 : http://thank.debian.net/read_thanks 23 : http://www.marga.com.ar/blog/index.cgi/debian/Debian_Appreciation_Day_Recap.html 24 : http://thank.debian.net/message/136 As an unrelated sidenote, the editor would also like to mention that Debian’s bug submission tool [25]reportbug supports a –kudos option, making it easy to submit thanks to package maintainers on the other 364 days of the year ;). 25 : http://bugs.debian.org/reportbug Screenshots at packages.debian.org ———————————- As it is often easier to get an impression of an application by looking at screenshots, instead of just reading a descriptive text, Gerfried Fuchs has integrated the [26]screenshots.debian.net service into the package information at [27]packages.debian.org. See for example the screenshot of the package extremetuxracer [28]. 26 : http://screenshots.debian.net 27 : http://packages.debian.org 28 : http://packages.debian.org/sid/extremetuxracer For packages that do not yet have a screenshot available, a placeholder image is shown. Users are encouraged to contribute by uploading their own screenshots for their favourite applications. Some bits from ARM porters ————————– Riku Voipio published some “unofficial bits from the ARM porters [29]” in which he thanked ARM and Canonical for sponsoring new machines for the project. Besides giving Debian Contributors a three times faster machine for their development work, it has allowed the buildd infrastructure of machines automatically building new packages for specific architectures and suites to be renewed, so that experimental packages,volatile [30] packages, non-free packages and packages from [31]backports.org are now automatically built as well. Finally, he announced some work being done on a Hardfloat ARM port [32], which will work better on newer ARM processors with a hardware floating-point unit. 29 : http://suihkulokki.blogspot.com/2010/08/unnofficial-bits-from-arm-porters.html 30 : http://www.debian.org/volatile/ 31 : http://www.backports.org/ 32 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-arm/2010/08/msg00008.html Join the DebConf Team ——————— Richard Darst started a series of blog posts about the organisation of the annual Debian Conference [33] by commenting on the recent “DebConf & Debian” discussion. He doesn’t see a difference between the two, and invites all interested people to join the organisation team by subscribing to theDebConf team mailing list [34] and joining the #debconf-team IRC channel on irc.debian.org. In his second post [35], he explained the timeline of a DebConf. 33 : http://debian-administration.org/users/rkd/weblog/1 34 : http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team 35 : http://debian-administration.org/users/rkd/weblog/2 Progress of the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port —————————————- Different aspects of the port of the Debian operating system to the FreeBSD kernel [36] have made great progress recently. The Debian installer has been upgraded [37] to the FreeBSD kernel version 8.1, which also allows the installation system to be used in languages other than English. Also the debian-cd [38] scripts used to create CD and DVD images now support the creation of the new architectures [39]. Daily build images for Debian unstable are already available; daily and weekly builds for “Squeeze” will be made available with the next beta release of the Debian installer. However, the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD related web pages are outdated, and help is needed tofix the web and wiki pages [40]. 36 : http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ 37 : http://lists.debian.org/20100818113558.GA24988@hall.aurel32.net 38 : http://packages.debian.org/debian-cd 39 : http://blog.einval.com/2010/08/20#kfreebsd_cds 40 : http://lists.debian.org/4C6EAAE9.7090500@aurel32.net Bits from the MIA team ———————- Jan Hauke Rahm sent some bits from the MIA team [41], which tries to identify and handle package maintainers who sadly have become inactive. He gave some advice on how package maintainers should react when they think a package has been neglected by its maintainer, and stressed that the work of the “MIA” team is an important aspect of quality assurance. 41 : http://lists.debian.org/20100819082337.GA3379@ca.home.jhr-online.de Other news ———- Valessio Brito wondered [42] whether a webchat interface similar to the one used during the last Debian conference should be permanently available, to make it easier for users unfamiliar with IRC to join. 42 : http://lists.debian.org/20100822233610.17057e8pnlc6inq2@ssl.eumx.net Martin Zobel-Helas noted [43] that now more than 50% of Debian’s hosts and public services are reachable over IPv6. 43 : http://lists.debian.org/20100817190121.GA31072@ftbfs.de Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release ——————————————————— According to the unofficial release-critical bug counter [44], the upcoming release, Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” , is currently affected by 302 release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 128 release critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. 44 : http://bts.turmzimmer.net/details.php There are also more detailed statistics [45] as well as some hints on how to interpret [46] these numbers. 45 : http://blog.schmehl.info/Debian/rc-stats/#2010-33 46 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/RC-Stats Important Debian Security Advisories ———————————— Debian’s Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): squirrelmail [47], lxr-cvs [48], smarty (update) [49], ghostscript [50], Linux 2.6.26 [51], lvm2 [52], and zope-ldapuserfolder [53]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. 47 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2091 48 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2092 49 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-1919 50 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2093 51 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2094 52 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2095 53 : http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2096 Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list [54] for announcements. 54 : http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ New and noteworthy packages ————————— The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently (among others [55]): 55 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg * 3depict — visualisation and analysis for single valued point data [56] * bluedevil — KDE Bluetooth stack [57] * eatmydata — library and utilities designed to disable fsync and friends [58] * font-manager — font management application for the GNOME desktop [59] * freetts — speech synthesis system [60] * gitit — wiki engine backed by a Git or Darcs filestore [61] * luakit — fast and small web browser extensible by Lua [62] * mpris-remote — command-line interface for MPRIS compatible media players [63] * mricron — magnetic resonance image conversion, viewing and analysis [64] * phoneui-apps — SHR applications [65] * spectacle — RPM Spec file generator and management tool [66] * stackapplet — panel applet to track reputation on StackExchange sites [67] * wordpress-shibboleth — Shibboleth plugin for WordPress [68] 56 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/3depict 57 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/bluedevil 58 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/eatmydata 59 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/font-manager 60 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/freetts 61 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/gitit 62 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/luakit 63 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mpris-remote 64 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/mricron 65 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/phoneui-apps 66 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/spectacle 67 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/stackapplet 68 : http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/wordpress-shibboleth Work-needing packages ——————— Currently 576 packages are orphaned and 135 packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the recent [69] reports [70] to see if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete list of packages which need your help [71]. 69 : http://lists.debian.org/E1Oji8F-0004w9-3M@merkel.debian.org 70 : http://lists.debian.org/E1OmFTO-0002lR-Jb@merkel.debian.org 71 : http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested Want to continue reading DPN? —————————– Please help us create this newsletter. We still need more volunteer writers to watch the Debian community and report about what is going on. Please see the contributing page [72] to find out how to help. We’re looking forward to receiving your mail at debian-publicity@lists.debian.org [73]. 72 : http://wiki.debian.org/ProjectNews/HowToContribute 73 : mailto:debian-publicity@lists.debian.org This issue of Debian Project News was edited by Jeremiah C. Foster and Alexander Reichle-Schmehl [74]. 74 : mailto:debian-publicity@lists.debian.org DPN n.10

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEBIAN

happy birthday Debian Da qui potete fare gli auguri direttamente.

DPN n.9

Disponibile il nono numero del Debian Project News, la sintesi delle notizie: * The Debian project Release Team announces an official Freeze * Annual Debian Developer Conference 2010 ended * A free (as in speech) Debian book in the making * Second alpha version for “Squeeze”-based Debian Live images * Net-installation CD images with firmware available * Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.0 alpha0 test release * ZFS support in unstable on kFreeBSD ports * Debian-Accessibility is using Blends web sentinel * Debian GIS project will release Blends metapackages in “Squeeze” * DebiChem project will release Blends metapackages in “Squeeze” * DebConf11 logo contest * When should services started by init.d scripts be operational? * Different statistics about Debian * Building all files from source * … and much more. The Debian project Release Team announces an official Freeze On 6 August at DebConf10 in New York City, Adam D. Barratt and the rest of the Debian Release Team announced that Debian is being frozen in preparation for release. The tentative release goal is before the end of the year. As Adam D. Barratt said, a freeze is a horizontal transition and it means that one doesn’t introduce new transitions, or upload packages to unstable which are not intended to be released in “Squeeze”. Also, if your package is involved in an ongoing transition, don’t upload a new version until it migrates. You can check the transition tracker for more information. Annual Debian Developer Conference 2010 ended The 2010 annual Debian Developer Conference, DebConf10, which was held at Columbia University in New York City, ended last Saturday on 7 August, 2010. With over 300 Debian Developers, Maintainers, and Users from 40 countries attending, it was one of the most productive conferences ever. Attendees met other developers, worked on projects, toured New York City, and attended talks, thus forming strong community bonds throughout the week long event. Holding DebConf in New York allowed organizers to include members of the wider Free Software and Free Culture community who gave talks and presentations. Eben Moglen, chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, gave a talk “The Silver Lining in the Cloud” (beta version of the recording) that inspired days of conversation and got many participants interested in the Freedom Box project. John Sullivan from the Free Software Foundation showed a film about patents, “Patent Absurdity” (beta version of the recording), and led a BOF detailing the many campaigns of the Free Software Foundation. We also enjoyed the award winning animated film released under a Creative Commons license “Sita Sings the Blues”. The filmmaker, Nina Paley, along with Karl Fogel from Questioncopyright, led a lively question and answer period after the film. Many other interesting Debian-related talks and ad-hoc sessions took place, ranging from the latest developments in packaging up to collaboration with derivative distributions and projects like “Constantly Usable Testing”. Preceding the conference, a one week work camp took place, and thanks to the bug-squashing contest held during the past two weeks, almost 140 bugs were closed for the next release, and almost 80 for the current stable release! Debian’s current DPL, Stefano Zacchiroli, gave an inspirational talk (beta version of the recording), explaining why Debian is still relevant after 17 years but also making recommendations for attracting more users and developers, and for building stronger collaboration with derivatives. The Release Team delivered a quick but concise talk about their status and announced the immediate freeze of “Squeeze”. For those who couldn’t attend the conference, and would like to watch the talks, many sessions were streamed by the DebConf video team composed of over 40 volunteers. If you liked their work, please say thank you as this helps to keep them motivated. A low quality beta version of the video recordings is already available. The Debian Project, the attendees, and all who followed the streams would like to thank this year’s sponsors and the organizers for making all that possible! A free (as in speech) Debian book in the making Debian developers Raphaël Hertzog and Roland Mas have announced their intention to translate their French Debian book into English. Their best-seller covers a wide range of topics from the basics (introducing the community, dpkg, APT, debian-installer, etc.) to more advanced administration tasks (automated installation, virtualization with Xen, RAID/LVM, SELinux, etc.) as well as the most common services (mail, web, firewall, file server, LDAP, etc.). It will be based on the upcoming Debian “Squeeze”. The resulting book will be published under a DFSG-compliant license (dual license: CC-BY-SA 3.0/GPL2+) provided that they manage to raise the money required to fund this work. At this point, they need your feedback to pick the most appropriate funding service: check their announcement and respond to the questionnaire that they have set up. Second alpha version for “Squeeze”-based Debian Live images available Daniel Baumann announced the availability of the second alpha version of Debian “Squeeze”-based live images, which can be used without being installed. Due to space limitations, dedicated USB-HDD images will most likely not be offered anymore, as the new ISO-hybrid images can be used on both optical media like DVDs and USB-sticks. It’s also possible to use them via network boot. The images are available for the amd64, i386, and powerpc architectures and also contain an experimental installation system. Net-installation CD images with firmware available During the last few weeks, “netinst” CD images (containing the installation system and all packages for the base system, downloading everything else from the Internet) have been available which also contain the partly non-free firmware files needed (e.g.) for some network and WLAN controllers. Now that they have been tested, they have been moved to their final location and can be downloaded from the official download site for the i386, amd64, and powerpc architectures as well as one image to boot all three architectures. Debian Edu/Skolelinux 6.0.0 alpha0 test release DebianEdu, who adapt Debian for the special needs of schools and similar institutions, released their first test version based uopn Debian “Squeeze”. Many applications have been updated and added, so testers are asked to take special care about the package selections: missing, unneeded, and untranslated applications should be reported back. Other newly introduced features are the integration of the LXDE desktop environment and a roaming workstation profile for laptops. ZFS support in unstable on kFreeBSD ports Thanks to Tuco Xyz, Petr Salinger and Aurelien Jarno, zfsutils are now packaged for Debian GNU/kFreeBSD and available in “Sid”, including the relevant libraries and a udeb package for the Debian Installer. Its availability also brought some kernel ZFS issues to light which have been fixed in the meantime. Now Debian GNU/kFreeBSD can fully support ZFS. Debian-Accessibility is using Blends web sentinel The Debian-Accessibility project is now using the web sentinel provided by the Debian Pure Blends effort to show their current work to users. Those who are interested might have a look at the * user oriented tasks pages * developer oriented bugs pages There is some ongoing discussion whether Blends metapackages make sense for the Debian-Accessibility project. The definition for the packages which are shown on the pages above is available in the Subversion repository and the documentation of the format of the tasks files is available in the Debian Pure Blends documentation. Debian GIS project will release Blends metapackages in “Squeeze” The Debian GIS project has now released a set of metapackages built using Debian Pure Blends tools which are available in testing (and thus will be released in “Squeeze”). The web sentinel provides an overview of the available GIS and OSM packages in Debian. It would be great if some OpenStreetMap addicts would join this effort. As above, the definition for the packages shown is available in the Subversion repository. DebiChem project will release Blends metapackages in “Squeeze” The DebiChem project has likewise released a set of metapackages for “Squeeze” built using Debian Pure Blends tools. See the overview of chemical application packages in Debian and task definition in the Subversion repository. DebConf11 logo contest While Annual Debian Developers Conference 2010 has just ended, preparations for the 2011 conference have already begun. One example is the DebConf11 logo contest collecting ideas and logos for the conference, which will take place in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina. When should services started by init.d scripts be operational? Petter Reinholdtsen wondered whether a service started by an init.d script should already be operational when the script exits successfully. As the execution of these scripts is ordered based on their dependencies, it can lead to difficult to solve problems (see for example #585966 or #589915) when these scripts exit before their service is completely up and running. A depending service may be called while the service is still only starting up. Josselin Mouette noted that this would be the case for all init.d scripts using the start-stop-daemon with the –background option. Josef Spillner added that services should be able to handle it if services they depend on are temporarily unavailable, e.g. by trying to reconnect. Different statistics about Debian Anthony Towns published several statistics about Debian, including the average time needed to close bugs and the number of release-critical bugs. The graphs are rendered using JavaScript allowing different filters and zooming into the graphs. Building all files from source After several bugs had been filed against packages not building Flash files during their build process but shipping precompiled files, Charlie Smotherman wondered whether all files shipped in a Debian package really need to be built from source. Some of the reasons named were quality assurance, conforming with Debian Poliy, and compliance with the Debian Free Software Guidelines: being able to modify files distributed by Debian is a core principle. Other news The twenty-third issue of the miscellaneous news for developers has been released and covers the following topics: * Debian MiniConfs * Debian Maintainer index * GoogleCode redirector * Commit rights to Debian Project News for DDs * Debian Developer Portfolio Service * #debian-ubuntu on OFTC * Team uploads A list of the contents of all JAR files in Debian unstable is now generated daily. You can use zgrep to search package names, JAR filenames, or class names. Martin Zobel-Helas announced the agenda for a meeting of Debian’s System Administrators to take place on 3 September in Munich, Germany. Russell Coker documented how to create a chroot environment using SELinux. Petter Reinholdtsen wondered whether tools used to create users and their home directories should use a common framework (e.g. scripts in /etc/skel.d/) to automatically fill these directories with configuration files. New Developers and Maintainers Six applicants have been accepted as Debian Maintainers since the previous issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Michael Ziegler, Josué Miguel Abarca Samayoa, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo, Tomasz Muras, Praveen Arimbrathodiyil, and Youhei SASAKI into our project! Release-critical bugs statistics for the upcoming release According to the unofficial release-critical bug counter, the upcoming release, Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”, is currently affected by 245 release-critical bugs. Ignoring bugs which are easily solved or on the way to being solved, roughly speaking, about 145 release-critical bugs remain to be solved for the release to happen. There are also more detailed statistics as well as some hints on how to interpret these numbers. Important Debian Security Advisories Debian’s Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): xulrunner, gnupg2, openldap, kvirc, mapserver, ghostscript, libmikmod, gmime2.2, moin, tiff, lftp, avahi, cabextract, wget, php5 and socat. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures. Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the security mailing list for announcements. New and noteworthy packages The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently (among others): * amora-applet -- use a bluetooth device as X remote control (systray applet) * debian-installer-launcher -- Debian Installer desktop launcher * forked-daapd -- media server with support for RSP, DAAP, DACP and AirTunes * gnome-screensaver-flags -- Screensaver for GNOME with flags of the world. * gnuspool -- A network-based print spooler * guitarix -- Rock guitar amplifier for Jack * juffed -- Lightweight Qt 4 text editor * med-data -- Debian Med suggestions for medical databases * mencoder -- MPlayer’s Movie Encoder * mplayer-gui -- movie player for Unix-like systems * mupdf -- lightweight PDF viewer * mussh -- MUltihost SSH Wrapper * nailgun -- client, protocol, and server for running Java programs from CLI * plasma-widget-fastuserswitch -- Fast user switch plasmoid for switching between sessions in KDE * pyrit -- A GPGPU-driven WPA/WPA2-PSK key cracker * vlc-plugin-notify -- LibNotify plugin for VLC * xacobeo -- XPath (XML Path Language) visualizer * xul-ext-dispmua -- display Mail User Agent extension for Icedove * xul-ext-imap-acl -- Extension to manage ACLs on IMAP folders * xul-ext-sieve -- Extension that implements the ManageSieve protocol * zathura -- PDF viewer with a minimalistic interface * zfsutils -- command-line tools to manage ZFS filesystems Work-needing packages Currently 597 packages are orphaned and 141 packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the recent reports to see if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete list of packages which need your help. DPN n. 9

Bits from DPL

Con un poco di ritardo, causa DebConf10, Stefano Zacchiroli, fa il report delle attività in cui è stato coinvolto, in qualità di DPL: Hello world, here is a report on DPL whereabouts up to July 2010, just before DebConf. It was meant to be sent before, but DebConf has been so intense that I sat down writing it only now, apologies for the delay. I’ll separately send a DebConf-related update. As usual, a more detailed/boring activity log is available at master:/srv/leader/news/ . Communication ============= - I’ve been contacted about editing a Debian-related podcast [1]; planning of its episodes is now ongoing and some recordings have already been done. If you’re interested in being interviewed about a specific area of Debian, please sign up at [2]. - I’ve released an interview for the Italian linux magazine called “Linux & C”. The magazine is a paper magazine, but I’ve made the single interview available at [3] (PDF format, in Italian). Various other aspects of communication about Debian have been discussed with the press and publicity team, including the take over of and the proposal of merging various blog-ish resources into blog.debian.org. Check debian-publicity archives for more details. [1] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/07/debian_podcast_planning/ [2] http://wiki.debian.org/ThisWeekInDebian [3] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/stuff/LC71_v003_intervista.pdf Derivatives =========== - A press release about the derivatives front desk [4] has been published (thanks to the press team for their help!). Activity on the debian-derivatives mailing list is flourishing and some others derived distros have joined the initiative (including gNewSense, which will be switching to Debian in the near future). - The forthcoming openSUSE conference [5] will be on the topic “collaboration across borders”; they’ve asked me for a Debian representative. Rhonda has recently been very active and helpful in the derivatives from desk, and has kindly agreed to represent Debian at the conference. Rhonda has asked for feedback on our collaboration activities [6], please get in touch with her to contribute. - A “Debian derivatives” BoF has been discussed on -derivatives and Matt Zimmerman has kindly volunteered to organize it [7] (more about it in the forthcoming report about DebConf10). [4] http://www.debian.org/News/2010/20100629 [5] http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Conference [6] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/07/msg00135.html [7] http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/669.en.html Delegations =========== As promised, I’ve started reviewing current delegations with the goal of having a complete overview of all delegations by the end of my term. To start with, the delegations I’ve been given myself consistently have a wiki.d.o/Teams/SubPage with a link to the delegation text. As a next recent step, I’ve discussed with the current marketing delegates and they agree with me that their delegation are no longer needed. ———————————————————————– I hereby thank the marketing team for their past work and revoke the previous delegations [8] from the marketing team delegates Moritz Muehlenhoff and Andreas Schuldei. [8] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/04/msg00009.html ———————————————————————– Nevertheless, publicity and communication activities around Debian are quite active these days; if you are interested in the topic I suggest joining the -publicity mailing list and work with both the press team and the wonderful spontaneous team which is emerging there. Money ===== Here are some brief highlights on how I’ve been using / promised to use Debian money in the recent past: - I’ve guaranteed to the DebConf team money coverage to fully sponsor queue A and queue B attendees. The team was rightfully worried by the budget situation of the conference (in spite of the hard work of the sponsoring team, this year we have been less lucky than previous editions). In the end, the budget situations is much better than expected and probably no extra Debian money will be needed for covering travel sponsoring. Shameless plug: thanks to the orga team for the wonderful conference they have managed to organize! - I’ve asked to transfer the Debian money which were held in trust by Linux-aktivaattori (Finland) to FFIS (Germany). I’d like to thank Tapio Lehtonen and Linux-aktivaattori for the work they’ve done thus far holding in trust Debian money. - I’ve finalized the “Debian Sponsoring Guidelines” [9] and published them at [10]. (The attentive reader might have noticed announces of forthcoming team meetings and agendas on some mailing lists already.) - As the subject has been touched in recent discussions, I’d like to reiterate that Debian money can be used to buy hardware for specific needs, even if the hardware will be held in trust by individual developers. Good examples are hardware that you need for porting work, but you can be creative (as long as you are able to convince me that the hardware is really needed). - I’ve been contacting (thanks to Sune Vuorela and Michael Prokop) people from the KDE e.V. board about their incredibly successful sprint program [11]. I’m still fleshing out details (ATM we have significantly less resources than them, so we have more constraints), but I hope to be able to start something similar next fall. In the meantime, start thinking whether your pet Debian team can benefit from a sprint! [9] http://upsilon.cc/~zack/blog/posts/2010/07/debian_meeting_sponsoring_guidelines/ [10] http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DPL/SponsoringGuidelines [11] http://community.kde.org/KDE_e.V./Sprints Forthcoming events ================== I’m already aware of the following events that I’ll be attending in September, speaking about Debian: - OssBarCamp in Dublin, Ireland, September 25th/26th, 2010 - Software Freedom Day, Perugia, Italy, September 18th, 2010 Enjoy your summer/winter (according to your hemisphere) and take the time to squash some RC bugs, Squeeze is frozen now! \o/ Cheers. la mail

Tutti i video della DebConf10

Tutti i video degli interventi alla DebConf10 più altri delle conferenze ufficiali del progetto Debian, ora sono disponibili. Così anche coloro che non sono potuti essere presenti agli eventi hanno la possibilità di “gustarsi” tutti i vari interventi.

Squeeze frozen

Come segnalato da @furly nel forum; gli sviluppatori Debian, nel corso della DebConf10, hanno deciso il freeze di Squeeze. L’annuncio ufficiale: Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” frozen August 6th, 2010 In this very moment, during the ongoing annual Debian Developer Conference “Debconf10″ in New York, Debian’s release managers have announced a major step in the development cycle of the upcoming stable release Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”: Debian “Squeeze” has now been frozen. In consequence this means that no more new features will be added and all work will now be concentrated on polishing Debian “Squeeze” to achieve the quality Debian stable releases are known for. The upcoming release will use Linux 2.6.32 as its default kernel in the installer and on all Linux architectures. New features of the upcoming release include: * State of the art desktop environments, based on KDE 4.4.5, Gnome 2.30.0, LXDE 0.5.0, XFCE 4.6.2, X.org 7.5, OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 and many other applications. * Stable and current versions of common server software such as Apache 2.2.16, PHP 5.3.2, MySQL 5.1.48, PostgreSQL 8.4.4 and Samba 3.4. * Modern interpreters and compilers for all common languages such as Python 2.6 and 3.1, Perl 5.10, GHC 6.12 and GCC 4.4. * DKMS, a framework to generate Linux kernel modules whose sources do not reside in the Linux kernel source tree. * Dependency-based ordering of init scripts using insserv, allowing parallel execution to shorten the time needed to boot the system. Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” will also be accompied by variants based on the FreeBSD kernel for amd64 and i386 machines, together with the GNU libc and userland as a “technology preview”. Users of these versions however should be warned that the quality of these ports is still catching up with the outstanding high quality of our Linux ports, and that some advanced desktop features are not supported yet. However, the support of common server software is strong and extends the features of Linux-based Debian versions by the unique features known from the BSD world. This is the first time a Linux distribution has been extended to also allow use of a non-Linux kernel. Further work A number of bug squashing parties will be organized before the new distribution is released in order to classify and fix the remaining known problems in the new distribution. As the set of features has now been finalized for “Squeeze”, developers can now begin to create documentation such as release notes and the installation guide. Interested users and developers are invited to join the #debian-bugs IRC channel on irc.debian.org and help with these efforts or test out pre-release versions of “Squeeze”. To support more users, the Debian project also asks for help with translating the new documentation to as many languages as possible. About Debian The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly free, community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of the largest and most influential open source projects. Over three thousand volunteers from all over the world work together to create and maintain Debian software. Translated into over 30 languages, and supporting a huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the “universal operating system”. Contact Information For further information, please visit the Debian web pages at http://www.debian.org/ or send mail to .

Debian Project su identi.ca

Da oggi è possibile seguire il Progetto Debian su identi.ca il microblogging che permette di seguire le news del mondo Debian in tempo reale, ancora non è popolato ma a breve lo sarà. Happy Debian

Guide

Installare e configurare i codec per DVD e Mp3

Aggiunti i pacchetti corretti per Squeeze ← Versione meno recente Versione del 21:16, 31 ago 2010 Riga 14: Riga 14: </pre> </pre> Come ultimo passo utilizziamo ancora apt-get per installare i pacchetti minimi per garantire una corretta riproduzione dei flussi audio e video: Come ultimo passo utilizziamo ancora apt-get per installare i pacchetti minimi per garantire una corretta riproduzione dei flussi audio e video:  +* Lenny: <pre> <pre> # apt-get install libfaad2-0 libmp4v2-0 libfaac0 alsamixergui toolame lame libmp3lame0 libdvdnav4 libdvdread3 libdvdcss2 w32codecs ffmpeg # apt-get install libfaad2-0 libmp4v2-0 libfaac0 alsamixergui toolame lame libmp3lame0 libdvdnav4 libdvdread3 libdvdcss2 w32codecs ffmpeg  +</pre>  +* Squeeze:  +<pre>  +# apt-get install libfaad2 libmp4v2-1 libfaac0 alsamixergui twolame lame libmp3lame0 libdvdnav4 libdvdread4 libdvdcss2 w32codecs ffmpeg </pre> </pre> A questo punto siete liberi, utilizzando ancora apt-get o synaptic, di installare le applicazioni multimediali che preferite. A questo punto siete liberi, utilizzando ancora apt-get o synaptic, di installare le applicazioni multimediali che preferite.

Installare Adobe Flash Player

← Versione meno recente Versione del 09:35, 31 ago 2010 Riga 19: Riga 19: # update-flashplugin-nonfree --install # update-flashplugin-nonfree --install </pre> </pre> -<br>+  -<br>+==Versione Debian amd64== -=Versione Debian amd64=+ Al momento il supporto per la versione a 64 bit da parte di Adobe risulta essere sospeso a tempo indeterminato. È comunque possibile risolvere il problema seguendo i consigli riportati su [http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer#DebianTesting.27Squeeze.27i386 wiki.debian.org] Al momento il supporto per la versione a 64 bit da parte di Adobe risulta essere sospeso a tempo indeterminato. È comunque possibile risolvere il problema seguendo i consigli riportati su [http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer#DebianTesting.27Squeeze.27i386 wiki.debian.org] <br> <br>

Installare Adobe Flash Player

Aggiornamento - ← Versione meno recente Versione del 09:02, 31 ago 2010 Riga 19: Riga 19: # update-flashplugin-nonfree --install # update-flashplugin-nonfree --install </pre> </pre>  +<br>  +<br>  +=Versione Debian amd64=  +Al momento il supporto per la versione a 64 bit da parte di Adobe risulta essere sospeso a tempo indeterminato. È comunque possibile risolvere il problema seguendo i consigli riportati su [http://wiki.debian.org/FlashPlayer#DebianTesting.27Squeeze.27i386 wiki.debian.org] <br> <br> <br> <br>

Utilizzo del servizio di scheduling Cron

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Indice Guide

← Versione meno recente Versione del 00:04, 31 ago 2010 Riga 142: Riga 142: * [[Gestione e creazione di servizi in Debian]] * [[Gestione e creazione di servizi in Debian]] * [[Esecuzione di programmi: la variabile PATH]] * [[Esecuzione di programmi: la variabile PATH]]  +* [[Impostare l'editor predefinito della shell]] * [[Guida alla formattazione dei dischi con fdisk]] * [[Guida alla formattazione dei dischi con fdisk]] * [[Immagine:Swirl_blu.png]] [[Le fasi del boot]] * [[Immagine:Swirl_blu.png]] [[Le fasi del boot]]

Impostare l'editor predefinito della shell

Nuova pagina== Impostare l'editor predefinito della shell == Per impostare l'editor predefinito con cui interagire attraverso la shell, sono possibili due strade: * '''Editor predefinito di sistema''' è possibile modificare l'editor predefinito di sistema attraverso il comando: <pre> # update-alternatives --config editor </pre> quindi scegliere l'editor preferito dalla lista che apparirà a video. La modifica avrà effetto immediato per tutti gli utenti del sistema<br/> Ovviamente l'editor che si vuole utilizzare deve essere stato già installato altrimenti non comparirà nella lista di editor tra i quali è possibile scegliere. * '''Editor predefinito per un utente''' in questo caso l'operazione è ancora più semplice. Bisogna inserire la seguente riga: <pre> EDITOR=/percorso/editor </pre> al file <code>~/.bashrc</code> o al file <code>~/bash_profile</code> quindi: <pre> $ . .bashrc </pre> oppure: <pre> $ . .bash_profile </pre> per rendere effettive le modifiche.<br/> Per ritornare alla situazione antecedente la modifica, bisogna cancellare la precedente riga e poi cancellare la variabile EDITOR: <pre> $ EDITOR= </pre> Se non viene impostato un editor predefinito per un utente allora verrà utilizzato l'editor specificato in <code>update-alternatives</code>; se viene invece impostata la variabile "EDITOR" questa avrà la precedenza sulle impostazioni scelte in <code>update-alternatives</code><br/> È utile ricordare che queste modifiche influenzano il comportamento del comando: <pre> $ editor </pre> che è un link alla scelta fatta in <code>update-alternatives</code>, e al comportamento del comando: <pre> $ crontab -e </pre> che aprirà l'editor predefinito dell'utente che lancia il comando. :[[Utente:S3v|S3v]] [[Categoria:Uso del terminale]][[Categoria:Ottimizzazione del sistema]]

KDE4 - Notifica degli aggiornamenti sulla systray

← Versione meno recente Versione del 23:58, 30 ago 2010 Riga 9: Riga 9: * Uno script che effettua la risincronizzazione dei file contenenti gli indici dei pacchetti; * Uno script che effettua la risincronizzazione dei file contenenti gli indici dei pacchetti; * Uno script per notificare nella systray gli aggiornamenti eventualmente trovati; * Uno script per notificare nella systray gli aggiornamenti eventualmente trovati; -* Un job di [[Utilizzo del servizio di scheduling Cron|cron]] che lancia lo script di notifica;+* Un job di [[Utilizzo del servizio di scheduling Cron|Cron]] che lancia lo script di notifica; == Script per l'aggiornamento degli indici dei pacchetti == == Script per l'aggiornamento degli indici dei pacchetti == Riga 23: Riga 23: Il compito di questo script è soltanto quello di aggiornare la lista degli indici dei pacchetti, senza aggiornare il sistema. L'output e gli eventuali errori del comando <code>''apt-get update''</code> vengono soppressi. Per le mie necessità è sufficiente in quanto gli errori sono spesso dovuti all'irraggiungibilità dei repository, cosa in genere risolta in poco tempo. Il compito di questo script è soltanto quello di aggiornare la lista degli indici dei pacchetti, senza aggiornare il sistema. L'output e gli eventuali errori del comando <code>''apt-get update''</code> vengono soppressi. Per le mie necessità è sufficiente in quanto gli errori sono spesso dovuti all'irraggiungibilità dei repository, cosa in genere risolta in poco tempo. -Se si vuol far in modo che lo script venga eseguito ad intervalli diversi dall'ora, è possibile inserire un semplice file di testo, contenente un job di cron, nella directory <code>/etc/cron.d</code> oppure, in alternativa, inserire il job attraverso il comando:+Se si vuol far in modo che lo script venga eseguito ad intervalli diversi dall'ora, è possibile inserire la seguente riga:  +<pre>  +*/20 * * * * /usr/bin/apt-get update &>/dev/null  +</pre>  +attraverso il comando: <pre># crontab -e</pre> <pre># crontab -e</pre> -In entrambi i casi il formato da utilizzare è quello di [[Utilizzo del servizio di scheduling Cron#Crontab_Command_settings|crontab]].<br/>+Il formato da utilizzare è quello di [[Utilizzo del servizio di scheduling Cron#Crontab_Command_settings|crontab]].<br/>  +Con la precedente riga si indica a <code>Cron</code> di lanciare il job ogni ora quando i minuti sono 20 o multipli di 20 (ad esempio: 15.20, 15.40, 16.00, 16.20 etc.)  +   +È possibile istruire <code>Cron</code> per lanciare il job anche all'avvio del sistema. In questo caso c'è da aggiungere una seconda riga:  +<pre>  +@reboot /usr/bin/apt-get update &>/dev/null  +</pre>  +Questa modifica si dimostrerà molto utile, come si vedrà più avanti, nel caso si decidesse di volere la notifica degli aggiornamenti anche all'avvio di una sessione di KDE.  +  Questa è l'unica parte della guida in cui i comandi vanno dati con i permessi di root; i successivi passi vanno eseguiti attraverso i normali privilegi utente. Questa è l'unica parte della guida in cui i comandi vanno dati con i permessi di root; i successivi passi vanno eseguiti attraverso i normali privilegi utente. Riga 50: Riga 62: <pre>$ chmod +x ~/scripts/notifica</pre> <pre>$ chmod +x ~/scripts/notifica</pre> -== Job di cron per lanciare lo script di notifica ==+== Job di Cron per lanciare lo script di notifica == -Il job di cron per lanciare lo script precedente deve essere specificato nel formato di crontab:+Il job di <code>Cron</code> per lanciare lo script precedente deve essere specificato nel formato di <code>crontab</code>: <pre>30 * * * * ~/scripts/notifica >/dev/null 2>&1</pre> <pre>30 * * * * ~/scripts/notifica >/dev/null 2>&1</pre> -che può essere inserito dopo aver dato il comando:+che può essere inserito dopo aver eseguito il comando: <pre>$ crontab -e</pre> <pre>$ crontab -e</pre> -Nell'esempio indicato, il job di cron verrà lanciato ogni ora e quando i minuti valgono 30 (1,30h 2,30h 3,30h e così via). L'intervallo di tempo è liberamente modificabile; ad esempio, se si vuol lanciare il job ogni 10 min:+Nell'esempio indicato, il job di <code>Cron</code> verrà lanciato ogni ora e quando i minuti valgono 30 (01.30, 02.30, 03.30 e così via). L'intervallo di tempo è liberamente modificabile; ad esempio, se si vuol lanciare il job ogni 10 min: <pre>*/10 * * * * ~/scripts/notifica >/dev/null 2>&1</pre> <pre>*/10 * * * * ~/scripts/notifica >/dev/null 2>&1</pre>  +  +== Notifica all'avvio di una sessione KDE ==  +Questo passaggio non è fondamentale ma potrebbe rivelarsi utile per gli utenti che volessero ricevere la notifica di aggiornamenti all'avvio della loro sessione di KDE.<br/>  +La prima cosa da fare è accertarsi, come spiegato nel primo paragrafo, che <code>Cron</code> esegua l'aggiornamento della lista dei pacchetti all'avvio del sistema; quindi eseguire il comando:  +<pre>  +$ ln -s /percorso/dello/script/script_di_notifica /home/utente/.kde/Autostart/nome_link  +</pre>  +che creerà, nella cartella <code>Autostart</code>, un link simbolico <code>nome_link</code> allo script di notifica. In questo modo lo script verrà lanciato all'avvio di KDE.<br/>  +In particolare, per un utente <code>pippo</code> e con lo script chiamato <code>notifica</code> contenuto in <code>/home/pippo/script/notifica</code>, il comando diventa:  +<pre>  +$ ln -s /home/pippo/script/notifica /home/pippo/.kde/Autostart/notifica  +</pre>  +o, più semplicemente:  +<pre>  +$ ln -s ~/script/notifica ~/.kde/Autostart/notifica  +</pre> == Conclusioni == == Conclusioni == Riga 69: Riga 97: == Documentazione == == Documentazione == *[http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Shell_Scripting_with_KDE_Dialogs Kdialog] *[http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Shell_Scripting_with_KDE_Dialogs Kdialog] -*[http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crontab&sektion=5&apropos=0&manpath=Debian+5.0+lenny&locale=:link man crontab]+*[http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=crontab&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Debian+squeeze&format=html&locale=en man crontab]  +*[http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=cron&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Debian+5.0+lenny&format=html&locale=en man cron] ---- ---- : [[Utente:S3v|S3v]] : [[Utente:S3v|S3v]] [[Categoria:Desktop Environment]] [[Categoria:Kde]] [[Categoria:Desktop Environment]] [[Categoria:Kde]]

Configurare un server Syslog su Debian

Installazione di phpLogCon - ← Versione meno recente Versione del 17:42, 30 ago 2010 (7 revisioni intermedie non mostrate.)Riga 42: Riga 42: == Installazione di phpLogCon == == Installazione di phpLogCon ==  +{{Box | Nota |phpLogCon ha attualmente cambiato nome in LogAnalyzer. Il nuovo software è trattato nel capitolo successivo}} Per facilitare la lettura e la gestione dei log è uso comune ricorrere a interfacce grafiche. Su server senza l'ambiente grafico X installato potrebbe essere comodo ricorrere a un'interfaccia scritta in PHP. La scelta in questa guida è caduta su '''phpLogCon''' (http://www.phplogcon.org/), che a mio avviso rappresenta un ottimo compromesso tra funzionalità e facilità di installazione/gestione. Per facilitare la lettura e la gestione dei log è uso comune ricorrere a interfacce grafiche. Su server senza l'ambiente grafico X installato potrebbe essere comodo ricorrere a un'interfaccia scritta in PHP. La scelta in questa guida è caduta su '''phpLogCon''' (http://www.phplogcon.org/), che a mio avviso rappresenta un ottimo compromesso tra funzionalità e facilità di installazione/gestione. Prima di installare phpLogCon è necessario installare e configurare un ambiente LAMP, seguendo ad esempio le indicazioni riportare in questa guida: [[LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL e PHP]].<br/> Prima di installare phpLogCon è necessario installare e configurare un ambiente LAMP, seguendo ad esempio le indicazioni riportare in questa guida: [[LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL e PHP]].<br/> Riga 55: Riga 56: Creiamo innanzitutto un nuovo gruppo e aggiungiamo l'utente www-data a questo gruppo: Creiamo innanzitutto un nuovo gruppo e aggiungiamo l'utente www-data a questo gruppo: <pre> <pre> -# groupadd logadmin+# groupadd adm -# usermod -a -G logadmin www-data+# usermod -a -G adm www-data </pre> </pre> Verifichiamo quindi la buona riuscita dei comandi: Verifichiamo quindi la buona riuscita dei comandi: Riga 74: Riga 75: Ora apriamo con un editor il file <code>'''/etc/logrotate.conf'''</code> e cerchiamo la voce <code>create</code>, modificandola in: Ora apriamo con un editor il file <code>'''/etc/logrotate.conf'''</code> e cerchiamo la voce <code>create</code>, modificandola in: <pre> <pre> -create 640 root logadmin+create 640 root adm </pre> </pre> Modifichiamo infine anche il file <code>'''/etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng'''</code>, cercando la sezione relativa a syslog e modificandola come segue: Modifichiamo infine anche il file <code>'''/etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng'''</code>, cercando la sezione relativa a syslog e modificandola come segue: Riga 82: Riga 83: daily daily compress compress - create 640 root logadmin+ create 640 root adm postrotate postrotate /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload >/dev/null /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload >/dev/null Riga 89: Riga 90: </pre> </pre> In questo modo la prossima volta che logrotate verrà eseguito i log diventeranno leggibili di default anche per il nostro webserver. Per visualizzarli basterà collegarsi alla pagina <code>http://127.0.0.1/phplogcon</code>. In questo modo la prossima volta che logrotate verrà eseguito i log diventeranno leggibili di default anche per il nostro webserver. Per visualizzarli basterà collegarsi alla pagina <code>http://127.0.0.1/phplogcon</code>.  +  +== Installazione di LogAnalyzer 3.x ==  +il successore di pgpLogCon si chiama Adiscon LogAnalyzer e, come il suo predecessore, è scritto in PHP ed è liberamente scaricabile dal sito del progetto:  +http://loganalyzer.adiscon.com/ .<br/>  +La sua installazione procede essenzialmente in maniera identica a quella di phpLogCon, ma in questo paragrafo esamineremo anche l'utilizzo di un database MySQL di appoggio. Prima di installare LogAnalyzer è necessario installare e configurare un ambiente LAMP, seguendo ad esempio le indicazioni riportare in questa guida: [[LAMP: Linux, Apache, MySQL e PHP]].<br/>  +Una volta terminata la configurazione dell'ambiente LAMP si può procedere all'installazione di LogAnalyzer. Si scarichi innanzitutto la versione più aggiornata dal sito ufficiale: http://www.loganalyzer.adiscon.com/downloads.<br/>  +Quindi si scompatti l'archivio appena scaricato e si copi la directory <code>src</code> all'interno del nostro server Apache:  +<pre>  +# tar -xzvf loganalyzer-3.0.1.tar.gz  +# cd loganalyzer-3.0.1  +# mv src /var/www/  +# mv /var/www/src /var/www/loganalyzer  +</pre>  +Prima di continuare con l'installazione di LogAnalyzer occorre rendere rendere leggibili a LogAnalyzer i files di log syslog.  +Creiamo innanzitutto un nuovo gruppo e aggiungiamo l'utente www-data a questo gruppo:  +<pre>  +# groupadd adm  +# usermod -a -G adm www-data  +</pre>  +Verifichiamo quindi la buona riuscita dei comandi:  +<pre>  +groups www-data  +</pre>  +Ora copiamo i due file <code>configure.sh</code> e <code>secure.sh</code> dalla directory <code>contrib</code> all'interno del nostro server Apache, rendiamoli eseguibili e lanciamo gli script:  +<pre>  +# cd  +# mv loganalyzer-3.0.1/contrib/configure.sh /var/www/phplogcon  +# mv loganalyzer-3.0.1/contrib/secure.sh /var/www/phplogcon  +# cd /var/www/loganalyzer  +# chmod +x configure.sh secure.sh  +# ./configure.sh  +</pre>  +Inoltre dobbiamo configurare un nuovo database MySQL. Apriamo quindi l'interfaccia phpMyAdmin che abbiamo installato seguendo la guida apposita, facciamo login con le credenziali configurate e creiamo un nuovo database, chiamandolo <tt>loganalyzer</tt>.<br/>  +Infine colleghiamoci alla pagina <code>http://127.0.0.1/loganalyzer</code> e completiamo il processo di installazione e configurazione di loganalyzer. Quando arriviamo alla pagina di configurazione del supporto database inseriamo il nome del database che abbiamo appena creato (<tt>loganalyzer</tt> e il nome utente e la password del nostro utente MySQL.<br/>  +Ora apriamo con un editor il file <code>'''/etc/logrotate.conf'''</code> e cerchiamo la voce <code>create</code>, modificandola in:  +<pre>  +create 640 root adm  +</pre>  +Modifichiamo infine anche il file <code>'''/etc/logrotate.d/syslog-ng'''</code>, cercando la sezione relativa a syslog e modificandola come segue:  +<pre>  +/var/log/syslog {  + rotate 7  + daily  + compress  + create 640 root adm  + postrotate  + /etc/init.d/syslog-ng reload >/dev/null  + endscript  +}  +</pre>  +In questo modo la prossima volta che logrotate verrà eseguito i log diventeranno leggibili di default anche per il nostro webserver. Per visualizzarli basterà collegarsi alla pagina <code>http://127.0.0.1/loganalyzer</code>.  +LogAnalyzer permette di configurare più sorgenti log, nel caso volessimo tener monitorati, oltre al file syslog, anche altri file di log. Per aggiungere sorgenti log è sufficiente aprire il file di configurazione:  +<pre>  +# nano /var/www/loganalyzer/config.php  +</pre>  +e spostarci alla fine del file. Lì troveremo configurata la prima sorgente log (Syslog) ma potremo aggiungerne altre. Ad esempio possiamo controllare gli accessi al nostro server creando la seguente sorgente:  +<pre>  +$CFG['DefaultSourceID'] = 'Source2';  +  +$CFG['Sources']['Source2']['ID'] = 'Source2';  +$CFG['Sources']['Source2']['Name'] = 'Auth Log Server';  +$CFG['Sources']['Source2']['ViewID'] = 'AUTHLOG';  +$CFG['Sources']['Source2']['SourceType'] = SOURCE_DISK;  +$CFG['Sources']['Source2']['LogLineType'] = 'auth.log';  +$CFG['Sources']['Source2']['DiskFile'] = '/var/log/auth.log';  +</pre>  +Non c'è limite alle sorgenti log che possono essere configurate.  + == Installazione di Splunk == == Installazione di Splunk == Un'interfaccia alternativa molto potente è Splunk (http://www.splunk.com/).<br> Un'interfaccia alternativa molto potente è Splunk (http://www.splunk.com/).<br>

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Come visualizzare i video in streaming su Debian

VLC - ← Versione meno recente Versione del 16:49, 28 ago 2010 (4 revisioni intermedie non mostrate.)Riga 1: Riga 1: {{Versioni compatibili|Debian Lenny<br>Debian Squeeze<br>Debian Sid}} {{Versioni compatibili|Debian Lenny<br>Debian Squeeze<br>Debian Sid}} ==Introduzione== ==Introduzione== -Il problema del parziale funzionamento in Debian di siti web di video streaming basati su tecnologia Flash (ad esempio Youtube) è cosa comune fra gli utenti linux.<br/>+Il problema del parziale funzionamento in Debian di siti web di video streaming basati su tecnologia Flash (ad esempio Youtube o Megavideo) è cosa comune fra gli utenti linux.<br/> Per fortuna anche in questo caso esistono alcune brillanti soluzioni, che consentono agli utenti Debian di poter fare a meno di plugin proprietari (Adobe Flash) a favore di software open. Per fortuna anche in questo caso esistono alcune brillanti soluzioni, che consentono agli utenti Debian di poter fare a meno di plugin proprietari (Adobe Flash) a favore di software open. Riga 10: Riga 10: ==VLC== ==VLC== -Se preferite visualizzare i video di Youtube all'interno di veri e propri programmi da installare sul vostro desktop, le soluzioni sono molteplici.<br/>+Se preferite visualizzare i video in streaming all'interno di veri e propri programmi da installare sul vostro desktop, le soluzioni sono molteplici.<br/> La prima soluzione prevede l'utilizzo del player VLC, un player multimediale presente nei repository di Debian Lenny o releases successive: La prima soluzione prevede l'utilizzo del player VLC, un player multimediale presente nei repository di Debian Lenny o releases successive: <pre> <pre> # apt-get install vlc # apt-get install vlc </pre> </pre>  +===Youtube=== Una volta installato il player, dovete recarvi su Youtube e prendere nota dell'indirizzo HTTP del video che vi interessa guardare.<br/> Una volta installato il player, dovete recarvi su Youtube e prendere nota dell'indirizzo HTTP del video che vi interessa guardare.<br/> -Copiatelo, quindi aprite VLC, andate su <tt>Media - Apri flusso di rete...</tt>, incollate l'indirizzo copiato in precedenza e godetevi il vostro video.<br/>+Copiatelo, quindi aprite VLC, andate su ''Media - Apri flusso di rete...'', incollate l'indirizzo copiato in precedenza e godetevi il vostro video.<br/> ''(Grazie al blog di [http://blog.altertux.org/se-si-deve-per-forza-vedere-youtube coltem] per l'elegante soluzione)'' ''(Grazie al blog di [http://blog.altertux.org/se-si-deve-per-forza-vedere-youtube coltem] per l'elegante soluzione)''  +===Megavideo===  +Megavideo opera uno strano mascheramento dell'indirizzo del flusso di stream, ma è possibile aggirarlo:  +# Scaricate il plugin DownloadHelper per Iceweasel  +# Aprite MegaVideo e mettete in play il filmato che desiderate vedere: noterete che il bottone di DownloadHelper (appena comparso accanto alla barra degli indirizzi di Iceweasel) si illuminerà. Cliccando sopra il triangolino subito alla sua sinistra, vedrete la lista dei filmati che è possibile scaricare (prevedibilmente, uno solo): cliccateci sopra, e vi verrà chiesto dove salvarlo. Scegliete un posto a caso (il desktop va benissimo) e avviate il download.  +# Quando, nella finestrella di download di Iceweasel (richiamabile in qualunque momento con CTRL + J), vedrete iniziare lo scaricamento del filmato, cliccate su di esso col tasto destro del mouse e selezionate la voce "''Copia indirizzo di origine''" (fermando, se volete, il download del filmato).  +# Aprite VLC e sceglete "''Apri flusso di Rete''" dal menu Media (CTRL + N).  +# Incollate l'URL precedentemente copiato nell'apposito campo Indirizzo.  +# Nel giro di pochi secondi vedrete iniziare la riproduzione del filmato direttamente dentro VLC! ==Minitube== ==Minitube==

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Come visualizzare i video di Youtube su Debian

Minitube - ← Versione meno recente Versione del 10:19, 27 ago 2010 Riga 1: Riga 1: {{Versioni compatibili|Debian Lenny<br>Debian Squeeze<br>Debian Sid}} {{Versioni compatibili|Debian Lenny<br>Debian Squeeze<br>Debian Sid}} ==Introduzione== ==Introduzione== -Il problema del parziale funzionamento di Gnash con siti web di video streaming basati su tecnologia Flash (ad esempio Youtube) è cosa comune fra gli utenti linux.<br/>+Il problema del parziale funzionamento in Debian di siti web di video streaming basati su tecnologia Flash (ad esempio Youtube) è cosa comune fra gli utenti linux.<br/> -Per fortuna anche in questo caso esistono alcune brillanti soluzioni.+Per fortuna anche in questo caso esistono alcune brillanti soluzioni, che consentono agli utenti Debian di poter fare a meno di plugin proprietari (Adobe Flash) a favore di software open.  +  ==Gnash e Greasemonkey== ==Gnash e Greasemonkey== Se desiderate guardare i video di Youtube esclusivamente attraverso il vostro browser, il consiglio è di seguire questa ottima guida presente nel nostro wiki:<br/> Se desiderate guardare i video di Youtube esclusivamente attraverso il vostro browser, il consiglio è di seguire questa ottima guida presente nel nostro wiki:<br/> Riga 28: Riga 29: </pre> </pre> Il programma è rilasciato sotto licenza GPL ed è sviluppato in C++ con QT/Phonon. Il programma è rilasciato sotto licenza GPL ed è sviluppato in C++ con QT/Phonon.  +  +  +:[[Utente:Ferdybassi|Ferdybassi]]