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	<title>Tobias Scherbaum &#187; Gentoo</title>
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		<title>Förderverein Gentoo e.V: Vorerst keine Auflösung</title>
		<link>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/10/14/forderverein-gentoo-e-v-vorerst-keine-auflosung/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/10/14/forderverein-gentoo-e-v-vorerst-keine-auflosung/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tobias Scherbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gentoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Vor rund 14 Tagen schrieb ich über die anstehende Auflösung des Förderverein Gentoo e.V. &#8211; nun 14 Tage später sieht erst einmal vieles danach aus, als wenn auf der kommenden Mitgliederversammlung ein neuer Vorstand gewählt werden kann und zumindest die Auflösung (vorerst?) vom Tisch ist. Die angedachte Mitgliederversammlung am Wochenende 07./08.11. in Bottrop findet ebenso [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vor rund 14 Tagen schrieb ich über die <a href="http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/09/28/forderverein-gentoo-e-v-strebt-auflosung-an/">anstehende Auflösung des Förderverein Gentoo e.V.</a> &#8211; nun 14 Tage später sieht erst einmal vieles danach aus, als wenn auf der kommenden Mitgliederversammlung ein neuer Vorstand gewählt werden kann und zumindest die Auflösung (vorerst?) vom Tisch ist. Die angedachte Mitgliederversammlung am Wochenende 07./08.11. in Bottrop findet ebenso nicht statt. Anstelle dessen wird voraussichtlich im Rahmen des 26C3 in Berlin (vermutlich am 27.12.) eine außerordentliche Mitgliederversammlung stattfinden. Alle Mitglieder des Vereins werden selbstverständlich zeitig hierzu eingeladen.</p>
<p>Ich möchte mich ausdrücklich bei denen entschuldigen, die mir in den vergangenen Wochen Mails mit Hilfsangeboten etc. zukommen lassen haben &#8211; ich konnte nicht alle Mails beantworten, aber es tut durchaus gut, zu sehen, dass auch andere noch ein Interesse am Verein haben. Dafür Danke!</p>
<p>Möglichst kurzfristig soll die Webseite des Vereins ein Facelift erhalten und ab dann im Idealfall regelmäßig mit frischen Informationen versorgt werden.</p>
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		<title>Förderverein Gentoo e.V. strebt Auflösung an.</title>
		<link>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/09/28/forderverein-gentoo-e-v-strebt-auflosung-an/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/09/28/forderverein-gentoo-e-v-strebt-auflosung-an/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tobias Scherbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aktuelles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gentoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Me, Myself and I]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(For readers on planet.g.o: This one is in German language only, but i do consider this important enough to be published on planet.g.o although.)
Wichtig: Ich schreibe hier als Privatperson, nicht als Vorstandsmitglied des Förderverein Gentoo e.V.!
Die am vergangenen Freitag stattgefundene Mitgliederversammlung hat sich mehrheitlich dafür ausgesprochen, den Förderverein Gentoo e.V. aufzulösen. Entgegen der Tagesordnung wurde [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>(For readers on planet.g.o: This one is in German language only, but i do consider this important enough to be published on planet.g.o although.)</p>
<p><strong>Wichtig: Ich schreibe hier als Privatperson, nicht als Vorstandsmitglied des Förderverein Gentoo e.V.!</strong></p>
<p>Die am vergangenen Freitag stattgefundene Mitgliederversammlung hat sich mehrheitlich dafür ausgesprochen, den Förderverein Gentoo e.V. aufzulösen. Entgegen der Tagesordnung wurde mangels Kandidaten kein neuer Vorstand gewählt, so dass der bisherige Vorstand weiterhin geschäftsführend im Amt bleibt. Alle Mitglieder des Vereins werden in den kommenden Tagen angeschrieben und zu einer außerordentlichen Mitgliederversammlung eingeladen, die voraussichtlich am 07.11. in Bottrop stattfinden wird und in welcher über die Auflösung formal beschlossen werden kann.</p>
<p>Vorweg: Auf die Gentoo-Distribution an sich hat dies keinerlei Auswirkungen, Gentoo ist nicht tot und wird weiter bestehen &#8211; auch unabhängig von einem Förderverein im deutschsprachigen Raum.</p>
<p>Was ist der Förderverein Gentoo e.V.? Der Verein wurde im Herbst 2003 am Rande der Practical Linux in Gießen mit dem Ziel gegründet, die Verbreitung und Präsenz von Gentoo im deutschsprachigen Raum zu fördern und unterstützen.</p>
<p>Warum will sich der Verein auflösen? Es konnte aus dem &#8211; kleinen &#8211; Kreis der bei der Mitgliederversammlung anwesenden Mitglieder kein neuer Vorstand gefunden werden. Die Mehrheit der anwesenden Mitglieder sieht keine Perspektive den Verein weiter sinnvoll zu betreiben. Es ist seit Gründung des Vereins im Jahr 2003 nicht gelungen, eine kritische Maße zu erzeugen, die sich und den Verein gegenseitig pusht und weiterbringt, aktiv am Vereinsleben teilnimmt. Realistisch betrachtet war ich in der vergangenen Zeit ein Einzelkämpfer &#8211; zu wenig für einen Verein.</p>
<p>Welche Konsequenzen ergeben sich aus der Entscheidung? Die Präsenz von Gentoo auf Messen und Veranstaltungen wird darunter leiden. Auch wenn es um den Verein in der Vergangenheit ruhig war, konnte dieser dennoch über Mitgliedsbeiträge und Zuwendungen die Finanzierung von Flyern und Bannern, Vorfinanzierung von T-Shirts, etc. pp. sicherstellen. Ob sich Privatpersonen finden, die künftig nicht unerhebliche Beträge vorfinanzieren oder für Flyer etc. aufwenden wollen und können, wird sich zeigen müssen. Insgesamt gehe ich davon aus, dass sich die Präsenz auf Veranstaltungen zunächst nicht großartig verändern wird &#8211; langfristig mag ich keine Perspektiven abgeben. Was diese Entscheidung für mich persönlich bedeutet, wird sich auch noch zeigen müssen &#8211; meiner Motivation sind insbesondere diverse Begleitumstände der Mitgliederversammlung nicht sonderlich zuträglich. Auch fraglich ist zunächst, inwieweit es das Portal gentoo.de künftig noch geben wird, wenn kein Verein zur Finanzierung des Betrieb des Servers bereit steht. Und: Es gibt sicherlich weitere Implikationen einer Vereinsauflösung, die sich erst im Nachhinein zeigen werden.</p>
<p>Schade.</p>
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		<title>HSM is searching Linux/Firewall specialist</title>
		<link>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/07/23/hsm-is-searching-linuxfirewall-specialist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:39:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tobias Scherbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gentoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[HSM (from Paderborn, Germany)  is &#8211; once again &#8211; searching for a Linux/Firewall specialist:
HSM is a renowned, high profile Firewall development company headquartered in Paderborn / Germany.
HSM is searching for Linux specialists with good Gentoo knowledge for further development and customer support for their Linux-based universal firewall-software with a new and unique product concept. [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>HSM (from Paderborn, Germany)  is &#8211; once again &#8211; searching for a Linux/Firewall specialist:</p>
<blockquote><p>HSM is a renowned, high profile Firewall development company headquartered in Paderborn / Germany.<br />
HSM is searching for Linux specialists with good Gentoo knowledge for further development and customer support for their Linux-based universal firewall-software with a new and unique product concept. (www.octogate.de).<br />
Successfull candidates will have ample Linux experience, which especially covers TCP/IP and Routing, Perl, Java-Script and BASH Scripting, Apache, Bind, DNS, SQUID, Postfix and MySQL, plus communicative skills, organised work habits and consequent customer orientation.</p>
<p>This position offers candidates with the respective long-term professional experience the possibility of ascending to a managing position. For candidates with initial professional experiences we provide attractive training and further qualification possibilities. For further information contact HSM under the following email<br />
Address  frank.menne@hsm.de</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Back, somehow.</title>
		<link>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/06/03/back-somehow/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/06/03/back-somehow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tobias Scherbaum</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the past few months (basically for nearly a year *cough*) I was working on another book, now that this one is finally done and probably will hit bookstores this month I&#8217;m somehow back. At least I&#8217;ll have much more free time for all things Gentoo :)
Sadly this project had some (minor?) impact on being [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In the past few months (basically for nearly a year *cough*) I was working on another <a href="http://www.oreilly.de/catalog/pbnagiosger/">book</a>, now that this one is finally done and probably will hit bookstores this month I&#8217;m somehow back. At least I&#8217;ll have much more free time for all things Gentoo :)</p>
<p>Sadly this project had some (minor?) impact on being member of Gentoo&#8217;s council for nearly a year now. I wasn&#8217;t able to be as active as I would&#8217;ve liked to and couldn&#8217;t spent as much time as I would&#8217;ve liked to. On the other hand I only missed a single meeting (where ulm proxied for me) and (at least that&#8217;s my pov) I was always well enough prepared for council meetings. But still then, I&#8217;m not sure if I should run for the next council again. I&#8217;m thinking of lots of pros and cons for quite some while &#8211; but well, there are still some days left to decide whether to accept or decline the nomination.</p>
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		<title>Being an undertaker &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/05/17/being-an-undertaker/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/05/17/being-an-undertaker/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 13:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tobias Scherbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gentoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This service has been discontinued as of May 17th 2009.
You may find older ebuilds from this overlay using the ViewVC listing at:
http://www.gentoo.de/viewvc/?root=gentoo-x86
 &#8211; Tobias Scherbaum

That being said, today I did shut down the gentoo.de Portage Overlay which was one of the oldest overlays around (it started somewhen in 2001/2002 iirc). SVN and distributed version control [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>This service has been discontinued as of May 17th 2009.</p>
<p>You may find older ebuilds from this overlay using the ViewVC listing at:</p>
<p>http://www.gentoo.de/viewvc/?root=gentoo-x86</p>
<p> &#8211; Tobias Scherbaum
</p></blockquote>
<p>That being said, today I did shut down the gentoo.de Portage Overlay which was one of the oldest overlays around (it started somewhen in 2001/2002 iirc). SVN and distributed version control systems and also Gentoo&#8217;s Sunrise project made it quite easy to setup your own overlay &#8211; or just use Sunrise. There was no need for the gentoo.de Overlay anymore, therefore the decision was made to shut down the service on March 31th. Well, it took some days longer than announced &#8211; but the overlay is gone now.</p>
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		<title>Worker: new version on 10th anniversary</title>
		<link>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/03/06/worker-new-version-on-10th-anniversary/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/03/06/worker-new-version-on-10th-anniversary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tobias Scherbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gentoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new version of worker, a file manager for the X Window System, has been released today. Exactly 10 years after the first public version became available. As a little present worker now allows to use tabs in the directory view, like in browsers. Nice! 

Link to the release announcement. 2.17.2 also is available in [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new version of worker, a file manager for the X Window System, has been released today. Exactly 10 years after the first public version became available. As a little present worker now allows to use tabs in the directory view, like in browsers. Nice! </p>
<p><a href="http://blog.scherbaum.info/wp-content/uploads/workernunmittabbing.png"><img src="http://blog.scherbaum.info/wp-content/uploads/workernunmittabbing-300x105.png" alt="" title="Worker mit Tabbing" width="300" height="105" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-528" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=49B132D0.6040807%40boomerangsworld.de&#038;forum_name=workerfm-users">Link</a> to the release announcement. 2.17.2 also is available in Gentoos Portage Tree as of &#8230; well &#8230; now ;)</p>
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		<title>Announcing HPPA autobuilds</title>
		<link>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/03/01/announcing-hppa-autobuilds/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/03/01/announcing-hppa-autobuilds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tobias Scherbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gentoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It took quite some time (well, nearly a year to get the buildbox moved into a datacenter &#8211; shame on me) but now automatically built stages for HPPA (hppa1.1 and hppa2.0 that is) are available on a mirror near you.
For those of you interested in geek porn, the buildbox is a HP C3700 UNIX workstation [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It took quite some time (well, nearly a year to get the buildbox moved into a datacenter &#8211; shame on me) but now automatically built stages for HPPA (hppa1.1 and hppa2.0 that is) are available on a <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors2.xml">mirror</a> near you.</p>
<p>For those of you interested in geek porn, the buildbox is a <a href="http://hwdb.parisc-linux.org/view.php?type=machine&#038;name=C3700">HP C3700</a> UNIX workstation w/ 3,5 gigs of ram, a 750 mhz PA8700 cpu and two 36gb scsi-disks. A tad more powerful than the current HPPA developer box (hake.hppa.dev.gentoo.org, a <a href="http://hwdb.parisc-linux.org/view.php?type=machine&#038;name=C3600">HP C3600</a>).</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;">tobias<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>barsch ~ $ <span style="color: #c20cb9; font-weight: bold;">cat</span> <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>proc<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>cpuinfo 
processor	: <span style="color: #000000;">0</span>
cpu family	: PA-RISC <span style="color: #000000;">2.0</span>
cpu		: PA8700 <span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#40;</span>PCX-W2<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#41;</span>
cpu MHz		: <span style="color: #000000;">750.000000</span>
model		: <span style="color: #000000;">9000</span><span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span><span style="color: #000000;">785</span><span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>C3700
model name	: Allegro W2
hversion	: 0x00005dc0
sversion	: 0x00000481
I-cache		: <span style="color: #000000;">768</span> KB
D-cache		: <span style="color: #000000;">1536</span> KB <span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#40;</span>WB, direct mapped<span style="color: #7a0874; font-weight: bold;">&#41;</span>
ITLB entries	: <span style="color: #000000;">240</span>
DTLB entries	: <span style="color: #000000;">240</span> - shared with ITLB
bogomips	: <span style="color: #000000;">1497.49</span>
software <span style="color: #c20cb9; font-weight: bold;">id</span>	: <span style="color: #000000;">2004492210</span>
&nbsp;
tobias<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">@</span>barsch ~ $ <span style="color: #c20cb9; font-weight: bold;">free</span> <span style="color: #660033;">-m</span>
             total       used       <span style="color: #c20cb9; font-weight: bold;">free</span>     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          <span style="color: #000000;">3542</span>       <span style="color: #000000;">1915</span>       <span style="color: #000000;">1627</span>          <span style="color: #000000;">0</span>        <span style="color: #000000;">591</span>       <span style="color: #000000;">1043</span>
-<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>+ buffers<span style="color: #000000; font-weight: bold;">/</span>cache:        <span style="color: #000000;">280</span>       <span style="color: #000000;">3261</span>
Swap:            <span style="color: #000000;">0</span>          <span style="color: #000000;">0</span>          <span style="color: #000000;">0</span></pre></div></div>

<p>Btw. building both sets of Stages for HPPA1.1 and HPPA2.0 takes &#8220;just&#8221; some 41 hours, compared to more than previously ~55 hours on hake.</p>

<div class="wp_syntax"><div class="code"><pre class="bash" style="font-family:monospace;"><span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;"># time ./catalyst-auto -c catalyst-auto-hppa.conf</span>
&nbsp;
real    2457m13.423s
user    1567m15.030s
sys     845m25.240s</pre></div></div>

<p>Whee!</p>
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		<title>Déjà-vu &#8211; kind of.</title>
		<link>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/02/17/deja-vu-kind-of/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/02/17/deja-vu-kind-of/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tobias Scherbaum</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gentoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some months ago I had an interesting discussion with a fellow Gentoo Developer. His proposals were quite similiar (at least partially) to the ones Donnie wrote about in his post &#8220;Steps toward improving Gentoo&#8220;. Well, still &#8230; for me this proposal(s) sounds like a good (probably even the best) way to demotivate people and make [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some months ago I had an interesting discussion with a fellow Gentoo Developer. His proposals were quite similiar (at least partially) to the ones Donnie wrote about in his post &#8220;<a href="http://dberkholz.wordpress.com/2009/02/14/steps-toward-improving-gentoo/">Steps toward improving Gentoo</a>&#8220;. Well, still &#8230; for me this proposal(s) sounds like a good (probably even the best) way to demotivate people and make them stop spending their rare spare time working on Gentoo.</p>
<p>Gentoo is about having fun, period. I&#8217;m doing this for fun, I bet you do as well.</p>
<p>Setting expectations and removing &#8220;underperforming&#8221; Developers won&#8217;t solve anything, well &#8230; it would make things even harder for the few ones left. Remember, every little minute we do spend for working on Gentoo is spent for fun and because we want to do so, not because we&#8217;re on Gentoo&#8217;s payroll.  For now Gentoo&#8217;s biggest problems these days aren&#8217;t not met expectations or underperforming Developers, the biggest problem is a huge lack of man-power. Simply put, Gentoo needs you!</p>
<p>Bringing new people aboard should be Gentoo&#8217;s main goal for now. Identify areas we&#8217;d need more help with, start to more actively recruit people for these areas, one by one. That would improve Gentoo.</p>
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		<title>Nagios 3 is coming to your stable tree!</title>
		<link>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/01/24/nagios-3-is-coming-to-your-stable-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.scherbaum.info/2009/01/24/nagios-3-is-coming-to-your-stable-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tobias Scherbaum</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Nagios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VMware]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some 9 months after the first version of Nagios 3 has hit Gentoo&#8217;s Portage Tree (3.0.1 it was) it&#8217;s time to get it marked as stable. This morning I filed the request for our architecture teams, they will hopefully soonish get the packages keyworded as stable for their architecture.
The most notable change from Nagios version [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some 9 months after the first version of Nagios 3 has hit Gentoo&#8217;s Portage Tree (3.0.1 it was) it&#8217;s time to get it marked as stable. This morning I filed the request for our architecture teams, they will hopefully soonish get the packages keyworded as stable for their architecture.</p>
<p>The most notable change from Nagios version 2 to 3 (wrt Gentoo packaging) was to change installation paths. Up to version all Nagios related packages got installed in <em>/usr/nagios</em> &#8211; this has now been changed to a more FHS-compliant directory structure. For example it&#8217;s binaries are now installed at a location you&#8217;d expect them to be &#8211; <em>/usr/{bin,sbin}</em>, Nagios Plugins are now installed in <em>/usr/{lib,lib64}/nagios/plugins</em> and so on. If you&#8217;re looking for a list of general changes and improvements there&#8217;s for example the <a href="http://www.nagios.org/development/history/nagios-3x.php">Nagios 3.x Version History</a>.</p>
<p>The following package atoms will be marked as stable:</p>
<pre id="comment_text_0">=net-analyzer/nagios-3.0.6
=net-analyzer/nagios-check_logfiles-2.3.2.1-r1
=net-analyzer/nagios-core-3.0.6-r1
=net-analyzer/nagios-imagepack-1.0-r100
=net-analyzer/nagios-nrpe-2.12-r102
=net-analyzer/nagios-nsca-2.7.2-r100
=net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-1.4.13-r1
=net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-snmp-0.6.0-r1
=net-analyzer/nagios-sap-ccms-plugin-0.7.3-r1
=net-analyzer/pnp4nagios-0.4.12</pre>
<p>One thing still missing is <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/nagios-guide.xml">Gentoo&#8217;s Nagios Guide</a> which Sven Vermeulen started to write some time ago and for which I offered some help &#8211; well, sorry &#8230; didn&#8217;t had time for this one yet :(</p>
<p>But if you&#8217;re looking for some documentation on getting started with Nagios 3 there&#8217;s a new book, <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/guide-for-learning-nagios-3/book">Learning Nagios 3.0</a>,  by <a title="Wojciech Kocjan" href="http://www.packtpub.com/author_view_profile/id/239">Wojciech Kocjan</a> published last October. Lucky me I got a copy of this book for a quick review :) Starting with an introduction to Nagios and description of changes in version 3 this book guides you with setting up your own Nagios monitoring box. From installation, an overview of the Nagios Web Interface and Nagios Plugins all important parts to get started with Nagios are covered &#8211; including passive checks via NSCA, remotely executed plugins via NRPE and distributed monitoring. Very useful is a dedicated chapter on SNMP which also describes receiving and integrating SNMP traps with Nagios.</p>
<p>For people already using Nagios chapter 11 is probably the most interesting one.  &#8220;Extending Nagios&#8221; has hints on getting started with monitoring a VMware Infrastructure using VMware&#8217;s Perl API and how to monitor a website effectively &#8211; it&#8217;s not only good to know that the website it&#8217;s reachable but for example also logging in to an onlineshop does work.</p>
<p>If you need a book to get started with Nagios &#8211; <a href="http://www.packtpub.com/guide-for-learning-nagios-3/book">Learning Nagios 3.0</a> (<a href="http://www.packtpub.com/article/guide-for-learning-nagios-3-table-of-contents">TOC</a>) is a good read.</p>
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		<title>A couple of numbers &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tobias Scherbaum</dc:creator>
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5 years since I&#8217;ve joined Gentoo as a developer on December 7th, 2003
2605 forums posts in the past 6 six years
CIA counted 5072 commit messages for me (plus the commits CIA missed)

oh &#8230; and 

We&#8217;ll have 2 tables for our FOSDEM stand. Sadly our dev-room request has been declined :(
105 (out of 245) voters participated [...]]]></description>
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<li><strong>5</strong> years since I&#8217;ve joined Gentoo as a developer on December 7th, 2003</li>
<li><strong>2605</strong> <a href="https://forums.gentoo.org">forums</a> <a href="https://forums.gentoo.org/search.php?search_author=dertobi123">posts</a> in the past <strong>6</strong> six years</li>
<li>CIA counted <strong>5072</strong> commit <a href="http://cia.vc/stats/author/dertobi123">messages</a> for me (plus the commits CIA missed)</li>
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<p>oh &#8230; and </p>
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<li>We&#8217;ll have <strong>2</strong> tables for our <a href="http://www.fosdem.org">FOSDEM</a> stand. Sadly our dev-room request has been declined :(</li>
<li><strong>105</strong> (out of <strong>245</strong>) voters participated in the election for <a href="http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/msg_7bb29a3649feda0fdecd5a378bb1fe53.xml">Council&#8217;s open seat</a>. Congratulations <a href="mailto:dev-zero@gentoo.org">Tiziano</a>! Interesting to see that voters reconfirmed the last election and ranked the (again running) candidates exactly the same like in the last election. Also the newly running <em>_reopen_nominations</em> candidate was ranked last!</li>
<li>bug <strong>250000</strong> reported in Gentoo&#8217;s <a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org">Bugzilla</a> (which is in fact only the 217642th bugreport). Andreas Proschofsky reported that &#8220;<a href="https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=250000">wonderful bug number</a>&#8220;.</li>
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<p>So, yeah &#8230; I still think Gentoo is about having fun :) Speaking of &#8220;fun&#8221; &#8230; there&#8217;s a <a href="http://www.gentoo.de/quiz">quiz</a> taking place on gentoo.de (targeted at German speaking users) where you can test your knowledge on Gentoo and maybe win an interesting book.</p>
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