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  22     <h3>Entries from November 2013.</h3>
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  24     <div class="entry">
  25       <div class="title">
  26         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_15.html">New chrpath release 0.15</a>
  27       </div>
  28       <div class="date">
  29         24th November 2013
  30       </div>
  31       <div class="body">
  32         <p>After many years break from the package and a vain hope that
  33 development would be continued by someone else, I finally pulled my
  34 acts together this morning and wrapped up a new release of chrpath,
  35 the command line tool to modify the rpath and runpath of already
  36 compiled ELF programs.  The update was triggered by the persistence of
  37 Isha Vishnoi at IBM, which needed a new config.guess file to get
  38 support for the ppc64le architecture (powerpc 64-bit Little Endian) he
  39 is working on.  I checked the
  40 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/chrpath">Debian</a>,
  41 <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chrpath">Ubuntu</a> and
  42 <a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/chrpath">Fedora</a>
  43 packages for interesting patches (failed to find the source from
  44 OpenSUSE and Mandriva packages), and found quite a few nice fixes.
  45 These are the release notes:</p>
  46
  47 <p>New in 0.15 released 2013-11-24:</p>
  48
  49 <ul>
  50
  51   <li>Updated config.sub and config.guess from the GNU project to work
  52    with newer architectures.  Thanks to isha vishnoi for the heads
  53    up.</li>
  54
  55   <li>Updated README with current URLs.</li>
  56
  57   <li>Added byteswap fix found in Ubuntu, credited Jeremy Kerr and
  58    Matthias Klose.</li>
  59
  60   <li>Added missing help for -k|--keepgoing option, using patch by
  61    Petr Machata found in Fedora.</li>
  62
  63   <li>Rewrite removal of RPATH/RUNPATH to make sure the entry in
  64    .dynamic is a NULL terminated string.  Based on patch found in
  65    Fedora credited Axel Thimm and Christian Krause.</li>
  66
  67 </ul>
  68
  69 <p>You can
  70 <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31052">download the
  71 new version 0.15 from alioth</a>.  Please let us know via the Alioth
  72 project if something is wrong with the new release.  The test suite
  73 did not discover any old errors, so if you find a new one, please also
  74 include a testsuite check.</p>
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  79
  80         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
  81
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  87     <div class="entry">
  88       <div class="title">
  89         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RSS_kilde_for_friteksts_k_i_offentlige_anbud_hos_Doffin.html">RSS-kilde for fritekstsøk i offentlige anbud hos Doffin</a>
  90       </div>
  91       <div class="date">
  92         22nd November 2013
  93       </div>
  94       <div class="body">
  95         <p>I fjor sommer lagde jeg en
  96 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SQL_database_med_anbud_publisert_p__Doffin.html">offentlig
  97 tilgjengelig SQL-database over offentlig anbud</a> basert på skraping
  98 av HTML-data fra Doffin.  Den har stått og gått siden da, og har nå
  99 ca. 28000 oppføringer.  Jeg oppdaget da jeg tittet innom at noen
 100 oppføringer var ikke blitt med, antagelig på grunn av at de fikk
 101 tildelt sekvensnummer i Doffin en godt stund før de ble publisert,
 102 slik at min nettsideskraper som fortsatte skrapingen der den slapp
 103 sist ikke fikk dem med seg.  Jeg har fikset litt slik at skraperen nå
 104 ser litt tilbake i tid for å se om den har gått glipp av noen
 105 oppføringer, og har skrapet på nytt fra midten av september 2013 og
 106 fremover.  Det bør dermed bli en mer komplett database for kommende
 107 måneder.  Hvis jeg får tid skal jeg forsøke å skrape "glemte" data fra
 108 før midten av september 2013, men tør ikke garantere at det blir
 109 prioritert med det første. </p>
 110
 111 <p>Men målet med denne bloggposten er å vise hvordan denne
 112 Doffin-databasen kan brukes og integreres med en RSS-leser, slik at en
 113 kan la datamaskinen holde et øye med Doffin-annonseringer etter
 114 nøkkelord.  En kan lage sitt eget søk ved å besøke
 115 <ahref="https://classic.scraperwiki.com/docs/api?name=norwegian-doffin#sqlite">API-et
 116 hos Scraperwiki</a>, velge format rss2 og så legge inn noe ala dette i
 117 "query in SQL":</p>
 118
 119 <p><pre>
 120 select title, scrapedurl as link, abstract as description,
 121        publishdate as pubDate from 'swdata'
 122    where abstract like '%linux%' or title like '%linux%'
 123    order by seq desc limit 20
 124 </pre></p>
 125
 126 <p>Dette vil søke opp alle anbud med ordet linux i oppsummering eller
 127 tittel.  En kan lage mer avanserte søk hvis en ønsker det.  URL-en som
 128 dukker opp nederst på siden kan en så gi til sin RSS-leser (jeg bruker
 129 akregator selv), og så automatisk få beskjed hvis det dukker opp anbud
 130 med det aktuelle nøkkelordet i teksten.  Merk at kapasiteten og
 131 ytelsen hos Scraperwiki er begrenset, så ikke be RSS-leseren hente ned
 132 oftere enn en gang hver dag.</p>
 133
 134 <p>Du lurer kanskje på hva slags informasjon en kan få ut fra denne
 135 databasen.  Her er to RSS-kilder, med søkeordet
 136 "<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25linux%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25linux%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">linux</a>",
 137 søkeordet
 138 "<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25fri%20programvare%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25fri%20programvare%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">fri
 139 programvare</a>"
 140 og søkeordet
 141 "<a href="https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=rss2&name=norwegian-doffin&query=select%20title%2C%20scrapedurl%20as%20link%2C%20abstract%20as%20description%2C%0A%20%20%20%20%20%20%20publishdate%20as%20pubDate%20from%20'swdata'%0A%20%20%20where%20abstract%20like%20'%25odf%25'%20or%20title%20like%20'%25odf%25'%0A%20%20%20order%20by%20seq%20desc%20limit%2020">odf</a>".
 142 Det er bare å søke på det en er interessert i.  Kopier gjerne
 143 datasettet og sett opp din egen tjeneste hvis du vil gjøre mer
 144 avanserte søk.  SQLite-filen med Doffin-oppføringer kan lastes med fra
 145 Scraperwiki for de som vil grave dypere.</p>
 146
 147       </div>
 148       <div class="tags">
 149
 150
 151         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>.
 152
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 154       </div>
 155     </div>
 156     <div class="padding"></div>
 157
 158     <div class="entry">
 159       <div class="title">
 160         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/All_drones_should_be_radio_marked_with_what_they_do_and_who_they_belong_to.html">All drones should be radio marked with what they do and who they belong to</a>
 161       </div>
 162       <div class="date">
 163         21st November 2013
 164       </div>
 165       <div class="body">
 166         <p>Drones, flying robots, are getting more and more popular.  The most
 167 know ones are the killer drones used by some government to murder
 168 people they do not like without giving them the chance of a fair
 169 trial, but the technology have many good uses too, from mapping and
 170 forest maintenance to photography and search and rescue.  I am sure it
 171 is just a question of time before "bad drones" are in the hands of
 172 private enterprises and not only state criminals but petty criminals
 173 too.  The drone technology is very useful and very dangerous.  To have
 174 some control over the use of drones, I agree with Daniel Suarez in his
 175 TED talk
 176 "<a href="https://archive.org/details/DanielSuarez_2013G">The kill
 177 decision shouldn't belong to a robot</a>", where he suggested this
 178 little gem to keep the good while limiting the bad use of drones:</p>
 179
 180 <blockquote>
 181
 182 <p>Each robot and drone should have a cryptographically signed
 183 I.D. burned in at the factory that can be used to track its movement
 184 through public spaces. We have license plates on cars, tail numbers on
 185 aircraft. This is no different. And every citizen should be able to
 186 download an app that shows the population of drones and autonomous
 187 vehicles moving through public spaces around them, both right now and
 188 historically. And civic leaders should deploy sensors and civic drones
 189 to detect rogue drones, and instead of sending killer drones of their
 190 own up to shoot them down, they should notify humans to their
 191 presence. And in certain very high-security areas, perhaps civic
 192 drones would snare them and drag them off to a bomb disposal facility.</p>
 193
 194 <p>But notice, this is more an immune system than a weapons system. It
 195 would allow us to avail ourselves of the use of autonomous vehicles
 196 and drones while still preserving our open, civil society.</p>
 197
 198 </blockquote>
 199
 200 <p>The key is that <em>every citizen</em> should be able to read the
 201 radio beacons sent from the drones in the area, to be able to check
 202 both the government and others use of drones.  For such control to be
 203 effective, everyone must be able to do it.  What should such beacon
 204 contain?  At least formal owner, purpose, contact information and GPS
 205 location.  Probably also the origin and target position of the current
 206 flight.  And perhaps some registration number to be able to look up
 207 the drone in a central database tracking their movement.  Robots
 208 should not have privacy.  It is people who need privacy.</p>
 209
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 211       <div class="tags">
 212
 213
 214         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance</a>.
 215
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 218     </div>
 219     <div class="padding"></div>
 220
 221     <div class="entry">
 222       <div class="title">
 223         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lets_make_a_wireless_community_network_in_Oslo_.html">Lets make a wireless community network in Oslo!</a>
 224       </div>
 225       <div class="date">
 226         13th November 2013
 227       </div>
 228       <div class="body">
 229         <p>Today NUUG and Hackeriet announced
 230 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/Bli_med___bygge_dugnadsnett_for_alle_i_Oslo.shtml">our
 231 plans to join forces and create a wireless community network in
 232 Oslo</a>.  The workshop to help people get started will take place
 233 Thursday 2013-11-28, but we already are collecting the geolocation of
 234 people joining forces to make this happen.  We have
 235 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/meshfx-node/blob/master/oslo-nodes.geojson">9
 236 locations plotted on the map</a>, but we will need more before we have
 237 a connected mesh spread across Oslo.  If this sound interesting to
 238 you, please join us at the workshop.  If you are too impatient to wait
 239 15 days, please join us on the IRC channel
 240 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nuug">#nuug on irc.freenode.net</a>
 241 right away. :)</p>
 242
 243       </div>
 244       <div class="tags">
 245
 246
 247         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
 248
 249
 250       </div>
 251     </div>
 252     <div class="padding"></div>
 253
 254     <div class="entry">
 255       <div class="title">
 256         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Running_TP_Link_MR3040_as_a_batman_adv_mesh_node_using_openwrt.html">Running TP-Link MR3040 as a batman-adv mesh node using openwrt</a>
 257       </div>
 258       <div class="date">
 259         10th November 2013
 260       </div>
 261       <div class="body">
 262         <p>Continuing my research into mesh networking, I was recommended to
 263 use TP-Link 3040 and 3600 access points as mesh nodes, and the pair I
 264 bought arrived on Friday.  Here are my notes on how to set up the
 265 MR3040 as a mesh node using
 266 <a href="http://www.openwrt.org/">OpenWrt</a>.</p>
 267
 268 <p>I started by following the instructions on the OpenWRT wiki for
 269 <a href="http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-mr3040">TL-MR3040</a>,
 270 and downloaded
 271 <a href="http://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/trunk/ar71xx/openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr3040-v2-squashfs-factory.bin">the
 272 recommended firmware image</a>
 273 (openwrt-ar71xx-generic-tl-mr3040-v2-squashfs-factory.bin) and
 274 uploaded it into the original web interface.  The flashing went fine,
 275 and the machine was available via telnet on the ethernet port.  After
 276 logging in and setting the root password, ssh was available and I
 277 could start to set it up as a batman-adv mesh node.</p>
 278
 279 <p>I started off by reading the instructions from
 280 <a href="http://wirelessafrica.meraka.org.za/wiki/index.php?title=Antoine's_Research">Wireless
 281 Africa</a>, which had quite a lot of useful information, but
 282 eventually I followed the recipe from the Open Mesh wiki for
 283 <a href="http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Batman-adv-openwrt-config">using
 284 batman-adv on OpenWrt</a>.  A small snag was the fact that the
 285 <tt>opkg install kmod-batman-adv</tt> command did not work as it
 286 should.  The batman-adv kernel module would fail to load because its
 287 dependency crc16 was not already loaded.  I
 288 <a href="https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/14452">reported the bug</a> to
 289 the openwrt project and hope it will be fixed soon.  But the problem
 290 only seem to affect initial testing of batman-adv, as configuration
 291 seem to work when booting from scratch.</p>
 292
 293 <p>The setup is done using files in /etc/config/.  I did not bridge
 294 the Ethernet and mesh interfaces this time, to be able to hook up the
 295 box on my local network and log into it for configuration updates.
 296 The following files were changed and look like this after modifying
 297 them:</p>
 298
 299 <p><tt>/etc/config/network</tt></p>
 300
 301 <pre>
 302
 303 config interface 'loopback'
 304         option ifname 'lo'
 305         option proto 'static'
 306         option ipaddr '127.0.0.1'
 307         option netmask '255.0.0.0'
 308
 309 config globals 'globals'
 310         option ula_prefix 'fdbf:4c12:3fed::/48'
 311
 312 config interface 'lan'
 313         option ifname 'eth0'
 314         option type 'bridge'
 315         option proto 'dhcp'
 316         option ipaddr '192.168.1.1'
 317         option netmask '255.255.255.0'
 318         option hostname 'tl-mr3040'
 319         option ip6assign '60'
 320
 321 config interface 'mesh'
 322         option ifname 'adhoc0'
 323         option mtu '1528'
 324         option proto 'batadv'
 325         option mesh 'bat0'
 326 </pre>
 327
 328 <p><tt>/etc/config/wireless</tt></p>
 329 <pre>
 330
 331 config wifi-device 'radio0'
 332         option type 'mac80211'
 333         option channel '11'
 334         option hwmode '11ng'
 335         option path 'platform/ar933x_wmac'
 336         option htmode 'HT20'
 337         list ht_capab 'SHORT-GI-20'
 338         list ht_capab 'SHORT-GI-40'
 339         list ht_capab 'RX-STBC1'
 340         list ht_capab 'DSSS_CCK-40'
 341         option disabled '0'
 342
 343 config wifi-iface 'wmesh'
 344         option device 'radio0'
 345         option ifname 'adhoc0'
 346         option network 'mesh'
 347         option encryption 'none'
 348         option mode 'adhoc'
 349         option bssid '02:BA:00:00:00:01'
 350         option ssid 'meshfx@hackeriet'
 351 </pre>
 352 <p><tt>/etc/config/batman-adv</tt></p>
 353 <pre>
 354
 355 config 'mesh' 'bat0'
 356         option interfaces 'adhoc0'
 357         option 'aggregated_ogms'
 358         option 'ap_isolation'
 359         option 'bonding'
 360         option 'fragmentation'
 361         option 'gw_bandwidth'
 362         option 'gw_mode'
 363         option 'gw_sel_class'
 364         option 'log_level'
 365         option 'orig_interval'
 366         option 'vis_mode'
 367         option 'bridge_loop_avoidance'
 368         option 'distributed_arp_table'
 369         option 'network_coding'
 370         option 'hop_penalty'
 371
 372 # yet another batX instance
 373 # config 'mesh' 'bat5'
 374 #       option 'interfaces' 'second_mesh'
 375 </pre>
 376
 377 <p>The mesh node is now operational.  I have yet to test its range,
 378 but I hope it is good.  I have not yet tested the TP-Link 3600 box
 379 still wrapped up in plastic.</p>
 380
 381       </div>
 382       <div class="tags">
 383
 384
 385         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
 386
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 388       </div>
 389     </div>
 390     <div class="padding"></div>
 391
 392     <div class="entry">
 393       <div class="title">
 394         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_init_d_boot_script_example_for_rsyslog.html">Debian init.d boot script example for rsyslog</a>
 395       </div>
 396       <div class="date">
 397          2nd November 2013
 398       </div>
 399       <div class="body">
 400         <p>If one of the points of switching to a new init system in Debian is
 401 <a href="http://thomas.goirand.fr/blog/?p=147">to get rid of huge
 402 init.d scripts</a>, I doubt we need to switch away from sysvinit and
 403 init.d scripts at all.  Here is an example init.d script, ie a rewrite
 404 of /etc/init.d/rsyslog:</p>
 405
 406 <p><pre>
 407 #!/lib/init/init-d-script
 408 ### BEGIN INIT INFO
 409 # Provides:          rsyslog
 410 # Required-Start:    $remote_fs $time
 411 # Required-Stop:     umountnfs $time
 412 # X-Stop-After:      sendsigs
 413 # Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
 414 # Default-Stop:      0 1 6
 415 # Short-Description: enhanced syslogd
 416 # Description:       Rsyslog is an enhanced multi-threaded syslogd.
 417 #                    It is quite compatible to stock sysklogd and can be
 418 #                    used as a drop-in replacement.
 419 ### END INIT INFO
 420 DESC="enhanced syslogd"
 421 DAEMON=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd
 422 </pre></p>
 423
 424 <p>Pretty minimalistic to me... For the record, the original sysv-rc
 425 script was 137 lines, and the above is just 15 lines, most of it meta
 426 info/comments.</p>
 427
 428 <p>How to do this, you ask?  Well, one create a new script
 429 /lib/init/init-d-script looking something like this:
 430
 431 <p><pre>
 432 #!/bin/sh
 433
 434 # Define LSB log_* functions.
 435 # Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) to ensure that this file is present
 436 # and status_of_proc is working.
 437 . /lib/lsb/init-functions
 438
 439 #
 440 # Function that starts the daemon/service
 441
 442 #
 443 do_start()
 444 {
 445         # Return
 446         #   0 if daemon has been started
 447         #   1 if daemon was already running
 448         #   2 if daemon could not be started
 449         start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \
 450                 || return 1
 451         start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \
 452                 $DAEMON_ARGS \
 453                 || return 2
 454         # Add code here, if necessary, that waits for the process to be ready
 455         # to handle requests from services started subsequently which depend
 456         # on this one.  As a last resort, sleep for some time.
 457 }
 458
 459 #
 460 # Function that stops the daemon/service
 461 #
 462 do_stop()
 463 {
 464         # Return
 465         #   0 if daemon has been stopped
 466         #   1 if daemon was already stopped
 467         #   2 if daemon could not be stopped
 468         #   other if a failure occurred
 469         start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
 470         RETVAL="$?"
 471         [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2
 472         # Wait for children to finish too if this is a daemon that forks
 473         # and if the daemon is only ever run from this initscript.
 474         # If the above conditions are not satisfied then add some other code
 475         # that waits for the process to drop all resources that could be
 476         # needed by services started subsequently.  A last resort is to
 477         # sleep for some time.
 478         start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --oknodo --retry=0/30/KILL/5 --exec $DAEMON
 479         [ "$?" = 2 ] && return 2
 480         # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.
 481         rm -f $PIDFILE
 482         return "$RETVAL"
 483 }
 484
 485 #
 486 # Function that sends a SIGHUP to the daemon/service
 487 #
 488 do_reload() {
 489         #
 490         # If the daemon can reload its configuration without
 491         # restarting (for example, when it is sent a SIGHUP),
 492         # then implement that here.
 493         #
 494         start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME
 495         return 0
 496 }
 497
 498 SCRIPTNAME=$1
 499 scriptbasename="$(basename $1)"
 500 echo "SN: $scriptbasename"
 501 if [ "$scriptbasename" != "init-d-library" ] ; then
 502     script="$1"
 503     shift
 504     . $script
 505 else
 506     exit 0
 507 fi
 508
 509 NAME=$(basename $DAEMON)
 510 PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid
 511
 512 # Exit if the package is not installed
 513 #[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0
 514
 515 # Read configuration variable file if it is present
 516 [ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME
 517
 518 # Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
 519 . /lib/init/vars.sh
 520
 521 case "$1" in
 522   start)
 523         [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"
 524         do_start
 525         case "$?" in
 526                 0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
 527                 2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
 528         esac
 529         ;;
 530   stop)
 531         [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"
 532         do_stop
 533         case "$?" in
 534                 0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
 535                 2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
 536         esac
 537         ;;
 538   status)
 539         status_of_proc "$DAEMON" "$NAME" && exit 0 || exit $?
 540         ;;
 541   #reload|force-reload)
 542         #
 543         # If do_reload() is not implemented then leave this commented out
 544         # and leave 'force-reload' as an alias for 'restart'.
 545         #
 546         #log_daemon_msg "Reloading $DESC" "$NAME"
 547         #do_reload
 548         #log_end_msg $?
 549         #;;
 550   restart|force-reload)
 551         #
 552         # If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the
 553         # 'force-reload' alias
 554         #
 555         log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"
 556         do_stop
 557         case "$?" in
 558           0|1)
 559                 do_start
 560                 case "$?" in
 561                         0) log_end_msg 0 ;;
 562                         1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running
 563                         *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start
 564                 esac
 565                 ;;
 566           *)
 567                 # Failed to stop
 568                 log_end_msg 1
 569                 ;;
 570         esac
 571         ;;
 572   *)
 573         echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|status|restart|force-reload}" >&2
 574         exit 3
 575         ;;
 576 esac
 577
 578 :
 579 </pre></p>
 580
 581 <p>It is based on /etc/init.d/skeleton, and could be improved quite a
 582 lot.  I did not really polish the approach, so it might not always
 583 work out of the box, but you get the idea.  I did not try very hard to
 584 optimize it nor make it more robust either.</p>
 585
 586 <p>A better argument for switching init system in Debian than reducing
 587 the size of init scripts (which is a good thing to do anyway), is to
 588 get boot system that is able to handle the kernel events sensibly and
 589 robustly, and do not depend on the boot to run sequentially.  The boot
 590 and the kernel have not behaved sequentially in years.</p>
 591
 592       </div>
 593       <div class="tags">
 594
 595
 596         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 597
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 599       </div>
 600     </div>
 601     <div class="padding"></div>
 602
 603     <div class="entry">
 604       <div class="title">
 605         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Browser_plugin_for_SPICE__spice_xpi__uploaded_to_Debian.html">Browser plugin for SPICE (spice-xpi) uploaded to Debian</a>
 606       </div>
 607       <div class="date">
 608          1st November 2013
 609       </div>
 610       <div class="body">
 611         <p><a href="http://www.spice-space.org/">The SPICE protocol</a> for
 612 remote display access is the preferred solution with oVirt and RedHat
 613 Enterprise Virtualization, and I was sad to discover the other day
 614 that the browser plugin needed to use these systems seamlessly was
 615 missing in Debian.  The <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/668284">request
 616 for a package</a> was from 2012-04-10 with no progress since
 617 2013-04-01, so I decided to wrap up a package based on the great work
 618 from Cajus Pollmeier and put it in a collab-maint maintained git
 619 repository to get a package I could use.  I would very much like
 620 others to help me maintain the package (or just take over, I do not
 621 mind), but as no-one had volunteered so far, I just uploaded it to
 622 NEW.  I hope it will be available in Debian in a few days.</p>
 623
 624 <p>The source is now available from
 625 <a href="http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/spice-xpi.git;a=summary">http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/spice-xpi.git;a=summary</a>.</p>
 626
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 628       <div class="tags">
 629
 630
 631         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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