Incredibly busy

Jimmy pointed out that it has been over a week since I made a post. Sorry about that…I have been (in the universal podcaster’s chorus) incredibly busy. I got defiant rebuilt, though it is still having issues (it locked up on me last night for apparently absolutely no reason other than age).

The other problem I am having is with audacity. This is apparently a common problem among Debian and Ubuntu users. I am running sid, which ships with the audacity-1.3.4-1.2 package, and for the life of me, I can’t get it to make sounds. Most of the output settings cause an error about not being able to connect with ALSA, but if I go to OSS and select /dev/dsp1, it seems to play, but no sound. I think it could be perhaps a problem with jack.

So I am looking for a solution to this problem, as well as looking at other packages. Including qtractor, which GitarMan from the LLL IRC channel turned me on to yesterday.

I’ll get this thing off the ground, even if I have to get out and push!

I have also been playing with network monitors. I have a couple of vmware machines that I am using for NMS testing. I have thus far played with Zenoss, OpenNMS, and am currently installing Pandora FMS. I have the server and [web] console installed, and am working on some issues I have with the agent, for instance, it wants to run as root and have a passwordless ssh key on each client to communicate with the server, so I am modifying the agent to run as a non-privileged user (e.g. pandora), since most of the checks don’t require root privs to work.

I do like one thing about Pandora. There are no binaries. Everything is written in Perl or Bash. The same team also wrote a security auditing tool called Babel, and I am going to be playing with that as well once Pandora is all set up. I may package both for Debian (and possibly Ubuntu).