Zugschlus

Marc "Zugschlus" Haber

Zugschluß is the German word for a train's tail signal which plays an important role in railroad safety systems. With its 8bit char removed and truncated to ["IRCnet"]'s 9 character limit, Zugschlus has become my nickname for most of my network related activities since 2000.

I have been a DebianDeveloper since 2001. Besides being maintainer for a number of unimportant packages, I am co-maintainer for [http://packages.debian.org/adduser adduser], the script Debian uses to create user accounts, [wiki:PkgExim4 exim4], the default MTA for Debian sarge, and [wiki:PkgDpatch dpatch], a patch maintenance system for Debian source packages.

Take a look at my [http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Marc+Haber Packages Overview]

How to find me on the Network

• http://www.zugschlus.de/ is my [http://www.zugschlus.de/ home page]

• http://blog.zugschlus.de/ is my [http://blog.zugschlus.de/ blog]. I mainly blog in German (sorry) but the category Debian-English has some articles about Debian in English language. Debian-English is also syndicated on [http://planet.debian.net/ Planet Debian].

For bi-directional communication, you can reach me using one of the following media:

• on IRC as Zugschlus on [http://www.ircnet.org/ IRCnet] (and sometimes on [http://freenode.net/ freenode] and [http://oftc.net/ oftc] as well).

• on ICQ (252520118).

• My E-Mail address is mh+wiki.debian.net@zugschlus.de.

Zugschlus' Helper Scripts

I intend to publish some of my helper scripts that are too small to form a "real" Debian package here real soon now.

• package-pool-helper, a collection of easy scripts that are used to manage a local package pool
• makekernel, a collection of scripts to build Linux kernels using Debian's kernel-package with some bells and whistles including automatic module packages build and dependency helpers that allow automatic upgrades even across kernel versions.
• debinterdiff, a script which builds an interdiff between the last two versions of a source package. This script is quite helpful in managing backports.
• chroot-helper, a collection of scripts that are helpful in working with chroots for package development, building and testing.

• [wiki:EditChanges editchanges], a script that allows editing the local changelog of the system with some safety and auditing bells and whistles.

• muttdebbug, a script that calls up a bug report's mbox in mutt and configures mutt in a way that replying and forwarding is quite easy and powerful.

• The Zg2ShellStartup page shows some useful things I have implemented in my shell startup files to make things easier. That includes a scheme to easily build the appropriate contents of ~/.ssh automatically.

Zugschlus' Nifty Admin Tricks

This future page will contain a list of the admin tricks I use on my server systems to easy my daily work. The following list gives an overview about what will be described here RSN.

• cron-apt
• checkrestart
• apt-listchanges
• apt-listbugs
• aide
• sshd configuration
• installation
• the partitioning scheme used on my systems, LVM, mountpoint handling, backups etc.
• using policy-rc.d to stop freshly installed packages from starting their daemons immediately

Random Stuff

• [wiki:EtcMailName Discussion and attempt of a Definition to handle /etc/mailname]