Zugschlus

Marc "Zugschlus" Haber

Zugschluss is the German word for a train's tail signal which plays an important role in railroad safety systems. Truncated to ?IRCnet's former 9 character limit, Zugschlus has become my nickname for most of my network related activities since the Millennium.

I became a DebianDeveloper in 2001. I am maintainer of a number of less important packages, and member of the maintainer team for some other and more important packages, most prominently sudo, aide and atop. In the past, I have contributed to adduser, the script Debian uses to create user accounts, and exim4, Debian's default MTA since the Sarge release.

Take a look at my Packages Overview

How to find me on the Network

• https://www.zugschlus.de/ is my private home page

• https://blog.zugschlus.de/ is my blog. I mainly blog in German (sorry) but the category Debian-English has some articles about Debian in English language. Pleased note that Debian-English is currently not syndicated on Planet Debian.

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

• on IRC as Zugschlus on IRCnet (and sometimes on oftc as well).

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

• I am also reachable by a number of Instant Messengers (including Signal, Telegram and the unavoidable ?WhatsApp) listed on my business web page.

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.

• 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

• Discussion and attempt of a Definition to handle /etc/mailname

Incomplete List of Wiki Pages I feel responsible for

• PkgExim4

• PkgExim4UserFAQ

• PkgAdduser

• PkgDpatch

• PkgNagios2

• ConvertCVStosvn

• ModuleAssistant

• AccountHandlingInMaintainerScripts

• HomepageFieldHOWTO