Benjamin Smee

Well I finally put the network monitoring ebuilds into CVS. Once you've added the relevant files to /etc/portage.keywords you should now be able to emerge JKFlow or CUFlow and follow the HOWTO for nice graphs! On a different note I also threw lurker into CVS so let me know if there are any problems with that. Thanks to stuart for explaining some webapp-config details.

I am now starting work on kolab and have decided that I have procrastinated enough with netmon stuff and time to get back into net-mail! Follow this bug for information on kolab.

Well with thanks to mcummings for providing ebuilds for some nasty old perl modules, and ka0ttic pointing me in the right direction with some ebuild questions, I have got a working set of ebuilds for some network monitoring. In summary the network monitoring is done with flows sent to a central box that can then process them and present near real time graphs broken down in a variety of ways. I won't bore you all with more, but I have written a HOWTO about this and if you are interested you can read it here. Suggestions / patches are welcome, either for the ebuilds or the HOWTO. The ebuilds are in my overlay but you are better off reading the HOWTO on how to install and use them.

Now some of my distractions are past I will see if I can get some real progress on the kolab ebuilds.

Just a quick blog to let people know that I have just finished a HOWTO for lvm + dm-crypt + suspend2. This is primarily aimed at the gentoo laptop users, but some of the concepts (in particular an explanation on initramfs) might be of interest to a wider audience. You can find it hosted on my own site here or on the suspend2 wiki here. I am interested in any feedback. On a similar note I have just about finished a laptop tips page which will hopefully be of use to those people trying to get the most out of their laptops.
I have been spending some time on writing a cryptsetup-luks ebuild which I hope to get into portage shortly. Additionally I have added sflowutils which is the start of the packages I am going to put into portage relating to large scale network monitoring.
Finally I have started to look at and assess kolab ebuilds, though its going to be a long road :/