One of my systems is running Debian sid with an encrypted root device, incl encrypted /boot. Encryption is unlocked using a passphrase in GRUB2 (before the menu is shown). Since GRUB can't pass along the key to the kernel, a keyfile is put in the initrd so that the kernel

Francis asked on irc://irc.freenode.net/#coreboot how to find the mid-point between two commits, like what git bisect is doing – just without git bisect. So here's a bash function that does this: git_midpoint() { local NUM NUM=$(($(git log --pretty=%h $1 |wc -l) / 2)) if [ $NUM -gt

With the GnuTLS bugfixes recently, I faced the issue to restart services that depended on it: After updating the library, daemons still run the old version until restarted. I think I've seen this automated in some distribution, but it's nice to know where those tools fetch their data. I also