DragonFly 4.9 users and dports
Because of the major version number change, there’s no packages built for DragonFly 4.9. Your options are to either update to 5.1 (which you probably meant to do anyway if you are running current) or manually point to the newest packages. Or just build from dports.
For clarity, this does not affect you at all if you are running (Read [...]
Tarsnap talk tonight at SemiBUG
Michael W. Lucas is talking tonight at SemiBUG’s monthly meeting, and will be presenting on Tarsnap. Go, if you are near Michigan.
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security N...
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Dear FreeBSD community,
As many have already noticed, there are a few newly disclosed WPA2
protocol vulnerabilities that affects wpa_supplicant and hostapd which
also affects all supported FreeBSD releases:
A vulnerability was found in how a number of implementations can be
triggered to r [...]
DragonFly 5 released!
DragonFly 5.0.0 has been released. HAMMER2 is available in the installer. Multi-volume/clustering support isn’t in there yet, but support for deduplication/snapshots/booting and so on all are. My post to users@ has upgrade instructions.
Lazy Reading for 2017/10/15
I have more links to post but I just plain ran out of time.
The /bin/true Command and Copyright. (via)
Pencil and Paper Games. (via)
A Little Story About the `yes` Unix Command. (via)
Open Source Game Clones. I linked this years ago, but it’s updated. Still iffy on it. (Read more...)
syspatch(8) Binary Updates Now for th...
In a
message to tech@,
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) wrote:
We intend to only build syspatches for one release in the future.
Errata patches will continue to be generated for 2 releases.
The reasoning is syspatch on 2 architectures for 2 releases requires 4
machines, and therefore twice the handholding. It seems better to keep
the tim [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/10/14
All at the last minute, this.
rcmds removed from FreeBSD. (Thanks, Jeremie)
Michael W. Lucas will be presenting on Tarsnap at the next SemiBUG meeting – the 17th.
There may be a OpenBSD porting workshop with NYCBUG in early December.
The anatomy of ldd program on OpenBSD.
How to create BSD bootable USB Stick ?
EuroBSDcon 2017: (Read [...]
OpenBSD Errata: October 13th, 2017 (t...
Errata patches have been released for OpenBSD 6.2 and 6.1.
A local user could trigger a kernel panic by using an invalid TCB value.
Binary updates for the amd64 platform are available via the syspatch
utility. Source code patches can be found on the respective errata
pages:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata61.html
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BSDNow 215: Turning FreeBSD up to 100...
There’s no in-reference in this week’s BSDNow, but I think they already did the “it goes to 11” reference. Among other news items, they’ve caught ClonOS, which I did not know about.
HAMMER1, on Linux
Tomohiro Kusumi has made the userspace tools for HAMMER1 compilable on Linux, so you could create a HAMMER1 volume on a Linux system. No, it’s not the ability to read/write HAMMER1 in Linux, unfortunately – just some manipulation of volumes. I don’t know what his future plans are for HAMMER1|2 on Linux, if any.
[Security-announce] pfSense-SA-17_07....
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pfSense-SA-17_07.packages Security Advisory
pfSense
Topic: XSS vulnerability in Status Monitoring base [...]
Kernel ASLR on amd64
Recently, I completed a Kernel ASLR implementation for NetBSD-amd64, making
NetBSD the first BSD system to support such a feature. Simply said, KASLR is a
feature that randomizes the location of the kernel in memory, making it harder
to exploit several classes of vulnerabilities, both locally (privilege
escalations) and remotely (remote code [...]
ftp.usa.openbsd.org and anoncvs3.usa....
ftp.usa.openbsd.org (aka ftp3.usa.openbsd.org and anoncvs3.usa.openbsd.org)
will be down for machine room maintenance on Saturday October 14th
from 5:30am MDT. It will be brought back up when the maintenance
is complete, which should be some time in the afternoon.
- todd
EuroBSDcon 2017: “travel notes&...
Let me tell you about my experience at
EuroBSDcon 2017
in Paris, France. We will
see what was presented during the NetBSD developer summit on Friday
and then we will give a look to all of the
NetBSD and
pkgsrc presentations given during
the conference session on Saturday and Sunday. Of course, a lot of
fun also happened (Read more...)
vmx(4) added to DragonFly
DragonFly has also gained the vmx(4) virtual network driver. This is in DragonFly-current now and will be in the 5.0 release.
A SMART trick
If for some reason smartmontools seems to think your disks aren’t SMART-capable, force smartd to use SCSI ioctls. has a snippet to use in your smartd.conf for just that.
OpenBSD 6.2 Released
A few days ahead of the date hinted at by the work-in-progress release page, OpenBSD 6.2 was released today, October 9th 2017.
Notable changes in this release are as always numerous, and include:
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OpenBSD 6.2 released: Oct 9, 2017
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October 9, 2017.
We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 6.2.
This is our 43rd release. We remain proud of OpenBSD\'s record of more
than twenty years with only two remote hole [...]
Lazy Reading for 2017/10/08
I am all over this week.
On Being Operationally Incompetent. Harsh but true. (via)
Floating Point Visually Explained. (via)
Unapplied Linguistics. (via I lost it, sorry)
CORE (Curriculum Open-access Resources in Economics). A free economics textbook, which I find oddly interesting both for the topic and because it’s a specific eff [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/10/07
Assembled all on Thursday!
No Plan Survives Contact with the Internet. pfSense 2.4.0 delay, related to recent dnsmasq discoveries.
pfsense rant.
Exploring BSD for my CDN.
Ohio LinuxFest 2017 Recap.
First draft of “Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition” finished! Related: Michael W. Lucas has a Patreon.
OPNsense 17.7.5 released.
autoconf/clang (No) [...]
