BSD Now 316: git commit FreeBSD
This week’s BSD Now has lots of material to work with, but the part they talk about that’s new to me: Homura.
utmp out, utmpx in
The headline is a little misleading; umtpx has been in DragonFly forever, but now utmp is really retired and programs adjusted to match. The change is not that user-affecting and utmp data is still accessible; this is part of the ABI change alluded to over the past week.
If you are not familiar with utmp(5) and utmpx(5), (Read more...)
SEMIBUG meeting was tonight
I goofed and didn’t post about the SEMIBUG meeting tonight, so it is too late now… but this video was the topic of discussion.
ChiBUG meeting, tonight
Are you near Chicago? ChiBUG meets tonight. Go, if you are near.
The return of startx(1) for non-root ...
Mark Kettenis (kettenis@) has recently
committed
changes
which restore a certain amount of
startx(1)/xinit(1)
functionality for non-root users.
The commit messages explain the situation:
Read more…
New packages for DragonFly-current
If you are on DragonFly-current, the ABI changes of the past few days are complete and new dports packages are built, so now is a good time to do a complete build and install of world and kernel, and then a pkg update.
5.6 users can keep on keeping on; no breakage there.
Setting up a mail server with OpenSMT...
On his
blog,
Gilles Chehade (gilles@) has written
a very detailed article on running an
OpenSMTPD mail server.
The article begins:
TL;DR:
- NO TL;DR: this time, I spent hours writing, you should spend minutes reading.
- OK... I explain in WAY TOO MUCH details how to setup a mail server
So if you have an interest (Read more... [...]
Lazy Reading for 2019/09/15
Way eclectic this week. Enjoy! I will be working, as I haven’t had a day off in 3 weeks – but don’t be too sorry for me, I chose this. The magic of pre-scheduling posts fixes it.
A new version of Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music – you will find something new and interesting, guaranteed. (via)
Every Noise [...]
OpenBSD Errata: September 14th, 2019 ...
Errata patches for expat have been released for OpenBSD 6.4 and 6.5.
Libexpat 2.2.6 was affected by the heap overflow CVE-2019-15903.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available
via the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the
respective errata page:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata64.html
https [...]
In Other BSDs for 2019/09/14
Still a backlog, no matter how much I link.
HAMBSD. (via)
vBSDCon 2019 trip report from iXSystems.
Sponsorships open for SNMP Mastery. A summary post, too.
Agenda for the next SEMIBUG meeting on the 17th.
Using FreeBSD with Ports (2/2): Tool-assisted updating.
Cool, but obscure X11 tools. More suggestions in the source link.
(Read more.. [...]
BSD Now 315: Recapping vBSDcon 2019
A little late linking this, but never mind: BSD Now 315 includes, among its other usual links, a recap of the vBSDCon experience, from the just-completed event.
Keep rebuilding
ABI breakage continues, so continue the full buildworld/buildkernel cycle, if you are on DragonFly-current, and continue to ignore it, if you are on 5.6.
Vintage Computer Festival this weeken...
Mentioning it here because it’s timely: the Vintage Computer Festival Midwest is happening this weekend, and if I wait until the normal day I would post this – Sunday in Lazy Reading – it will be too late. Go if you are anywhere near. (Credit goes to joshua stein on the ChiBUG mailing list – don’t forget their [...]
ABI breakage in DragonFly master
There’s commits being made in DragonFly that will break binary compatibility. If you are running DragonFly-master, that means you will need to do a full buildworld/buildkernel when updating, and you will either have to rebuild packages or wait some days until a new set are built.
If you are running the 5.6 release, you are unaffected.
openresolv now in DragonFly
Roy Marples has imported openresolv 3.9.2 to DragonFly. This is a replacement for the old-style /etc/resolv.conf file. The more complicated your network, the more you will appreciate this tool.
DoH disabled by default in Firefox
On Monday, Otto (otto@) committed a small but significant change to the Firefox port.
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2019 12:50:35 -0600 (MDT)
From: Otto Moerbeek <otto@[elided]>
To: ports-changes@openbsd.org
Subject: CVS: cvs.openbsd.org: ports
Sender: owner-ports-changes@openbsd.org
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: ports
Changes [...]
scripts for monitoring vulns in FreeB...
I have scripts for monitoring vulns in FreeBSD jails. They use third-party scripts. All I wrote was the Nagios part of the solution.
I was preparing slides for my Why I prefer thick jails over thin jails talk at EuroBSDCon 2019. There is still time to register and attend. I was explaining my scripts and was providing links to (Read more...)
msdosfs updates
Tohiro Kusumi has been bringing in a whole lot of MSDOS filesystem updates; I can’t tell you the net effect but.I am sure they are useful if you are looking to share disk media; FAT is a sort of lowest common denominator.
