A note for certbot and Let’s Encrypt
I installed new SSL certificates for this server over the weekend and I have to say, Let’s Encrypt and certbot are the easiest SSL setup process I’ve ever done. It worked exactly as expected on DragonFly.
SEMIBUG meeting tomorrow
SEMIBUG is meeting online tomorrow, the 21st. The Emacs presentation that was originally scheduled has been postponed to October 19; it’ll be lightning talks instead.
Lazy Reading for 2021/09/19
I am still not catching up to my RSS feeds but that’s OK, still plenty to read. Neglected Books. Fun for the covers, never mind the books. (via) 1950s Bakelite Podcast Player. I always liked this concept, whatever the shell. 50 Years of Text Games: 2004: The Fire Tower and 2005: Shades of Doom. Yes, …
In Other BSDs for 2021/09/18
Still plenty of links I haven’t even got to yet. Understanding ZFS Channel Programs. Comparing FreeBSD GELI and OpenZFS encrypted pools with keys. Valuable News – 2021/09/13. Ghost in the Shell – Part 6 – Learn Shell Scripting. Minecraft on lunarclient (on OpenBSD). FreeBSD 11.4 EOL. TrueNAS vs FreeNAS (and why you should upgrade!) Quick …
BSD Now 420: OpenBSD makes life better
This week’s BSD Now thankfully skips the pun that might go with the episode number, and talks about various OpenBSD and NetBSD articles.
Lazy Reading for 2021/09/12
Classic Lazy Reading weirdness. Can the Subaltern Speak?, radical augmented gaze. Not really augmented but definitely aesthetic. The System Reference Document for D&D, I think version 3.5? Here’s v5 which might be better. More Tomy Tutor homebrew. 50 Years of Text Games: 2003: The Kingdom of Loathing. A visualization of the logos of 5,837 metal …
In Other BSDs for 2021/09/11
I am severely backlogged on links. Valuable News – 2021/09/06. FreeBSD Desktop – Part 27 – Configuration – Netflix Signal Telegram. Large Unix programs were historically not all that portable between Unixes. FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE on Microsoft Azure Marketplace. Development Tools Next Steps. FreeBSD moving ever so slowly to git. I think; the announcement assumes you …
Turning off SASLCLIENT for databases/mysql57-client
This started off as a Twitter thread earlier this morning. databases/mysql57-client has an optional dependency on security/cyrus-sasl2 which defaults to on. Let’s try turning that off and see if it also removes openldap-client from the dependency list. Why? I install net-mgmt/nagios-plugins in just above every jail and host. Even hosts which don’t use MySQL. I […]
By default, scp(1) now uses SFTP protocol
Thanks to a
commit
by Damien Miller (djm@),
scp(1) (in -current)
now defaults to using the
SFTP protocol:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: djm@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/09/08 17:31:39
Modified files:
usr.bin/ssh : scp.1 scp.c
…
BSD Now 419: Rethinking OS installs
This week’s BSD Now is the usual roundup of news, with the headline taken from an article about FreeBSD’s new/experimental web-based installer. (What, no mention of the installer for DragonFly? It’s been web-compatible for yearsR…
Keeping a package unchanged
The recent tmux package update reminds me to mention ‘pkg lock’. When you update packages, pkg will update everything. If there’s a package you don’t want changed, the pkg lock(8) command will keep it at the current version. There can be some other packages held back because of dependencies, but that’s OK. Don’t forget to …
Unlocking UVM faults yields significant performance boost
In a recent
message
to tech@ Martin Pieuchot (mpi@) wrote about
analysis of kernel lock contention.
We reproduce the message(s) here, reformatted with his permission.
Unlocking UVM [virtual memory – Ed.]
faults makes build time decrease a lo…
NYCBUG: Extreme scripting with KSH and AWK
NYCBUG’s hosting “Extreme scripting with KSH and AWK” with G Clifford Williams, tomorrow. It’s online, so everyone can get the lesson.
tmux post fixed
If you want to update to the now fixed tmux port, you’ll want to add a -f to the pkg command to force it; the version number hasn’t changed.
FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE Now Available on Microsoft Azure Marketplace
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Lazy Reading for 2021/09/05
There’s a toy/game mini-theme this week. Optimizing the Nethack 4.3 Save System. (via) Plua revisited: Lua for PalmOS (and resurrecting plua2c). Niche but neat. The Commodore Plus/4, 3-Plus-1 and computer literacy. Being sure about things. Venn diagrams and humor. “The Good Games“, a playlist showing influential 1980s games. I’ve played almost every one, and the …
[CFP] Development Tools Next Steps
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Hello everyone,
We’ve now been using git for 6-9 months for maintaining changes to the defferent parts of the pro…
In Other BSDs for 2021/09/04
Note the last link; BSD and M1. RSA/SHA1 signature type disabled by default in OpenSSH. Disruptive but good. (open)rsync gains include/exclude support. Choosing The Right ZFS Pool Layout. Appropriate illustration. HardenedBSD August 2021 Status Report. ChiBUG will be meeting on Tuesday, September 14th at 6:30PM CDT via Google Meetings. I’ll post a reminder. NYCBUG Sept …
traceroute(8) gets speed boost
Florian Obser (florian@)
has committed
a significant speed boost for
traceroute(8):
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: florian@cvs.openbsd.org 2021/09/03 03:13:00
Modified files:
usr.sbin/traceroute: Makefile traceroute.8 tracerou…