ChiBUG meeting, tonight
Are you near Chicago? ChiBUG meets tonight. Go, if you are near.
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.
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.
route updates in DragonFly
Roy Marples has been making a bunch of changes to route(8) in DragonFly. It doesn’t change functionality, but it will, I think, make it more reliable in unreliable networks.
Lazy Reading for 2019/09/08
This week is a nice mix between useful and entertaining.
Oregon Trail, the cabinet game. (via)
Cover story: The curious case of a shared database. (via)
The Art of Warez. (via)
The humane way to take control of your phone. (via)
A terminal user interface for Mastodon. (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2019/09/07
I have an RSS backlog now.
ChiBUG meets this Tuesday.
FreeBSD core team appoints a WG to explore transitioning from Subversion to Git. Part of the recent status report. (via)
Related: Game of Trees.
OpenBSD on fan-less Tuxedo InfinityBook 14″ v2. (via)
How to configure a network dump in FreeBSD?
6.6-beta (Read more...)
BSD Now 314: Swap that Space
This week’s BSD Now is up, discussing a bunch of informational topics – including what’s happening with dsynth, how virtual memory works, streaming on NetBSD, and other links.
