BSD Now 282: Open the Rsync
This week’s BSD Now talks about OpenRSync (OpenRsync? Dunno the capitalization on that), convention news, and someone building a “Sun Workstation”.
Memory fixes, UEFI booting fixes
If you have a lot of RAM on your DragonFly system, there’s a patch that you may find useful. If you weren’t able to install that system, well, there’s another potential fix out there.
Double timestamps in logs
I noticed some double timestamps in my logs recently. They started just after I upgraded the host to FreeBSD 12, but I am not convinced they are related.
This is from /var/log/messsages:
Jan 22 21:41:40 knew 1 2019-01-22T21:41:40.760533+00:00 knew.int.unixathome.org pkg 89351 - - py36-iocage-devel upgraded: 1.0.0.20181219,1 -> 1.0.0.201901 [...]
HAMMER2 and dm_crypt
If you’re looking to use disk encryption and HAMMER2, follow this short thread for some of the naming details.
Upgrading to FreeBSD 12.0 from FreeBS...
Today I will upgrade knew from FreeBSD 11.2 to FreeBSD 12.0. It so happens that this is my last server at home which is still running 11.2, but I do have another server still on 11.2, but that one is at NYI.
This post isn’t so much about beadm or about freebsd-update. I have written about moving to (Read more...)
Collecting statistics from bind / nam...
I use bind (Berkeley Internet Name Domain) as my DNS server. I am currently running bind 9.11.5P1 on FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p8 in a jail, with iocage as my jail manager. The OS, jail, and jail manager should play no part in how this works.
I have been collecting statistics from bind for some time. I have configured LibreNMS to collect the (Re [...]
Support for 2TB of memory added
Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) just committed support for 2TB of physical memory on the amd64 platform:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mlarkin@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/01/20 23:18:37
Modified files:
sys/arch/amd64/amd64: machdep.c pmap.c
sys/arch/amd64/include: pmap.h
Log message:
Support 2TB phys [...]
join-ing any open wifi network is now...
Peter Hessler (phessler@) has
committed
changes
to make it possible to join any open wifi network:
Read more…
vmm(4) for i386 deleted from -current
With
two
commits
by Pratik Vyas (pd@),
vmm(4) support for i386 host systems has been deleted (one can still run i386 guests under vmm on an amd64 host).
The commit messages explain the reasoning behind this move:
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OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One, At Te...
Ian Darwin (ian@) wrote in to let us know that he\'s written
an article
which is a follow-up to an Undeadly
story from a decade ago!
The article provides a fine illustration of benefits of a bloat-free
OS.
Thanks very much for the pointer, Ian.
Lazy Reading for 2019/01/20
One advantage of having a link ‘backlog’ is that I can pick and choose a bit, to present grouped items.
LiteCLI: A user-friendly command line client for SQLite. (via) A holiday gift woodworking project using Clojure. (via) 2019 IGF nominees: something notable.2019 IGF nominees: mixed reactions.2019 IGF nominees: my favorite [...]
In Other BSDs for 2019/01/19
Overflow from the past two weeks. I’ll have my email and tab backlog cleared next week.
Real paragraphs for mandoc HTML output.New console font Spleen made default. There’s examples.OPNSense 18.7.10 released.Best BSD filesystem for ssd. All of them.LibGDX proof of concept on OpenBSD: Slay the Spire. Has video.2018 recap (Read [...]
The first report on LLD porting
Prepared by Michał Górny (mgorny AT gentoo.org).
LLD is the link editor (linker) component of Clang toolchain. Its main
advantage over GNU ld is much lower memory footprint, and linking speed.
It is of specific interest to me since currently 8 GiB of memory are
insufficient to link LLVM statically (which is the upstream default).
The first [...]
BSD Now 281: EPYC Server Battle
This week’s BSD Now discusses scp vulnerabilities, GhostBSD, and the recent EPYC hardware benchmarks that I have not linked because I don’t think they are useful information.
Cleanly adding sysctl entries on Drag...
If you’d like to set a particular sysctl(8), you enter it into /etc/sysctl.conf. A common mistake is to copy the command line and put “sysctl foo=bar” in sysctl.conf instead of “foo=bar”. This used to cause a warning, but it still bit people, as it would cause a long stream of error messages during boot – [...]
SEMIBUG meeting tonight
The normal meeting space isn’t available this month or next, so tonight’s meeting is an informal get-together at 7 PM at Leo’s Coney Island. I assume if you are near, you know Leo’s. Go if that’s you.
Power notes, booting notes
Two links I yoinked from conversation in EFNet #dragonflybsd: there’s a “powersave” power management page on dragonflybsd.org that for some reason wasn’t linked in the main documentation page. I fixed that, and you may want to look at it and change your mwait settings, or look at the corepower(4) module. (From iva [...]
Lazy Reading for 2019/01/13
Unofficial theme this week: me commenting on almost every link.
An odd MIME Content-Disposition or two. I like seeing the analysis of parts of traffic people never usually see.My one-liner Linux Dropbox client. Not saying to do this specifically, but the tool integration is nice. (via)Pathfinding for Tower Defense. That whole Red Blob (R [...]
In Other BSDs for 2019/01/12
Literally the first 45 minutes of me picking from saved links is all it took for this week.
pfSense 2.4.4-RELEASE-p2 now available.GlusterFS Cluster on FreeBSD with Ansible and GNU Parallel. (via) Some thoughts on FreeBSD as a desktop platform. (via) People who run BSD. Linked here before but recently updated. (reminded (Read more... [...]
