BSD Now 283: Graphical Interface-View
The hosts of BSD Now are off to FOSDEM 2019, but they stayed on schedule by recording an interview with Niclas Zeising of the FreeBSD graphics team, available now. He’s speaking at FOSDEM, too, along with a bunch of other BSD Devroom stuff.
A quiet week, so thank you
It’s been a quiet week and I’ve finally caught up on my backlog of things to post, so I’ll take this moment to say: thank you, for reading. Especially, thank you to the Patreon supporters who have thrown in a few dollars; it’s actually paid forward to others I support on Patreon and bought me a nice coffee drink.
The hardware-assisted virtualization ...
Over two years ago, I made a pledge to use NetBSD as my sole OS and only operating system,
and to resist booting into any other OS until I had implemented hardware-accelerated
virtualization in the NetBSD kernel (the equivalent of Linux\' KVM, or Hyper-V).
Today, I am here to report: Mission Accomplished!
It\'s been a long road, but we now [...]
Garbage out
(Not waiting for In Other BSDs for this) The semi-OpenBSD-themed podcast garbage has ended. Take some time now to catch up on back episodes since I can’t imagine it’ll be hosted forever – there’s 40+ to listen to.
Florian Obser on unwind(8)
Florian Obser (florian@) kindly wrote in with news on some recent work:
DNS is easy. You fire up your browser, enter undeadly.org in
its address bar and sooner or later you reach your favourite
OpenBSD journal.
Well, not quite.
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Lazy Reading for 2019/01/27
Sorta unofficial retro game theme this week.
Ascending NetHack by breaking the RNG. (via)“This is an archive of the source code for various versions of the QED editor.” A Git archive with commit dates that predate the creation of Git, cause QED dates to pre-UNIX. (also via) aphelia: A light, single-file, minimalist window [...]
OpenBSD Errata: January 27th, 2019 (n...
Errata patches for the kernel have been released for OpenBSD 6.3 and 6.4.
Missing length checks in the NFS server and client can lead to crashes
and other errors.
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.open [...]
OpenBSD Errata: January 27th, 2019 (u...
Errata patches for the kernel have been released for OpenBSD 6.4.
The unveil() system call can leak memory.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available
via the syspatch utility. Source code patches can be found on the
errata page:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata64.html
As these affect the kernel, a reboot will b [...]
OpenBSD Errata: January 27th, 2019 (m...
Errata patches for the kernel have been released for OpenBSD 6.3 and 6.4.
The mincore() system call can be used to observe memory access patterns
of other processes.
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.o [...]
In Other BSDs for 2019/01/26
There’s some convention stuff scattered in here; we’re heading towards the active season…
Anyone running pfSense on non-netgate hardware in a prod environment?vmm(4) for i386 deleted from -current.OpenBSD on the Acer Aspire One, At Ten. (via)05/25/2019 : V BSDDAY in Brazil.The first report on LLD porting.Update Intel Mic [...]
Security Vulnerability Mitigations
Fresh from the
a2k19 hackathon,
Joel Sing (jsing@) delivered
a presentation
at the
2019 linux.conf.au.
Video is now available.
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:
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