Working on less traditional BSD links here. Toward an automated tracking of OpenBSD ports contributions. Commentary on the MacOS -> FreeBSD article from last week. BSD Unix Hardware Support Database. (via) BSD Discord server. More linked in comments. Become shell literate. Wonderfully not Linux/bash-specific. There’s always more history. Early BSD work, indirectly. CentOS killed by …
Yesterday, I started a zpool replace. It finished overnight, and dropped the suspect drive out of the vdev. The resilver finished in the middle of the night: As you can see, da22p1 has taken the place of da17p1. The resilver took As the new drive is being resilvered, I started looking at metrics. Here is […]
It is time to replace /dev/da17 in knew. An upcoming blog post will document the replacement. I’m seeing these messages: Dec 12 09:23:03 knew smartd[2124]: Device: /dev/da17 [SAT], 40 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Dec 12 09:53:04 knew syslogd: last message repeated 1 times Dec 12 10:23:03 knew syslogd: last message repeated 1 times Dec 12 […]
Straight from tabs. How to get generic interface names and IPs in OpenBSD PF. Our monitoring of our OpenBSD machines, such as it is (as of November 2020). Show diff output in color. FreeBSD Virtualization bhyve and vm-bhyve Setup. (video, via) macOS to FreeBSD Migration – Why I Left macOS. (via) Contributing FreeBSD Documentation. My …
Some interesting ‘how do you do this?’ sort of material this week. Install FreeBSD on Raspberry Pi Step by Step Guide. (via) Mastering UNIX pipes, Part 1. Alpine Linux on FreeBSD 13-CURRENT Inside chroot(8). (via) Netatalk on OpenBSD or how to build a free Time Capsule. (via) Funded project(s) to improve Linux emulation on NetBSD. …
The first link here is the one that everyone should take advantage of. For the Love of Troff, the next online NYCBUG meeting/presentation, December 2. Go, even if you aren’t near. Setting up WireGuard on OpenBSD and Linux. (via) The Origin of the Shell. In Multics, before Unix. (via) Unix doesn’t normally do short write()s to …
Virtual hosts for a website are a thing. One webserver can host multiple websites. They can all be on the same IP address, different IP addresses, different ports, etc. This post is about using a proxy service. Before I started with this solution, at home I hosted every website on the same server. My firewall […]
My BSD RSS feeds are strangely quiet this week. Quick and Dirty OpenBSD Version Upgrade on a Running System. Fast follower post – making OpenBSD UI a bit “prettier” (as I see it). Signal-cli with scli on FreeBSD. (via) Valuable News – 2020/11/09. OpenBSD and you, the 6.8 update. Mktemp started on OpenBSD. Windows Subsystem for …
Virtual BUG meetings could be fun (see links); I’d like to attend even if it’s not local. If I can put aside time… CDBUG meetings going virtual. FreeBSD 12.2 on Azure. November 2020 FreeBSD Vendor Summit starts the 11th. What kind of controllers work with OpenBSD for playing games? HardenedBSD October 2020 Status Report. A …
Spooky Halloween BSD News! Well, not really. Dual Boot FreeBSD and Linux from Single ZFS Pool. (via) The FreeBSD k8s-bhyve Project – Looking for Free Testing Equipment. (via) Bluetooth Audio on OpenBSD. (via) Contributions over 28 years of NetBSD src history. (via) History of FreeBSD – Part 2: BSDi and USL Lawsuits. (via) Lenovo T420 …
FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE is now available. Please be sure to check the Release Notes and Release Errata before installation for any late-breaking news and/or issues with 12.2. More information about FreeBSD releases can be found on the Release Information …
This work was done in August. Since then, I have replaced the APC with an Eaton 5PX, and I am much happier. This might make for interesting reading, but that depends on how bored you are.. Following on from my failed calibration attempts, I thought I would try it again this morning before work. In […]
It’s apparently release week? Switching Xorg Keyboard Layout on OpenBSD. (via) BSDCan 2021 is canceled. NetBSD 9.1 released. OpenBSD 6.8 Released. REDCOM Sigma. FreeBSD-based product, and my employer. TrueNAS 12.0 released. Valuable News – 2020/10/19. FreeBSD Q3 2020 report. FreeBSD GNOME 3 Fast Track. Google Summer of Code 2020: [Final Report] Enhancing Syzkaller support for …
The July to September 2020 Status Report is now available with 35 entries.
The third RC build for the FreeBSD 12.2 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
I have these boot drives, I want to copy them to another. They both happen to be zroot and bootable. I booted from mfsBSD and imported both new and old zroot, using the pool ID shown by zpool import -N. root@mfsbsd:~ # zpool import -N pool: data01 id: 2668514456528412656 state: ONLINE action: The pool can […]
I always thought of cross-pollination – sharing of code between BSDs – as a good thing. This seems like the most basic way to do that: same base sh.