BSD Now 383: Scale the tail
This week’s BSD Now has a bunch of “project status report” items – normal reports, not end of year roundups, despite the date. Good reading if you aren’t familiar with the work involved, in any case.
This week’s BSD Now has a bunch of “project status report” items – normal reports, not end of year roundups, despite the date. Good reading if you aren’t familiar with the work involved, in any case.
Aaron LI’s added a pw-update.sh script to DragonFly, for use in automating group and user changes, especially as – someday – part of a binary upgrade.
So, if you find yourself in possession of an ADM-3A terminal, and want to attach it to a DragonFly machine, here is the /etc/ttys config (viewed on the ADM-3A itself of course) and the front switch settings that worked for me. Remember, ^h deletes.
Thanks to liweitianux, the mirrors page on the DragonFly site has been updated. Check again to see if there’s a mirror near you, if you haven’t looked recently.
With the following
commit,
Marcus Glocker (mglocker@)
added an enhanced privacy control for video recording:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: mglocker@cvs.openbsd.org 2020/12/28 11:28:11
Modified files:
sys/dev : video.c …
If you remember HAMMER1’s ability to create a volume that spanned multiple local disks, that capability’s been introduced to HAMMER2. Look at the commit message to see how it works so far.
Note that this is not multi-master replication.
I haven’t had many posts this past week because of a mix of work then holidays. but there’s always Lazy Reading. My favorite essays of life advice. Lode Runner. “just don’t use any non-essential cookies“ Cemetery of Soviet computers. Gotta reinstall STALKER. (via) “Tell me you work in tech without telling me you work in …
Lots of history this week. Nakatomi Socrates BSD. FreeBSD src now in git. (via) Perfecting hashing in NetBSD (2013) Video. (via) The original “Spacewar!” running on a virtual DEC PDP-1. Technically early BSD. (via) ThinkPad X1 Carbon G4 Running FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE. (via) Allen K. Briggs Memorial Scholarship. Host your Cryptpad web office suite with OpenBSD. …
There’s an Q&A session for this week’s BSD Now. I haven’t looked carefully enough to see if this is the last for the year, but there’s some fun what-are-you-running-at-home material in there.
Errata patches for smtpd have been released for OpenBSD 6.7 and 6.8.
smtpd’s filter state machine can prematurely release resources leading
to a crash.
Binary updates for the amd64, i386, and arm64 platforms are available via
the syspatch utility. So…
DRM in DragonFly has been updated to match Linux 4.5.18, along with recognizing some new hardware.
This week’s links are all fun, but you had better have some time to read. The Nethack story of Sery the tourist and Sery on the 7th floor. Concentrichron. (via) MAX HEADROOM 10\u0027 4\” Two levels of ironic there. The Making of Donkey Kong on the Atari 2600. (via) XScreenSaver 5.45 is out. New hacks, …
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 …
This week’s BSD Now talks about shell history, Plan 9, and new-to-me ArisbluBSD, so it should be fun.
This won’t affect your day-to-day operation of DragonFly, but it’s interesting: apparently, uptime was always (now minus boot time). If you reset the clock on the machine, however, it would no longer be accurate. Now it is accurate, for …
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FreeBSD-SA-20:33.openssl Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: OpenSSL NULL pointer de-reference
Category: contrib
Module: openssl
Announced: 2020-12-08
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2020-12-08 18:28:49 UTC (stable/12, 12.2-STABLE)
2020-12-08 19:10:40 UTC (releng/12.2, 12.2-RELEASE-p2)
2020-12-08 19:10:40 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p12)
2020-12-10 23:43:29 UTC (stable/11, 11.4-STABLE)
2020-12-14 21:20:55 UTC (releng/11.4, 11.4-RELEASE-p6)
CVE Name: CVE-2020-1971
Note:
I realized I never followed up on the call for testing: re(4) driver updates from Sepherosa Ziehau were indeed tested and found good, so the driver has been updated.
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 […]