DragonFly 5.6.2 released
Because of the recent tcp keepalive change and some other updates, DragonFly 5.6 has been updated to 5.6.2. See my release email, and update the normal way. You will need to update your installed dports.
Lazy Reading for 2019/08/11
I have some neat history items mixed in this week.
ASCII table and history (or, why does Ctrl+i insert a Tab in my terminal?) (via)
As Flash dies a little more.
Beginner Problems With TCP & The socket Module in Python. Linked cause it shows why MTU size matters. (via)
My Top 20 (Read more...)
poudriere hooks
zi0r suggested I use hooks to accomplish my patches-outside-distfiles question.
In this post:
FreeBSD 12.0
poudriere 3.3.2
I started reading the documentation and played with the supplied sample files in /usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/hooks.
For background, see FreeBSD custom port patches when using poudriere.
Eventually I came up with this sol [...]
In Other BSDs for 2019/08/10
A reminder: if you have a BSD user group and I’m not posting about your meetings, please make sure I know about it.
The OpenBSD Ada Library. (via)
BSD Link Roundup 7.29.
Project Trident 19.07-U1 now available. No, wait, 12-U1 now available.
Valuable News – 2019/07/29.
Nvidia optimus drivers for FreeBSD. ( (Read more...)
6.6-beta has been tagged
Theo de Raadt (deraadt@)
has just
tagged
6.6-beta:
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/08/09 21:56:02
Modified files:
etc/root : root.mail
share/mk : sys.mk
sys/arch/macppc/stand/tbxidata: bsd.tbxi
sys/conf : newvers.sh
sys/sys : param.h
usr.bin/signify: [...]
Game of Trees
Stefan Sperling (stsp@) is developing a version control system,
"Game of Trees".
From <https://gameoftrees.org/>:
Game of Trees (Got) is a version control system which prioritizes ease of use and simplicity over flexibility.
Got is still under development; it is being developed exclusively on OpenBSD and its target audi [...]
Disk encryption and non-QWERTY keyboa...
When you encrypt your DragonFly boot drive, initrd(7) is run to get your system online and able to accept a password to decrypt the drive. So far, so good. The initrd program is a minimal userland designed to be small, and it generally works. However, it assumes a QWERTY keyboard. If you’re Pierre-Alain TORET and normally use an AZE [...]
snmp(1) added to -current
Martijn van Duren (martijn@) has
committed
a new
Simple Network Management Protocol
(SNMP) client,
snmp(1):
CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: martijn@cvs.openbsd.org 2019/08/09 00:17:59
Added files:
usr.bin/snmp : Makefile mib.c mib.h smi.c smi.h snmp.1 snmp.c
snmp.h snmpc.c
Log message:
Imp [...]
OpenBSD Errata: August 9th, 2019 (swa...
Errata patches for the kernel have been released for OpenBSD 6.4 and 6.5.
Intel CPUs have another cross privilege side-channel attack. (SWAPGS)
Binary updates for the amd64 platform are available via the syspatch utility.
Source code patches can be found on the respective errata page:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata64.html
https://www.o [...]
A new upgrade method
Remember my post about a new upgrade script? tse, the author, has happily added in a bunch of suggestions. I’m intermittently traveling and can’t do anything to test it for days yet – but I’d love to see others try it out.
The bugs issue tracking versions is here: #3197. Can you, dear reader, try it out? Do (Read [...]
iocage
I was asked why I was exasperated with iocage:
This is the list of issues where I found my name. A given issue may be listed multiple times.
Oct 2017 – iocage upgrade is looping: https://github.com/iocage/iocage/issues/399
Jun 2018 – cannot run ‘iocage start’ from my home dir: https://github.com/iocage/iocage/issues/5 [...]
NetBSD Security Advisory 2019-004: IP...
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Topic: IPv6 neighbor cache leak on expiration
Version: NetBSD-current: affected up to 8.99.51
NetBSD 8.1: affected
NetBSD 7.2: not affected
NetBSD 7.1.2: not affected
NetBSD 7.0.2: not affected
Severity: Remo [...]
DragonFly kcollect(8) improvements
DragonFly has a utility called kcollect(8), for gathering about the last day’s worth of kernel statistics. It recently gained some extra flags and details, and should work well if you want to collect stats in a low-impact way.
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Security A...
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FreeBSD-SA-19:21.bhyve Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Insufficient validation of guest-supplied da [...]
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FreeBSD-SA-19:20.bsnmp Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Insufficient message length validation in bs [...]
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FreeBSD-SA-19:18.bzip2 Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Multiple vulnerabilities in bzip2
Category: [...]
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FreeBSD-EN-19:15.libunwind Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Incorrect exception handling
Category: [...]
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FreeBSD-SA-19:19.mldv2 Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: ICMPv6 / MLDv2 out-of-bounds memory access
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FreeBSD-EN-19:14.epoch Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: Incorrect locking in epoch(9)
Category: [...]
