In Other BSDs for 2018/11/10
Aaaand I have a backlog again.
using smartd to automatically run tests on your drives.
FreeBSD Foundation Update, October 2018. (via)
OpenBSD on a Laptop. (via)
OpenVPN Setup Guide. (via)
FreeBSD 12 beta 3 out.
First Time on BSD: Installing FreeBSD.
OpenSMTPD 6.4.0 released and upcoming filters preview (Read more...)
FreeBSD 12.0-BETA4 Available
The fourth BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.0 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.
Hammer2 reminder: bulkfree makes some...
For future edification: If you have HAMMER2 installed, the bulkfree operation will create console/dmesg activity even when nothing is wrong, to show operations are happening.
BSD Now 271: Automatic Drive Tests
BSD Now 271 is up with no interview but a news summary, including EuroBSDCon and MeetBSD con reports, and an OpenBSD and Ansible item that should be interesting to most anyone, among other items.
Fetching DragonFly src over https
If you happen to be using DragonFly from a network location that only allows http/https as outbound traffic, you won’t be able to update /usr/src using defaults. /usr/Makefile pulls DragonFly source using a git:// URL.
The fix is to use the read-only Github mirror. You can set origin manually or just change GITHOST in /usr/Makefile (o [...]
[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 10.4 end-o...
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Dear FreeBSD community,
As of October 31, 2018, FreeBSD 10.4 reached end-of-life and is no longer
supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users of FreeBSD 10.4 are strongly
encouraged to upgrade to a newer release as soon as possible.
The currently supported branches and releases and their e [...]
malloc.conf replaced with a sysctl
In this commit, Otto Moerbeek (otto@) moved malloc handling from a softlink in /etc to a sysctl instead.
Read more…
OpenSMTPD released and upcoming filte...
Gilles Chehade (gilles@) has written
an article
on recent progress in
OpenSMTPD.
It begins:
TL;DR:
Filters have been a (the most ?) long awaited feature in OpenSMTPD.
I finally committed most of the filters code to OpenBSD.
There is still a bit of work required but the trickiest parts are done.
This article describes how filters are [...]
zpool: FAULTED – too many errors
This server, knew has had an intermittent problem related to CAM status: SCSI Status Error messages. There is a FreeBSD Forums post about it. On Sunday, the problem returned, and this time it degraded the zpool.
I collected the information in this gist and I will list the relevant portions below.
I had enabled smartd testing and I received [...]
NYCBUG meeting tomorrow
Ensuring Perl’s Viability on FreeBSD: A NYCBUG-NY.PM Collaboration is the presentation at tomorrow’s NYCBUG meeting. Going by the details, it’s covering multiple BSDs. Go, if you are near – I wish I was.
ip6addrctl in DragonFly
Aaron LI’s added ip6addrctl(8) to DragonFly; on by default. There should be a man page entry for it within a couple hours, online.
Even more VENIX emulator progress
So in looking at the traces for why cal wasn\'t working, I noticed something odd:0212:100D: jmp 0x109e0212:109C: rcrw $0xff,0xdceb(%bx,%si)Invalid opcode c1What? I\'m not super-duper strong on Intel assembler, but I sure know that 109e is not 109c. So what\'s going on here. After adding some more debugging, I discovered this was opcode 0xe9, [...]
Lazy Reading for 2018/11/04
I almost put the OpenSSH stuff in In Other BSDs yesterday, but it is really cross-platform at this point.
A fun optimization trick from rsync followed by More about auto-generated switch-cases.
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations:
Chapter 14 Introducing Open Platforms and Business Ecosystems. From Harvard Business S [...]
VENIX/86 emulator taking shape…
Frequent readers will recall my obsession with Venix on the Rainbow.For the past year or so in my off moments, I\'ve been trying to put together a Venix binary emulator. This is part of a larger project to reconstruct the Venix sources from the ancient V7 sources plus clues left behind in various images found on the internet in (Read more... [...]
In Other BSDs for 2018/11/03
Backlog finally cleared! You have a lot of clicking to do because of that.
setuid bit removed from /usr/X11R6/bin/Xorg in OpenBSD, probably because of the recent xorg elevation bug to match.
Attaching a Bluetooth keyboard to a NetBSD machine. (via)
Valuable News – 2018/10/27.
Valuable News – 2018/11/02.
commands without magic
Introducing t [...]
FreeBSD 12.0-BETA3 Available
The third BETA build for the FreeBSD 12.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv6, armv7, arm64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.
BSDNow 270: Ghostly Releases
This week’s BSDNow has a whole lot of release news – GhostBSD, OpenBSD, OpenSSH, plus plenty more. Make sure to check the Beastie Bits at the bottom of the page.
OpenBSD Errata: November 2nd, 2018 (s...
Errata patches for syspatch have been released for OpenBSD 6.3 and 6.4.
The syspatch utility incorrectly handles symbolic links.
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 pages:
https://www.openbsd.org/errata63.html
https://w [...]
openresolv added to DragonFly
Aaron LI has added openresolv to DragonFly. According to the commit message, this is for dhcpcd(8) support later. It’s added as resolvconf(8), needed for IPv6 DHCP support and a replacement for rtsold(8).
NetBSD LLVM Sanitizers in The Bay Are...
I have presented the state of NetBSD sanitizers during two conferences in the San Francisco Bay Area: Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit (Mountain View) and MeetBSDCa (Santa Clara, Intel Campus SC12).
I\'ve also made progress in upstreaming of our local patches to LLVM sanitizers and introducing generic NetBSD enhancements there.
The Bay Ar [...]
