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PHP 5.4 status in pkgsrc

justin sherrill — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:34:42 +0000

Takahiro Kambe is bringing PHP 5.4 into pkgsrc, probably as lang/php54. Follow the whole thread for a discussion of version numbering. As a side effect of this, PHP 5.2 will leave pkgsrc by the next quarterly pkgsrc release. If you’re using that older flavor, you’ll want to upgrade.

Recent networking updates

justin sherrill — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:30:31 +0000

Sepherosa Ziehau has been making various updates that conform to standards lately, including “RFC4653 Non-Congestion Robustness (NCR)” and “RFC3517bis“. I’m not familiar with what they do, but you can follow the links and read the RFCs if you are curious.

(Not sure if I got that 3517 one correct…)

TUI mode added to kgdb

justin sherrill — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:13:00 +0000

TUI mode is available now for kgdb on DragonFly, thanks to John Marino. It’s apparently a Text User Interface for debugging core files. I haven’t used it, so I’m relying on the testimony of others.

An Apache 2.4 bug, worked around

justin sherrill — Fri, 18 May 2012 01:57:12 +0000

Apparently Apache 2.4 has a bug that will cause network stalls when sending data that doesn’t line up with segment size. Sepherosa Ziehau has put in a workaround for the issue. Alternately, you can use www/apache22.

Hammer 2 progress

justin sherrill — Thu, 17 May 2012 03:06:02 +0000

Matthew Dillon’s recently added getaddr/setaddr support, dumping, and session encryption, among other things, to Hammer 2. Or is it HAMMER2? I’m not sure.

BSDTalk 214: Peter Hansteen and Henning Brauer

justin sherrill — Thu, 17 May 2012 02:58:36 +0000

BSDTalk 214 has nearly an hour of conversation with Peter Hansteen and Henning Brauer, all from the recent BSDCan.

bsdtalk214 – Peter Hansteen and Henning Brauer

Will Backman — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:42:06 +0000

Interview from BSDCan 2012 with Peter Hansteen and Henning Brauer.

File Info: 56Min, 27MB.

Ogg Link: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk214.ogg

Rthreads Hackathon Part the Fourth

openbsd journal — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:18:29 +0000

Philip Guenther(guenther@), the man who got this hackathon rolling, takes the time to organize his post-its:

Sometimes you go into a hackathon knowing exactly what you're going to tackle and it all follows the plan. No, wait, that never happens. There's always something that comes up that ends up eating more of the hackathon than you would have expected.

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Vendor branch updates: libedit, libncurses, libgmp, zlib, gdb

justin sherrill — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:15:32 +0000

John Marino has updated libncurses, libedit, gdb, libgmp, and zlib. The release notes are helpfully contained within each commit. If that wasn’t enough, he’s also added terminfo, a future replacement for termcap, if I understand correctly.

Scratch of the day – ssh transfer from server to server

PsyberMonkey — Tue, 15 May 2012 23:34:00 +0000

There's 2 servers which configured only my workstation is able to login using ssh keys. But I need to transfer files between these 2 servers. Downloading from server A to my workstation then upload the files to server B seems to be way. It would be good if I can combine the 2 operations into 1 single execution.

With shell's

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Upgrading from 9.0-RELEASE to 9-STABLE-20120505 Snapshot

dru — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:12:26 +0000

A number of people have asked if they can upgrade from 9.0-RELEASE to the latest snapshot. Yes you can, if you carefully follow these instructions:

IMPORTANT: As with any pre-release, there can and will be bugs, so be sure to backup your data to a removable media or another system first.

As the superuser, grab and build the newest pc-updatemanager

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OpenSSL updated two different ways

justin sherrill — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:33:00 +0000

Peter Avalos has updated OpenSSL in two different places:. The 3.0 release now has OpenSSL 1.0.0j, which fixes several security issues (see link for CVE IDs). DragonFly 3.1 now has OpenSSL 1.0.1c. As for a changelog… this, maybe?

“Level/low” USB fix

justin sherrill — Tue, 15 May 2012 01:29:17 +0000

If you are having USB issues on boot with DragonFly, Sepherosa Ziehau’s sysctl suggestions may help you.

OpenSMTPD Meets SQLite

openbsd journal — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:04:16 +0000

Gilles Chehade(gilles@) gives us a preview of an upcoming OpenSMTPD feature:

During the r2k12 hackathon in Paris, Marc Espie committed SQLite to OpenBSD's base system.

This has the side effect that OpenSMTPD can start using it and while we agreed that we did not want it as a strong dependency, the backends API allows us to make it a soft
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SSH Mastery Released

openbsd journal — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:02:59 +0000

The editors are a bit late to the party, but are pleased to belatedly announce the publication of SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels, and Keys . From the author, Michael W. Lucas:

Secure Shell (SSH) lets systems administrators securely manage remote systems. But most people only use the bare minimum SSH offers. Used properly, SSH simplifies your job.

You can

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Lazy Reading for 2012/05/13

justin sherrill — Sun, 13 May 2012 14:40:20 +0000

I’m starting to pack these full enough that I might have to go biweekly.

“My 10 Unix command-line mistakes“. (via) You will have done at least a few of these – see comments on that article for even more. I know I’ve shut down the interface I’m connected on a few times…
BSD vs. Linux. (
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January-March, 2012 Status Report

freebsd news flash — Sat, 12 May 2012 08:00:00 +0000

The January-March, 2012 Status Report is now available with 27 entries.

BSDTalk 213: Paul Schenkeveld and EuroBSDCon

justin sherrill — Sat, 12 May 2012 02:25:11 +0000

BSDTalk 213 is out, with 14 minutes of conversation with Paul Schenkeveld about EuroBSDCon. EuroBSDCon is happening in late October, in Poland. Also, the BSDTalk website has a new layout.

bsdtalk213 – EuroBSDCon with Paul Schenkeveld

Will Backman — Sat, 12 May 2012 00:03:24 +0000

Interview with Paul Schenkeveld about the upcoming EuroBSDCon being held in Warsaw, Poland.

More information at http://www.eurobsdcon.org

File info: 14Min, 7MB.

Ogg Link: http://cisx1.uma.maine.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk213.ogg

Scratch of the day – exclude logging to /var/log/messages

PsyberMonkey — Fri, 11 May 2012 06:06:00 +0000

After telling dhcpd to log messages to local7 of syslogd, "uid lease" messages are still being log in /var/log/messages. This is because by default, syslogd logs "notice" level and above to /var/log/messages.

If you don't wanna see these messages in /var/log/messages, which it has already log to /var/log/dhcpd.log, include the log level "none" that tells syslogd logs to /var/log/messages. This

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Virtio drivers, an explanation

justin sherrill — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:05:31 +0000

Venkatesh Srinivas posted an explanation of the virtio update he’s working on. I linked to the work before, but not his explanation, which goes into the ‘vm_balloon’ device.

Update, Asus G2K users

justin sherrill — Fri, 11 May 2012 02:01:58 +0000

Sascha Wildner’s posted an update to the acpi_asus(4) module, so it’s worth updating if you have an appropriate Asus machine and are running DragonFly-current.

Rthreads Hackathon Part the Third

openbsd journal — Wed, 09 May 2012 04:13:44 +0000

Still more reports coming in from r2k12: asynchronous DNS resolving, code slavery, and 3rd-party bugs; read on! Read more...

Pkgsrc doing better on DragonFly

justin sherrill — Wed, 09 May 2012 03:26:25 +0000

Thanks to the efforts of John Marino and others, pkgsrc is having possibly the highest success rate ever of successful package software builds. If only I could get a pkgsrc-2012Q1 build to complete and upload…

Something new under the sun

justin sherrill — Wed, 09 May 2012 03:09:28 +0000

You’d think everything that could be done with grep has already been done, but no: grep, which is an externally-produced program, has been updated in DragonFly to version 2.12 by John Marino.

9-STABLE-20120505 Snapshot Available for Testing

dru — Tue, 08 May 2012 11:37:43 +0000

Kris has announced the availability of the next testing snapshot. If you are using Intel video or would like to upgrade from a previous snapshot, read the Errata section below.

The next snapshot in the PC-BSD 9-STABLE branch has just been released
for i386 and amd64 architectures. This snapshot provides both users and developers a means to test out

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FreeBSD: Install zsh Shell

Vivek Gite — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:11:13 +0000

How do I install the Z shell ( zsh ) shell under FreeBSD 9 operating systems?

Recent syncs from FreeBSD and back again

justin sherrill — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:50:31 +0000

A few recent updates imported to DragonFly from FreeBSD: Francois Tigeot updated amdsbwd(4), an AMD south bridge watchdog. Sascha Wildner updated arcmsr(4), the Areca RAID controller driver, and Peter Avalos updated pw(8).

In the other direction, FreeBSD now has GNU hash support for rtld, based on John Marino’s work in DragonFly.

FrOSCon 2012 Call for Papers

openbsd journal — Mon, 07 May 2012 16:53:05 +0000

Jochim Selzer writes in to remind us about FrOSCon which, while not specifically BSD-related, may be of interest to our readers:

Call for Papers FrOSCon 2012
The Free and Open Source software conference (FrOSCon), a summer conference for users and developers of FOSS, will again be held on the 25th and 26th of August at the University of Applied Sciences
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Linux / Unix: Bash Shell See All Exported Variables and Functions

Vivek Gite — Mon, 07 May 2012 00:54:16 +0000

How do I see a list of all exported variables and functions under Unix bash shell?

Lazy Reading for 2012/05/06

justin sherrill — Sun, 06 May 2012 14:41:40 +0000

Drowning in links this week. Is that so bad? No.

I pity people that had to make illustrations about abstract concepts like the Internet, especially in the 1990s.
Slashdot jumps the shark. I’m not really knocking what they are adding – I could use it for work – but Slashdot has gone corporate, in the bland sense of
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HowTo: Open a Tar.gz File In Linux / Unix

Vivek Gite — Sat, 05 May 2012 22:17:18 +0000

I've received a file called date.tar.gz. How do I open a tar.gz file under Linux or Unix like operating systems?

Linux / Unix: Find Inode Of a File Command

Vivek Gite — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:38:08 +0000

How do I find out an inode (index-node) of a file under Unix like operating systems?

BSD Magazine for May is out

justin sherrill — Sat, 05 May 2012 18:58:46 +0000

BSD Magazine for May is out, with the theme of BSD security, though of course there’s a lot more than that topic in the free PDF.

Virtual IO drivers status

justin sherrill — Fri, 04 May 2012 19:33:17 +0000

Venkatesh Srinivas has been working on integration of Tim Bisson’s virtio-bhyve drivers into DragonFly. This would make throughput better in KVM/Qemu. His bug ticket has some questions that could use answers.

Ebooks sale, just today

justin sherrill — Fri, 04 May 2012 15:40:25 +0000

There’s a Day Against DRM sale going on for O’Reilly. 50% off everything, and all the books are DRM-free. I found out about this through Michael Lucas, whose No Starch books are represented there too. It’s a fantastic deal and it’s today only, so strike now while you have the chance.

(I should make a ‘buy buy buy!’ tag

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2 PC-BSD Articles in May Issue of BSDMag

dru — Fri, 04 May 2012 12:48:04 +0000

The May issue of BSDMag (available for free download here) has two articles about PC-BSD.

Kris Moore has an article “A Fresh Look for the Warden for PC-BSD 9.1″ on pp. 6–9. Warden is a GUI tool for managing FreeBSD jails and has been rewritten for 9.1. New features include the ability to add multiple jails, the ability to

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Debugging RANCID

justin sherrill — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:16:49 +0000

Michael Lucas has a writeup on how he debugged his RANCID setup. I link to it for the technical details, and also because if you have to manage more than a few switches or other network devices, RANCID is very useful.

ichwd(4) added, watchdog watches

justin sherrill — Fri, 04 May 2012 01:10:22 +0000

Francois Tigeot has added ichwd(4), a driver for the watchdog function on some Intel ICH motherboard chipsets. Sascha Wildner has also made the kernel option for it on by default. (Look for /dev/wdog.)

Update: Francois Tigeot sent a link to an excellent page explaining hardware watchdogs.

PC-BSD at BSDCan

dru — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:46:46 +0000

BSDCan will be held at Ottawa University in Ottawa, Canada from May 9–12.

Kris Moore will present a half-day tutorial on Maintaining your own PBI Package Repository on the morning of May 9. The cost of the tutorial is $60 and pre-registration is required.

There will be a PC-BSD booth on May 11–12 in Morisett Hall (see the BSDCan website

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Foundation at BSDCan

dru lavigne — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:31:00 +0000

BSDCan will be held next week in Ottawa, Canada. The Foundation is a gold sponsor of this event.

8 of the 9 Directors of the Foundation will be attending this event. There will be a Foundation booth during the conference with lots of swag and a shiny new brochure. Be sure to drop by, discuss the Foundation's work, and make

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Update on PC-BSD Localization

dru — Thu, 03 May 2012 12:51:29 +0000

Kris sent the following update to the translations mailing list regarding menu localizations:

I wanted to give you a quick status update on some of the changes for Translations in the 9-STABLE snapshots, and eventually PC-BSD 9.1.

First, all languages which are available in Pootle will now be selectable for installation. Should a string not be fully translated, the default

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Upgrading to pkgsrc-2012Q1

justin sherrill — Thu, 03 May 2012 03:16:05 +0000

Here’s a post by yours truly, on how to move to pkgsrc-2012Q1 though building from source. This is for anyone sick of waiting for me to finish the binary build of pkgsrc.

Why Colocation America Uses FreeBSD

dru lavigne — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:17:00 +0000

Albert Ahdoot, Director of Business Development, recently sent this testimonial regarding the use of FreeBSD by Colocation America and its customers:

Colocation America provides colocation, dedicated server, VoIP, and managed data center hosting services for businesses that are looking to host their servers in the United States. With 22 data center locations, Colocation America has become one of the leading

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Followup on clustering

justin sherrill — Wed, 02 May 2012 04:15:42 +0000

Matthew Dillon posted a followup on that fix for clustering I noted yesterday. It describes the exact problems better than I could, though the result is the same: you should update if you’re running bleeding-edge DragonFly.

9.0 Users Handbook Translated to Indonesian

dru — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:16:54 +0000

The 9.0 PC-BSD Users Handbook has been translated to Indonesian and is available for download in the following formats:

EPUB
PDF

Thanks goes to Tri Mulya S for the translation.

Tigersharke is working on the HTML version which should show up here some time in the next few days.

There will not be a Kindle version as this language is

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9.0 Users Handbook Translated to Indonesian

dru — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:16:54 +0000

The 9.0 PC-BSD Users Handbook has been translated to Indonesian and is available for download in the following formats:

EPUB
PDF

Thanks goes to Tri Mulya S for the translation.

Tigersharke is working on the HTML version which should show up here some time in the next few days.

There will not be a Kindle version as this language is

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May 1st 2012: OpenBSD 5.1 Released

openbsd journal — Tue, 01 May 2012 07:40:34 +0000

May 1st 2012, Calgary, Alberta, Canada and elsewhere: OpenBSD project leader Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) today announced the release of and general availability of OpenBSD 5.1, the latest version of the project's namesake operating system, via FTP, HTTP and other network distribution.
In the run-up to the general release, reports of pre-ordered CD sets, T-shirts and
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Update for a clusterfix

justin sherrill — Tue, 01 May 2012 02:25:09 +0000

A fix for cluster_write() issues reported by multiple people is now available, so if you’re running a version of DragonFly newer than 3.0.2, you’ll want to update.

Rthreads Hackathon Part the Second

openbsd journal — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:34:41 +0000

Following up on our earlier report from r2k12, we have a pair of fresh reports from our illustrious hackers. Read more...