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Foundation at Texas LinuxFest

dru lavigne — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:28:00 +0000

There will be a FreeBSD booth (booth #21) in the Expo area at Texas LinuxFest, to be held at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, Texas on Saturday June 1. Registration is required for this event at a cost of $25 or $55.

Stop by the booth to discuss the Foundation's projects, check out the cool swag, or to

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PC-BSD at Texas LinuxFest

dru — Fri, 24 May 2013 12:57:46 +0000

Several members of the PC-BSD team will be at Texas LinuxFest, to be held at the AT&T Conference Center in Austin, Texas from Friday May 31 to Saturday June 1. Registration is required for this event at a cost of $25 or $55.

There will be a BSD booth in the Expo (booth #21) on June 1 where we’ll

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Man page for dports

justin sherrill — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:27:13 +0000

Sascha Wildner’s added a man page for dports. Don’t forget the existing how-to page.

SO_REUSEPORT turned on

justin sherrill — Fri, 24 May 2013 02:25:19 +0000

SO_REUSEPORT has been added and turned on by Sepherosa Ziehau. This is an implementation of a feature found in the Linux kernel. Check the very lengthy commit message for a description of what it does.

BSDCan Trip Report: Eitan Adler

dru lavigne — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:43:00 +0000

The FreeBSD Foundation sponsored 7 attendees of BSDCan 2013. The first trip report is from Eitan Adler, a doc committer, who attended the BSDCan Developers Summit. Eitan writes:

I arrived Tuesday night and met Colin Percival at the airport. After dropping off luggage at the university, I met up with some of the other developers.

The first day, I attended

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DragonFly and GRUB, together

justin sherrill — Thu, 23 May 2013 01:28:56 +0000

Rados?aw Szymczyszyn has manged to get support for DragonFly’s bootloader into GRUB. This is part of his Master’s project to make DragonFly multiboot capable, at least for i386.

(I love having new things show up from new people, out of the blue.)

Summer of Code status

justin sherrill — Thu, 23 May 2013 00:17:49 +0000

We’re in the picking and choosing stage of Summer of Code. I posted a note to kernel@ describing the next dates to watch for.

Postgres still crazy fast on DragonFly

justin sherrill — Tue, 21 May 2013 23:43:06 +0000

Loïc BLOT posted about his benchmark of several operating systems using KVM and Postgres 9.1. Happily, DragonFly is the fastest, with one exception. Linux/ext4 comes out faster – if you run it with barrier=0, which can be dangerous in a non-battery-backed-up volume.

BSD Hardware ideas

justin sherrill — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:32:27 +0000

PC-BSD now has a hardware store, with equipment known to work under PC-BSD. Chances are good that if it works for PC-BSD, it’ll work for other BSDs or could be ported to do so… (via)

Improvements to Jail Management via the Warden

dru — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:36:15 +0000

Kris has an article in the May issue of BSD Magazine, demonstrating some of the new features in the 9.1 version of Warden, the jail management GUI in PC-BSD.

The magazine is available for free download here and Kris’ article starts on page 17.

PC-BSD Hardware Store

dru — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:20:00 +0000

Josh Smith has announced the initial launch of the PC-BSD hardware store. This resource is meant to make it easier to find hardware that has been tested to work on PC-BSD. The store itself is here. If you have hardware that you know works and which you don’t see listed, please add it to the Hardware section of the

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DPorts updates

justin sherrill — Tue, 21 May 2013 01:42:54 +0000

New builds of dports have been uploaded and updated, for x86_64 and i386. (x86_64 was already done; I linked the note about i386) This means you can change PACKAGESITE in /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf to point at LATEST instead of RELEASE and get newer packages. ’pkg upgrade’ is all it takes, with dports.

BSD Magazine in May: PF and more

justin sherrill — Mon, 20 May 2013 20:03:00 +0000

The May issue of BSD Magazine is out with a number of pf articles, plus others.

Lazy Reading for 2012/05/19

justin sherrill — Sun, 19 May 2013 14:16:50 +0000

Super-compact links week!

New Vim 7.4, soon. It’s mostly because the patchlevel is going to exceed 999.
10 Golden Rules for Making the Perfect Cup of Tea. (via I forget)
Stop Avoiding Regular Expressions Damn It. Iffy example, but correct sentiment. (via)
Ode to a shipping label. (via)
The Luck of the
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vBSDCon website up

justin sherrill — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:56:20 +0000

vBSDCon, the newest BSD conference, happening in October and in Virginia, has a new website. (via)

NetBSD 6.1 (and 6.0.2!) Released

Jeff Rizzo — Sat, 18 May 2013 20:26:34 +0000

The NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.1, the first feature update of the NetBSD 6 release branch. It represents a selected subset of fixes deemed important for security or stability reasons, as well as new features and enhancements.

Simultaneously, the NetBSD Project is pleased to announce NetBSD 6.0.2, the second security/bugfix update of the NetBSD 6.0 release branch.

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BSDCan 2013: more BSDTalk, more streaming

justin sherrill — Sat, 18 May 2013 17:12:56 +0000

There’s another BSDTalk episode up already, because Will Backman’s at BSDCan 2013 and talking to Scott Long, Alistair Crooks, and David Discher, about NetFlix. Apparently there’s streaming video available now from the convention, and some people’s presentation slides have shown up.

bsdtalk226 – FreeBSD and Netflix

Will Backman — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:16:23 +0000

Interview during BSDCan 2013 with Scott Long, Alistair Crooks, and David Discher from Netflix.

File Info: 11Min, 5MB.

Ogg link: http://cis01.uma.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk226.ogg

DNSSEC Mastery in print, and Absolute FreeBSD 3 status

justin sherrill — Sat, 18 May 2013 03:38:26 +0000

Michael W. Lucas has two bits of mostly-BSD-centric publishing news. One is that a physical version of his DNSSEC Mastery book is now available through Amazon.

The other bit is that, having just released an Absolute OpenBSD update, his Absolute FreeBSD book will not see an update… until the FreeBSD installer gets more coherent.

(If you manage DNS

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NetBSD 6.0.2 Released

netbsd.org news — Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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NetBSD 6.1 Released

netbsd.org news — Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:00 +0000

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BSDTalk 225: Kris Moore and PC-BSD

justin sherrill — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:47:20 +0000

BSDTalk 225 has 12 minutes of conversation with Kris Moore about PC-BSD, recorded at BSDCan 2013, which is going on right now.

bsdtalk225 – PC-BSD with Kris Moore

Will Backman — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:07:07 +0000

Interview during BSDCan 2013 with Kris Moore from iXsystems. We talk about some of the new features of PC-BSD.

File Info: 12Min, 6MB.

Ogg Link
http://cis01.uma.edu/~wbackman/bsdtalk/bsdtalk225.ogg

Book review – DNSSEC Mastery

PsyberMonkey — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:13:00 +0000

For the past few days, I've spent most of my reading time with a new book titled DNSSEC Mastery. The author of the book is Michael W. Lucas, again (from my not too long ago book review blog post, Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition). He's now one of my favorite tech book author, upgraded from "favorite blog author".

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tpm(4) module added

justin sherrill — Thu, 16 May 2013 02:30:45 +0000

The tpm(4) driver has been added by Sascha Wildner, ported from FreeBSD. What’s it do?

From the man page: “The tpm driver provides support for various trusted platform modules (TPM) that can store cryptographic keys.” Crypto keys stored in hardware, where they are in theory unmangleable, instead of on the disk. At least, that’s my impression after 30

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Interview with William Allaire

openbsd journal — Wed, 15 May 2013 05:38:54 +0000

Undeadly spoke with Bill Allaire, winner of the Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition auction started by author Michael W. Lucas and reported on by us last month. Bill ended up with the winning bid of $1,145.00 US. Read more...

More IP forwarding performance

justin sherrill — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:51:45 +0000

Sepherosa Ziehau has posted some numbers showing improvements in ip forwarding rates. He’s done this before, except this time it’s with bnx(4), probably because of his recent commits.

More updates

justin sherrill — Wed, 15 May 2013 00:44:50 +0000

This time it’s less and libedit, updated by John Marino.

Binary Packages Are Available Again

freebsd news flash — Tue, 14 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000

Six months have passed since the November security incident which brought the Project's binary package building capacity offline; we are pleased to announce that all services are now restored.

Book review: DNSSEC Mastery

justin sherrill — Sun, 12 May 2013 14:06:08 +0000

Michael W. Lucas recently wrote and self-published a new book, DNSSEC Mastery. He asked me to review it, and I’ve been reading it in bits and starts over the past few very busy weeks.

First, the background: If you’re not familiar with the acronym, it’s a method of securing DNS information so that you can trust that domain name

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No Lazy Reading

justin sherrill — Sun, 12 May 2013 13:46:36 +0000

I’m inexplicably short on links this week; I blame my schedule/the nice weather for much for much of the U.S./the class I’m teaching ending/my trip to TCAF for this. More Lazy Reading next week! Meanwhile, I have a book review coming up as an alternative.

January-March 2013 Status Report

freebsd news flash — Sun, 12 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000

The January to March 2013 Status Report is now available with 31 entries.

Many upgrades, and Hammer

justin sherrill — Sat, 11 May 2013 01:28:13 +0000

John Marino managed to update GCC from 4.7.2 to 4.7.3 (4.7 changelog), zlib from 1.2.7 to 1.2.8 (changelog), and awk from 20110810 to 20121220 (can’t find a changelog).

In other update news, Matt Dillon has been working on HAMMER2′s flush sequencing.

Update: tcsh too.

scp: Do not Overwrite Existing File On Linux or Unix System

nixCraft — Fri, 10 May 2013 20:03:49 +0000

I am a new Linux user. I use scp to upload files to net-storage provided CDN company. I do not want to overwrite the existing files. How can I prevent overwriting of files when using scp command under Linux, Mac OS X or Unix like operating systems?

Read answer to: "scp: Do not Overwrite Existing File On Linux or

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Reduce gray-listing pain by seeding white-list with SPF records.

openbsd journal — Fri, 10 May 2013 05:03:12 +0000

Longtime Undeadly contributor sean writes in with tips and tools for improving your spamd(8) experience:

I have been using gray-listing to thwart spamming for what feels like a very long time. I started using it around the release of OpenBSD 3.5. It was an amazing change from a constant storm of spam and just enabling it got rid of 80%

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The Bacula Tutorial jail server

Dan Langille — Fri, 10 May 2013 01:45:52 +0000

One of the challenges of providing hands-on demonstrations is giving everyone their own sandbox to play in. I don’t want people to spend time on installing software. I want people to learn about the software in question, specifically Bacula. With this in mind, I’ve been building up a solution based on FreeBSD 9.1, ZFS, and [...]

FreeBSD Foundation Announces Ed Maste is New Director of Project Development

Deb — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:15:00 +0000

The FreeBSD Foundation is pleased to announce Ed Maste's new role as the Foundation's part-time Director of Project Development. Ed has served on the Foundation's board for two years, and has stepped down in order to accept this new position.

In this position, Ed will manage the Foundation's sponsored work, including projects funded under specific grants, operational support and project

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FreeBSD Foundation Announces Ed Maste as New Director of Project Development

freebsd news flash — Thu, 09 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000

Usage for dports and pkgsrc

justin sherrill — Thu, 09 May 2013 02:21:54 +0000

In the week after DragonFly 3.4 was released, Francois Tigeot was tracking downloads for each type of packaging system. It looks like dports downloads far outnumber pkgsrc. I think there’s reasons it appears different in uptake, but it’s still neat to see people trying the new system.

Absolute OpenBSD: super-short sale

justin sherrill — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:55:15 +0000

As seen on Author Michael W. Lucas’s blog: Absolute OpenBSD 2nd edition is 50% off in a sort of ‘flash deal’. Grab it today if you are interested, cause I think it’s only for today.

FreeBSD 8.4-RC3 Available

freebsd news flash — Wed, 08 May 2013 08:00:00 +0000

The third RC build for the FreeBSD-8.4 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, i386 and pc98 architectures are available on most of our FreeBSD mirror sites.

How about Ansible?

justin sherrill — Wed, 08 May 2013 03:18:31 +0000

Ansible seems to be a configuration management system that’s lighter than puppet or salt. I had a student talking about it in my class tonight. BSD users Hubert Feyrer and Michael W. Lucas have both posted about it recently. Anyone want to repeat their experiences?

Transmission server directions

justin sherrill — Wed, 08 May 2013 03:11:12 +0000

If you were perhaps thinking of setting up transmission-daemon, a BitTorrent server, this post on pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org will help you out.

You’ve Installed It. Now What? -stable packages!

openbsd journal — Tue, 07 May 2013 21:57:09 +0000

Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse writes in about his (and M:tier's) -stable packaging work:

Introduction

A short while ago an article was published on here on Undeadly, which explained how to use the ports and packages framework. While it was a good read, it focused on -current.

This article will show how to keep your -stable system up to date, without

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sili(4) testers needed

justin sherrill — Tue, 07 May 2013 02:46:25 +0000

If you have a sili(4) device, Francois Tigeot needs you to run a particular patch and tell him what happens. He’s testing a larger I/O request size, and wants to see how it will work out “in the field”.

Lazy Reading for 2013/05/05

justin sherrill — Sun, 05 May 2013 14:25:50 +0000

Lots of links, not a lot of commentary, this week. Enjoy!

What is your most productive shortcut with Vim? The first very extensive answer is actually all vi, not vim. (via)
Found via previous link: vi / vim graphical cheat sheet.
The site where that image site sells a vi emulator for Visual Studio/Word/Outlook. I can
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DragonFly and Bittorrent

justin sherrill — Sat, 04 May 2013 17:03:42 +0000

I’ve put the 3.4 release images up on terasaur, a Bittorrent seeding site. Please try pulling them and let me know how it goes. I haven’t torrented many things, so I am unsure how to even verbify “torrent’. Hopefully that sentence and those links work out.

Matching configs with ipsets, except when you don’t need to

justin sherrill — Fri, 03 May 2013 19:18:25 +0000

I am somewhat entertained by Michael W. Lucas’s most recent blog post about IP Sets. This is mostly because, as he points out, he could use one pf config file across multiple machines and BSDs for network management, but has to fiddle with ipsets to get different Linux machines to match.

Kimsufi servers, DragonFly, and French

justin sherrill — Fri, 03 May 2013 13:43:03 +0000

If you’re looking to install DragonFly on a Kimsufi server, and you can read French, this explanation may help you. (via Enjolras on EFNet #dragonflybsd)

HAMMER file system resizing

justin sherrill — Fri, 03 May 2013 02:52:24 +0000

If you’ve ever wondered about how you can resize/move a HAMMER filesystem, follow this thread for a variety of answers.