BSDNow Episode 053: It's HAMMER Time

Contributed by jj on Fri Sep 5 08:31:57 2014 (GMT) from the when will bsdnow serve episodes using http(8) dept. On the 1 year anniversary episode of BSDNow, Kris and Allan interview OpenBSD's Reyk Flter (reyk@) about the new httpd(8), in addition to the week's odds and ends in the world of BSD. [ Video | HD Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent ]

Persist tmux environment across system restarts

Contributed by jj on Thu Sep 4 08:00:26 2014 (GMT) from the frankensteins terminal dept. Nagy Gbor writes in with a tip: Tmux is great, except when you have to restart the computer. You lose all the running programs, working directories, pane layouts etc. There are helpful management tools out there, but they require initial configuration and continuous updates as your workflow evolves or you start new projects. Read more...

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BSDNow Episode 052: Reverse Takeover

Contributed by tbert on Fri Aug 29 10:31:00 2014 (GMT) from the pecan PIE dept. This week on BSDNow, in addition to the week's BSD-flavored odds and ends, Kris and Allan headline with an interview with Shawn Webb about ASLR and PIE on FreeBSD. [ Video | HD Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent ]

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Heads Up: Nginx Removed From Base

Contributed by jj on Wed Aug 27 06:41:46 2014 (GMT) from the dawn of the living tedu dept. With this commit, Robert Nagy (robert@) removed nginx(8) from base: Log message: remove nginx from the base system in favor of OpenBSD's own httpd(8) Read more...

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Heads Up: BIND Disabled in Base

Contributed by tbert on Sat Aug 23 06:39:48 2014 (GMT) from the night of the living tedu dept. After many years of being the default DNS server, BIND has been disabled in OpenBSD base: Read more...

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BSDNow Episode 051: Engineering Nginx

Contributed by tbert on Fri Aug 22 13:48:24 2014 (GMT) from the missed the ngineering pun dept. This week the hosts set up SSL on nginx and an interview about the FreeBSD community and utilisation in the commercial server space, along with the week's BSD-world odds and ends. [ Video | HD Video | MP3 Audio | OGG Audio | Torrent ]

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syslogd(8) Now IPv6-Capable

Contributed by tbert on Fri Aug 22 09:14:22 2014 (GMT) from the they're altogether ooky, the address family dept. With the penultimate in a series of commits, Alexander Bluhm (bluhm@) has added IPv6 support to syslogd(8): CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: bluhm@cvs.openbsd.org 2014/08/21 11:00:34 Modified files: usr.sbin/syslogd: privsep.c syslogd.c Log message: Send and receive UDP syslog packets on the IPv6 socket. OK henning@

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Google offers 5 EuroBSDCon 2014 travel grants for female computer scientists

Contributed by jj on Wed Aug 20 10:09:05 2014 (GMT) from the come fly with me dept. Via the EuroBSDCon 2014 organizers comes the news that Google will be sponsoring 5 female computer scientists to attend the EuroBSDCon 2014 conference. The announcement follows: Google EMEA Women in Tech Conference and Travel grants for female computer scientists As part of Google's ongoing commitment to encourage women to excel in computing and technology, Google is pleased to offer Women in Tech Travel and Conference Grants to attend the EuroBSDcon 2014 conference. 5 grants, are offered which include: Free registration for the conference Up to 1000 EUR towards travel costs (to be paid after the conference) Read more...

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Heads up: rcctl(8) the rc.conf.local management tool landing in base soon

Contributed by pitrh on Tue Aug 19 17:34:45 2014 (GMT) from the was that by by remote control dept. Antoine Jacoutot (ajacoutot@) has just committed committed a tool for managing rc.conf.local(8), in order to make it simpler for automated management systems such as Puppet or Ansible to interface with the operating system configuration: CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: ajacoutot@cvs.openbsd.org 2014/08/19 08:08:20 Added files: usr.sbin/rcctl : Makefile rcctl.8 rcctl.sh Log message: Introduce rcctl(8), a simple utility for maintaining rc.conf.local(8). # rcctl usage: rcctl enable|disable|status|action [service [flags [...]]] Lots of man page improvement from the usual suspects (jmc@ and schwarze@) not hooked up yet but committing now so work can continue in-tree agreed by several

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