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June 09, 2023

UnitedBSD Wifi 5GHz on NetBSD

Anyone aware of any possible USB dongle supporting 5GHz wireless connection and supported by NetBSD? Or maybe a mini-PCIe for a Mini PC bought on AliExpress, the native one is WiFi5 and not supported by NetBSD. I'm using a USB 2.4GHz-only Realtek one šŸ˜›


June 08, 2023

Pullup 8 [pullup-8 #1824] Fwd: CVS commit: src/sys/net
Pullup 9 [pullup-9 #1642] Fwd: CVS commit: src/sys/net
Pullup 10 [pullup-10 #195] Fwd: CVS commit: src/sys/net

June 06, 2023

/r/NetBSD Would this laptop be supported by NetBSD?

Would this laptop be supported by NetBSD? And how good of performance would I get on it?

submitted by /u/Adventurous_Bus_1333
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June 05, 2023

/r/NetBSD Keyboard map change not working

Hello NBSD fans!

​

I'm new here, but here my first problem. I cannot change to Hungarian keys in NetBSD 9.3. Terminal only, no X.

I tried:

wsconsctl -k -w encoding=hu encoding -> hu 

Still have no keys like: őúűÔí etc.

I found some forum tread, that it was a bug in 5.0 but fixed in 5.1

Also it cannot show letters like these in terminal apps, just "?" marks.

submitted by /u/300hu
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June 03, 2023

Pullup 10 [pullup-10 #194] Fwd: CVS commit: src/usr.sbin/wgconfig
Pullup pkgsrc [pullup-pkgsrc #6761] Fwd: CVS commit: pkgsrc/print/cups-base

June 02, 2023

NetBSD General on DaemonForums ifconfig interface creation not working
I am trying to create a virtual interface.

But I get this error:
Code:

localhost$ sudo ifconfig vio0 create
ifconfig: clone_command: Invalid argument
ifconfig: exec_matches: Invalid argument

I am running NetBSD 9.3 with GENERIC kernel.

Is there something I am doing wrong or do I need to do something else before I can create a virtual interface?

Thanks.

June 01, 2023

Ruben Schade That’s a huge number of folders

I use a Mac for the technical sales side of my work, for the uninteresting reason that I need Microsoft Office. The internal SSD was starting to get full, so I ran GrandPerspective to surface where the space all went.

Screenshot showing the detection of 229,759 folders

Wait… that’s almost a quarter of a million folders! On a MacBook Air with a stingy SSD? That’s more virtual folders than I’d suspect all but the largest physical archives in the world would have.

It’s at this stage I would lean back in my chair, fall over, pick myself up, then regale you all with tales of my childhood DOS days. I’d mention that I tried maintaining a clean directory structure, but would also limit the number of nested directories to a few dozen, given it’d be tedious to traverse anything complicated on a command line. I’d contrast this to my modern FreeBSD desktop and laptops having orders of magnitude fewer folders than this Mac despite having full KDE Plasma desktops, or my classic NetBSD systems sporting Fluxbox. Then finally, I’d attempt to make a point about the state of modern computing, and the never-ending spiral of complexity, and whether even the metaphor of a folder is even meaningful anymore.

There are a bunch of reasons why, but it only reinforces my feeling of merely being a guest on macOS. In 2023, I could still tell you where almost everything is on a FreeBSD or NetBSD system (and even Linux, despite their best efforts of late). On a Mac? I wouldn’t have the foggiest idea of anything outside my home directory, /usr/local, and /opt.

By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023-06-02.

Pullup 9 [pullup-9 #1641] Fwd: PR/46758 CVS commit: src/external/apache2/mDNSResponder/dist
Pullup 10 [pullup-10 #193] Fwd: PR/46758 CVS commit: src/external/apache2/mDNSResponder/dist
/r/NetBSD Is there any support for 4G modems?

I have a laptop and several 4G modems that work in linux I'd like to try out. Any pointers on where to begin and how to connect it? Is it even possible on NetBSD, I found very little online so far?

submitted by /u/Yugen42
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UnitedBSD problem build some packages from pkgsrc (bulk build)

Hi all,
I can't build some packages, mostly p5- packages. I use bulk build without chroot.
System is:
NetBSD localhost 9.3_STABLE NetBSD 9.3_STABLE (GENERIC) #0: Mon May 15 10:26:43 UTC 2023 [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
pkgsrc is pkgsrc-2023Q1.tar.xz

error from /mnt/bulklog/p5-Module-Build-0.42310nb3/configure.log:
`=> Bootstrap dependency digest>=20211023: found digest-20220214
=> Checksum BLAKE2s OK for Module-Build-0.4231.tar.gz
=> Checksum SHA512 OK for Module-Build-0.4231.tar.gz

===> Installing dependencies for p5-Module-Build-0.42310nb3

The supported build options for p5-Module-Build are:

p5-module-build-dist-authoring p5-module-build-license-creation

You can select which build options to use by setting PKG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS
or the following variable. Its current value is shown:

PKG_OPTIONS.p5-Module-Build (not defined)

==========================================================================
=> Tool dependency mktools-[0-9]: found mktools-20220614
=> Tool dependency perl>=5.36.0: found perl-5.36.0
=> Tool dependency cwrappers>=20150314: found cwrappers-20220403
=> Tool dependency checkperms>=1.1: found checkperms-1.12
=> Full dependency p5-inc-latest-[0-9]
: NOT found
=> Verifying /nonexistent for ../../devel/p5-inc-latest
make[1]: don't know how to make /nonexistent. Stop

make[1]: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/devel/p5-inc-latest
*** Error code 2

Stop.
make: stopped in /usr/pkgsrc/devel/p5-Module-Build
`

mk.conf:
`# Example /usr/pbulk/etc/mk.conf file produced by bootstrap-pkgsrc

Mon Apr 3 13:37:39 CEST 2023

.ifdef BSD_PKG_MK # begin pkgsrc settings

ABI= 64

PKG_DBDIR= /usr/pbulk/pkgdb
LOCALBASE= /usr/pbulk
SYSCONFBASE= /usr/pbulk/etc
VARBASE= /usr/pbulk/var
PKG_TOOLS_BIN= /usr/pbulk/sbin
PKGINFODIR= info
PKGMANDIR= man

CPUFLAGS+= -O2 -march=native

ALLOW_VULNERABLE_PACKAGES= yes
SKIP_LICENSE_CHECK= yes
PKG_DEVELOPER= yes

.endif # end pkgsrc settings
`

I use this manual [https://www.netbsd.org/docs/pkgsrc/bulk.html](https://)

  1. sh pbulk.sh -n

  2. /usr/pbulk/bin/bulkbuild

report:

`pkgsrc bulk build report

NetBSD 9.3_STABLE/x86_64
Compiler: gcc

Build start: 2023-05-31 10:27
Build end: 2023-05-31 12:00

Full report: http://www.pkgsrc-box.org/reports/current/DragonFly-1.8/20230531.1027/meta/report.html
Machine readable version: http://www.pkgsrc-box.org/reports/current/DragonFly-1.8/20230531.1027/meta/report.bz2

Total number of packages: 663
Successfully built: 237
Failed to build: 94
Depending on failed package: 332
Explicitly broken or masked: 0
Depending on masked package: 0

Packages breaking the most other packages

Package Breaks Maintainer

devel/p5-Module-Build 126 [email protected]
devel/p5-Try-Tiny 107 [email protected]
textproc/libxml2 79 [email protected]
devel/p5-Data-OptList 78 [email protected]
converters/help2man 75 [email protected]
lang/python310 75 [email protected]
devel/libidn2 57 [email protected]
www/p5-HTML-Parser 56 [email protected]
security/libgcrypt 46 [email protected]
devel/p5-Test2-Suite 44 [email protected]

Build failures

Package Breaks Maintainer

converters/help2man 75 [email protected]
databases/p5-Apache-DBI [email protected]
databases/p5-DBD-SQLite 4 [email protected]
databases/p5-DBIx-DBSchema 2 [email protected]
databases/p5-Ima-DBI 1 [email protected]
devel/apr-util 8 [email protected]
devel/boehm-gc 1 [email protected]
devel/libidn 43 [email protected]
devel/libidn2 57 [email protected]
devel/p5-Algorithm-Dependency 8 [email protected]
devel/p5-Async-Interrupt 3 [email protected]
devel/p5-Bit-Vector 4 [email protected]
devel/p5-Cache-Cache 2 [email protected]
devel/p5-Cache-Memcached 1 [email protected]
devel/p5-Class-Accessor-Chained 6 [email protected]
devel/p5-Class-InsideOut 2 [email protected]
devel/p5-Class-ReturnValue 4 [email protected]
devel/p5-Class-Trigger 2 [email protected]
devel/p5-Clone-Choose 2 [email protected]
devel/p5-Data-OptList 78 [email protected]
devel/p5-Data-Section-Simple 8 [email protected]
devel/p5-Devel-Caller 34 [email protected]
devel/p5-Devel-FindPerl 1 [email protected]
devel/p5-Devel-StackTrace-AsHTML 5 [email protected]
devel/p5-EV 3 [email protected]
devel/p5-Exception-Class 33 [email protected]
devel/p5-Exporter-Lite 2 [email protected]
devel/p5-ExtUtils-AutoInstall 9 [email protected]
devel/p5-ExtUtils-InstallPaths 38 [email protected]
devel/p5-File-Find-Rule 11 [email protected]
devel/p5-File-HomeDir 12 [email protected]
devel/p5-File-Listing 20 [email protected]
devel/p5-File-ShareDir 35 [email protected]
devel/p5-IPC-Run 8 [email protected]
devel/p5-List-MoreUtils 6 [email protected]
devel/p5-Module-Build 126 [email protected]
devel/p5-Module-ScanDeps 4 [email protected]
devel/p5-Params-Coerce 7 [email protected]
devel/p5-Ref-Util 32 [email protected]
devel/p5-Test-CheckDeps 7 [email protected]
devel/p5-Test-ClassAPI 9 [email protected]
devel/p5-Test-Exception 27 [email protected]
devel/p5-Test-Memory-Cycle 8 [email protected]
devel/p5-Test-MockObject 1 [email protected]
devel/p5-Test-Output 7 [email protected]
devel/p5-Test-SharedFork 6 [email protected]
devel/p5-Test-Warn 11 [email protected]
devel/p5-Test-Warnings 39 [email protected]
devel/p5-Test2-Suite 44 [email protected]
devel/p5-Try-Tiny 107 [email protected]
devel/p5-Type-Tiny 21 [email protected]
devel/p5-Types-Serialiser 11 [email protected]
devel/p5-UNIVERSAL-moniker 1 [email protected]
devel/p5-capitalization 1 [email protected]
editors/vim [email protected]
graphics/tiff 33 [email protected]
lang/gcc7 5 [email protected]
lang/python27 3 [email protected]
lang/python310 75 [email protected]
lang/python38 [email protected]
lang/python39 [email protected]
lang/tcl 3 [email protected]
mail/p5-Email-Address-List [email protected]
mail/p5-MailTools 3 [email protected]
math/p5-Math-Int128 15 [email protected]
net/p5-IO-Socket-INET6 32 [email protected]
net/p5-NetAddr-IP 3 [email protected]
net/p5-Regexp-Common-net-CIDR [email protected]
pkgtools/pkgin [email protected]
pkgtools/x11-links 40 [email protected]
print/kpathsea 34 [email protected]
security/gnupg [email protected]
security/libassuan2 5 [email protected]
security/libgcrypt 46 [email protected]
security/p11-kit 28 [email protected]
security/p5-Crypt-OpenSSL-Random 4 [email protected]
security/p5-Crypt-Rijndael 7 [email protected]
security/p5-Crypt-X509 [email protected]
sysutils/p5-File-Copy-Recursive 10 [email protected]
sysutils/p5-Unix-Process 5 [email protected]
textproc/docbook-xml 41 [email protected]
textproc/intltool 29 [email protected]
textproc/iso8879 4 [email protected]
textproc/libxml2 79 [email protected]
textproc/p5-Pod-Coverage 7 [email protected]
textproc/p5-Text-Diff 8 [email protected]
textproc/p5-XML-SAX 13 [email protected]
time/p5-Business-Hours [email protected]
time/p5-Test-MockTime 7 [email protected]
time/p5-Test-Time 6 [email protected]
www/p5-CSS-Squish [email protected]
www/p5-HTML-Parser 56 [email protected]
www/p5-HTTP-MultiPartParser 6 [email protected]
www/p5-WWW-RobotRules 20 [email protected]
`

Thanks

Marcel


May 31, 2023

Pullup 9 [pullup-9 #1640] date -R and date -f
/r/NetBSD NetBSD 9.3/Generic64/evbarm running on a Raspberry Pi 3B+
submitted by /u/paprok
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Pullup 10 [pullup-10 #192] date -R
Pullup 10 [pullup-10 #191] IPMI invalid limits
Pullup 9 [pullup-9 #1639] IPMI invalid limits
Frederic Cambus Spleen 2.0.0 released with full CP437 support

Spleen 2.0.0 has been released, with full support for CP437 (IBM PC) encoding in the 8x16, 16x32, and 32x64 versions.

It required a large effort and represents 135 commits since Spleen 1.9.3 which resulted in almost 90 new characters in the previously mentioned sizes.

A lot has happened since the 1.0.0 release back in September 2018:

Spleen's README now has a trivia section listing all the operating systems and programs where the fonts have been embedded or bundled in.

But let's go back to the newly announced release and focus on the recently introduced changes.

Here is a screenshot of the CP437 version of 16x32:

Spleen 16x32 - IBM CP437

This is an important milestone as it allows nice things like having a DOS version of Spleen. It is implemented as a COM file changing the font to Spleen 8x16, and has been tested both in DOSBox and on FreeDOS.

Here is "L'Ɖtranger" from Baudelaire using Spleen on an ASUS Eee PC running FreeDOS:

Spleen 8x16 - FreeDOS

On top on that, Spleen is now also available in libansilove since version 1.4.0 and in Ansilove since version 4.2.0, making it possible to render ANSI art using a modern font.

And with this out of the way, I can now start working on the next Spleen milestone, which I hope to be able to announce in a not so distant future... Stay tuned!


May 30, 2023

Pullup 8 [pullup-8 #1823] Fwd: CVS commit: src
Pullup 9 [pullup-9 #1638] Fwd: CVS commit: src

May 29, 2023

Stack Overflow NetBSD 'pkg_add' can't process packages: Forbidden

I'm new to using NetBSD but I've set it up on a VM and am currently in the process of running through a few package installations. From what I understand this is done via setting the PKG_PATH variable and then using the pkg_add utility, however I'm getting a "Forbidden" error message when I try to install any package.

$ PKG_PATH="http://cdn.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/$(uname -s)/$(uname -m)/$(uname -r|cut -f '1 2' -d.)/All/"
$ export PKG_PATH
$ pkg_add tmux
pkg_add: Can't process http://cdn.NetBSD.org:80/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/amd64 /7.1/All//tmux*: Forbidden
pkg_add: no pkg found for 'tmux', sorry.
pkg_add: 1 package addition failed

I've visited the URL and the package does exist, also it does this for any package I try to install. From what I can tell the networking on the machine is fine so I'm a bit stuck as to where to go from here. Any suggestions?

/r/NetBSD Why not running on IBM SYSTEM Z

NetBSD is famous for portability. Why it does not support IBM System Z?

submitted by /u/jd400104
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May 24, 2023

NetBSD Installation and Upgrading on DaemonForums email issue with 9.3
Greetings to the party,

after updating my NetBSD machines from 9.2 to 9.3 (or also to 10.0 BETA) I have an email problem:
beside others I have 2 accounts at freenet.de, a German email provider. And only with freenet I cannot longer receive mails: TLS handshake error is the corresponding message.

This happens:
- in each mail agent (tested claws-mail, sylpheed, thunderbird, mutt, alpine)
- only on NetBSD 9.3/!0.0. Worked perfect with 9.2
- not on other OS (OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux)
- only with freenet.de. GMX, gmail and others run properly.

I fear that the issue is caused by openssh, but have no idea how to fix it.

Any hints?

Kind regards
Berni

May 23, 2023

Ruben Schade Moving to ansible_facts['distribution']

I always add conditions to my Ansible playbooks to check the target OS and distribution. Until recently I did this:

- name: Install FreeBSD package (legacy)
  community.general.pkgng:
      name: "cowsay"
      state: present
  when: ansible_distribution == "FreeBSD"

This is also useful for differentiating between different distributions of the same OS, such as Debian or Fedora.

Reddit: Preferable to use ansible_facts or ansible_distribution?

According to akasivel on this Ansible thread, this will soon be formally deprecated in favour of ansible_facts:

- name: Install FreeBSD package
  community.general.pkgng:
      name: "cowsay"
      state: present
  when: ansible_facts['distribution'] == "FreeBSD"

By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023-05-24.

Ruben Schade Ohai, feels weird being back

Thanks to all of you who reached out; I’ll admit I took Jim’s passing, and some others in the extended family, pretty hard. I’ve lost important people in my life many times, but never a close friend like that. I’ve also had the flu which hasn’t helped!

My sister put it best when she said that by continuing to use his moral compass, and writing posts as though they were directed at him, he’s still influencing the world. I really like that.

As I said in my farewell post, I’m still thinking of ways to remember him in a more permanent and fitting way. For now, I’ve added him to the dedications section of the About page.

About rubenerd.com
Goodbye Jim Kloss ā™” 1956–2023

While I didn’t feel up to writing (or more specifically, I didn’t feel like I could), I did a bit more plumbing work to hopefully make the site a bit more robust, and fixed a ton of legacy posts that were missing metadata. I’ve gone 18 years without a CDN, but I’m starting to look at what I can do to host cached versions in different places to speed up image-heavy posts. I’m also reviewing making a Gemini version of the site; hence the switch to links on their own lines over the last few months.

There’s also a ton of cool stuff in the pipeline! I made a bunch of progress on some personal projects (albeit very slowly), there’s some FreeBSD and NetBSD stuff I’ve learned on cloud servers at work and on laptops, plenty of Commodore and DOS retrocomputing updates with hardware and software (and potentially some Atari!?), some anime and coffee reviews, and way more Japanese holiday stuff from our trips in March and November last year. I also owe many of you replies to email feedback.

By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023-05-24.


May 20, 2023

Super User CARP specifications document for implementation [closed]

I plan to implement my own version of OpenBSD's common address redundancy protocol (CARP) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Address_Redundancy_Protocol, an alternative to virtual router redundancy protocol (VRRP). Where to find its specification document for implementation?


May 19, 2023

UnitedBSD How to package for NetBSD

Hello,
I am a relatively new user to NetBSD. I recently tried installing Barrier on NetBSD. It took me a while but I was able to get it through a lot of tinkering. The device is a Thinkpad T420s.

I am interested in learning how to package this if it is not in pkgsrc/pkgin.

Also, I recently got i2pd, the overlay network and I would like to add that too if possible.

https://github.com/debauchee/barrier
https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd


May 17, 2023

UnitedBSD Musescore on NetBSD: MIDI in?

I have been using Musescore from pkgsrc for a while. I also have a Debian machine (because it has an inbuilt video card that doesn't like NetBSD) with which I use an older version of Musescore (Debian package manager). That machine has an attached MIDI keyboard for score composition. (I don't like entering notes and especially chords with the mouse).

Recently I did some rearranging and connected an old NetBSD machine (Pentium 4) to a better-suited piano, for score composition. Now I can get MIDI events by other software, but not Musescore. I had to rebuild Musescore with ALSA support just to get the MIDI Note Input option to turn on. I also tried Jack, which sees the piano, and Musescore, but I still get no MIDI events in Musescore.

Has anyone else gotten this to work? I hate to have to resort to Debian again.


May 16, 2023

Pullup pkgsrc [pullup-pkgsrc #6760] [[email protected]: CVS commit: pkgsrc/www]

May 15, 2023

Pullup pkgsrc [pullup-pkgsrc #6759] Fw: CVS commit: pkgsrc/security/gnutls

May 14, 2023

Pullup pkgsrc [pullup-pkgsrc #6758] pullup-request: pkgsrc/www/drupal7

May 13, 2023

UnitedBSD Mini-PC Morefine M9 Intel N100 on NetBSD

Hi! Sorry for my bad English...

I recently received from China a Morefine M9 Mini-PC with Intel SoC AlderLake-N N100. It works quite successfully under FreeBSD 13.2, but I also decided to test it under NetBSD 10.0_BETA.

NetBSD: https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=d6f92a5ecc
FreeBSD: https://bsd-hardware.info/?probe=926ab149ae

The following problems were identified under NetBSD:

  1. It is too early to talk about graphics support, support will only be in the ported video driver older than 5.18.
  2. Network card Intel Ethernet Controller I225-V not supported yet.
  3. And, most importantly, Kernel panic is observed because of one of the (internal) USB devices, most likely an audio output (internal) USB device.

Currently, the Morefine M9 has FreeBSD installed and works fine, I will do a more detailed investigation of the problems with NetBSD closer to version 10.0-RC.


May 11, 2023

Server Fault NetBSD + openLDAP + SASL

I try to set up a connection to a openLDAP server running on NetBSD 10 via TLS and SASL. When I try ldapsreach -Y EXTERNAL I get ldapsearch: not compiled with SASL support and ldd /usr/bin/ldapsearch shows also no info about sasl-Libs. This site says, that NetBSD has its own SASL-implementation for openLDAP, but I guess this will not fix the "not compiled whith SASL" thing (and until now, I'm unable to find the docs for this implementation). Any ideas, to get me back on track? Where to start?


May 07, 2023

DragonFly BSD Digest Links for 2023/05/07

I’m glomming all BSD and not-BSD into these roundup posts.Ā  I don’t think they need to be separate.


May 02, 2023

Super User Install Linux on Old AirPort Extreme?

I have a very old AirPort Extreme, the A1408. Is it possible to install Linux on it, using the AirPort functionally as a hard disk, and then boot from that? I have also heard that AirPorts run NetBSD. Can you boot into that and run commands?


May 01, 2023

Pullup 8 [pullup-8 #1822] fix newlocale

April 30, 2023

Pullup pkgsrc [pullup-pkgsrc #6757] pullup for PR 57383 (zstd build fix)

April 25, 2023

Frederic Cambus Fun with Kermit and ZMODEM over SSH

In my "Capturing text screens on modern operating systems" article published back in 2013, I mentioned finding a very promising program called Qodem. It has since reached maturity and version 1.0 was released in 2017. I have been enjoying it on a regular basis to reminisce about the glorious days of using Terminate and Minicom in the nineties, and even packaged it in both OpenBSD and NetBSD.

Qodem has built in support for SSH, and also lets you spawn a local shell and SSH from there, which allows authentication using SSH keys.

For the purpose of this article, I used two Fedora machines and installed the ckermit and lrzsz packages to handle the Kermit and ZMODEM protocols respectively. There is a qodem package as well, but it only bundles the X11 binary. I prefer to use the curses version, so I built it from source.

And from there, let the fun begin:

C-Kermit 9.0.302 OPEN SOURCE:, 20 Aug 2011, for Linux (64-bit)
 Copyright (C) 1985, 2011,
  Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Type ? or HELP for help.
(/home/fcambus/) C-Kermit>send NetBSD-9.3-amd64.iso
Return to your local Kermit and give a RECEIVE command.

KERMIT READY TO SEND...
9 S~/ @- SENT: [/home/fcambus/NetBSD-9.3-amd64.iso] To: [netbsd-9_3-amd64.iso] (OK)
(/home/fcambus/) C-Kermit>

Here is our Kermit transfer in action:

Qodem - File transfer using Kermit

For transfering files using ZMODEM, we use sz from the lrzsz package:

sz NetBSD-9.3-amd64.iso

And here is our ZMODEM transfer in action:

Qodem - File transfer using ZMODEM

There is something quite special about seeing ZMODEM transfers reach speeds close to 600 MBit/s. It's hard to explain.

For the record, I used the following script to take screenshots in burst mode and then create an animated GIF:

while true; do
	gnome-screenshot -w;
done

Lastly, if you enjoy watching those glorious progress bars, you might also enjoy my "File transfers via the parallel port on DOS using LapLink" post from last year, which served as the inspiration for this one.


April 19, 2023

Server Fault How to log ssh client connection/command?

I would like to know how i could log SSH command lines a user is using on a server. For exemple, if the user Alex on my server is doing the following set of commands :

$ cd /tmp
$ touch myfile
$ ssh [email protected]
$ ssh [email protected]
$ vim anotherfile
$ ssh [email protected]

I would like to log the ssh commands used on the server in a file which looks like :

[2014-07-25 10:10:10] Alex : ssh [email protected]
[2014-07-25 10:18:20] Alex : ssh st[email protected]
[2014-07-25 11:15:10] Alex : ssh [email protected]

I don't care what he did during his ssh session, i just want to know WHEN and TO WHERE he made a connection to another server.

The user is not using bash and i would like to avoid manipulating .bash_history anyway as the user can modify it.

Any clue on this ?

Thank you :)

edit : to be more specific :

a user connects to a server A and then connects from the server A to server B. I want to track down to which server he connects through ssh from server A.


April 16, 2023

NetBSD General on DaemonForums Commands like "ifconfig" do not work in X when using xdm
I do not know much about NetBSD, because I am a FreeBSD user. However I wanted to check out NetBSD because I was curious and here is something that I find very irritating: When logging in as a normal user through xdm (user and xdm have been created / activated with sysinst), when opening a terminal, commands like "ifconfig", shutdown -p now" or "pkgin istall" do not work, simply do not "exist", while when logging in without xdm being started as normal user in the console and then doing "startx", everything works.
So why is that?

April 15, 2023

Pullup 8 [pullup-8 #1821] luna68k missing locore.S dependency

March 31, 2023

Frederic Cambus Toolchains adventures - Q1 2023

This is the seventh post in my toolchains adventures series. Please check the previous posts in the toolchains category for more context about this journey. There was no Q4 2022 report as there wasn't really anything worthwhile to write about, only some usual Pkgsrc and OpenBSD toolchains related ports updates.

In Pkgsrc land, I updated binutils to the 2.40 version, mold to the 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.10.1, and 1.11.0 versions, patchelf to the 0.17.2 version, and finally pax-utils to the 1.3.6 and the 1.3.7 ones. I also updated the NetBSD system call table in GDB to add the eventfd(2) and timerfd(2) syscalls which were added back in 2021.

Regarding OpenBSD, I updated binutils to the 2.40 version and enabled the build of gas, for which I also pushed support for ARM upstream. While there, I added support upstream for the PT_OPENBSD_MUTABLE segment type to readelf. Lastly, I packaged and imported pax-utils into the ports collection.

In early February, I attended FOSDEM 2023 in Brussels and had the opportunity to attend some talks in the LLVM devroom as well as some toolchains related ones in the RISC-V and Binary Tools devrooms.

Lately, I've been exploring using alternative linkers in Pkgsrc. By default, the host system default linker will be used, which happens to be GNU ld on NetBSD and most Linux distributions.

Thanks to work done by pho@ and the instructions he posted on the tech-pkg mailing list, it was already possible to use mold within Pkgsrc, by adding these directives in the etc/mk.conf configuration file:

LD=			/usr/pkg/bin/mold
LDFLAGS+=		-Wl,-L/usr/lib
CWRAPPERS_PREPEND.cc+=	-B/usr/pkg/libexec/mold
CWRAPPERS_PREPEND.cxx+=	-B/usr/pkg/libexec/mold

I wanted to also try using LLD (the LLVM linker), and modified the devel/lld package to add a symlink in ${PREFIX}/libexec so that it can be used in Pkgsrc.

While mold can be used as a linker when using both GCC and Clang, for LLD one must use Clang as a compiler, using the PKGSRC_COMPILER directive. The reason for this is that LLD does not support the -dc and -dp options.

The following directives must be added in the etc/mk.conf configuration file:

PKGSRC_COMPILER=	clang

LD=			/usr/pkg/bin/lld
LDFLAGS+=		-Wl,-L/usr/lib
CWRAPPERS_PREPEND.cc+=	-B/usr/pkg/libexec/lld
CWRAPPERS_PREPEND.cxx+=	-B/usr/pkg/libexec/lld

Verifying that a binary was produced by mold or LLD can be done using readelf.

On the mold binary linked with mold itself:

readelf -p .comment mold

String dump of section '.comment':
  [     0]  mold 1.10.1 (compatible with GNU ld)
  [    25]  GCC: (NetBSD nb1 20220722) 10.4.0
  [    47]  GCC: (nb1 20220722) 10.4.0

And on the lld binary linked with LLD itself:

readelf -p .comment lld

String dump of section '.comment':
  [     0]  clang version 15.0.7
  [    16]  Linker: LLD 15.0.7
  [    29]  GCC: (NetBSD nb1 20220722) 10.4.0

As usual, I’ve also been busy reading different material, and adding new resources to toolchains.net.

That’s all for now, happy Spring 2023 everyone!

binutils and GDB commits:

2023-03-2380251d4Add support to readelf for the PT_OPENBSD_MUTABLE segment type
2023-03-17152d9c4Update the NetBSD system call table to add eventfd(2) and timerfd(2)
2023-01-202e17538Add OpenBSD ARM GAS support

LLVM commits

2023-03-198510cf9[compiler-rt] Add missing #else clause to fix the build on NetBSD
2023-03-16245f26a[docs] Document "PGO" (Profile-Guided Optimization) in the lexicon
2023-03-15d8df871[compiler-rt] Point UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer link to its own page
2023-02-105cec69b[clang] Update Clang version from 16 to 17 in scan-build.1
Pullup 8 [pullup-8 #1820] Fix memory leak in route6d

March 18, 2023

NetBSD Package System (pkgsrc) on DaemonForums hplip not working
Hi all,
trying to connect my recently installed NetBSD 10.0_BETA (GENERIC) in my home PC to my home HP Deskjet 2540 All-in-One Printer series using air-print and hplip. The package compiled properly but I get this error message when executing:
Code:

$ hp-setup -i HPD83AB7Ā 
Traceback (most recent call last):
Ā  File "/usr/pkg/bin/hp-setup", line 48, in <module>
Ā  Ā  from base import device, utils, tui, models, module, services, os_utils
Ā  File "/usr/pkg/share/hplip/base/device.py", line 42, in <module>
Ā  Ā  from . import status
Ā  File "/usr/pkg/share/hplip/base/status.py", line 33, in <module>
Ā  Ā  import cupsext
ImportError: /usr/pkg/lib/python3.9/site-packages/cupsext.so: Shared object "libunistring.so.2" not found
Memory fault (core dumped)

hplip is working properly in NetBSD 9.3 laptop, I can print and scan using xsane.

Thanks for your help !

March 14, 2023

Unix Stack Exchange Does *BSD have the ability to encrypt a system partition with full disk encryption?

Does FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenBSD have an encryption feature like Linux's dm-crypt? And will it work for a system partition?


March 13, 2023

Ruben Schade FreeBSD and NetBSD laptop feedback: the Framework

About a dozen of you emailed and posted on social media in response to my question about FreeBSD and NetBSD laptops, thanks!

Overwhelmingly the recommendation was the Framework, which I’ve looked at before but completely forgot. Their website doesn’t make it easy to find the display resolution, but other sites report it as 2256Ɨ1504, which is excellent.

The FreeBSD wiki has a page about it, and it’d be cool to do some testing on NetBSD to add to their wiki too.

It probably won’t be in the budget for a while, but I’m keen to try. Ping me if you have any experience with running BSD on this laptop, I’d love to hear about your experience.

By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023-03-14.

NetBSD General on DaemonForums NetBSD 9.3 External Monitor Panic
I have NetBSD 9.3 on a Thinkpad T420, uname:

Quote:

NetBSD neutron 9.3 NetBSD 9.3 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Aug 4 15:30:37 UTC 2022 [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64
The issue is when I use an external monitor, after a few minutes I get a kernel panic. On other UN*X type OSs no issues.

When not using a monitor all works great. Does anyone know how to fix ?

I tried many options over the past few days, but no luck. I ran across this wiki.netbsd.org but it is a bit beyond my skill level, but will give it a try if no one has any ideas on what to do.

Here are links to various info/logs for the issue:
Please let me know if you need anything else,
Thanks
John

March 12, 2023

Ruben Schade Researching a new FreeBSD or NetBSD laptop

I love my tiny Japanese Panasonic Let’s Note RZ6 subnotebook, but the keyboard is just small enough that I can’t type with speed. It’s a perfect ā€œon callā€ machine, but I’d love something I can write longform stuff on.

The problem is, Panasonic and Apple have spoiled me with their 2Ɨ HiDPI displays. I love how images look, the higher fidelity of fonts in documents, and the ability to crank text down to smaller sizes when tailing logs. People saying these are silly luxuries were writing into PC Magazine saying 8-bit colour was sufficient in the 1990s, and that you don’t need double-density floppy disks because in my day we used punch card libraries, dagnabit!

This would be my wish list:

My instinct is to buy a second-hand ThinkPad and be done with it, as is tradition in the BSD community. I’ll have to see if anything fits.

By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023-03-13.


February 21, 2023

DragonFly BSD Digest Two new lights

I didn’t know what Moonlight and Sunshine are, but Moonlight at least is on NetBSD.


February 08, 2023

NetBSD Blog FOSDEM 2023

FOSDEM took place last week-end, as an offline-first event again for the first time since 2020. It was located as usual at the university campus of the ULB in Brussels. It was packed with developers, users, passionate and professionals of Open Source software, and while NetBSD did not have a booth this year, its presence could be felt on Saturday morning at the BSD DevRoom thanks to the many developers who made it to the conference.

Together with Rodrigo Osorio of the FreeBSD project, I had the pleasure to help manage the DevRoom, have a front seat for the talks, and even start the session by introducing the BSD Driver Harmony initiative.

The staff and respective speakers are currently busy uploading slides and reviewing videos, so keep in mind to check again for new content in the coming few days and weeks if you missed anything or need to dig further into any event from this awesome conference!

Finally, I would like to thank the NetBSD Foundation for sponsoring me to manage the room and attend the GSoC meet-up.


February 03, 2023

Benny Siegert pkgsrc and a Call for Action
I have been a pkgsrc developer for several years. For what it’s worth, I think pkgsrc is wonderful: a large selection of third-party software, packaged so that it is easy to install with a single command – either building everything from source, or relying on binary packages. pkgsrc supports dozens of OSes – not just NetBSD but also other BSDs, macOS, Linux, Illumos and more. On the other hand, unfortunately, pkgsrc and NetBSD in general are suffering from what I would call a loss of mindshare.

January 28, 2023

Unix Stack Exchange FreeBSD kernel change to NetBSD kernel

Is it possible to swap to the NetBSD kernel in FreeBSD?

As stated in the title, I would like to change the kernel of my Unix build from FreeBSD to NetBSD, as I prefer the philosophy of the rump kernel to that of a monolithic, but prefer the lexicography and semantics of FreeBSD's system applications. The current build is fresh, with only sudo, neovim and git installed. It is running in a VM, so I don't think any additional drivers are installed, if that is optional during the install process. (I've installed OS's so many times that it is practically subconscious for me) Sorry if this question seems a tab bit junior to you, I'm an idiot with limited SysAdmin skills. My question is this: is it possible to swap to the NetBSD kernel in FreeBSD? If so, I will build the kernel from source and swap it.


January 27, 2023

Super User MediaTek MT7921 Wireless LAN driver [closed]

TL;DR The driver I need is in the Linux kernel. I would like to go about rewriting\porting it to NetBSD. I also would like to use some kernel module service so that I don't have to compile the entire kernel to test the driver.

New to BSD, coming from Linux. My laptop (Asus FX706LI) uses the MediaTek MT7921. Although I've never installed linux on this laptop, I know the driver is in Linux 5.12 and subsequent kernels. I am to the point that I'd like to try modifying the driver to work with BSD. I currently have NetBSD running on a QEMU virtual machine, and I'd like to find a service that will allow me to add kernel modules so I don't need to rebuild the kernel for every attempt. Any documentation and whatever you may consider useful is welcomed.


January 15, 2023

DragonFly BSD Digest HAMMER2/NetBSD

HAMMER2 file system for NetBSD.Ā  (there’s been foreshadowing)


January 13, 2023

DragonFly BSD Digest Always ASCII

NetBSD ASCII flag for the bootloader.Ā  (via)


January 12, 2023

Frederic Cambus NetBSD ASCII flag for the bootloader

As mentioned in my "Customizing NetBSD boot banners" article, it's really easy to customize NetBSD boot banners using the boot.cfg configuration file.

In a previous life, I used to draw ASCII art (mostly in the pre-2000 era) and more precisely a type of ASCII art referred as newschool ASCII in the artscene. By taking advantage of the extended character set (the 128 to 255 range) of the IBM PC's code page 437, it was possible to achieve great detail and really smooth curves. Some examples can be found at the bottom of my online gallery.

Attempting to draw the NetBSD flag in ASCII and use it when booting in both NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/amd64 in BIOS mode was thus too tempting, so here we go.

The NetBSD flag in full glory, loaded in TheDraw:

NetBSD ASCII Flag

And here is a screenshot of the NetBSD x86 bootloader:

NetBSD ASCII Flag in the bootloader

And this is how it could look like with colors and a customized VGA palette:

NetBSD ASCII Flag in the bootloader

Unfortunately, the extended ASCII characters do not display correctly when booting in EFI mode, at least on the machine I tested on, but I suspect it will likely be the case on other implementations as well.

As specified in the Human Interface Infrastructure part (33.2.7.2 subsection) of the UEFI specification, UEFI requires platform support of a font containing the basic Latin character set. So extended ASCII support is not mandatory, and there is no guarantee that the characters would be the same between fonts used by different EFI firmwares anyway.

The boot.cfg configuration file can be downloaded here. Enjoy!

OS News DragonFlyBSD’s HAMMER2 file-system being ported on NetBSD

NetBSD continues using the FFS file-system by default while it’s offered ZFS support that has been slowly improving — in NetBSD-CURRENT is the ability to use ZFS as the root file-system if first booting to FFS, for example. There may be another modern file-system option soon with an effort underway to port DragonFlyBSD’s HAMMER2 over to NetBSD.

The GitHub repository has the code if you’re up for contributing.


January 07, 2023

Stack Overflow How to implement a hello world system call in NetBSD [closed]

I want to implement a hello world system call in NetBSD. I am following the NetBSD documentation where I am able to make add system call in src/sys/kern/syscalls.master list. But the documentation says you need to rebuild libc and reboot with a new kernel. I am not able to understand how to rebuild libc and then reboot. Can someone please help me how to rebuilt libc and reboot.

Also how shall I test my system call with the new kernel loaded.