Call for Testing: smtpd

Contributed by ray on Wed Dec 3 18:25:15 2008 (GMT) from the bleeding-edge-mail dept. Gilles Chehade has put out a small request for testing his smtpd, On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 10:58:00AM -0700, Gilles Chehade wrote: > CVSROOT: /cvs > Module name: src > Changes by: gilles@ 2008/12/03 10:58:00 > > Modified files: > usr.sbin/smtpd : queue.c smtp.c smtp_session.c smtpd.c smtpd.h > > Log message: > - fix event masking issues in smtp process which could lead to a fatal() if > queue process did not answer fast enough to an imsg. spotted by > Jacek Masiulaniec > - queue layout was mostly to bootstrap the project, it does not behave good > under load, it does complex things to stay in a recoverable state > and it probably didnt do it too well. New queue code is simpler, > smaller and allows for atomic submissions (a mail can never be in a > state where it needs to be recovered). It still needs some work but > works better than previous code, no regression. > If you are testing smtpd, make sure to make clean and start with an empty /var/spool/smtpd before you run the new queue code. If you run into a fatal please let me know as soon as you can, I have time for hacking right now ;-) Gilles If you're feeling lucky and want to help out, please do!

New Ports of The Week (December 1)

Contributed by jason on Tue Dec 2 03:11:48 2008 (GMT) from the dont-hate-us-for-the-hiatus dept. There were 7 new ports for the week of November 24 to November 30: mail: ruby-mime www: ruby-thin_http x11/gnome: hamster-applet www: epiphany-extensions security: p5-Catalyst-Authentication-Store-DBI sysutils: hcidump x11/gnome: screensaver Some ports had updates that users should be aware of. Read more...

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Heads up! Last day for DCBSDcon 2009 CFP submissions

Contributed by johan on Mon Dec 1 21:04:00 2008 (GMT) from the puffy-goes-to-washington dept. Jason Dixon (jdixon@) sent a note to misc@ pointing out that today is the last day to send your CFP submission for DCBSDcon 2009.

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[c2k8]: Hackathon Summary Part 12

Contributed by mtu on Mon Dec 1 03:35:42 2008 (GMT) from the not-dead-yet dept. c2k8 General Hackathon (Part 12) - June 7-15, 2008, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada The hackathons are extremely important for OpenBSD and related Projects. Even if you are not a developer, you can contribute and help by supporting any one of the many mini-hackathons held throughout the year. They are just as important as the big hackathon. Read on to understand why: Read more...

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[h2k8]: Now Generally Useful: OpenBSD's GPIO Subsystem

Contributed by mitja on Wed Nov 26 21:08:18 2008 (GMT) from the dancing-on-the-tip-of-a-pin dept. Marc Balmer (mbalmer@) writes in from h2k8 about a major change in the GPIO subsystem that he just committed: OpenBSD has had support for General Purpose Input/Output devices since the 3.6 release. GPIO devices, or gpios for short, provide an easy way to interface electronic circuits which can be as simple as a LED or that provide more complex functionality like a 1-Wire or I2C bus. The GPIO implementation in OpenBSD 3.6 up to and including 4.4, however, has some problems and drawbacks which made me rework larger parts of this subsystem during the h2k8 hardware hackathon in Coimbra, Portugal. The full story can be found here.

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BSDTALK #166 - Asterisk Open Source Community Director John Todd

Contributed by johan on Wed Nov 26 00:23:04 2008 (GMT) from the you-talk-the-talk-but-can-you-walk-the-walk dept. Will Backman of bsdtalk just let us know there's a new episode of bsdtalk out in which John Todd, open source community director at Asterisk, talks about his choice of OS and more. File Info: 23Min, 11MB: mp3 or ogg Thanks for yet another interesting interview Will!

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Call for testers - jakemsr@ requests dmesgs and mixerctl output

Contributed by weerd on Tue Nov 25 23:32:18 2008 (GMT) from the mix-a-lot dept. Jacob Meuser (jakemsr@) wrote to misc@ with a request for dmesgs with azalia(4) audio devices. Undeadly asked him why this is so important. Please read on to find Jacob's answers: Read more...

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Call For Donations - Motherboards needed for acpi development

Contributed by johan on Sun Nov 23 23:57:31 2008 (GMT) from the teach-a-man-to-fish dept. In the last few releases a lot of progress has been made with ACPI in OpenBSD. Jordan Hargrave (jordan@) is now hard at work trying to fix some of the last few major problems in the ACPI code. However some of the problems we are facing are related to some very specific hardware configurations. Getting this hardware to Jordan will help iron out the last few problems in the ACPI interrupt routing which needs to be finished before moving on to the next big challenge, ACPI sleep/suspend and resume. What is currently needed is a donation of these three motherboards: Read more...

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Better use-after-free bug detection in -current

Contributed by ray on Sun Nov 23 22:37:51 2008 (GMT) from the zombie-cow-protection dept. Hot on the heels of Otto's malloc changes, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) just committed another bug detecting measure into OpenBSD, CVSROOT: /cvs Module name: src Changes by: deraadt@ 2008/11/22 10:31:53 Modified files: sys/kern : subr_pool.c Log message: Do deadbeef-style protection in pools too, by default, even though it it is a lot slower. Before release this should be backed out, but for now we need everyone to run with this and start finding the use-after-free style bugs this exposes. original version from tedu ok everyone in the room As with Otto's malloc changes, please report any suddenly misbehaving programs!

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