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130: Store all the Things | BSD Now 130
This week on BSDNow, Allan is back from the Storage Summit in Silicon Valley! We are going to get his thoughts on how the conference went, plus bring you the latest ZFS info discussed. That plus the usual BSD news is
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OpenBSD website operators urged to fix mind-alteringly bad bug
- We start off a bit light-hearted this week, with the important, breaking news that finally a long-standing OpenBSD bug has been addressed for the HTTP daemon.
- Specifically? It changes the default 404 page fonts away from Comic Sans, to a bit more crowd-pleasing alternative:
- “For some reason the httpd status pages (e.g. 404) use the Comic Sans typeface. This patch removes comic sans and sets the typeface to the default sans-serif typeface of the client.
- “This lowers the number of people contacting website maintainers with typeface complaints bordering on harassment”.
- Operators running HTTPD are highly encouraged to update their systems to the latest code, right now……... No seriously, we are waiting for you. Get it done now and then we’ll continue with the show.
Registration for AsiaBSDCon 2016 is now open + Talk Schedule
- After a few delays, the registration for AsiaBSDCon has now opened!
- The conference starts in less than two weeks! now, so be sure to get signed up ASAP.
- In addition the schedule has been posted, and here’s some of the highlights of this year’s conference.
- In addition to FreeBSD and NetBSD dev summits on the first two days, we have some excellent tutorials being given this year by Kirk, Gnn, Dru and more! (https://2016.asiabsdcon.org/program.html.en)
- The regular paper talks also have lots of good ones this year, including this crazy encrypted boot loader one given by our very own Allan Jude! ***
OPENBSD ON AWS : AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
- We have a blog post from Antoine Jacoutot, talking about the process of getting OpenBSD up and running in AWS
It starts with his process of creating an AMI from scratch, which ended up not being that bad:
- create and loopback-mount a raw image containing a UFS filesystem extract the OpenBSD base sets (which are just regular tarballs) and kernel enable console output (so that one could “aws ec2 get-console-output”)
- install the boot loader on the image then use the ec2 tools to import the RAW image to S3, convert it into a volume (ec2-import-volume) which we can snapshot (ec2-create-snapshot) and create an AMI from (ec2-register)
The blog post also has a link to a script which automates this process, so don’t be daunted if you didn’t quite follow all of that.
Thanks to the recently landed DomU support, the final pieces of the puzzle fell into place, allowing OpenBSD to function as a proper guest (with networking!)
Next it details the process of injecting a public SSH key into the instances for instant remote access.
An ec2-init.sh scrip
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