Matthew Dillon proposed writing a polling mechanism that would work independently of the system hardclock. It’s apparently a simple task for anyone who has touched kernel code, and he’s looking for takers.
I point this out for the command’s obtuseness, not its utility. Dirk Liebke described the command necessary to (probably) shut down and power off a Solaris machine: ‘shutdown -g 0 -i 5 -y‘
I’ve seen nothing in the way of good news lately, on the mailing lists or about the web. So, in an effort to keep content appearing here, I’ll ask an idle question of you, the reader: Where do you go on the web for BSD news?
If you’ve only ever used to ‘shutdown -h now‘ to halt a machine, Sepherosa Ziehau reminds that ‘shutdown -p now‘ is the way to get the server powered off.
Joseph Garcia got to fight with tftp on DragonFly; he wrote down the rather torturous procedure he had to follow, which may help anyone else with a Cisco router that needs to be configured.
It’s rather quiet lately… Why not spend some time clicking Hubert’s links?
UnixReview.com has more than normal this week: 4 articles! There’s a regex article titled “Regular Expressions: Two Easy Steps Better Than One Hard One“, a writeup of: php | works Conference – Toronto Sept 14 – 16, 2005, a security article with the run-on title of “Computer Security, It’s Not About the Software“, and a review of the book “Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard“.
bsdnews.com, which redirected to daily.daemonnews.org, seems to be missing. www.daemonnews.org is still there, though the layout has changed.
OnLAMP.com/BSD has a new article up from FreeBSD Basics: “A finer-grained permissions system“
SANE 2006 will be held in May of next year; the initial call for papers is out.
SANE = “System Administration and Network Engineering”, if you didn’t know.
Matthew Dillon has made available a preliminary start on his bug tracker, which he is apparently calling “dunebuggy“.
Rob D. posted a link to a page that describes problems with MD5, a hashing algorithm.
Jeremy Reed found that there are some tricks to building world in a jail.
Reader LabThug helpfully pointed out that the blog at http://opensource.weblogsinc.com/ has been talking about the events at NYCBSDCON. Oh, I’m kicking myself for not going. Of special interest to readers here is a writeup on Jeffrey Hsu’s DragonFly talk.
This week on UnixReview.com: reviews of the books “Mobile IP Technology and Applications” and “Advanced Perl Programming, Second Edition“, and a writeup of the card game “PySol“.
Any readers go to NYCBSDCON? How was the event?
Emiel Kollof pointed out that Mustang is going to be the next release of Java; we have a chance to get some support for DragonFly in now.
Matthew Dillon didn’t like the idea of a Java-based bug tracker, so he’s rolling his own. As part of it, his Backplane databse will probably be used as the back-end for it, though under the GPL.
The 2006 USENIX Technical Conference, coming up at the end of next May, has issued a Call for Papers. If you want to present one, you need to have your paper done by mid-January.
UnixReview.com has just two book reviews this week, both of which are relevant: Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, and the more focused “Cisco IP Communications Express: CallManager Express with Cisco Unity Express“.