OpenBSD Journal

Interview with William Allaire
Wed, 15 May 2013 05:38:54 GMT
Undeadly spoke with Bill Allaire, winner of the Absolute OpenBSD 2nd Edition auction started by author Michael W. Lucas and reported on by us last month. Bill ended up with the winning bid of $1,145.00 US. Read more...
Reduce gray-listing pain by seeding white-list with SPF records.
Fri, 10 May 2013 05:03:12 GMT
Longtime Undeadly contributor sean writes in with tips and tools for improving your spamd(8) experience: I have been using gray-listing to thwart spamming for what feels like a very long time. I started using it around the release of OpenBSD 3.5. It was an amazing change from a constant storm of spam and just enabling it got rid of 80% of the spam almost immediately. That amazing improvement didn't come without a cost. Some mail services and servers don't work so well with it. Especially large mailing systems that pass around messages and don't necessarily guarantee the next delivery attempt will come from the same IP or network. Microsoft Exchange was also known to be 'usually' configured in such a way to not work with gray-listing as well. Read more...
You've Installed It. Now What? -stable packages!
Tue, 7 May 2013 21:57:09 GMT
Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse writes in about his (and M:tier's) -stable packaging work: Introduction A short while ago an article was published on here on Undeadly, which explained how to use the ports and packages framework. While it was a good read, it focused on -current. This article will show how to keep your -stable system up to date, without building anything yourself! Up to date packages....on -stable? OpenBSD is continuously working on providing snapshots for all architectures and to provide the packages that go with it. Read more...
Introducing ports.su — ports-readmes mirror and ports search
Thu, 2 May 2013 21:04:59 GMT
Constantine Murenin writes in about his new ports database site, ports.su Taking on espie's dated call on doing something cool with databases/sqlports port, and with his own initial work through databases/ports-readmes port, I've decided to fork ports-readmes, and create some very simple web-site to mirror the content generated. Introducing http://ports.su/ . The web-site is completely static, and all the pages get regenerated daily by downloading a fresh copy of the sqlports package from the snapshots, and running the forked ports-readmes. Read more...