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Comment Re:New HTTP daemon (Score 4, Informative) 80

OpenBSD's httpd(8) supports HTTP redirects, and it certainly seems possible to redirect requests to i.e: php-fpm.

        location "*.php" {
                fastcgi socket "/path/to/php-fpm.sock"
        }

        location "/" {
                block return 301 "/index.php"
        }

Reyk Floeter (reyk@) has a Wiki with some additional example configurations, contribute more:

https://github.com/reyk/httpd/...

Comment Re:New HTTP daemon (Score 3, Informative) 80

It's not a "half-finished" server, it's a new server written using OpenBSD's existing development practices, sharing code with relayd(8) in base. For OpenBSD httpd(8), 'featuritis' is being avoided so that the codebase remains simple and maintainable.

https://github.com/reyk/httpd/...

I've never heard of Hiawatha, but the GPL licencing makes it inappropriate for the base system. It is available as a package and in the ports, along with nginx and many other servers.

Comment Re: Good documentation (Score 3, Informative) 403

Peter N. M. Hansteen's PF tutorial and books are recommended reads, Peter remains involved with the developers and the information stays relevant and useful. He also ensures that readers using other BSD systems, especially with older versions of pf, can learn just as much from it.

* The Book of PF, 3rd Edition, 2014 - ISBN: 978-1593275891
* http://home.nuug.no/~peter/pf/

Michael W Lucas is another author that writes books for both the BSD and sysadmin communities, similarly, he works closely with developers and users to release these short, yet all-encompassing tomes of information, covering a wide variety of topics.

https://www.michaelwlucas.com/...
* Absolute OpenBSD, 2nd Edition, 2013 - ISBN: 978-1593274764
* SSH Mastery, 2012 - ISBN: 978-1470069711
* Sudo Master, 2013 - ISBN: 978-1493626205

And of course, official documentation is great. The effort of many people working to improve, Jason McIntyre improving readability and overall quality, Ingo Schwarze's amazing work on mandoc(1) tools. OpenBSD's FAQ, which is usually the first step people take to learn more about the system, is maintained by Nick Holland.

http://www.openbsd.org/faq/
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin...

Submission + - OpenBSD's kernel gets W^X treatment on amd64 (marc.info) 2

brynet writes: Theo de Raadt wrote:

Over the last two months Mike Larkin (mlarkin@) modified the amd64 kernel to follow the W^X principles. It started as a humble exercise to fix the .rodata segment, and kind of went crazy. As a result, no part of the kernel address space is writeable and executable simultaneously. At least that is the idea, modulo mistakes. Final attention to detail (which some of you experienced in buggy drafts in snapshots) was to make the MP and ACPI trampolines follow W^X, furthermore they are unmapped when not required. Final picture is many architectures were improved, but amd64 and sparc64 look the best due to MMU features available to service the W^X model. The entire safety model is also improved by a limited form of kernel ASLR (the code segment does not move around yet, but data and page table ASLR is fairly good.


Submission + - OpenBSD 5.6 Released

An anonymous reader writes: Just as per the schedule, OpenBSD 5.6 was released today, November 1, 2014. The theme of the 5.6 release is "Ride of the Valkyries". OpenBSD 5.6 will be the first version with LibreSSL. This version also removed sendmail from the base system, smtpd is the default mail transport agent (MTA). The installer no longer supports FTP, network installs via HTTP only. The BIND name server will be removed from the OpenBSD base system. Its replacement comes in the form of the two daemons nsd(8) for authoritative DNS service and unbound(8) for recursive resolver service. OpenSSH 6.7 is included along with GNOME 3.12.2, KDE 4.13.3, Xfce 4.10, Mozilla Firefox 31.0, Vim 7.4.135, LLVM/Clang 3.5 and more. See a detailed log of changes between the 5.5 and 5.6 releases for more information. If you already have an OpenBSD 5.5 system, and do not want to reinstall, upgrade instructions and advice can be found in the Upgrade Guide (a quick video upgrade demo is here). You can order the 5.6 CD set from the new OpenBSD Store and support the project.

Comment Re:In other news. (Score 2) 162

If any vendor has proprietary drivers for OpenBSD, they would undoubtedly be using better kernel interfaces directly. Especially for something like a driver for a hardware RAID controller. LKM(4) support has mostly been only "compile tested" for years. Nothing uses it seriously, at the time of it's removal.. the ports tree contained a single port making use of it.. a firmware flasher for some Dell systems.

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