My take on a network manager

There’s one thing that I am really missing under OpenBSD, a network manager which seemlessly handles running around with my laptop. So my main itches to scratch are doing magic things at boot and resume so I don’t have to bother with fiddling with hostname.if(5) ever.

My first take on …

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Open Source Threat Intelligence and pf(4)

I came up with the idea to utilize Open Source Threat Feeds, or OSINT on my private setup and quickly cooked up the shell script below in a rough, first try. The funny thing is that I more or less instantantly got hits from the 5346 IP addresses in the table:

@0 block drop log quick from …
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OpenBSD on Hyper-V Primer

I am fed up with VMWAre Workstation and I’d like to check if Hyper-V is a better alternative for me. This is not a tutorial but just a primer and scratchpad note mainly for me, thus those very brief notes.

  • Enable Hyper-V
  • Add User to Group “Hyper-V Administrators”
  • Create NAT Switch …
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rainloop and OpenBSD

Update: I have corrected chown www /var/www/data to be chown www /var/www/rainloop/data in getting rainloop ready to rock

  • installing php and php-curl (and unzip)

      pkg_add -i php php-curl unzip
    
  • getting rainloop ready to rock

      mkdir /var/www/rainloop
      unzip ~/rainloop-community-latest.zip -d …
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Settling in and some outlook

A night without sleep later I am slowly getting a clearer picture of how the pieces are fitting together. Ricing my blog is getting smoother and smoother as my understanding of sblg, HTML and CSS increases and I was able to unclutter both my Makefile and the HTML code. But there is a lot of …

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grav CMS on OpenBSD w/ chrooted fpm and nginx

Just in case somebody else is getting the cannot resolve getgrav.com error: just copy /etc/resolv.conf into the chroot:

	mkdir /var/www/etc
	cp /etc/resolv.conf /var/www/etc/

And I already feared that I need to create /dev/random and shit like that. Damn it that took too long to find out.

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A new Home

So. After losing my old disk due to operator error my previous blog (based on jekyll) had been totally lost. Note to self: don’t lose the keydisk to your backup.

So years and a new domain later I decided to reboot the thing, now based on sblg. It’s not yet finished as a lot of edges are …

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