December 2001 Issue of Daemon News

questionlp writes: "The December 2001 issue of the Daemon News E-zine is now live on the Internet. This month's issue contains great articles about generating MRTG graphs of qmail statistics under FreeBSD, coding styles, SNMP agent development and the first of three parts on the csh and tcsh shells. Also launched this month for Daemon News is their hardware certification and driver development services."

For the Ultra-Paranoid...

[imrdkl]

The article on System Log verification is good too. I have never felt quite this motivated to keep track of the logs, but it seems a reasonable pursuit for a security expert to write about it, and naturally, for BSD to provide it. I just hope I never feel the need to use it.

Re:*BSD is dying

[DrSkwid]

it might be a troll but it does sound convincing

I'm a sahreholder of an ISP, we've been running for five years or so. Originally we were going for NT but soon discovered what a bad idea that was.

2 days before launch we scrapped the idea and bought a BSD 2.1 Internet Server Ready CD.
Overnight it was installed and working.
Now with around 5000 users our BSD setup happily chugs along on 3 pentium 90 machines (mail, web/ftp & news) [separated for failsafe rather than load].

At home and at my website, FreeBSD was the easy choice. It's rock solid.

Ports & packages are a dream come true.

Still, though, my OS of choice is plan9. Even if it never had another release again I would be perfectly satisfied.
(web browsing aside - a mighty task)

but there is a new release on it's way. We'll finally wave goodbye to 23 char filenames (sigh) and hopefully support another sound card (sigh :)

want to listen to some music
cat music > /dev/audio

want to burn a cd ?
cp *.jpg /mnt/cd

write to a network socket
echo 'hello' > /net/tcp/10/data

inetd? nah. we have aux/listen. plonk a script in /bin/services called tcp7 for instance and then it's stdin & stdout are the connection

echo server - try :
#!/bin/rc
cat

it's such a pleasure

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9

Print.

[saintlupus]

I seem to recall that Daemon News was supposed to start issuing a print version as well as the online version of their zine. Has anyone seen this in an actual store, or is it a subscribe through the web site only sort of thing?

--saint

Re:Print.

[questionlp]

The print editin of Daemon News has been going on for around a year now. The last issue was number 5 and I got it early November.

More information about the print magazine can be found here [daemonnews.org] (or http://magazine.daemonnews.org/ [daemonnews.org] for those who are afraid of goatse.cx links). The magazine has turned from every other month to quarterly.

Why is this posted almost every month....

[duffbeer703]

Daemonnews comes out almost every month.

Why it news when it arrives. This is more lame than ask slashdot.

Re:Why is this posted almost every month....

[MavEtJu]

There is a new Linux kernel coming out every 3-4 weeks. These ones are announced too.

If you don't like it, go to the preferences (on the left side of your window) and select BSD under the "Exclude Stories from the Homepage". You're happy, we're happy :-)