sysbox
freebsd-src
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sysbox
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OpenBSD cron(8) now supports random ranges with steps
Yes, I first learned this and the name "splay" from CFengine, back in the day.
I put together a small busybox-like collection of sysadmin tools, and one of the subcommands is "splay" to sleep for a random amount of time. It's one of those things that is useful surprisingly often, even outside cron.
https://github.com/skx/sysbox
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The Rust Implementation of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust
I remember in 1999 there was a project to reimplement a bunch of these tools in perl:
https://perlpowertools.com/
I even contributed a little, back then. I guess writing basic versions of "ls", for example, is trivial. But there's a lot of work getting all the tools done, with all the flags implemented and behaving as expected.
I guess there are tools like busybox, toybox, and similar, which also implement a lot of "stuff" to varying degrees of completion. From my side the biggest takeaway from those projects is the sheer convenience of deploying a single binary and installing symlinks to change functionality.
I replicated something similar with my sysbox project, collecting tools together in one golang binary with various subcommands:
https://github.com/skx/sysbox
I use at least one of those tools on a daily basis, though I suspect they're not so universally useful.
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Operating Systems
If you've got perl installed you'll might have a "GET" binary present, mine is /usr/bin/GET, which comes with the WWW-module.
Although this is written in portable perl, rather than being compiled, so the static vs. dynamic choice doesn't really mean much it is a simple alternative.
Otherwise I built a simple busybox-inspired collection of tools, written in golang, which includes a simple HTTP client too:
https://github.com/skx/sysbox
Those are just a couple of examples, I'm certain there are multiple other choices out there. But I guess curl is ubiquitous enough that most people just use it directly, and add it when missing!
- sysbox: sysadmin/scripting utilities, distributed as a single binary
- Show HN: A collection of sysadmin utilities, in a single binary
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M4 – the one true templating language
That's pretty cool.
I wrote something similar in my static collection of sysadmin tools - https://github.com/skx/sysbox - In my simple pre-processor I only allow two special things:
#include "file/goes/here"
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Ask HN: Tools you have made for yourself?
I bundled together a small collection of sysadmin/scripting-tools here:
https://github.com/skx/sysbox
Those are probably amongst the things that I use most often which are non-standard.
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Sd: My Script Directory
I used to have very full ~/bin, and ~/$(hostname), directories. In the end I pared them back and started bundling things together in one binary.
The end result is very similar to this approach, I run "sysbox blah", or "sysbox help", and use integrated subcommands.
Very helpful and makes deployment easy by having only a single binary:
https://github.com/skx/sysbox
Not bash/shell, but similar and useful idea to experiment with.
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New Cli Tool (Golang) for custom commands (input during the execution) and with REPL
I support that in my sysbox utility-box, via the subcommands processor, and it is very helpful.
freebsd-src
- You shouldn't run a BSD on a PC
- Linux Crisis Tools
- What about the vfs.zfs.bclone_enabled sysctl now?
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Personal FreeBSD PKGBASE Update Server
2023-06-26: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/ee0aa1ce12b3caea34477a31e9d2111a329e33b9 to main (tagged release/14.0.0).
- What version of ZFS at FreeBSD solves the block cloning issue?
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Installing FreeBSD 14 Stable on an T480 Laptop w/ an Encrypted Home Directory
It's not yet in FreeBSD base so if you want to test it you'll have to use the patch from the PR: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/881
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FreeBSD 14.0 Delivering Great Performance Uplift
Lots of great work by many people. But I bet this guy and his optimizations to the vfs and locking has made a significant impact.
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commits?author=mjguzi...
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ZFS 2.2.1: Block Cloning disabled due to data corruption
and then there were deep concerns about the stability of same, so vfs.zfs.bclone_enabled = 0 was left in-place
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/068913e4ba3dd9...
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FreeBSD 14.0-Release Announcement
Well there are some examples:
https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/tree/main/share/examp...
But yeah that pf.conf could be expanded allot, but there are many source to cobble a conf together. My conf is massive but 99.9% commented out so i have my "template" for nearly everything, from mail to web to blacklistd etc.
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Git cherry-pick and revert use 3-way merge
The BSD version is sort of very recent, for what it's worth -- FreeBSD imported a not fully functional version in 2017 and has seen more work on it in 2022: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commits/main/usr.bin/... , but the default version shipped is still GNU diff3: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=diff3&apropos=0&se... .
What are some alternatives?
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