OpenBSD

Python Versions

History Long time ago, there were huge discussions about Python 2.7 or Python 3.xx. Fortunately, these times are gone and we’ve all gotten over the hurdle to Python 3. But are you on 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 ? or even 3.11 or 3.12 ? That’s the current Version you should use for your daily Projects ? Status of Python versions A good indicator is this Website: https://devguide.python.org/versions/ OpenBSD It’s also recommended to check what our Operating System is installing by default, or what you can get from their Package Repository.

OpenBSD 7.4

OpenBSD 7.4 finally released Today, the 55th Release of OpenBSD was announced. My Upgrade Script is available here. Highlights vmd(8) has moved to a multi-process model for virtio(4) block and network devices malloc(3) now has built-in leak detection In OpenSSH 9.5, ssh-kengen(1) generates Ed25519 keys by default sec(4) for Route Based IPSec VPNs see the Post on Undeadly for more Details, or the OpenBSD Page … Script doas su - cd /root ftp https://blog.

OpenBSD 7.4 DevBox

OpenBSD 7.4 … will be released next week (23. Oct 2023). Why not have a look at the upcomming OS and prepare a VM for Software Development ? Preparation grab a fresh VM and Install OpenBSD 7.4 os version puffy74# sysctl kern.version kern.version=OpenBSD 7.4 (GENERIC.MP) #1396: Sun Oct 8 09:20:40 MDT 2023 deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP empty vm puffy74# pkg_info quirks-6.159 exceptions to pkg_add rules and cache add go, rust, python puffy74# pkg_add go rust python3 quirks-6.

OpenBSD - Nornir

Build Nornir on OpenBSD - Failed :( Any Idea how to build it … ? (cisco-nornir-py3.11) puffy$ RUST_BACKTRACE=1 poetry add nornir-netmiko ... Compiling asn1 v0.13.0 Running `rustc --crate-name asn1 --edition=2018 /home/stoege/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/asn1-0.13.0/src/lib.rs --error-format=json --json=diagnostic-rendered-ansi,artifacts,future-incompat --crate-type lib --emit=dep-info,metadata,link -C opt-level=3 -C linker-plugin-lto -C overflow-checks=on -C metadata=e01d853059c772ba -C extra-filename=-e01d853059c772ba --out-dir /tmp/tmpyhzdyoqa/cryptography-40.0.2/src/rust/target/release/deps -L dependency=/tmp/tmpyhzdyoqa/cryptography-40.0.2/src/rust/target/release/deps --extern asn1_derive=/tmp/tmpyhzdyoqa/cryptography-40.0.2/src/rust/target/release/deps/libasn1_derive-dbeffd4d85568b7f.so --extern chrono=/tmp/tmpyhzdyoqa/cryptography-40.0.2/src/rust/target/release/deps/libchrono-994a1164a0b8cdf4.rmeta --cap-lints allow` Running `rustc --crate-name pyo3 --edition=2018 /home/stoege/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/pyo3-0.15.2/src/lib.rs --error-format=json --json=diagnostic-rendered-ansi,artifacts,future-incompat --crate-type lib --emit=dep-info,metadata,link -C opt-level=3 -C linker-plugin-lto -C overflow-checks=on --cfg 'feature="abi3"' --cfg 'feature="abi3-py310"' --cfg 'feature="abi3-py36"' --cfg 'feature="abi3-py37"' --cfg 'feature="abi3-py38"' --cfg 'feature="abi3-py39"' --cfg 'feature="default"' --cfg 'feature="extension-module"' --cfg 'feature="indoc"' --cfg 'feature="macros"' --cfg 'feature="paste"' --cfg 'feature="pyo3-macros"' --cfg 'feature="unindent"' -C metadata=001198fe1619b05c -C extra-filename=-001198fe1619b05c --out-dir /tmp/tmpyhzdyoqa/cryptography-40.

iperf3 - rdomain

how do i run a iperf3 server in a rdomain ? if you don’t know what a rdomain is, just have a look at the man pages show interface with rdomain -> rdomain 1 show that this Interface is not running in the Default RDomain 0 ifconfig em3 em3: flags=808843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF4> rdomain 1 mtu 1500 lladdr de:ad:be:ef:be:ef description: connected to Switch (Gi0/1) index 4 priority 0 llprio 3 media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex) status: active inet 192.

OpenBSD - ansible-pylibssh

wanna build ansible-pylibssh on OpenBSD 7.3 ? Build failed ? $ pip install ansible-pylibssh Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable Collecting ansible-pylibssh Using cached ansible-pylibssh-1.1.0.tar.gz (106 kB) Installing build dependencies ... done Getting requirements to build wheel ... done Installing backend dependencies ... done Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... done Building wheels for collected packages: ansible-pylibssh Building wheel for ansible-pylibssh (pyproject.toml) ... error error: subprocess-exited-with-error × Building wheel for ansible-pylibssh (pyproject.

HTMX & Nginx

Little Test with HTMX & Nginx recently, i saw the Keynote - “Full-Stack Python” (Andy “Pandy” Knight) and i read an article about html & websockets. So I thought why not give it a try? Preview Requirements the usual stuff: Virtual Machine (here: OpenBSD VM) FQDN Pointing to your Box SSL Cert Webroot on your webserver, create a new webroot wherever you have your pages located. su - webmaster mkdir -p /var/www/virtual/your.

OpenBSD - Smokeping

How to Install Smokeping on OpenBSD Requiremens running Server with OpenBSD Root Permission FQDN with Cert Install Software pkg_add smokeping Update Config cat << 'EOF' >/etc/smokeping/config *** General *** owner = YOUR NAME contact = YOUR@EMAIL.NET mailhost = localhost sendmail = /usr/sbin/sendmail # NOTE: do not put the Image Cache below cgi-bin # since all files under cgi-bin will be executed ... this is not # good for images. imgcache = /var/www/htdocs/smokeping/cache imgurl = cache datadir = /var/db/smokeping piddir = /var/run cgiurl = https://YOUR.

Anycast IPv6 - YourSelf

How to Build your own AnyCast Network you’re using anycast every day. all public resolvers (1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9) for example are anycast ip’s and hence, many servers distributed around the world which listen and announce the same ip address. we can build a proof of concept, how to build such a network, for a few $. Requirements AS Number Anycast heavily depends on BGP. So, you need a own AS Number.

OpenBSD - HTTPD CGI

Let’s have a look a the old and simple “cgi-bin” stuff on OpenBSD. The Webserver is written by the OpenBSD Guys, and it runs in a chrooted environment. switch to cgi-bin dir cd /var/www/cgi-bin/ ip.cgi create the file under /var/www/cgi-bin called ‘ip.cgi’ cat << 'EOG' > ip.cgi #!/bin/sh cat << EOF Content-type: text/html <html><head> <title>IP: $REMOTE_ADDR</title> </head><body> <p>Your IP address is: $REMOTE_ADDR</p> </body></html> EOF EOG Set Owner & Permission chmod 500 ip.