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Category: OpenBSD

Tint2 snippet for Battery

Posted on 2018-03-30 19:25:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop Tint2

As discussed in this blog, I'll detail battery snippet for Tint2.

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Tint2 snippet for Audio

Posted on 2018-03-29 19:29:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop Tint2

As discussed in this blog, I'll detail my Audio snippet for Tint2.

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Tint2 snippet for network

Posted on 2018-03-28 20:38:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop Tint2

As discussed in this blog, I'll detail my Network snippet for Tint2.

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Tint2 snippet for NFS

Posted on 2018-03-27 22:26:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop Tint2

As discussed in this blog, I'll detail my NFSs snippet for Tint2.

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Tint2 rocks

Posted on 2018-03-10 21:14:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop Tint2

After having developed my own version of PyPanel, I finally prefer Tint2 which offers lot of flexibility and, in fact, match all my requirements. Let me explain you how I'm using this small peace of code.

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Network Manager Control for OpenBSD

Posted on 2017-10-23 10:12:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Desktop nmctl

nmctl is no more maintained

I propose you a small script allowing you to easily manage your networks connections. This script is integrated within the openbox dynamic menus. Moreover, it allow you to automatically have the connections you have pre-defined based.

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My euroBSDCon 2017

Posted on 2017-10-16 09:43:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD

Let me just share my feedback on those 2 days spent in Paris for the EuroBSDCon. My 1st BSDCon.

I'm not a developer, contributor, ... Do not expect to improve your skills with OpenBSD with this text :-)

I know, we are on Octover 16th, and the EuroBSDCon of Paris was 3 weeks ago :(. I'm not quick !!! Sorry for that

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Manual install of OpenBSD and syspatch

Posted on 2017-06-17 15:11:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD

On some machines we are forced to perform the not recommended upgrade procedure. Since several years I'm applying this method on 2 of my machines without problems.

But, after the upgrade process of OpenBSD from 6.0 to 6.1, syspatch was not running as it should.

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OpenVPN on OpenBSD

Posted on 2017-06-05 18:14:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD VPN

I've read several articles concerning the setup of OpenVPN on OpenBSD. But I've decided to post this one because none I've read address the problem coming from the setuid.

Indeed, to avoid that OpenVPN stays in memory with the root user, you can configure it to setuid to an anther user, usually _openvpn.

Problem, when you close the connection, this user must have the correct rights to set back your networks configuration settings: route, resolv.conf.

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Log2table to protect your machines from intrusions

Posted on 2017-05-27 20:41:00 by Vincent in OpenBSD Firewall

Log2table allows you to continuously monitor your logfiles. You can trigger actions when a specific message comes in your audited logfiles or when a specific number of occurrences are present.

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