Save your config! 
Wednesday, August 31, 2005, 12:00 PM - Tech
Suppose you have a remotely accessible serial console device, such as a Cyclades. When you make changes, it's really a Good Idea to run saveconf, as otherwise all changes are lost if the machine reboots (for example b/c the power is disconnected). It's also a good idea to keep the important configuration files under cvs control, so they're (a) available on some other machine and (b) you can track the changes.
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Don't lock yourself out 
Monday, August 22, 2005, 12:00 PM - Tech
Suppose you have a remotely accessible serial console device, connecting to, among other devices, a switch. It is not a Good Idea to have the connection going to the serial console device to be on that switch: if you mess up the configuration of the switch (accessed via the console, through itself), you can lock yourself out. D'oh!
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Extracting a file from a .deb 
Friday, July 15, 2005, 12:00 PM - Tech
A debian package (.deb) is nothing but an ar(1) archive, so you can use ar(1) to extract files from it. The actual files contained in the .deb are stored in the data.tar.gz archive within the .deb[\code].

Example: Suppose you hosed your Debian Linux machine's /lib/libc-2.2.5.0.so. To retrieve this file from the official Debian package, fetch the file Packages from your mirrors dists/woody/main/binary-i386 directory. From that file, you can determine that the proper debian package to fetch is pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.2.5-11.8_i386.deb. Download that file and extract the correct libc:
$ ar x libc6_2.2.5-11.8_i386.deb
$ tar zxf data.tar.gz ./lib/libc-2.2.5.so

Boot your hosed machine from a rescue or install floppy/CD, mount the filesystem and copy the new file into place. Reboot. Voil, all's peachy again.
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Advogato entry: 2004-04-26 08:43:11 
Monday, April 26, 2004, 08:43 AM - Advogato, NetBSD
NetBSD now a trademark
The NetBSD Foundation is proud to announce that it has registered
the ``NetBSD'' trademark.
The foundation would like to thank Jay Michaelson (Wasabi Systems) for
filing the application and providing answers to the US Patent Office,
and Carl Oppedahl (Oppedahl & Larson) for giving advice and keeping the
Foundation informed about the process. An official policy on the use
of the NetBSD trademark is currently being drafted and will be
made public soon.

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Advogato entry: 2004-04-08 08:47:30 
Thursday, April 8, 2004, 08:47 AM - Advogato, NetBSD
NetBSD Status Report&
In order to provide a summary of the most
important changes over the last few months, the NetBSD Foundation has decided
to follow the example of other projects of releasing official status reports
on a regular basis. The first quarterly status report, covering the
activities within the NetBSD Project during the first three months of 2004 is
now .

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