What BSD gives to the world

Today I read an interesting article on BSD and what it gave (and still gives) to the world, you can find it here, this is probably the best article about BSD, Unix and Linux, I ever read. Also the changes to du(1) have been commited to NetBSD-current, so we’ll get the long awaited feature with 1.7 ;-).

NetBSD 1.6

NetBSD 1.6 is finally at RELEASE.

BSD multimedia

Today I read a very interesting article on how to turn your BSD box into a powerful multimedia workstation. Although it was written with FreeBSD in mind, it might also be useful to read for a NetBSD user interested in enjoying multimedia on its NetBSD machine.

The September Issue of Daemon News on-line E-zine includes a small Q&A guide on how to properly partition a disk for NetBSD written by Grey Wolf.

NetBSD 1.6RC3

NetBSD 1.6 Release Candidate 3 available. Interesting article at BSDnewsletter.com: Taking MicroBSD for a test run (MicroBSD aims to be a hardened OpenBSD derivate). And finally agc explaining changes to pkgsrc in August 2002.

Setting up sendmail with Milter support on NetBSD

Note that if you are using NetBSD 1.6T or better, the system sendmail already supports the Milter library. And pkgsrc supports sendmail installation (for 8.12.x, 8.12.9 at this moment) linked with Milter library. See mail/libmilter and mail/sendmail (use make USE_MILTER=yes command to build the last one).
(Thanks to Mishka for pointing this out)

This is a posting from Mishka to comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc on getting sendmail to work with libmilter using the devel/pth package:

 
From: Mishka <mishka@batraq.anything3d.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: NetBSD + Milter = friendship :)
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 18:12:49 +0300
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Hello!
 
I found that built-in sendmail (8.11.6 for NetBSD 1.6E) compiled without
Milter support. Next, in pkgsrc collection sendmail have the same version,
and have not Milter support also. It seems to be due to absence of POSIX
threads in system.
 
Anobody knows rightest way to enable Milter functionality in Sendmail?
It would be great if we can solve this problem without install other
version of sendmail, but use built-in one.
 
Having installed pth-1.4.1 before, I tried the following:
 
1) Add the following files and dir to /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail:
  libmilter/
  libmilter/Makefile
  libmilter/Makefile.milter
 
    With following contents:
  ---- libmilter/Makefile.milter BEGIN ----
  # $NetBSD$
 
  .if _FFR_MILTER
  PTH_CFLAGS!=    pth-config --cflags
  PTH_LDFLAGS!=   pth-config --ldflags
  PTH_LIBS!=      pth-config --libs
 
  CPPFLAGS+=      -D_FFR_MILTER
  CPPFLAGS+=      ${PTH_CFLAGS}
  LDADD+=         ${PTH_LDFLAGS} ${PTH_LIBS}
  .endif
  ---- libmilter/Makefile.milter END ----
 
  ---- libmilter/Makefile BEGIN (derived from libsmutil/Makefile) ----
  #       $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.4 2001/12/12 12:24:21 lukem Exp $
 
  NOSHARE=        # defined
  NOPIC=          # defined
  NOPROFILE=      # defined
 
  .include <bsd.own.mk>
  .include "Makefile.milter"
 
  DIST=           ${.CURDIR}/../../../dist
  .PATH: ${DIST}/sendmail/libmilter
 
  LIB=            milter
 
  CPPFLAGS+=      -DNOT_SENDMAIL
 
  SRCS=           comm.c engine.c handler.c listener.c
  SRCS+=          main.c signal.c sm_gethost.c smfi.c
 
  libinstall::
 
  .include <bsd.lib.mk>
  ---- libmilter/Makefile BEGIN ----
 
    And have added the following line to Makefile:
 
  .include "libmilter/Makefile.milter"
 
2) Next, having installed libmilter/Makefile.milter I do:
 
  # pwd
  /usr/src/gnu/usr.sbin/sendmail
  # make clean
  ...
  # make -f Makefile -D_FFR_MILTER
  ...
  . at this stage i seen that libsmutil and other is compiled
  . with _FFR_MILTER flags and linked with -lpth
  ...
  # make install
  ...
  # ldd /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail
  /usr/libexec/sendmail/sendmail:
           -lwrap.0 => /usr/lib/libwrap.so.0
           -lutil.6 => /usr/lib/libutil.so.6
           -lssl.2 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.2
           -lcrypto.1 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1
           -lpth.14 => /usr/pkg/lib/libpth.so.14     <--- look here
           -lc.12 => /usr/lib/libc.so.12
  # cd libmilter && make -D_FFR_MILTER
  ...
  # cp libmilter.a /usr/lib
  # ns -s /usr/lib/libmilter.asmfi_getpriv in smfi.o
  smfi_addrcpt in smfi.o
  smfi_addheader in smfi.o
  smfi_getsymval in smfi.o
  ... and so on ...
 
3) After two ones below, I have sucessfully compiled sample mail filter
    which uses libmilter library.
 
4) After all, I have added following lines to /etc/mail/sendmail.rc:
 
  O InputMailFilters=drweb-filter
  Xdrweb-filter,  S=inet:3001@localhost,  T=S:10m;R:10m;E:1h
 
    And errors for this moment wasn't detected :)
 
But i have ask you once more: is there exists more easiest way to do this,
and anybody know what we will do if some package uses Milter functionality?
(maybe syspkg ;)
 
Thanks in advance.
 
--
Mishka.