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recent news

[2021-10-25] New version of nextcron.py now handles environment variables like HOME, MAILTO, etc., and dcron's @noauto correctly.

[2021-10-23]

• LogBlitz version 3 does not need an external decompressor in order to read xz compressed files anymore.
• nextcron.py reads one or more crontabs from stdin and displays upcoming cronjobs which are about to run next.

[2021-10-14] graypold 0.8 now supports SPF

[2021-10-10]

• imapnotes now allows you to delete notes
• My howto Upgrading PostgreSQL with pg_upgrade on FreeBSD now covers PostgreSQL 14 on FreeBSD 13.

[2021-06-13] LogBlitz version 2 allows you to display log entries in reverse order, i.e. latest ones first.

[2021-06-07] FastCGI with nginx and fcgiwrap on FreeBSD

[2021-06-06] LogBlitz is a CGI script to search through your (sys-)log files.

[2021-05-24] New version of rrdquery.pl fixes a bug which accepted aggregate functions written in lowercase only.

[2021-05-16] New version of kvmlib natively, i.e. without VM_EXTRA, supports:

• UEFI boot
• PCI passthrough
• USB keyboard and mouse
• ISCSI disks

[2021-05-09] New version of zfs-snap is compatible with (Open)ZFS on FreeBSD 13.

[2021-03-21] New version of kvmlib comes with 3 new features:

• qemu will use the ALSA sound device given by VM_ALSADEV
• If VM_LAUNCH_STOP is set to 1, then a graphical dialog is displayed where you can select by a simple mouse click to shutdown the VM
• Commandline options startnovnc, startstop, and startnovncstop will override VM_LAUNCH_VNC, VM_LAUNCH_STOP, and both VM_LAUNCH_VNC and VM_LAUNCH_STOP, respectively.

[2021-01-23] If you compile ftp6proxy version 4 with support for netgraph along with ipfw, then it makes use of Capsicum.

[2021-01-17] You can now deploy ftp6proxy version 3 in a pure ipfw environment without pf. By default, it chroot's itself to /var/empty, has been prepared to support Capsicum, and allows you to specify a syslog facility.

[2021-01-12] New version of check_tvh.py supports the commandline option -f or --force in order to restart webcamd and Tvheadend forcefully.

[2020-12-31] New version of zfs-snap accepts a frequency per filesystem or volume, which optionally indicates the time that must have passed since the last snapshot was taken.

[2020-12-24]

• New version of kvmlib fixes a bug which prevented you from changing cdrom media
• rrdquery.pl now supports trivial aggregates (avg(), count(), min(), max(), and sum()).

[2020-12-05] Updated howto Upgrading PostgreSQL with pg_upgrade on FreeBSD now mounts devfs inside the jail.

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