Alright, so I just found out about that FeedWordPress plugin for WordPress and I figured I would give it a spin. It seems to be doing everything I did with Planet, and has a few features (shared admin rights through wordpress accounts, mark new posts as pending instead of publishing them straight away) that could prove useful if I want to poke core@ about planet.freebsd.org once again.
Anyway, check it out.
I don’t like writing long posts so let’s go straight to the point. Here is a shar to test mail/opensmtpd on FreeBSD. Read the comments in the Makefile. Also this is just a preview. The port isn’t complete (I haven’t checked the conflicts yet and it doesn’t update mailer.conf).
For sample configs, have a look there.
Comments/patches welcome.
Following Murray’s suggestion to use feedburner to track Planet FreeBSD subscribers, I’ve created feeds and added badges to Planet FreeBSD frontpages. So far it still shows 0 subscribers but I’ve done the necessary tweaking to point the rss/atom feeds to the new one. I hope the readers will be smart enough to notice the rss to atom change. We’ll see how it works out.
I’ve also removed the rss10/opml/foaf feeds as they seem to be mostly requested by crawlers. If you’re using it and can give a reasonable reason why you can’t use atom, drop me an email.
I read about prowl a few weeks ago, and quickly dismissed it as I believed it required growl sending him the alerts. Actually it doesn’t!
Here’s the description from the website:
Prowl is a Growl client for the iPhone. Notifications from your Mac (or even Windows! see the FAQ) can be sent to your iPhone over push, with a full range of customization and grace you expect.
Just go the the prowl website, create your account, log in, go to settings and generate your API key. Once you’re done, download the prowl client for iPhone (2.79E if I remember correctly) and start it once, it will register your phone on the website.
Now, download the CLI client here (not yet in ports) and start playing around!
Here are a few things you can do with prowl already: receive Nagios alerts, know when somebody’s talking to you on irssi, ...
WordPress-MU 2.8.2 fixes a XSS vulnerability and a few other annoying bugs (like the auto-upgrade features).
Following WordPress-MU 2.8.1 release, I’ve updated the copy on blogs.freebsdish.org. Apparently there’s a bug with the auto-upgrader as it still says I should update to 2.8.1.
As usual, poke me if you encounter any issue.
Thanks to the work of Romain Tartiere, the FreeBSD ports of mono have just been updated to the latest stable version (2.4). I expect a few more C# ports to appear soonish! hint gnome-do hint
If you haven’t read it yet, Banshee 1.5.0 was released yesterday. I’ve just updated the port. I had to drop my .config/banshee-1 directory and start over but that was only a minor issue since my library was rather small. Hopefully this was just a local problem.
Check out this announcement for more details about the new features.
... losing your passwd/group files when you don’t have a (recent) backup.
Well, it is especially annoying when you’re connected remotely and don’t have a root shell. When you have root privileges, here’s your solution:
cd /var/db/pkg
for i in `grep useradd */+INSTALL | cut -d: -f1`; do
env PKG_PREFIX=/usr/local/ sh $i ${i%%/*} PRE-INSTALL;
env PKG_PREFIX=/usr/local/ sh $i ${i%%/*} POST-INSTALL;
done
Obviously that can be done in one line, I just wrapped it to make it easier to read.
You’re welcome.
I’ve had the port locally for some time, but since the tree was frozen and there was no rush to commit it, I forgot about it. Anyway, here it is!
Also, I added the pulseaudio option (on by default) to the moonlight port, which makes the moonshine experience much more interesting.
When everybody’s talking about Moonlight 2.0 Preview, we’re finally getting somewhere with 1.0 
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