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Hi Sevendogs. I'm glad you got this working. I finally got around to setting up my Canon LiDE 220 scanner on my FreeBSD 11.0 desktop, reading the Image Scanners section in the FreeBSD handbook. After some initial testing it appears to work just fine without any specific configuration on my...

Slightly confusingly, ZFS pools have a ZFS dataset at their root. ZFS pools may contain more than one dataset but they always contain at least one. So, salival, I believe your ZFS pool storage contains a single dataset also referred to as storage. Getting back to your original question... I...

No, I don't believe it is possible to pick and choose which datasets are received from a stream. The man page for zstreamdump has a tantalising description of "zstreamdump - filter data in zfs send stream" but is actually for viewing information about a stream rather than filtering out datasets...

Thanks for the great list, Oko. You are right here: the title of the bundle is a bit misleading but I'm happy to ignore that and just consider it as a set of (mostly) useful books. Who knows, maybe the shells/bash books will be useful when I find myself having to debug some script. Man pages...

It's a great bundle of books and well worth the purchase even though I already have several of them in hard copy. Thanks to xavi for the heads-up. The "vi and Vim" or "GNU Emacs" depending on your personal preference, "sed & awk" and "Classic Shell Scripting" are the pick of the bunch in my...

Hi Antarex. I also had to use the mode command so I could see the console properly later with my Nvidia GeForce GTX 770M. For me, putting the following in /boot/loader.rc.local worked. mode 2 I needed to try several modes before I found one that gave me a useable console once booting was...

Welcome to the forums, Greg Uramowski. What you want to do is possible; you can filter outbound as well as inbound traffic using a firewall. Remember you will need to allow the connections for the VPN tunnels. The FreeBSD Handbook has a section on firewalls and might be a good place to start...

Welcome to the forums, Mattais. FreeBSD 11 is a great time to get started with GELI on an SSD as I see from the release notes that it now supports TRIM. In addition to the manual pages you might find the following sections in the excellent FreeBSD Handbook helpful: Encrypting Disk Partitions ZFS.

Does the firewall device have a command line interface, perhaps accessible via telnet? Have you checked the device's network address hasn't reverted to its default (that is, the web interface may still be available but not on the IP address you expect)? For connecting via a serial link you...

I wouldn't expect you to need a freebsd-boot partition when using the UEFI bootloader so I'm not sure that was the cause of the issue. Did you try installing with the default partitioning proposed by the installer as I suggested? In previous releases the *-memstick image has been a hybrid...

The good news from your bootloader message is that the first stage UEFI bootloader is running fine. The bad news is that it then can't find the next stage bootloader, which lives inside /boot. It seems unlikely to me (though it is possible) that this would be a general flaw in the FreeBSD...

Atsuri, it is possible (that is, in an ugly hack way) to store the contents of /boot on the EFI partition with FreeBSD but I really wouldn't recommend it. I'm not sure I'd be comfortable with it for GNU/Linux either but since this is a FreeBSD forum let's ignore that for now :) I would suggest...

Really nice solution, tobik. I wasn't previously aware of GEOM CONCAT. It would be easy to script for a large number of files, with the caveat that GEOM CONCAT doesn't seem to support device modification, meaning that the device would need to be destroyed and recreated to add or remove files...

It would be possible to write your own small device driver to do this, where the driver presented the device /dev/clink that could be read in the way you suggest. See the page in the FreeBSD handbook on character devices or for more detailed information the book FreeBSD Device Drivers. Another...

You mentioned disks (plural). Did the order (and therefore numbering) of the drives change from the old machine to the new machine? If so is it possible you have restored the wrong metadata? According to the geli man page, the metadata is stored on the last sector of the provider. It is...

Did you make changes from the default SSH daemon configuration (/etc/ssh/sshd_config)? If so, posting the configuration file would be useful. If you are running an SSH server on your GNU/Linux Mint host you could use scp to copy it from the FreeBSD guest to your host system.

When you say you moved your system to a new box, what did you do? Physically move the hard disks or copy the data from your old hard disks onto the new hard disks in the new machine? Since your data is important, I am hopeful you have a backup. It might be quicker to configure new GELI...

Hi, bicboi, welcome to FreeBSD and the forums. Your port forwarding in VirtualBox looks to be working fine. However, you said that the bicboi user doesn't exist on the FreeBSD guest system. This is the cause of the "illegal user" error when you try to log in as bicboi. You need to specify...

From the FreeBSD development wiki page: I have experienced the same issue, though not yet submitted a PR. Try creating your filesystem as FAT16 to see whether that works. You could also create your FAT32 filesystem with another operating system. FreeBSD will still be able to read and write...

I find a lot of organisations spend a lot of money securing information whilst it is sitting on a server somewhere and then tend to forget that putting unencrypted hard disks, USB flash disks, paper etc straight in the trash puts their information at risk. I am definitely all for recycling old...