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The IllumOS folks have expressed interest in replacing their IPF 4.2.8 with IPF 5.1.2 as we have done. Having the same firewall software on multiple platforms is something I've done at $JOB - 1. I had a number of Solaris and FreeBSD systems...

I know this is an old thread, but I'd like to share my failure with htpasswd.py. As of Oct 2025, the encrypted password created by htpasswd.py is different from that by Apache's htpasswd. I haven't investigated the detail but I'd recommend to...

The IllumOS folks have expressed interest in replacing their IPF 4.2.8 with IPF 5.1.2 as we have done. Having the same firewall software on multiple platforms is something I've done at $JOB - 1. I had a number of Solaris and FreeBSD systems...

I believe that a few IllumOS distributions use IPFilter. It makes sense to have firewalls which have more widespread use across multiple operating systems. I let misconceptions and confusion about IPFilter affect my view about it earlier.

I'm marking the thread as SOLVED and I confirm that after getting rid of all that crud the Virtualbox about page now reads: VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 7.2.0 r170228 © 2004-2025 Oracle and/or its affiliates (Qt6.9.2 on xcb)...

Sorry I was unclear. This is only about using a Passkey to log into the website. Here is a more detailed explanation: At the top of the FreeBSD Forums webpage, click on your name. That brings up the "Your Account" dropdown. From that dropdown...

See, the stupid project of Xlibre keeps being brought up. It's a stupid project, so I don't blame Void for trying to hide it. This is exactly why. Void didn't attempt to sabotage the community, they wished to make some stupid project go away...

Regarding payment I'm on digital from long long ago. It will soon be 20 years. Croatia's former currency was tied to Euro since early 00s and laws demanding companies pay salaries to declared bank accounts only made physical money less convenient...

There is a bit of difference between Split and Belgrade when it comes to this, although the "cultural difference" between us is greatly, greatly exaggerated by local politics narrative. (mentioning Belgrade because I was there few months ago) We...

Back in the days of Soviet Union, I have memories of plenty confusing purchase procedure: 1. Make selection at display counter, and tell the sales staffer at that counter, wrap up 500 grams of this beef, please. 2. Walk away to join the line to...

Right, I get it's not clear what exactly is the issue, or where if you're not familiar with any of the 'technical' details. Alternatively, every SA or EN has a patch file at the bottom, you could look at the paths of the files being patched...

If trying to move everything remaining into somewhere like in this time and still everything works fine, you don't need to restore anything. If some stops working correctly, seek for what's missed and restore them only. The directory...

Thanks so much, really appreciated.

On my local poudriere builds, when bandwidth of disk I/O is eaten up by pararrel, multiple and massive extracts and/or packaging, one or two of them fails due to timeout. The failure smells like the situation.

Awesome suggestion! I had more than a hundred libQt6* files there, I moved to a temp directory and now both Libreoffice and Virtualbox start just fine. So my question is: there are a ton of other files there, for example 105 libKF6* and some...

Look at the specific SA or EN. You could also tell from the list of files freebsd-update wants to update, if it includes a kernel update you'll see it wants to update /boot/kernel/kernel (and often a bunch of kernel modules in /boot/kernel/ too)...

Problem on LibreOffice (qt.qpa.plugin error) smells like what happened when Qt5 was the default. Do you have anything Qt-related libraries under /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/ (including subdirectories)? If so, try moving them into different...

I'm not familiar with virtualbox, how do you start it usually? I did an experiment and tried to run a qt application from a userid that was not allowed to use the current display (both ${DISPLAY} env variable missing and not allowed via xhost)...

Someone I know had an idea for developing a software system to handle large deliveries for companies. So he signed up to deliver for Amazon. He tried to get me interested in helping so I went along for a few deliveries to see how that worked...

Use freebsd-version -urk, then compare the version of the running kernel with the installed kernel. If those are different you still need to reboot. If several of the above options are specified, freebsd-version will print the...

Yeah, but that's often some weird loop during the build phase. Now it seems to fail when extracting the distfile. Haven't seen that one before, but perhaps I missed it, don't use it myself.

Only enough to tell one-off stories about someone else but never oneself. Never happened to me. Never happened to anyone I know. The only place I hear such stories is online and never anywhere else.

2025Q3 is the current quarterly and I cannot see 2025Q4 yet both on official cgit and official github readonly mirror.

Right, miscounted. Still, a new quarterly should get here soon.

No, there are automated systems which try to find "patterns" and try to do pre-crime. These have bugs and trigger the round-hole-square-peg mode in officials. That is then problem two. Buttle, Tuttle, what's the difference? A coworker once had...

2025Q3 has just been branched off, so everything in 'latest' yesterday will now be in the new quarterly.

This has been going on as long as OSS has been relevant. Microsoft and SCO were doing this crap in the 90s, and they still continue. They just now try to be more subversive and quiet instead of being big, loud, and in your face.

I'm wondering if there isn't a concerted effort to subvert the free software community. Not conspiracy theorying or anything, but the same week that it was reported that the Apache foundation changed their name and logo because of some...

There is no man in a back room somewhere watching every move you make. I wouldn't and don't worry about it.

It's been having some issues lately. https://portsfallout.com/fallout?port=www%2Fchromium%24 Weird issue to be honest: ===> Extracting for chromium-140.0.7339.207 => SHA256 Checksum OK for chromium-140.0.7339.207.tar.xz. => SHA256 Checksum OK...

Hello, Maybe because its niche and not commonly used/needed?

My MTA is POSTFIX permissions on /usr/libexec/dma is -r-xr-sr-x 1 root mail 68000 Dec 11 2024 dma

Can you clear your .wine directory in $HOME and boot up winecfg again?

It's marked as BROKEN, please see devel/RStudio and corresponding RStudio isn't compatible with boost-1.87

289895 Ok I believe I found the issue. Launching directly the VM (virtualboxvm VM-NAME) I was able to start and the VM works just fine. Help - About says: VirtualBox Graphical User Interface Version 7.2.0 r170228 © 2004-2025 Oracle and/or its...

That logic applies to shopping on the Internet... CCTV only makes sense in cases of violence and armed assault. Timestamped visits by someone, yes. Tracking transactions - CCTV is no good for that. Cams powerful enough to read the value of cash...

It depends on the system used. Until some weeks ago I could have my sausages barcode issued at meat department in the local store where I usually buy (they have free grilling service for the meat bought at their store), pay at cashier, and when...

The reason why I prefer to pay in cash is not to leave a trace of even one honest commercial transaction like buying bread, coffee and sausages in one store, and then 10~15 mins later buying a beer and whiskey in another. I'm aware that all...

Thank for the response I had pretty much given up. I did as you said drwxrwx--- 2 root mail 512 Nov 1 2019 dma unfortunately I still have the same error Sep 30 21:13:03 dma[dma][20314]: can not create temp file in...

tried some more. Tweaking permissions now have this drwxrwxrwx 2 dma postfix 512 Nov 1 2019 dma which I believe is pretty much wide open I still get the same error dma[dma][69517]: can not create temp file in `/var/spool/dma'...

You can use 40-pin GPIO header. You'll need USB to TTL serial adapter, adapter's TX to 3W's RX pin 10, RX to 3W's pin 8, GND to GND. Good luck 🤞

Well, that depends on the local culture – I'm sure that everywhere in the Balkans and in the neighboring countries (like .hu) if one doesn't leave a tip that person will be considered not only as a scrooge but as an asshole and worst scumbag, not...

Reaching the end-of-file on an ordinary file (read returns a zero byte count) causes cat to terminate. This is true regardless of whether any process is also ("occasionally") writing to the file. The rules change if the standard input is a...

Here, tipping culture per se doesn't exist. The staff is expected to earn the paycheck just like anyone else. And in a lot of bars and restaurants during the season, the regular pay is very high (and so is volume of work). So if you're unable to...

Reaching the end-of-file on an ordinary file (read returns a zero byte count) causes cat to terminate. This is true regardless of whether any process is also ("occasionally") writing to the file. The rules change if the standard input is a...

I'm not quite sure that I understood this correctly, but when I want to monitor file as it grows, I'll use tail -f, not cat

Trying to up my security game. Using KeePassXC as my password manager. Login normally (username/password), go to "Password and Security" and click on +Passkey. Site reports an error but a passkey is registered in KeePassXC. Examining the .passkey...

It's indeed broken for 32 bit executables. --arch i386 doesn't help. gdb works.

bhyve Type 2 Hypervisor vs Qubes OS (Xen) being Type 1. Perhaps an important distinction for people. FreeBSD not being able to run OCI containers (no native Docker) seems like the largest problem this guy has with BSD-based solutions. He...