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This is why I'm tracking latest stable branch. ;) Except for upgrading ZFS pool.😅

But should be limited to its original settings ...

By default the nobody account is locked out, has a non-existent home directory and has it's shell set to /usr/bin/nologin. You shouldn't be able to get a shell on that account. Don't use it as a radius account. The account can used to run...

Hello! After googling found a lot of interesting articles about 'nobody' system user. But didn't found answer for things I am interested in. I have radius authentication configured, users can telnet/ssh to my FreeBSD with radius accounts...

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The fifth ALPHA build for the FreeBSD 15.0 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv7, aarch64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD mirror sites...

For pkg name, maybe because to match "practical" naming rules for localized versions. For example, category japanese has japanese/libreoffice which its pkg name is ja-libreoffice. Seen in other languages having its own category like arabic...

AFAIR freebsd-update arrived in 6.2? But I also didn't use it for a long time, being building everything from src, and I even started with using pkgs vs all built from ports ~10

And maybe 2.x to 3.0, which switched object format from historical a.out to ELF.

Major upgrades are a primary reason I use ZFS even on single disk systems. Very easy to create a new BE, chroot stuff and upgrade completely (base and packages) into the new BE. Activate new BE single reboot and you're up and running...

I always track latest stable branch. Switch when new one is created. So now I'm on stable/15.

15 brings in a modern Kerberos among other improvements. Too many people feel updating or applying patches break things. This is probably due to their experience with Microsoft Windows, which breaks pretty much every Patch Tuesday. Other...

Excxept that I don't have space in another pool to clone and promote, but sounds a good workflow.

What if 1 clone snapshot 2 some deletions 3 promote cloned dataset 4 destroy snapshot and old dataset ?

This was literally magic, a feature I was not aware of. Thanks!

Did you happen look at the article I linked to? It seems like setting that sysctl might do the trick for you, allowing you to cheaply copy the files out of the snapshot and back to the live filesystem and then delete the snapshot. (I have not...

Between ISA and PCI lies VLB that extended ISA to 32-bit access and 25+ MHz bus operation. With such an ISA extension, realizing simple hardware is no longer possible. ISA runs specifically at 8 MHz to allow the simple access logic on cards to...

Coincidentally, I'd been struggling in with this recently, nearly to the point of dual-booting a SystemD-less Linux distro just for Wine. However, this port of Proton Experimental 10.0 yielded a couple of staggering successes in running things...

Between each test I always clear .wine and .i386-wine-pkg, no exceptions. I get less FPS in Kings Bounty Dark Side on wine-proton than wine, this is what I mentioned in the thread.

Between ISA and PCI lies VLB that extended ISA to 32-bit access and 25+ MHz bus operation. With such an ISA extension, realizing simple hardware is no longer possible. ISA runs specifically at 8 MHz to allow the simple access logic on cards to...

The original PC lost a central element of it's open architecture when the ISA/EISA bus was replaced with PCI. Before PCI, you could fairly easily make your own hardware to add in to the expansion slots. After PCI, that became more difficult...

How can ME be a security risk if, for example, the client machine that has ME is behind a layer 3 firewall like opnsense that runs on a machine that has no ME on it. Im genuinely curious. Is it possible to spy on it at osi leyer 2, or am i...

I confirm that AX210 works perfectly under 14.3 in ac mode.

I am convinced by the innovations proposed by Wayland, but I think it is great for users who want X11 or Xlibre in the system have the same right and the same facilities to do so. I hope that both systems can coexist for a long time.

The handbook is perfectly clear; it shows the difference between FreeBSD base and third-party packages. You just have to read it AND understand it.

Correct. graphics/nvidia-drm-*-kmod[-devel] superceded x11/nvidia-hybrid-graphics and x11/nvidia-secondary-driver. The downside is that graphics/nvidia-drm-*-kmod[-devel] does NOT support legacy branches of drivers. Related discussion was done...

Mostly done with "vi". That tunable is immutable once the kernel is running, that's why you put it in loader.conf.

GRUB reads from /boot/grub/grub.cfg which is live. Of course many distros do weird crap to generate that file which is why you need to run commands to make it live (i.e grubby, update-grub, and all the others). Converse to that, UNIX-like...

I am convinced by the innovations proposed by Wayland, but I think it is great for users who want X11 or Xlibre in the system have the same right and the same facilities to do so. I hope that both systems can coexist for a long time.

I've not had significant upgrade issues in years. Now I do wait a few days before doing so but I've also upgraded right at the announcement. When I ran a web dev company, we had a test server and also waited a couple of weeks to do any upgrades.

I run/maintain my own 2 FreeBSD (VPS) servers, and I am kinda proud of that feat. Because of this, and the fact that I'm a systems administrator by trade... well, I take my update / security schemes quite seriously, even though we're basically...

Strange, I actually install only my country's language pack because it has the main software as dependency... [7:24][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd ~]$ pkg prime-origins|grep libreoffice editors/libreoffice-it [14:11][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd ~]$

Yep. AMIGA 600. Unfortunatelly w/o HDD.

The correct way to check if the device is connected to the network is the AT+CREG? command. Next up, you can check for supported operators with the AT+COPS=? command.

The handbook is perfectly clear; it shows the difference between FreeBSD base and third-party packages. You just have to read it AND understand it.

Yes. According to my notes: http://tingo.homedns.org/machines/apple_ibook_g4/freebsd/

UB40 - Strange Fruit

The hw.efi.poweroff needs to be set in /boot/loader.conf. My Lenovo needs to set it to 0 or it will also drain the battery.

Add to the VM conf vm "debug="yes", perhaps this gives more info. debug If this is set to yes, all output from the bhyve(8) process will be written to ${vm_dir}/guest/bhyve.log...

Crivens Farm trucks

To power off the machine, use the shutdown "-p" option, or poweroff ("Calling “poweroff” is equivalent to running shutdown -p now"). -p The system is halted and the power is turned off (hardware support required, otherwise...

Ask on freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list, Bjoern A. Zeeb is the developer of the mt76 driver. You can expect an answer as soon as possible. But don't hold your breath on the support of the MT7622. mt76 driver code is in the source tree...

gpw928 good grief, what do these spiders hunt? Mice and rats?

Maybe we try to increase common sense as a first attempt?

Well, maybe he came to the interview and had some fun with them, turning the lamp around kind of thing? I like dogs, but sadly I have to choose between dog and job. So the best thing I can do for a dog is not having one. Maybe when the kids are...

The kangaroos are wild, but, on the edge of town, are not as scared of people as they should be. They come in through the hole in the fence to graze and rest. I opened the fence, as it saves me mowing the lawn. I have at least half a dozen...

As my best friend from the High School (mid '80s) said, and she has PhD in that Materials Science and Applied Physics for a few decades now (while I'm still just an OS tinkerer):

.au contribution to the early Unix development is often neglected, but I recon your guys did it only because you have such a nice pets, but rest of them animals are deadliest ever. I recon, it makes a mind sharp and a kind enough to be a Unix dev 😉

There's one in my back yard... This is the boys' club, where they rest and recover...

They used to sing about my life and my troubles while I was just a teen, and they did it again when I was much, much older...

View: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=BDaYBB9DkBg&si=ehuU74jWa6PkT_Oe View: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=c65yR7FWJsM&si=GnA79zhgQoenVw7m View: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=8zSODUOoE8w&si=l6f-dyRHYqv5yqQ_