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Hi. I'm running a FreeBSD 14.3 server with UFS2 and samba419 (also tried samba420). We've got some macOS (tahoe) users who store files on this server and they want to use macOS extended attributes. In general, this works, but for every file on...

It would be because 14.2 is EoL'ed at Sep.30 and now pkg for 14.* is built against 14.3. And it seems the pkg is built using 2025Q3, as 2025Q4 should have splitted out nvidia-kmod pkg, if already built.

No, the command is local-unbound-setup and then see if there's a working nameserver in /var/unbound/forward.conf In other words, during installation, I specify a nameserver, say 192.168.1.146. Then, later in the install, I choose to use...

For the version of sh that ships with FreeBSD, the definition of "arithmetic" can be found in the man page for sh, in the section "arithmetic expansion". It has a list of all operators, and ++ and -- are not among the ones listed. It explicitly...

don't do this fileliste=$(ls *sh) do for datei in *sh you don't execute an unnecessary external command and it works better if there are spaces in the file names consider this host$ ls -1 1 2.txt 3 4.txt 5.txt...

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Wireless interfaces never do. Only the wlandev device (wlan0 for example) you derive from it would show up. https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/network/#network-wireless

ppp does userspace tunneling; you might want to install net/mpd5, which negotiates in userspace but handles traffic in-kernel via netgraph. it also has more extensive documentation. we used it recently to monitor a PPPoE link that was in the...

By default is it in reverse lexicographical order? That seems more like what I'm seeing, as otherwise nsd should start before smokeping, and unbound would start last, but that's the reverse of what I'm seeing. Anyway, I did modify the script to...

Yes, you can do that with the re-root capability: https://people.freebsd.org/~lidl/blog/re-root.html For ssh you generally need /etc/passwd and pam. I don't know whether you can easily avoid that. The problem of course is that you have an...

I haven't been keeping track of T-Aoki's patch, (though I should as every time I update and nvidia is involved I have to gitup ports and reinstall from ports), but today, I saw another nvidia update and all was fine. Not sure if this was due to...

AI is not your trustworthy friend. cd /usr/src/sys/conf grep -h netlink * This will show you all the netlink related files the kernel expects when you use option NETLINK (which is already in DEFAULTS - at least in 15.0).

It probably got the filenames from somewhere else. Maybe somebody's personal project, who knows? The thing about LLM and AI in general is that IT DOES NOT THINK, although it does appear to do so. It has no understanding of ideas, meaning or...

the slop machine is making things up. stop "asking" the slop machine unless you want made-up answers.

Spiders eat things I don't like. I approve.

Think you should put down that bong 😁

For DNS, I've looked into dns/bind920, dns/maradns and dns/nsd. As for Bind, it used to be in FreeBSD base, and Unbound replaced it for fewer purposes. Bind has a script which generates its own zone files. Though, Bind is heavy. Didn't find...

It probably got the filenames from somewhere else. Maybe somebody's personal project, who knows? The thing about LLM and AI in general is that IT DOES NOT THINK, although it does appear to do so. It has no understanding of ideas, meaning or...

Who told you those files should exist? Where did you get that idea from?

Hi, I'm currently using vm-bhyve on a system with a single 500GB disk, which is nearly full. I plan to add a second disk and would like to store virtual machines on both drives. What configuration changes are needed in vm-bhyve to enable it to...

Hi everyone, I need an authoritative DNS server in my lan on dummy domains or subdomains of real domains. This allows me to test web applications in development. The structure of my network is very classic: Internet connection via a box of my...

I wonder which DNS should I use. I'm noob at this, so I was hoping some more experienced admins could aid me a bit. Currently I'm thinking about dns/bind vs dns/powerdns My server will host some sites this is primary reason why I want to...

I thought I'd put this one to bed. I downloaded a pre-built ISO with several of the UEFI shells for various CPUs and split out the AMD64 version named bootx64. I then took a memstick, created a GPT geom on it, added an efi partition, formatted...

When we move to pkgbase, will we have all those few hundred system packages listed in pkg info, or will we have some sort of separation? For example I dislike how dpkg -l on a minimal Debian install still spews out few screens of packages...

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I don’t know it has to do with the sound Om (ॐ) but it is certainly a glorious riff! View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ZfQUVNsqo A live version (some people prefer this): View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASoUUKzgCG0

It seems we’re facing this issue again during the package build for the repository: https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/beefy16/build.html?mastername=135amd64-default&build=a0d0dd6fde21 I think that if a package wasn’t built, nothing should be...

Some flashers even use a script to execute the flashing under EFI. startup.nsh storcli.efi /c0 download file=HBA_9400-8i_Mixed_Profile.bin

I am confused about UEFI shells. I think I understand the UEFI boot process, but I need to update a card using a UEFI flash process. I'm on 13.1 amd64 with an ASUS motherboard. The ASUS firmware has an option to boot to a UEFI shell. Is...

OK first stupid question. I am compiling a new kernel and I noticed the system clock is off on that box. Changing system time while compiling // installing kernel. Does it have any negative effect?

Because sometimes all we can base our updates on is a text string. This is a problem even if you have your own poudriere. The text string is baked into package meta-file. Could we (ports) do better? Most certainly. With compatibility shims in...

It always does. It's just text string change. It's not like there's any "magic" to this. When I worked on IBM mainframe MVS (O/S) support and development, that too had that text string change. People thought it was some monumental thing whereas...

I have wondered why Unbound replaced BIND in the base system. I particularly don't care for Unbound since I cut my DNS teeth on ISC's BIND software. So why the change? Is it because Unbound is a caching only DNS resolver or was there another...

That's basically it. It was also a bit of a pain to keep BIND updated in the base. And since most people don't need a full fledged DNS server it was decided to remove BIND from the base and replace it with a "simple" caching only service.

Found the "announcement": https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-April/056057.html

Unless you changed the DEFAULT_VERSION of openssl, both curl and git will be linked to the OpenSSL of the base OS, not security/openssl. Edit: You may want to try certctl rehash

With a minor version upgrade, from 14.1 to 14.3 for example, the ABI is not allowed to change. So any userland application built on 14.0 will work just fine on 14.9 (fictitious version, to illustrate the point). With a major version change the...

You have to do this with every major version upgrade. After a major version upgrade you must reinstall all ports/packages due to ABI changes in the base OS.

Well, the FreeBSD loader is a kind of shell. The entire boot menu is a script that runs in this shell. You can drop to loader prompt from the boot menu or interrupt the boot process and you are in a shell/CLI like environment. Originally it was...

No. Stop treating it as if it's Windows. There's zero reason for reinstalling the entire OS due to a configuration error. Just fix the configuration.

I've found that at first reboot, I always have to add another nameserver. Someone, when I asked, said this was normal, I can't find the thread now. But unbound has to build a up a cache. (however, this seems to disagree with what people who know...

So this is my plan for my future upgrades: # user root vi /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-base.conf url = "pkg+https://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/base_latest"; vi /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD-kmods.conf url...

You have a seriously bad configured network if 127.0.0.1 cannot be reached. Is this a jail perhaps? A non-VNET jail won't have access to lo0.

No, pkg doesn't have a -a option for pkg-install. The Handbook recommended way, 26.2.3.2. Upgrading Packages After a Major Version Upgrade, is using pkg-static upgrade -f With a major upgrade new binaries, including libraries, will have been...

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Just upgraded pkgs and the nvidia-driver 570 driver is now 580 which caused the lost connection with the server message. I removed the 580 pkg, but don't know how to revert to 570 or change the rc.conf file or the driver-nvidia.conf file to...

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Hi ! I'm asking for some help because I can't find out my error(s) there, even after reading the handbook and several threads. I'm running a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B with FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE and I want to create a WiFi Hotspot which redirects...

I used to do this, using a *BSD machine as an AP. Started that with OpenBSD, then switched to FreeBSD (to a large extent because the device drivers for 802.11 on OpenBSD were not production quality at the time). I never used a recipe. Instead...

You get this type of error message when the hostname resolves to an IPv6 address but the system has no IPv6 enabled. Strange because the domain has both an IPv4 and IPv6 address, so it should simply use IPv4 if there's no IPv6 available. What...