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That's a shame. I was hoping to finally remove the Ralink Wi-Fi dongle I'm currently using. I should setup a boot environment for testing, to provide some kernel dumps for the developer to analyze.

Agreed. You can see a good example of that on this recent OpenBSD mail list thread. (some idiot wanted to start removing stuff because "they didn't need it and its old") There are a couple of companies currently trying to monetize FreeBSD, so...

Yeah but as far as I understand PATRIOT is/was controversial due to enabling extra-judicial measures that agencies could use against a wide array of people. In EU they are under civil laws and if you find yourself under measure, there is a...

The FBI can do this in the US. It's called the USA PATRIOT (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism) act. Newspeak at it's finest.

solved! added hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1 to /boot/loader.conf did the trick, now the keys are visible in xev

Support for physical hardware (example: usb attached devices) when you run windows in a vm (virtual machine) is hard, to my knowledge it will not work with bhyve. Other than that most things should work. But it would be prudent to test the...

powerless people are ignorant.

awk '($11 == "404") {print $1}' /var/log/access.log|uniq -c |sort -n this will have the ips with most failed tries at the bottom if you don't care about this just pipe the awk command thru sort -u

Fantastic, thanks a lot!! 🙏 Would it be possible to also set the target directory "wheels/cars" as a string to search for? Like: awk '($11 == "404" && $8 like "/cars/wheels") {print $1}' /var/log/access.log|uniq -c |sort -n

Mostly aggree with it. But not applicable to /bin/sh. I consider it as a scripting language, rather than command line interface. So would be awk, sed and so on in base. Another reason is (if I recall correctly) decreasing number of forth...

In my opinion not enough justification. People that deal with the loader in that way are not clueless users and would quick learn forth for their purpose.

You people are just pathetic.

Maybe it is time to move on. Because BSD is dying. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tvI6JCXD0

Except it wasn't. Ideally you want to have the whole base covered with tests that run in CI. Adding & running tests for the r* commands would be a waste of time and resources. Most plaintext & insecure daemons could be moved to ports without...

Started watching a (terrible) movie, Idiocracy, where a man is put to sleep but accidentally doesn't wake up for 500 years. What happened in all that time is smart people kept waiting for the perfect time to have kids that never happened while...

The kids won't use nano either because "console is old". Should we really ditch the console and editors in general to appease this market? Perhaps an OS should be developed for people who know better than the kids. I feel that pushing back is the...

You people are just pathetic.

It seems to be a distributed attack, all the hundreds of requests have different IP addresses, so I think it would be easiest to block them manually for now. But I need to look into the regex of fail2ban apache get dos filter - so thanks for the...

Use fail2ban https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban/discussions/3639 also you can rate limit the number of the connection per ip address block quick from <bad_hosts> pass in on $ext_if proto tcp to $webserver port www...

i don't see an ip addr on that line

This is the example IP address: 123.123.123.123

If FreeBSD wants to be like Linux, then I would change to Linux.

I think, the main purpose of the OS is to abstract the machine, write drivers. We can see the C compiler also as a driver, for making more abstract the CPU machine language. What BSD created a C compiler? I real OS is plan9, with a lot of own...

Unfortunately the problem of all scripting languages. Completely unnecessary change for luanatic reasons.

I'm having an ongoing DoS to a certain directory on our Apache web server. There are a few hundred requests at once, every one to five minutes, always to the same directory, always from the same IP addresses. As a quick solution, I have removed...

Actually I will not! I tried this exact sequence in my VM and I came up with an unbootable system because updating just the kernel and rebooting leaves the system without /etc/rc. I will stick with my previous (proved working) strategy.

NetBSD has a GUI. It is a lightweight one suitable for servers. KDE is in no way a good server GUI. It is way too bloated. There is a reason why commerical UNIX still uses CDE, and NetBSD uses (c)twm. If they announced that the optional GUI would...

They are removing things "because" though. Look at the mailing lists. And some of the stuff they are removing actually has a use. ftpd as an example has no known vulnerabilities, and is used by anyone on FreeBSD that wants an ftp server. What the...

With the upcoming changes in 15.0, and some of the major changes before, FreeBSD development seems lost. There are solutions being applied and thrown around, without a problem. I think that the rust-in-base, deprecation of longstanding base...

This thread grew too quickly to reply / react for each posts... Sorry if I'm overlooking someone already answered the same thing. For perl in base: If I recall correctly, one of the reason was perl changes too quickly and in-base perl was too...

I think I had it with your Rust in FreeBSD claims. What are you doing?

My understanding is that OpenBSD hacked up CVS to do a few more tricks, such as atomic multi-file commits. The FreeBSD move to git was unavoidable because svn sucks.

What?

Yes.

Hey there, this is going to be a zombie reply, but I'll share it because I have some details. I've been trying for a while now to get a port of racadm working in FreeBSD (and it may finally happen). That bug is here...

I used it but switched to p2p openvpn. Forgetting why. Wireguard is a bit more practical than either.

You have 4 cores, or 8 with Hyperthreading. So even with 8 your build will fit into 32 GB of RAM.

As I said, that isn't more or less likely than on independently published source code. You generally can't block scrapers from accessing source because you need things like ports to be able to download it outside a web browser.

"control"? What kind of control?

If you publish code on the Internet it is used for AI training, whether it is on github or not.

sftp is not an implementation of ftp.

But there are people who will probably suggest removing (i.e. spinning out into ports, but now that pkgbase is coming everything will be a port) ed, ex, and vi simply because "they're difficult". My first text editor was vi, and I didn't beg for...

OpenBSD has a BSD version.

You people are just pathetic.

Not true, it's got a long list of vulnerabilities... Just google for them. One hit that I found in 30 seconds: https://specopssoft.com/blog/tcp-port-21-ftp-vulnerabilities/

solved! added hw.usb.usbhid.enable=1 to /boot/loader.conf did the trick, now the keys are visible in xev

Git benefits mostly developers. Comparing it to CVS & Subversion is silly as it's in a different league. On systems without ZFS I tend to track /etc with git: `cd /etc ; sudo git init . ; sudo chmod 700 .git ; sudo git add . ; sudo git commit...

I like to second ralphbsz's post: What's 'old', 'new', or formerly or currently used on FreeBSD ain't enough to say what could be useful - 'good or worse'. Also there cannot be drawn a line clearly, since depending on the software those neither...

The kids won't use nano either because "console is old". Should we really ditch the console and editors in general to appease this market? Perhaps an OS should be developed for people who know better than the kids. I feel that pushing back is the...

I agree, and I loved and used rcs a lot back then, but version we had was GNU, so it had to go. Now, we have devel/rcs57 which is: and the latest release (5.10.1) in devel/rcs