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Since epair0 did not exist, I ran ifconfig epair create, which created epair3a and epair3b. How do I go about creating an epair0?

Is it a local AI-service that handles your private communication? What if they hide personal data inside encrypted transmissions to a social media server? They need some serious trust. What should convince to use it?

On a separate note. As far as flatpak/snap/whatever else goes. FreeBSD has a pretty good selection of options. It's fully possible to stick to just ports or pkgs if you want to, I was not able to do the same with Linux in the last year as...

IMHO, it's kind of weird how some people seem to think that pkg base is the first step towards just casting it all out and going with the Linux Kernel+Random whatever the distro maintainer wants to bundle with it to get a distro out of it...

It looks like I need to update my version.

There's nothing wrong with moving stuff from base to ports to keep it tidy and manageable. Stuff like the r* commands, the FTP daemon and others belong in ports.

There is no perl file in base.

In this context it means a group dictating a standard like it's a natural presence and obscuring the actual operation of things that already existed before the group. Fortunately, we're on OSS grounds and we can do whatever we want legally. Add...

The ppp manual saysAll external commands (executed via the "shell" or "!bg" commands) are executed.... So "shell" is for foreground and "!bg" is for background commands. You may want to wait for some things, and not for others (so different...

Isn't that already the case here? Or do I not understand the status quo because I thought that there were multiple options that could be slotted in if you so chose without necessarily having to do a ton of work It's one of the issues with systemd...

Your last post crossed this composition, so I see that you are tracking better, but I'll post this anyway, and respond to your specific questions later. Because state changes on network interfaces happen asynchronously there have to be...

iocage is still maintained and developed. Last commit was one month ago, last release was in December 2025. https://github.com/freebsd/iocage

In this context it means a group dictating a standard like it's a natural presence and obscuring the actual operation of things that already existed before the group. Fortunately, we're on OSS grounds and we can do whatever we want legally. Add...

Yes. I'm not really into all that and I'm not really a drinker or into beers that much but I do enjoy all that as a social drinker. I don't know how many local breweries there are and couldn't name them all but they all have a number of different...

St Louis. It was 6F but now it's up to 13F. Tonight it will drop to minus 5F. That's kind of rough and not usual for here but it makes the snow easier to shovel cause there's no humidity and it's light and fluffy like you'd see in Denver or other...

I don't use it because it doesn't show what it executes, which is elitarianism. Not really far away from the motivation for the systemd discussion in the opposition. Start a new thread about rc.d. I can dump 1 412 lines /etc/rc with everything...

YAML is a perfect example of semantic whitespace gone wrong. There are so many links I could use here. My personal experience with it has been dismal. Yes, I've run into weird number-parsing bugs (you meant to give that one CPU? You just gave it...

OT, or maybe not, this reminds me of pkl available in ports and pkgs. For those that don't know, it's from Apple and is intended to be used as something that you can write in that can be used to generate JSON, YAML and a couple other...

Well, that's why I'm not using it. Not going to pollute this topic with other subjects, so this is it.

Looks like a good time for this :cool:

I'd do the lookup on nginx or something else, figure out the usual folder for rc.d scripts, and look around :p (I'm not sure a proper way, but I'd figure it out eventually :cool:)

It's a /usr/sbin system program..

I'd do something like pkg info -l ntpd | grep 'rc.d'

What happens if I type service ntpd onestart? I know where ntpd is, what it needs and what it's part of and I can see it running including the fulll command but I don't care. Just want to see the commands that will be executed by rc.d

Can it be shown without executing anything?

In NYC, it's rough (for NYC, but not for Maine, fernandel and not sure where drhowarddrfine is, but I found with my brand new boots, bought after the last snowstorm--and the place I went to mentioned how their stock was severely depleted from...

Not using rc.d for a long time. I didn't try it on 15.0. My own rc script didn't need any changes. Is it transparent already? I would like to know what happens exactly when I type service <service name> onestart. There must be code somewhere but...

BSDCan conference in Oddawha. ELS 2026 (Lisp conference in Krakow). Wacken Open Air \m/. Spain road trip with a group for the solar eclipse. So far so good :)

I think you might be running into the classic reparenting issue with Dwm and Java detailed here (along with a solution)? https://man.cx/dwm#heading8 That said, for UML, I highly recommend Dia for simple class diagrams or... DOSBox + Win3.1 +...

I saw that when you started that thread but it doesn't change what I said

YAML is a perfect example of semantic whitespace gone wrong. There are so many links I could use here. My personal experience with it has been dismal. Yes, I've run into weird number-parsing bugs (you meant to give that one CPU? You just gave it...

First of all, I'm not at all watching Reddit. So anything posted to Reddit alone shouldn't ping me. And quarterly (currently 2026Q1) wouldn't accept any updates except: CVE is noted on Release Highlights Build failure happened (basically) on...

Not more awful than other languages. I do not program in FORTRAN since very long ago, but I still have the GOTO in mind.

Not in any Fortran I know. Here is the 77 and 90 syntax: if (some condition) then true statement else false statement end if if (another condition) statement The second one is the single-line version of if, for the case when you need...

Yeah, but how do I monetise ... 😂

I use Tcl (often with Expect) when I get to choose. I also like Perl. Python's not my cup of tea. I studied it for over one hundred hours back in 2017; I found it ever more insufferable the further I went. But it's hard to avoid by those with...

That's all fun and games until Qt drops X11 support.

Yes, but FreeBSD is now Tier 2 support because you have created a very important desktop application (login manager) that is incompatible with the system. If you put "KDE ❤️ FreeBSD" on your toot but tell users they have to use a third-party tool...

No. SDDM would be keep on supporting FreeBSD and any other non-systemd OS'es supporting KDE, but the new one would not. Can you read this post by vermaden on Mastodon and linked posts?

Nine inches out my back door. In the picture it's slightly less but that's cause the wind blows harder there. It's also six degrees Fahrenheit.

I think we all do, but he isn't forcing anyone to follow his advice. In any case, I just looked at bastille and it looks far too complicated for a novice to set up.

PLEASE read the handbook and manpages and educate yourself in the bare basics of how FreeBSD works. The lack thereof is pretty obvious from all your threads the last few days - learn how to walk before you try to run. Everyone here is happy to...

I couldn't figure out the problem so deleted the jail. I'm trying to create an i386 jail but iocage is unable to do that so I have to clearout the contents of an existing jail and extract my chosen release of FreeBSD into it.

We have about four more hours of this to go.

With mpv I was able play video files using the terminal framebuffer; There are many telnet servers which provide weather services.

Same here, it's even possible to view still images with mpv. It requires a drm-kmod video driver loaded, though.

I've struggled with this as well (under 13.5-RELEASE at least). However, it looks like it might work under 15.0 (maybe 14.3 as well, I haven't tried yet). Watch the following video where the poster colourises his prompt under /bin/sh using his...

I had forgotten that Bourne shells can be color coded (as of 14.0). An internet search led to https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/the-bourne-shell-prompt-color.85914/ https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/colorize-your-bsd-shell.85458/post-630235

Hmm. After 22 years of using FreeBSD with nvidia cards, I've never had the issue once. I see that with 15.0 some have had some issues but that's on a major upgrade and I don't know if they've been fixed. Otherwise, as I said, I've never seen it.

I've only seen that on Home (seemed more tame though 11 vs 8-10); sysadmins should use Pro+ :cool: