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As AlfredoLlaquet pointed out that would be 316 pages and would take me several days to do. It would be much easier to select an option download next to view your content

Interesting that you mention this since I just added 'echo "hello" ' into my rc.conf and couldn't understand why hello popped so many times. I'm currently trying find out what is considered to be 'late'.

This was a very rocky road and maybe its just me, but I found next to no helpful information in getting the 780M graphics of the fairly new AMD 7940HS to work on FreeBSD. Here is a short list of the things I had to do to get this working...

rc.conf runs as part of every normal rc script. The early-late divider prevents a script outside /etc/rc.d/ from running in very early - by default before FILESYSTEMS.

See https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/single-stepping-through-a-shell-script.90321/ :cool:

FreeBSD 14.3 I update my server using portupgrade -arR and have noticed the following issues updating some ports ... ** Port directory not found: textproc/libxml2-core ---> Skipping 'textproc/libxml2' (libxml2-2.15.1) because a requisite...

Best solution. First make sure you get payed per second, then look at the goals. 😆 Or is it paid? I don't know for sure...

No. As far as I understand I'd need a thick jail. As both services access data on the host system, I think this is not easily possible; besides the huge overhead?

If it only has to be reliable at home, I can recommend a random laptop, 1 or 2 USB SATA disk readers, a bunch of loose harddisks of 1-3 GB and a non-permanent textmarker. Most reliable disks are 5400RPM Seagates to my experiemce. For making the...

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Our corp has its own "intelligence" (pun intended). I do use chatgpt as glorified google for generic work related stuff.

Hi folks, I have a FreeBSD 14.3-RELEASE-p7 and the ports on latest. For years I have a running setup to sync a remote mailbox locally and index the messages with notmuch. Most recent version in the ports is notmuch-0.39_1. Now I need to...

Just wanted to share my thoughts about the 'state' of porting XLibre to FreeBSD - for me - worked like a charm. I tried XLibre recently when I tried to use as less RAM as possible with some still fully functional and nice looking GUI -...

Just wanted to share my thoughts about the 'state' of porting XLibre to FreeBSD - for me - worked like a charm. I tried XLibre recently when I tried to use as less RAM as possible with some still fully functional and nice looking GUI -...

I've remembered something about the existence of a firstboot_sentinel which I never fully understood but it is referenced inrc.conf. In the expanation it mentions early_late_divider which I'm trying to figure out. I want to be able to run...

Yes and no. It's most likely not a carbon copy but it will be stuff from inside the training data. The llms most likely roam inside the envelope but can't leave it - or has anyone seen something different?

grok may help you to debug it ... But my question is not answered: did it really create it? Look at the message: grok called it 'request dumper', I did not use that word, just described in very few words what it should do.

Just wanted to share my thoughts about the 'state' of porting XLibre to FreeBSD - for me - worked like a charm. I tried XLibre recently when I tried to use as less RAM as possible with some still fully functional and nice looking GUI -...

This is an abomination unto DIN and VDE. The work of a heretic, surely drhowarddrfine I have seen boards where some chips were superglued on belly-up and all pins nicely soldered on 5mm of wire to the board. Seems to happen from time to time.

Oh, and at OP, you do you. I wouldn't do it, for many reasons, but that is me.

I asked ChatGPT to write a brief compelling argument against the use of AI. ChatGPT: Every time you outsource thinking to a machine, you quietly trade away the friction where judgment, responsibility, and originality are forged, letting...

What would be the best way of setting a boot flag? Something in rc.local?

Not heard of this one. Must try it.

Sometimes I like to use set -v too. It basically prints the command before it is executed which avoid you to look into the script directly to know what's in it. That being said having both at the same time (-x and -v) can be challenging to read.

It's not stepping, but the -x option for sh is useful here. Examples: (set -x ; . /etc/rc.conf) # will print individual lines You set also put `set -x` at the beginning of a /etc/rc.d file, so that it prints both during bootup and when...

The system takes care of things that can be late. Example: my USB stack still needs +/- 2 seconds to start communicating with a device after loading the kernel module. This would cause problems without a supervising configuration system. Or you...

It's not stepping, but the -x option for sh is useful here. Examples: (set -x ; . /etc/rc.conf) # will print individual lines You set also put `set -x` at the beginning of a /etc/rc.d file, so that it prints both during bootup and when...

Didn't try it yet. Where does it conflict with any Xorg installation if they aren't running at the same time? Does a kernel module has to be unloaded? Or does it go beyond a point of no return because a part of the loading can't be undone? If it...

I believe it's should be doable by inspecting /var/log/messages and dmesg command, if something wrong happened it should likely be reported in logs. If you are only interested by the init part then look into /var/run/dmesg.boot.

This isn't built into the forum software. Maybe it should.

I am not waiting for someone to create a download function for posts, just asking a legitimate question about whether such a function exists and how other people may have addressed such a desire.

This isn't built into the forum software. Maybe it should.

At the moment I'm trying to explore diskless booting without doing tons of configuration. i have stumbled upon a simple configuration which actually gets a system booting disklessly. Before continuing any further research the one thing I need to...

He is not getting any support from any forum of any OS with that setup. It is plain wrong. I understand he has benefits from managing one host OS and then having those stuff reflected on the workstations. But it is not simple as that. If it were...

it is an extremely ill-advised configuration

What do you expect then, a "smart file" that shapeshifts depending on what host it is used on? You'll have to modify the rc subsystem's scripts for networking. You would have a mapping between MAC addresses and ifconfig commands. Your rc scripts...

Here are some (all?) of the changes you must make to the "sample" my.cnf file, which, as shipped, is broken. (This on a FreeBSD 12.3 system, though I don't think it matters.) These are unknown: comment them out: query_cache_type...

I wish security/doas was in base. The config is as easy as permit :wheel or similar.

Sounds, yes. But as far as we can see, this seems legit. Sadly I have no HW to try libreboot on. Or, which I would be willing to sacrifice in the attempt.

I basically want to pause rc.conf and check the state of various settings. If for instance I did a service netif restart, would would like to see what being done in case the outcome was something I didn't want.

Yes I am aware of this, it's just that I would like to download it rather than having to scroll through hundreds of pages.

I'm guessing you know this, but just in case, once you log in, you see your username in the upper right, and if you click it there is a menu item for "your content". That will show all your posts from newest to oldest.

I'd just like to have a copy of my posts if possible.

Is there any way to download my own content? It might stop me asking the same questions over and over ;)

I made Caxx (axx in C). translated with Claude and have released on github. I think it is better for embedding than python's. Please use it.

Are all these parameters available as options in the config? I don't see how to start dnsmasq with parameters. I only have dnsmasq_enable in rc.conf. A couple of interesting options I came across were --log-queries=extra and...

Is there any way to single step through rc.conf or put in something like 'press any key to continue'?

I meant during the boot process is there some point where you show that it is a diskless boot. ie is there some parameter, variable or whatever that can be displayed which shows that this boot is diskless? Does /etc/rc.initdiskless need to be...

It's maintained by the hardware. Android devices are fixed to not run any other kernel, which also is the only thing that has access to the internal storage volume on OS-level. People buy it because there's nothing else... Any Android smartphone...

I have recently discovered that NFSROOTDIR/etc and NFSROOTDIR/var don't have to be compressed archives. I focused strict on the documentation in the handbook, where those dirs are being compressed. When I was making changes to NFSROOTDIR/etc it...