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I've been trying to make some X11 single-app fullscreen 'environments', borderless, no WM. With XTerm or normal, resizeable applications it works to use xdotool with windowsize arg to 100% and --sync option to catch XTerm after it runs. But...

Wear that to a tech conference. Get the Trump haters and the BSD haters on my tail. Might just add "Rust sucks almost as much as Wayland" to the back too. ;)

In assembly we use GOTOs all the time except they're called JMPs as in JNE (jump on not equal) and JE (jump on equal) and more.

It's not a i9 13900K? Mine has a random freeze once per month at high load. 😆 It doesn't look promising, but some things you could try is to get into the usual environment from a remote terminal. It will probably lose connection but might give a...

That's definitely a bad sign. It's going to be difficult to diagnose though. If it's this locked up it won't be able to log anything either. But, definitely check /var/log/messages, there may be clues leading up to the lock up. Some general...

I am back to what I did in the past :)

Maybe it's just the graphics that have been switched off (and fail to come back on). Can you access the system with ssh?

Nothing else exists. A loop construct of some language is also made of jumps.

Ok. So you have a single BE named default; it sounds like that is a fb16 system. (freebsd-version -kru will tell us) Then you manually created fb15 (zfs create zroot/fb15 and copied fb15 files into it)? That means that fb15 is not a BE which is...

I believe you are thinking about these two: - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/02/23/upgrade-freebsd-with-zfs-boot-environments/ - https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2021/10/19/other-freebsd-version-in-zfs-boot-environment/

There are better language constructs to exit nested logical blocks than goto. Well, not in C but elsewhere.

Not sure why you are using the past tense here. Usenet is alive and well and likely the largest "decentralized media backup" in the world. And yes, that still includes porn.

I wouldn't be surprised if people start using VPNs for the purpose of being "outside" of CA from all appearances. I worry mostly about what this could do to developers in the state as anybody outside of the state shouldn't really be under any...

I'll see what that does.

# pkg install ca_root_nss # ln -s /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt /etc/ssl/cert.pem /usr/local/etc/lynx.cfg: SSL_CERT_FILE:/usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt

Have to refill the spares in a meagre 5TB per disk array. Prices are outrageous even for those small HDs.

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I've looked into it, but it's rather opaque. I can set postfix up to accept ETRN connections, but then I apparently need to use the insecure telnet to signal it manually to send my mail, and that telnet connection has to be to a process running...

I feel very fortunate that I bought my current desktop a year or two ago before the RAM prices started to sky rocket. I was able to completely fill out it's RAM capacity with 32gb of RAM. Granted, it's DDR4, but I probably should sell the...

Probably a bit of misconception here. Automatically starting X and showing a GUI login screen is a function of a display manager. Some Desktop Environments have their own display manager, some don't. In any case, just like window managers, there...

I would debate that. You don't need any account on the ports collection to access them, and there should be nothing in there that is age restricted. So you have no reason to check any age. Germany has a guideline/rule not to request data you...

Or select the boot environment you want to start from the boot menu.

mer doas is from OpenBSD. FreeBSD has it, but the persist feature doesn't work, so you have to type your password every time. There is, however, opendoas, which honors the persist feature in /usr/local/etc/doas.conf so if you type a password it...

After you start the MySQL without grant tables you need to load it using "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" and after that you can reset the password. From 8.0.35 Native password is replaced with caching_sha2_password...

I don't think worm out RAM is a thing. And firmware that can contain malware is just being introduced now. (ETA: into RAM modules)

Thank you T-Daemon and others for clearing up my misconceptions. It is in fact unfortunate that you have to revive a dead port to get PXE boot in bhyve.

WI1 chip1: Realtek RTL8812BU doesn't seem to be supported in any FreeBSD version. To be sure, you could ask a wireless FreeBSD developer on freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org mailing list.

I am surprised at mdo, and that I hadn't come across it before this article. Being built-in certainly is preferred over a 3rd party program. I've setup doas before, primarily for working with bhyve VM's. This will be fun to learn!

Probably a bit of misconception here. Automatically starting X and showing a GUI login screen is a function of a display manager. Some Desktop Environments have their own display manager, some don't. In any case, just like window managers, there...

After you start the MySQL without grant tables you need to load it using "FLUSH PRIVILEGES;" and after that you can reset the password. From 8.0.35 Native password is replaced with caching_sha2_password...

Because the module is named that way for PHP 8.0+. And it gets added automagically after installing any of the mod_php* ports/packages.

This issue was bothering me for some time now, but I hadn't the time to test. Since sysutils/edk2 was upgraded from tianocore version g202308_5 to g202508, PXE booting was possible no more. Luckily I found on https://pkg.ghostbsd.org/ an...

That should go in /usr/local/etc/apache24/modules.d/ DocumentRoot "/srv/www/public" <Directory "/srv/www/public"> Don't do it this way. Leave httpd.conf as is, including its default website. Want to create your own website? Create a...

A few months ago I was eying an RTX-5090. Nah, 2200,- is too much (I could afford it, just don't want to pay it). That same card is now 4200,-, almost doubled in price. Should have bought it at 22 :rolleyes:

Crash handlers? I mean, the process crashed (for whatever reason) and libc needs to clean up that dead process?

Yes, you right. Ah, yes, right. But Linux kept it for itself: 4.4BSD and derivatives

Port appears to be missing a RUN_DEPENDS= gdk-pixbuf-extra>0:graphics/gdk-pixbuf-extra Please report it so the port can be fixed.

You are mistaken. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//proc Linux heavily relies on it, yes. Also extended it a lot. But it certainly isn't a "Linux" function. It existed long before Linux did.

Hello, proc /proc procfs rw Proc - it is only needed for certain ports. A clean system does not need Proc. Besides, if I'm not mistaken, Proc is only a Linux function.

Yes, and I don't think that you even need to put it into the cache directory. At least when tried pkg add ./package_name.pkg it just pulls up the relevant information and that's how I used to do it back in olden times. The other thing to...

I am unable to get a jail to inherit mac.do settings for a user in group wheel. Host is set up to use mdo: /usr/local/bastille/jails $ mdo sysctl security.mac.do security.mac.do.rules: gid=0>uid=0,gid=*,+gid=* security.mac.do.print_parse_error...

Sometimes I think that is a feature and not a bug. If you make it easy like that, then the adults that get to vote are less likely to vote against it or the politicians that put it into place.

I'll have to take a look at mdo. I personally don't really like these tools, I've just had them on too many systems where they use the same password as the user and aren't restricted to any specific tasks to like them and remain active for a...

I did scuba diving for sports more than 35 years. I remember one New Year celebration on the seaside and how we drink champagne on 15 m under water :). It was fun.

I know, I just think that it's pretty weird how it gets extended to things that have nothing to do with the stage.

port knocking is sorta passe. is there any reason you can't use standard ETRN to trigger a queue flush?

I'll look into that.

When I start my desktop computer (not FreeBSD) it has a postfix instance to receive mail from my FreeBSD server machine which is always on. I want mail which is waiting to be delivered immediately so I can read it. I therefore have a start-up...