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I did acknowledge this earlier when I presented my case.

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Help needed for getting Nextcloud working with PostgreSQL.... The docs linked to do not mention PostgreSQL/ Initial page provides this:-

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What I had proposed earlier was moving it to a base pkg. I’ll go deeper in the example call it FreeBSD-printing if it doesn’t have its own already. Then just don’t install it. Make a set for optional.txz for future things like this and so on...

As the response to that states, possibly its worth discussing with the OpenBSD guys why they themselves don't see it fit for removal in an OS focused on security. Hopefully he does and they have some good insight.

I missed this. I don't know if OpenBSD's implementation of lpd is vulnerable. Perhaps a quicker fix would be to import that. Looking at the code (and noting last commit message), I don't immediately spot anything that is very unportable. des@...

https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-arch/2026-February/001202.html > How does OpenBSD handle this? It supports lpd in the basic system. They use the same code with the same bugs. DES

I always managed to use OpenBSD without cups (and tex live) In FreeBSD is a (probably unnecessary) dependence of a lot of packages. Bloat brings bloat as dependency.

I use service jails, which run from rc.conf only, no jail management needed https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/#service-jails

As the response to that states, possibly its worth discussing with the OpenBSD guys why they themselves don't see it fit for removal in an OS focused on security. Hopefully he does and they have some good insight.

I missed this. I don't know if OpenBSD's implementation of lpd is vulnerable. Perhaps a quicker fix would be to import that. Looking at the code (and noting last commit message), I don't immediately spot anything that is very unportable. des@...

I always managed to use OpenBSD without cups (and tex live) In FreeBSD is a (probably unnecessary) dependence of a lot of packages. Bloat brings bloat as dependency.

I always managed to use OpenBSD without cups (and tex live) In FreeBSD is a (probably unnecessary) dependence of a lot of packages. Bloat brings bloat as dependency.

Whilst I don't disagree in principal (after all, cups is generally needed for most printers anyway), the dependencies pulled in are fairly extreme for functionality simply to replace lpd. Highlight includes, not one but two python interpreters...

Heh, I was going to write that this error happens so infrequently that I can live with it, and now it happened again already Mar 10 03:52:20 kg-core2 kernel: [drm ERROR :amdgpu_job_timedout] ring gfx timeout, signaled seq=88004248, emitted...

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Keep in mind that you can mark certain windows "sticky", so that that particular window follows you around over all workspaces. I use that quite a bit when (also) watching video on one workspace.

For most people CUPS is the better answer. It is a larger footprint and has regular security issues of its own however. I think it's a matter of taste. Some people prefer pulseaudio over OSS. I prefer OSS. I even took the time to make an OSS...

This is another version of the script that finds source code for FreeBSD base system utilities. Post the about first version of this script. Original post with discussion about src(1) from Plan9. UPD: Script from this post has been significantly...

For most people CUPS is the better answer. It is a larger footprint and has regular security issues of its own however. I think it's a matter of taste. Some people prefer pulseaudio over OSS. I prefer OSS. I even took the time to make an OSS...

If it is the Linuxulator (OP, what's up?) it should still behave the same as the Linux kernel. Especially for simple system calls lie select and read.

Whilst I don't disagree in principal (after all, cups is generally needed for most printers anyway), the dependencies pulled in are fairly extreme for functionality simply to replace lpd. Highlight includes, not one but two python interpreters...

By the same token one should use epoll(2) on Linux.

https://github.com/tschettervictor/bsd-apps There is a script in this repo to install Nextcloud from source, and it uses caddy as the webserver. I’ve been using it to spin up Nextcloud instances for a number of years now. You basically end up...

I have no idea about systemd and have no intention of ever finding out. I hear that is one reason that Linux users are switching to FreeBSD.

We'll see. www/nextcloud does include a lot of php mdules.

I read that you could incorporate various CMS's. I think I saw Drupal mentioned. I just came across this link if anyone is interested in using Nextcloud with Drupal.

x11/kde is a meta-port. It doesn't build anything itself, it only depends on a bunch of other ports/packages. Can't tell from the screenshot where, and what dependency is actually failing.

Depends. What kind of trouble?

Are you talking about the Linuxulator?

When developing in Linux,SELECT behaved unexpectedly when there were a large number (tens of) accepted TCP-sockets. This was fixed by implementing a buffer constantly reading from the TCP-connection and writing to a UNIX-domain pipe and then...

Who needs more than one workspace? 🥸

You're not seeing a directory (thus filesystem permissions are irrelevant), you're seeing a list of shares. Shares are publicly visible, unless you set browsable = no. https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/current/man-html/smb.conf.5.html#BROWSEABLE...

I'm aiming to install Nextcloud including PostgeSQL and Drupal.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/nextcloud-17-on-freebsd-12-1.73567/ is a six year old guide. Has anyone seen anything newer using www/nextcloud?

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I have seen lots of msgs about the use of incompatible php packages, and am intending to use quite a number of them at some point.

It looks to be more than that. Knock yourself out :cool:

The way mod_php is loaded and configured in Apache hasn't changed for a long time either.

Single workspace; I used to use 4 for Compiz cube :p

Is the PS/2 mouse a real PS/2 mouse? With a USB/PS/2 converter plug, it's possible that the port has not enough power to feed a optical USB mouse and loses connection. What's the reason to use PS/2?

USB audio devices should be standardized through snd_uaudio.

My problem wasn't about getting apache running but about how to get it working properly with php. The handbook mentions php74. In fact it is quite useless when it comes to configuring interaction between apache and php.

so is apache, which has been on version 2.4 for WAY over a decade (I'm also using nginx, respectively angie FWIW)... But I guess OP hasn't even tried to follow the dead-simple instructions in the handbook.

What machine is it? You could try running this:- echo "CPU: $(sysctl -n hw.model)"; \ echo "OS arch: $(uname -m)"; \ if grep -qi lm /var/run/dmesg.boot; then echo "CPU supports: 64-bit"; else echo "CPU supports: 32-bit only"; fi

nginx is pretty consistent :cool:

I read them but they either out of date, sometimes inaccurate and sometimes too confusing.

The problem is things keep changing and things don't always work as described.