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I dont find the thread quicky now. From December '25. Yes, of course there are 100's of systems running FBSD-15.0 flawlessly! But OTOH please keep in mind: your 2 systems is what the statisticians call "anecdotal" and it's pretty normal that...

You posted 4 times in a row. No wonder you are exhausted.

I have a simple split, DHCP is used for workstations, laptops, phones, that sort of thing. Servers (and their services) have static IPs. I also have my home network split up into different VLANs. But that's really not necessary, I didn't have...

I would need to maintain a hosts file on every system on my network.

I hate to say it but this upgrade has been the most painful I've seen in a lot of years. It's a big upgrade with tones of great stuff in it but the gotchas have been disappointing. My latest adventure has been with traditional updates with...

What is in the video? It is blocked in the US.

While that would give the host a proper hostname and IP address, that relationship (hostname to IP address) isn't known to any other computer on your network. That's what DNS is for. Didn't you recently set up dnsmasq? You can set up an...

What is in the video? It is blocked in the US.

That's fine, just means that no device was found nearby. For example if I set my phone visible I get: Inquiry result #0 BD_ADDR: b4:05:a1:92:35:1f Page Scan Rep. Mode: 0x1 Page Scan Period Mode: 00 Page Scan Mode: 00 Class...

Introducing a queen or king of the Borg went against what the Borg were introduced to be in TNG, though. The whole point is that they don't have a head huncho and are self-organizing.

my favorite star trek series is Babylon 5

On webmin: I read in the XigmaNAS forum from a guy who switched from a Linux-based NAS to a plain vanilla FBSD NAS that he had to spend some time disabling some webmin modules that did not work in adequate quality, and (naturally) to delete all...

While that would give the host a proper hostname and IP address, that relationship (hostname to IP address) isn't known to any other computer on your network. That's what DNS is for. Didn't you recently set up dnsmasq? You can set up an...

Using IP address works, but I'd like to use a hostname. Getting assigned by the network would be my preferable solution

That's exactly what I'm looking for. I want a simple solution. I'm running in a jail so would like to access the server from anywhere on my network. I do have a dhcp server and I would try assigning an IP address and hostname via MAC address...

if the old zpool of TrueNAS already occupies the whole ssd, there is no space left IIUC. AFAIK you can not shrink a zpool, right? If I'm wrong, yes that would be nice, then you can create a 2nd zpool for the new system beneath the zpool of the...

Many, many years ago I set up an "authoritative" domain with a bogus TLD .home. For multiple reasons, the first was that I wanted to learn about DNS and how it worked. The second reason was to have something I could use for my homelab to register...

In that case, I have to give a shout out for the great Larry Wall. Inventor of Perl, patch, rn, perl6/rakudo or whatever they are calling it nowadays, and a bunch of other tools. Another one whose software I use on an almost daily basis. 😁...

Edsger W. Dijkstra, the inventor of Dijkstra's algorithm.

I carried this and a 12-in HP LCD 7 streets across town to a friend's for weekend LANs :p

What options do I have for setting up ServerName (for use with Apache) on a home network?

Since the system SDD is ZFS, I would not wipe it's content. Keep it, so you can switch back if s/th goes wrong, and if everything goes well you can comfortably access the old configuration. Install to new datasets and set the new ROOT/default...

I think it was in 14.2, my previous main system. Something couldn't unmount but the parent process didn't exist anymore. I probably caused it myself. No idea how I fixed it but I remember being entirely unable to remove it except with reboot...

Rest in Peace, Chuck Norris!

They stole the "numner one" title. Only Picard and Locutus can use that.

Generally I agree, but most of Strange New Worlds is good. I hear ST: Picard is also good but haven't been brave enough to watch it.

I think your example in the first post here is better than the one you put into the bug, with the "...". The copying to "," while making it clear that cwd is in the same ZFS filesystem, but not in the part that is expected to be readonly, is...

The major problem with TrueNAS, PfSense/OPNsense et al are the various abstractions and intermediate layers they usually call 'helpers' - they interfere and break pretty much all system and services configuration you want to do the proper way...

None of this require manually using new() or malloc(3). You are not in *actual* dynamic memory management. What you need before you tackle the C++ collection classes is some theory. Which kind of collection data structure is good for what, and...

The problem is then you shift the effort into searching for, maintaining and generally juggling bindings and other dependencies. And that is a worthless task. At least memory management is a transferrable skill. C++ is a gross language but one...

I don't know if I want to use socket. Looks like the only difference is in SetHandler statement which I would set in /usr/local/etc/apache24/modules.d/030_php-fpm.conf PS why 030_php-fpm ?

A script to generate a "version" of x11/xorg which resides in /usr/X11R7 (like $DEITY intended). I used to simply rebuild it *all* from ports but I found another way that is faster and sidesteps compile errors. Notice in the below screenshot...

Oh and you should check whether openwrt is available for your existing routah. That would give you VPN without purchasing a new one.

A friend of mine has a pretty slick VPN setup. His/her end devices are all on Wifi anyway. So he/she set up multiple wifi networks, each one in a different VPN or plain ISP. So for every end device to switch to a different endpoint you just join...

Tested on 16.0-CURRENT, affected as well when NFSv4 minorversion=2. # uname -a FreeBSD WaylandTest.home 16.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT #0 main-n284522-e6083790f217: Mon Mar 16 11:49:56 UTC 2026...

Lol. Now anyway. The name of my dog is Hera. [The women of Zeus]. But i like to call her "THE BEAST".

Will you frequently switch the VPN destination (countries)? Will you need different destinations for different devices?

Agreed but I also note that a compromise could almost be reached if we knew what the hell the thing was doing when we clicked a button. This was my issue with an old colleague using i.e webmin, etc. Any time he did something trivial, it would...

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The problem(s) start when you view that 'pretty interface' and one day it says: "WARN: googah is upside down!" and you have no idea how to fix it. A far better workflow is when you notice (on your laptop) that <widget> is not interfacing, you ssh...

umounts? Are you sure these were zombies? Sounds more like ordinary processes hung in the kernel. Those take up their original space.

Just get proper glasses and you'll know.

Sounds like "kill -9"

Right, that is the problem. A single NFS mount cannot (normally) span several server-side filesystem mounts. ZFS seems to hack that up for snapshots, but not in a complete enough way. Maybe a solution is to actually export and mount the...

Sounds like "kill -9"

Oh yes. Rather forceful eviction.

Account got banned, then deleted.

Until you have X coming up properly I would suggest booting up to a command prompt and the running startx.

Network Attached Storage. What use cases make it better than sufficient attached storage to include redundancy/safe storage? A household with mix of systems that need to share data? Like *nix, Macs, Windows all wanting to share videos and...