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It seems that IOCAGE works very differently to other jails. I can achieve what I want by writing a script using jls and the parsing the output to run jexec JID ifconfig and parsing that, but I thought there may be something ready made. Maybe...

They don't have uranium? I thought they were going to demand return of their gold reserves in the US. That should do it...

You're the first person to call me that. I think it's funny, too!

Maybe file permissions vs network stack security? Can things reading on localhost see other things? (not sure how to word that better :p but can nginx see PHP-FPM on 127.0.0.1:9002 if only 9001 is specified in a nginx conf, or able to see a...

Music + FreeBSD Hacking

I disagree about SSD vs HDD for the simple reason of price per GB. HDD is still cheaper and with proper buffering/caching the end user shouldn't notice any throughput difference. Also HDD tech is very mature and public. flash memory is still...

I run FreeBSD 14 on a TERRAMASTER F2-425 as my "removable drive" backup system. It has an internal USB port where I have mounted a USB-SSD thumb drive for the OS. If I remember correctly, to install, I added the internal USB-SSD thumb drive, then...

Look in /var/log/httpd-error.log. Internal server error (code 500) typically happens when a scripting engine misbehaves (crashes, errors out, etc).

When I run iocage list I'm only told the state, up or down. Is there any way to display the IP address. ChatGPT shows this

And it's everywhere - FreeBSD, Linux, Mac, even Windows! No one told me why commands with long outputs could be viewed one screen at a time by adding " | more" when I worked with DOS or (if I remember correctly) Commodore Basic, but there it was...

Look in /var/log/httpd-error.log. Internal server error (code 500) typically happens when a scripting engine misbehaves (crashes, errors out, etc).

Welcome! I think you'll like FreeBSD. It is in some respect simpler, neater, and more organized than Linux. It's easier to see and control all the moving parts in it.

Depending what you do on Linux, it may be a relatively small adjustment. Many of the programs are the same, to state the standard cliche ones, there's firefox, thunderbird, various terminals and they all pretty much run the same on Linux and...

IMV the major difference is /dev/sda1 v /dev/ada1 or /dev/da1 for naming devices which must take some getting used to for a seasoned Linux user. The great advantage FreeBSD has over Linux is its package management system, ie pkg v pacman, apt...

The meta-loader can simply load the correct kernel module. Similarly to snd_driver (which loads every available snd_* driver), but maybe with some added logic to only load the appropriate kernel module? Not sure if the logic is possible, it might...

https://vivianvoss.net/blog/the-pipe

Depending what you do on Linux, it may be a relatively small adjustment. Many of the programs are the same, to state the standard cliche ones, there's firefox, thunderbird, various terminals and they all pretty much run the same on Linux and...

Is that the same CalJam that Deep Purple played at? Ozzy really shouldn't cup the microphone like that, ruins the sound. Or maybe it is the sound he's looking for.

I'd do that :D

That's an understatement. Every day I feel that the 'unknown unknowns' are growing exponentially as I become aware about how little I know about FreeBSD.

Before posting a bug report labeled as [request], I'd like to hear your opinions to lift the quality of my bug report as high as possible. This is my DRAFT, that you may kindly enhance: STATUS: For the amd64 CPU architecture, there are at least...

It depends on your circumstances. We described some parameters.

A, by, the way...I feel quite welcomed, here.I think I'll stick around.... BSD runs now, though there is quite a bit to learn ( 🥳 yay🥳 )...let's explore. I'm reading the thread...lotsa new stuff, love it....

No, there is no reason why the OS can't live on the RAID disks, too.

Cooler Master Stacker 810 as a case, job done.

This install is interesting. Has VMWare workstation from the time when it was simple enough to run through Linuxulator. INN internetnew server for usenet, with uucp. Self-compiled Firefox from git head. That crazy encrypted filesystem that...

I've added a subdirectory under Apache's document root. When I try to access an index.html, I get How do I allow access to this file. The ownership is www:www .

I'm definitely interested in how to obtain a proper MAC address in a jail. I use IOCAGE if it makes any difference.

You're so young. ;) In the beginning there was init. Berkeley (BSD) tweaked it a little while AT&T created SYSV's init. Sun came out with an init that worked with their SMF (services) daemon. But init was still there and could be used in SYSV...

That name rings a bell. Is he English? I guess he will be with a .uk domain. Looking at https://jdebp.uk/Softwares/ I see lots of OS/2 software, so I think he used to log on to my FidoNet BBS and download all the OS/2 messages every day. That...

Hello, Previously I tried to use Ollama on FreeBSD with my Nvidia GPU and it did not work, it uses CPU only, on the host or in a jail. Recently I have been using llama.cpp (version 8182, 28 Feb 2026) in a jail with Nvidia GPU support without...

Because it chokes up the process, so now only the regular www/chromium gets built, something that took almost 25 hours by the way. The Queued ports section is the total of all ports that are set to be built. That doesn't mean they will all end...

I use a USB-C 2-bay HDD box connected to a laptop for NAS and that works :D I used to use a regular desktop with 3 drives on SATA.

I tried to be as precise as possible but here it is again: L2ARC on NV (non-volatile) storage: 1-3% of what it caches = 2 x 40-120 GB on 2 NV (fast, NVMe) SSDs to cache 2 x 4 TB zpools (MIRROR and SCRATCH) on 2 rotating HDDs (6 TB each) => the...

FreeBSD, as any unix, offer a lot of possibilities for building something like a NAS, special in FreeBSD is ZFS with its zpool scrub. You can boot with pxeboot, mount with nfs, or send files with rsync, etc. But the biggest problem I always...

Status to satisfy Alain De Vos Storage: 2 x SATA III rotating HDD 6 TB (datacenter quality), used, 1 arrived a minute ago, one still missing because crazy <censored> bid moon-prices for used hardware 2 x NVMe 1.3 M.2 SSD 256 GB (poor to medium...

Hm, does work for me. I'm using (I do like to have access to monitor for handful of reaons): qemu-system-x86_64 -hda test.qcow2 \ -m 2048 \ -nographic \ -monitor telnet:127.0.0.1:10101,server,nowait I'm not sure what's FreeBSD checking during...

You're so young. ;) In the beginning there was init. Berkeley (BSD) tweaked it a little while AT&T created SYSV's init. Sun came out with an init that worked with their SMF (services) daemon. But init was still there and could be used in SYSV...

Yes, mission creep and the ratchet effect are mere figments of our own imagination.

* bsdinstall ("SCRIPTING").

I've been interested in trying Void for musl: https://voidlinux.org/ although Alpine might be interesting too (it's the base for postmarketOS and I could run the same OS desktop, server, and phone :cool:) Is there a concise reason why systemd...

Instead of building the dependencies from ports one can install them as packages with the install-missing-packages ports target. Afterwards, remove them with pkg-autoremove. Before confirming the deletion process, check if there is a package...

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/foss_age_verification/?td=rt-3a The direction of travel for systemd could be good news for systemd-free Arch variant Artix Linux, and indeed for other systemd-free distros from Adélie to Alpine to antiX. ®

That's normal behavior. They are never removed and there are no Periodic script or cron job that cleans them up. They are preserved in case you need to do a system rollback. Once you've tested that everything is running smoothly, you can remove...

I have space. But if you use them MIRROR on diferrent drives. Or not use them at all. special - - - - - - - - - mirror-6 31.5G 4.20G 27.3G - 1G...

What is the disadvantage of providing a ZVOL to a non-COW fs VM? I'd like to have it all on ZFS if at all possible, so that zpool and geom do not interfere. Unfortunately we should not swap to a zvol, although this is explicitely handled in one...

Detox by Strapping Young Lad, a sweet ballad from a while back. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f20L0msLsM

johnjohn You could throw half those books away and not be worse for it. Don't get bogged down by them. You've collected too many trees for your forest.

Speaking of different collection classes, here is a psychological test whether you are "compatible" with C++: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/p0447r21.html This introduces a new collection class. It does clever things...

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