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I'm collecting a list of outstanding utterly useful tools from ports to be installed into the minimum base (i.e. root filesystem) of a general purpose server. These tools should be rock solid & reliable provide real benefit add your own...

The problem is, the character it is morphing into is the kind of character you want to see behind locked doors and kept away from the public to protect everyone else.

Let's keep an eye on that. At worst, Haiku seems to have good RiscV support. I was on the edge buying a RiscV machine for it, seeing it run on 64 cores would be nice. But FreeBSD? What's the Chip in it, I never heard of it before. And they have...

As a professor of me once said after a presentation : "Today we have heard a lot of new things and a lot of good things", which meant the new stuff wasn't good and the good stuff wasn't new. And in the summer when the rivers run dry france buys...

Absolutely no advice: I'm not expert; I started using Bastille only because it seems good enough; I really liked NixOS and Guix way to configure a system, but there is nothing of similar on FreeBSD; I'm not a professional system administrator, so...

Recently I read s/wh (XigmaNAS Forum IIRC) that cbsd is even better than bastille, but I did not try it myself yet. Bastille seems to be what many use, though. cbsd-15.0.0 Yet another FreeBSD Jail, XEN and Bhyve Management...

Was Hemingway a typist or an author? I'm a programmer, not a "coder". A coder comes from the secretarial pool.

Looks like it would be worth adding these parameters.

Case has 2 external 5.25" bays, that's nice, it'll fit something like this: https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/storage/FS303/ I have a whole bunch of systems (19" rack cases though), and always added a hotswap drive bay. That way I...

https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.opcache.php https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/20/admin_manual/installation/server_tuning.html#enable-php-opcache

IIUC there is some tweaking to conform to the respective cloud environments? These might end up on my standard machine in a non-cloud environment, and I'm going to wonder "where does the setting of this knob come from? I've never seen this...

If a GPT table is invalid and the other is ok, it's a job for gpart recover. As mentonned above, gpart show must indicate this specific problem.

That's probably an essential part of showing the full picture.

Reading various guides for installing nextcloud led me to https://www.sharpwriting.net/project/nextcloud-on-freebsd/ where in the section on configuring php 4. Configure php.ini there is the following section which I haven't seen in any other...

If you want a headless install, then why not just use cloudready images ? https://download.freebsd.org/releases/VM-IMAGES/15.0-RELEASE/amd64/Latest/

Longer? My UEFI machines boot significantly faster than they did back then. Anyways, that's going to depend a lot on the specific system, the UEFIs seem to hit stuff on the disk more than they did back then as well as doing a bunch of stuff that...

Hm, maybe I have to look into the UEFI settings and search if I can disable these loooong tests? Until your posting I thought this is normal, because both of my UEFI machines are very snoozy after power on. A warm boot is fast, yes...

Status to satisfy Alain De Vos Result summary of these (naive) diskinfo tests: The SATA HDD makes about 110-235 MB/s read, up to 115 MB/s@8 MB random writes and 270 IOPS@512 B The SATA SSD makes ~ 350-400 MB/s read, up to 170 MB/s@2-8 MB...

Longer? My UEFI machines boot significantly faster than they did back then. Anyways, that's going to depend a lot on the specific system, the UEFIs seem to hit stuff on the disk more than they did back then as well as doing a bunch of stuff that...

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I had a very similar task recently. It was required to enable a service by hostname using ipfw, but the hostname looks like behind CDN. It has about 10 IPs who changing over time. Also the hostname returns 2 IPs. So I used cron to run every hour...

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This is what I used most recently: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1561224-REG/fractal_design_fd_ca_def_r5_bk_define_r5_black.html

I'm struggling to think of what "social media" Apple and Microsoft have. To me the social media giants are Meta, Tiktok, and Twitter. In any case, liability for the online experience is no longer hypothetical as of today. Meta is allegedly behind...

I was thinking about doing something using the mac address which assumes you have something on the same local network. The ip address might work too, perhaps with the hostname. Maybe you don't. Set it to a fixed key you already know. I would...

Hi all. I am Matthew from Zagreb, Croatia..Started with windows long time ago, and for last two years using linux, last was gentoo,but i knew that FreeBSD existed, only i didnt pay too much attention till 2 days ago..I had some experience coming...

Yes, it's Python and it gave me quite a headache. It generates methods with names like query_by_table_foo(...) at run time. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out where they were defined. I could see they were getting called, and...

This is like collecting & (may be) reading a whole bunch of books on carpentry, instead of spending the bulk of one's time wood working and building stuff! Programming has a lot more in common with carpentry than mathematics. Building stuff...

If you're going to try, try with 14.x, 15.x doesn't have the 32bit libraries needed and I haven't personally seen any way of getting it to work.

Which, IMHO, is asking for trouble. Having something for non-IT nerds can be hard, but is definitely not impossible, but trying to do it headless is just a level of complexity that's not at all necessary. The non-IT nerds are going to be...

IMHO you should be able to set that to any valid value. E.g. on my laptop I have a lagg failover of the wlan and wired ethernet. The wired ethernet interface MAC address must be set to the one of the wlan interface, so they have the same MAC...

OTOH that means 1. it runs on most machines and 2. it's reasonably small. Yes, this is the mfsBSD way, likely what I prefer too, as it has one huge advantage: it doesn't access any storage except the install medium, because the running OS is on...

Yes I do set the IP address of hosts on my system, what I am unsure about is how to get the MAC address of a jail. Is that created when the jail is created? Presumably dnsmasq assigns the IP address, so the MAC address must be stored somewhere...

The installer supports full breakout from the shell if you have enough memory but headless is not funny. 😆 I doubt if anyone manages to take over the hardware console of a system with a running installer on screen. (Or somehow change everything...

The official install media are a crippled Unix install. You are better off with a USB thing with a full install on it, with user account and password set.

No, the environment I had in mind is a SOHO of non-IT-nerds. It would also work in more advanced networks of hobbyists and professionally managed network environments, but these can easily create such thing themself, taylored to their specific...

I thought you already know, but maybe not: you can use the MAC adress to assign "static" IP# to your clients, i.e. they get the same IP# every time they request one via DHCP. Excuse me if you already knew that. This is a feature that most DHCP...

The current boot already have a serial console support for installation and all modern servers have support for out of band management like ILO,IPMI,IDRAC and so on. For commercial computers you have Intel ME so you can use VNC to connect to...

I'm not a network and FreeBSD expert, but for mine homelab I used: VNET for jails, because it creates a distinct network interface for each Jail, with a proper MAC address. The IP-Sharing method can create problems, because it uses tricks on the...

The whole thing seems kind and of weird to me as the main situations where you're likely to want this are ones when you'd likely have hardware support for a network monitor or the ability to plug one if those cool network Raspberry Pi KVM...

Have you looked at dns/dnsmasq ?

IIRC the default behaviour is that boot switches the console to serial if no keyboard is found. Thus booting w/o a keyboard should get you where you want? Else you could edit the rc.conf on the install medium to load the appropiate driver...

Interesting challenge. Reminds me of copying the DOS Fastlynx program to a target system without using floppies. You had to set the serial port as command input source. The remote program gets a ready signal and transfers itself to the c...

Wrong preliminary: I do NOT want to hack up a crippled installer thing. Instead, all I wanted was a version of the official DEFAULT installer with just one difference (which most likely will require more than one configuration knob to be...