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Hi FreeBSD friends Long story short. My old harddrive was dying and I made a clean install (with zroot) on a new harddrive and copied all the configuration from the dying drive. Everything seems to work great. But I have a problem with my gitlab...

HPFS predates NTFS and AFAIK NTFS was designed around NTFS. IBM and Miicrosoft jointly developed HPFS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Letwin

I doubt whether file recognises hpfs. This from a disk that actually has OS/2 installed and I can boot from it. => 63 625142385 da0 MBR (298G) 63 15057 2 !10 [active] (7.4M) 15120 4097520 3 !23...

You type media.cubeb.backend in the url and press + button and string and set it the value to the soundserver you use.

There is no useless program to write as long as it passes lint.

Yes, much of my early C programming progress is rooted in useless programs.

Just use FreeBSD before 3.0. The a.out binaries were incredibly much smaller than the later ELF stuff.

A good OS will not let RAM go unused. The idle shot doesn't allow a conclusion that RAM is wasted.

I didn't use network sinks yet. But I would answer the piprewire versus pulseaudio question with no wasting time on PA anymore. PW is utterly superior.

Well, then file -s it. What are you waiting for?

When I came to Unix my programming ability was ahead of my ability to appreciate the existing tools and libraries. I wrote many a naive replacement for existing stuff, usually crippled versions.

I'm annoyed by the duplicate ls execution for no reason. That had to be put in a var first. 😆

I suppose it's some humour. If it's not, it's a non-sense linux bashing. We don't need this.

Clutter in stasis or clutter in motion? Inquiring minds want to know.

This script keeps the amount of /dev/ada* devices on a computer visible from far away, #!/usr/local/bin/bash while [ : ] do clear (ls /dev/ada? /dev/ada?? 2>/dev/null | sort -V ) | while read l do echo "$l" done figlet "$(ls...

Some details - HPFS is not NTFS, no OS/2 or win32 Windows have NTFS root support. The Jan 1998 dating of the laptop aligns with 4GB HDD size, but it is a possibility Windows 2000 or NT4 have been installed at some point. balanga as far as I can...

ADHD organization skills 😁

If you zoom in, you can glimpse the body of a strangled sysadmin :)

Consider a job step that created a file for a subsequent step or a step that deleted a file when the previous step returned a non-zero return code. The step still had to run a program in order to let the system handle file disposition in those...

Trying to find anything but I only seem to have scripts that are theoretically useful or garbage fragments..

Gasp. That's precisely it. There's lots of beautiful hiking and trails in the US, and it's super nice - but also different in nature (from what I gather from pictures).

It's been a while ago, and I don't quite remember the details anymore. But I've also had a few issues when using the RC structure for "firewall control". pf_reload() { echo "Reloading pf rules." pf_resync } pf_resync() {...

First... to my defense (well, sorta... :-/) this happened in the weekend and I had a few drinks? (uh oh....). So... PostgreSQL isn't just a database server to me, it's a way of life when it comes to storing/processing (bulk?) data from the...

service pf reload /var/log/ddosip.log 2>&;1 | tee -a /var/log/ddosip.log Can you check by changing this command to another, without reloading all rules with pfctl -t ddos -T replace -f /usr/local/etc/pf.ddos.list or with flushing table before...

Yes i could try that in a script instead. I tried them manually as a quick test right now, this is what I got: # pfctl -t ddos -T replace -f /usr/local/etc/pf.ddos.list 3 addresses added. # pfctl -t ddos -T flush 756328 addresses deleted. #...

To contrast with the Useful scripts thread, this is for sharing your most pointless stuff. I'll start: This C program literally just allocates exactly 128 bytes of memory to write a random value to it. It then proceeds to only print where the...

Sometimes you're just trying to get something to work, not make it look pretty.

hey, it's installed as /bin/true on all unix systems and we find use for it occasionally: while true for one.

Does anyone use Ventoy's special boot menu? In case you don't know you can set up your own boot menu which comes up first if you have one. You can access it using F6:ExMenu. I use it extensively for booting various versions of FreeBSD and Linux...

Yes, or you uninstall it and use stable mesa for that part.

KDE,

I pressed prtscr, and the problem seems to have resolved, even Alt+Fn works now for all the ttys. Thank you.

Why doesn't your /tmp have the correct permissions? Is it a tmpfs? Forgot to add the mode=1777 in fstab?

Did you know you can use the "prtscr" (Print Screen) key on your keyboard to cycle through the virtual terminals on the console? Does that work? It's a weird situation you have, makes very little sense. Things might have gotten messed up right...

Five seconds on Bugzilla: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=277062

I once had a pice of customer hardware. When I would switch on the light (neon tubes), the display would be garbled. Totally snowstorm with confetti. Lights out, lights on again - switched to clear display. Toggle lights again, display goes...

Not supported here. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/ghostbsd-pfsense-truenas-and-all-other-freebsd-derivatives.7290/ Unused memory is useless. So you're going to find all your memory being used after a while. Mostly caches (process cache...

https://yumiusb.com/ I'll leave it here, maybe you can use it. I remember using it a long time ago. And it's like Hiren's BOOT CD, only you can add what you need. It uses the syslinux loader or grub2.

1. Mount ISO # mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /home/user/hiren.iso -u 0 # mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /mnt 2. Copy and edit # mkdir /tmp/hiren_new # cp -a /mnt/. /tmp/hiren_new/ 3. Create custom ISO # mkisofs \ -iso-level 3 \ -udf \ -J -R \ -V...

ntpdate -v -b pool.ntp.org export SSL_NO_VERIFY_PEER=1 pkg bootstrap

ahh this is not a FreeBSD iso and it should be a bootable ISO.

I'm just trying to add something to Hiren's BOOT CD. I will only be using it to boot via Ventoy.

if you don't need a bootable ISO: mkisofs -J -R -V "MY_LABEL" -o /home/user/my_new_custom.iso /tmp/my_new_iso

Please, can you tell me what kind of ISO you're doing? do you want it to be bootable?

IBM have made milllions out of this program.

mkisofs: Uh oh, I cant find the boot image 'boot/cdboot' inside the target tree. I guess I need to copy /boot/cdboot to /tmp/my_new_iso/

-b boot/cdboot # mkisofs -J -R -b boot/cdboot -no-emul-boot -V "MY_LABEL" -o /home/user/my_new_custom.iso /tmp/my_new_iso

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#mkisofs

mkisofs: Missing boot image name, use -eltorito-boot option.

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/disks/#mkisofs