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fahrenheit, balanga, you may not even need any firmware at all, depending on your CPU/GPU's age. Up to 3rd gen they were not programmable.

I'm just a baby beastie, but jails are so easy to set up and provide a significant security layer - the cost-benefit analysis says use jails. Why would you want an internet connected program to have access to everything on your server if things...

Whether you need them or not is a matter of personal circumstances. I've personally had decent luck with both Podman containers and actual FreeBSD jails. I haven't personally found either to be particularly hard to set up on the whole. I've...

Don't confuse snapshots with backups. Both are very recommendable to do, that's right. But they are not the same. If snapshots are stored on the same pool (physical drive) they provide quick and easy restorage when something was messed up (#1...

no, but I highly recommend it. The more packages you install the higher the likelihood something breaks with an update. So, my advice: every application in a secure, contained environment. So when you update a certain software stack and it...

Big newb chiming in to say that jails are the way to go. I've been using them to get all my homelab services up, sticking with a "one service gets one jail" approach. Only for the super tightly integrated LDAP+Kerberos setup did I opt for a...

Mail setups are commonly put into jails. Depends on how you read the mail I suppose. On the other hand you have to consider the increased risk from increased complexity. And you'd have multiple OSes to keep up-to-date.

I use a “1 application = 1 jail” approach. Meaning that something like Nextcloud goes into a single jail, database and all. And I use mount points to ensure that my data stays if I need to rebuild the jail.

Biggest, and most important, benefit, compartmentalization.

I know that a long time. Interesting would be to change the size of those menus. These keyboard shortcuts are the same as the small/medium/large sizes of the right button menu. I can't read it on 1920x1080, unfortunately, and it doesn't change...

In case it's relevant, here are the other updates from yesterday. The host was rebooted at Tue Apr 21 17:39 - shortly after those pkg updates. Interesting: the first Nagios alert was: [04-21-2026 17:51:52] HOST ALERT: ha;DOWN;HARD;10;CRITICAL -...

I see recent updates: Apr 21 17:29:03 r730-01 pkg[74249]: grub2-bhyve upgraded: 0.40_11 -> 0.40_12 Apr 21 17:29:14 r730-01 pkg[74249]: vm-bhyve upgraded: 1.7.0_1 -> 1.7.3 Let's try reverting some of those. Nope... running with this has the...

Mail setups are commonly put into jails. Depends on how you read the mail I suppose. On the other hand you have to consider the increased risk from increased complexity. And you'd have multiple OSes to keep up-to-date.

I've managed to get this vm running via vm start -f hass on FreeBSD 15 with vm-bhyve-1.7.3 Recently, I was moving /usr/local/vm to a new ZFS dataset. This problem occurred there, so I went back to the original dataset and tried it there. Both...

Then this is something that needs investigating. I was using Chromium but also have Firefox installed. So I tried it with Firefox and had no issues searching for xorg.

Biggest, and most important, benefit, compartmentalization.

I am usingnet/dante inside a jail on FreeBSD 13.5. I am seeing the following errors in the log: Jan 16 08:44:21 (1768571061.307113) sockd[79475]: info: pass(1): tcp/accept [: 192.168.1.195.49933 192.168.0.210.1080 Jan 16 08:44:21...

Thanks, good advice. On my nightly email, I received a notice to upgrade one of my k-mods (the re 2.5 gig driver). After investigating, and looking at /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf, I was able to do that. Moreover,, in reading a bunch of posts to this...

Yesterday I found out that I can zoom in xterms with shift-alt-(numpad) + For the past 50 years I only knew how to zoom out with ctrl-shift-(numpad) -. X.org: "🤌"

Did you write to the pool yet? zdb has soe options to roll back transactions on import.

Biggest, and most important, benefit, compartmentalization.

It's 5 commands or so to get a graphical screen with xterm. Install xinit, create ~/.xinitrc as basic startup script and type startx to run it without anything that calls itself desktop. (They always find themselves important) The script may not...

I am creating a French-speaking wiki on BSD UNIX in general and more specifically FreeBSD You can find my Wiki at this address: Wiki Ordunix.net And for the BSD part: BSD For the history of BSD: History of BSD And finally, regarding FreeBSD...

Which is exactly the order freebsd-update would use. It creates the BE (of the current kernel+userland) then applies the patch (kernel, userland, or both). If things go south, you boot that BE and you'll be back to the state before the patch was...

I typed xorg into the search and the first thing it brings up is "Chapter 5. The X Window System" but this is a year old thread that doesn't need to be necro posted.

This sounds like your ZFS metadata is corrupted, in a rather bad way. Obviously, this should have never had happened. There might be other explanations, but I can't think of any sensible ones right now. You can get very bizarre effects if file...

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This is just an heads-up for users for base_latest of FreeBSD 15. The update from yesterday broke drm-*-kmod (even using FreeBSD-ports-kmods set to latest). TL;DR; Wait for updated packages on FreeBSD-ports-kmods (drm-66-kmod-6.6.25.1500508_9...

Is this really news though? No offense intended (!), but STABLE, just like CURRENT, are essentially developer snapshots and although this is less bleeding edge there are still no guarantees that things will continue working. IMO you should...

we must admit to being a huge fan of systat -vmstat. sure, it's crowded and looks a little silly on modern machines with 48 cores, but it's a more holistic view of the system than top

When it comes to scripting / building for my servers then I basically rely on 2 editors: VS Code for my efforts on Windows and I'm also a die-hard vi user on the console (even up to a point where I have vi-mode enabled on my shell). So.. never...

I assume your PC isn't an embedded system with 64MB of RAM...

How are you able to see this? It implies you have access to the console. You have console access, fix it there. Boot to single user mode, remove the entry from /etc/fstab. If a filesystem in /etc/fstab fails to mount (for whatever reason) the...

Apparently, if I apply the Middleton BIOS to my ThinkPad X61 I can expect this improvement:- What is the best way of recording pre- and post- performance to see if I actually get any benefit?

Which says something about the quality and information density in "the internet".

You can use "net-mgm/aggregate" to optimize the list of the prefixes into bigger subnets and reducing the overall list size. Anyway your approach of blocking the botnets of probing/scan the http(s) files is not optimal. I suggest to use fail2ban...

Thanks for valuable tips! When all things settle a bit, I'm for sure going to take a look at these, especially net-mgm/aggregate to reduce the sizes. The file currently contains over just over 1 100 000 IP (1.1 million) addresses right now 🥵

Don't confuse snapshots with backups. Both are very recommendable to do, that's right. But they are not the same. If snapshots are stored on the same pool (physical drive) they provide quick and easy restorage when something was messed up (#1...

Obviously the CentOS libstdc++.so.6 version doesn't have the necessary symbols (GLIBCXX_3.4.20, .21). Try emulators/linux_base-rl9 instead. Note: In the rl9 package, libstdc++.so.6 is a symlink to libstdc++.so.6.0.29. % strings...

T-Daemon Thanks ! It worked, here is some notes which may become useful for others Update process: # FreeBSD 14.3 -> 14.4 freebsd-update fetch install && freebsd-update upgrade -r 14.4-RELEASE install # First Reboot shutdown -r now # post...

Whether you need them or not is a matter of personal circumstances. I've personally had decent luck with both Podman containers and actual FreeBSD jails. I haven't personally found either to be particularly hard to set up on the whole. I've...

Generally there is no escape except what you already did, moving them away. There is no fsck for ZFS.

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This isn't a question anyone can honestly answer... do you really need them? Nah. But it does depend on context, and there's also something else to consider: there are a lot of security measurements which you don't really need perse, but the...

Found this today after a google search. I've got a FreeBSD 14.4 system with 128GB of RAM, 16 Xeon E5-2630 cores @ 2.4 GHz, and mostly running the defaults. Among the biggest jobs this server does is handling ~1200 concurrent IMAP connections...

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This is not about shortcuts. The settings you do in menu do not apply to Dolphin run from Meta+E. They apply to the Dolphin from menu. The question is: how change settings to Dolphin starting from shortcut.

Indeed, the guy who literally wrote the book on the formal link between compression and intelligence runs a prize to make the best compressor, with a view to furthering AI research: http://prize.hutter1.net/ :)

I go back a page and try to log-in again; after 3-5 times it skips the image captcha :p

This isn't a question anyone can honestly answer... do you really need them? Nah. But it does depend on context, and there's also something else to consider: there are a lot of security measurements which you don't really need perse, but the...