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What ipfw can do that pf can't: 1) MAC level filtering 2) procedural control (branching etc) 3) dummynet stuff What pf can do that ipfw can't: 1) OS fingerprinting 2) automated overload (quarantine brute-force or DOS attacks) 3) packet scrubbing...

Added Librewolf to a live system. It works on all sides but what do I need for safe password management? It seems it doesn't have its own. I'm considering a site login system based on pushing keyboard characters to webpages but that's ugly...

I'm quite sure ZFS isn't going to compete with RAM as replacing permanent storage. It has to use the same memory already to only be resident. I would like to know a ZFS config that outperforms that...

Not exactly - in your code you execute cat(1) two times: I believe that fifo would be the best solution in this situation, as eseipi suggested.

Well, it indeed would somewhat solve the problem in the simplified example that I came up with, though it doesn't help in my real problem that I described first: I need the very fact of sending '4' into already started cat(1) process, i.e. I...

Patti Smith... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDlKTQ3Ig7A

Debbie Harry... View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmsz_mV2Ymg View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvqgb1D6Opw View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5AUDxCommw

I have something like that in the test suite for my home equipment control program. Usually, the test script writes all the stuff for stdin to a temporary file, and then runs the program as "./program < /tmp/test_input.xyz". But I have a few...

I don't think there is a way to do this. Sounds like you could use fifo: mkfifo fifo cat < fifo & { echo 1 2 3; cat; } > fifo rm fifo

ee cult member. Never use without short keyboard delays.

Not sure I'm clear on the "list expansions" being something that ipfw can't do. Tables work great and can be updated, swapped in and out on the fly. What does list bring to the party?

I recommend making /usr/ports/distfiles and /usr/ports/packages to be dedicated datasets (on ZFS) or partitions (on UFS). Doing so allows you to unmount both when your ports tree is somehow broken, delete the existing whole /usr/ports and clone...

Very good advice. In addition it can also help you to save up some precious diskspace. Because the ports collection mostly consists of text files it's very useful to turn compression on for the ports dataset. But because distfiles and packages...

I'd put the whole directory under Git control, then either simply exclude all the stuff which you want to ignore (using .gitignore and/or .git/info/exclude) or you could reconfigure Git and then tell it to only bother with monitored files and...

More Fish! View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx7FDGpZQsQ View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tple_uVtjW0

Yeah, then it's the kernel, i guess.

Most frequently? screen, ls, mc, doas (+ a few aliases which I set up myself), refresh & update (= 2 scripts I made to make it easier to maintain my ports with ports-mgmt/portmaster), git, psql, pkg, python. Oh, and I also sporadically use a...

Being a fervent document writer myself I wholeheartedly agree: FreeBSD's documentation (and its quality!) is nearly unmatched. No offense intended (!), but if you compare the FreeBSD documentation with the stuff that Linux provides then...

I had the FreeBSD 15 handbook printed from lulu.com. To the people that have worked on this very useful and valuable operation system, the documentation writers, the people answering questions in the FreeBSD forums and the wallpaper designers...

I would imagine that there is a TeX source that gets build into a PDF and HTML, and maybe it simply needs to be compiled for a book style and offered for download as well. But that's me. Maybe one of the unsung heros of the team (the doc...

Happy to help port this.

Original article here. Consider this when replying. The first release candidate build for the FreeBSD 15.1 release cycle is now available. ISO images for the amd64, armv7, aarch64, powerpc64, powerpc64le, and riscv64 architectures are FreeBSD...

Maybe the handbook can be downloaded as (La)TeX? That would solve a lot of these problems.

Define 'blocked'.

MBR restricts number of partitions... GPT allows GPT labels... I.e. OK when bios does disk renumbering on different boots.

Why not?

dwm (starts with feh for a background), alacritty for terminal, tmux, weechat (for using slack at $JOB) vm-bhyve (err, for running vms), bash, mutt, librewolf and waterfox for browsers. I'm sure I'm overlooking some, but those are the ones I use...

You know, if you aren’t enclosing the here‑doc delimiter in 'quotation marks', command substitution (and variable expansion and some more) works.awesome_tui_program << __EOT__ 1 2 3 $(cat) __EOT__NB: The here‑doc is first fully parsed before...

Xterm, emacs, git, tmux, ssh w/mosh, chrome

Hi, Mandatory yearly screenshot, this time captured from my trusty old Thinkpad x220. Still a Thinkpad, still FreeBSD, still DWM. It just works ™️ .

Minimalist as always. Found some surreal close-ups of Jupiter from NASA JPL that I put on rotation.

Wow... looks like Van Gogh...

Fluxbox, Tint2 & Co

Newly released by the Pentagon: Beastie discovers the monolith on Phobos! View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGv0vgZZrOI

This is windowmaker on freebsd 14.4... resistance is futile...

kde plasma

xterm and tmux bar none

Explain this please with bit more detail. How are you turning the computer off and what does it mean to force? Are you saying that you cannot turn the computer off via pressing the power button once or issuing ACPI shutdown from console or sddm...

Just in case somebody accidentally stumbles upon that advice: this is bullshit.

Oh, yeah, right, I almost forgot about good old fifos :) Thank you very much for the hint!

I don't think there is a way to do this. Sounds like you could use fifo: mkfifo fifo cat < fifo & { echo 1 2 3; cat; } > fifo rm fifo

Hello! I'm developing a TUI program that is controlled via the commands entered into stdin. I want to automate the process of testing: I want to write a script that would start this program with some initial input data (to set the proper state...

Thanks, tingo, your RPi's bootcode size looks similar to my newly built loader.efi, so I used that one (under the name bootaa64.efi). The DTBs are lokated in /boot/efi/dtb here, rather than in a separate partition. This is a RockPi board. Tell...

Hmm, I see now that I failed to answer the question. Bad on me. answer: yes, it should be loader.efi. To add to the answer in #6; - have a way to boot your machine from a different media handy (usb stick or SD card, whatever your machine needs)...

Actually i did another test today and found out if i replace: hint.hdaa.0.nid27.config="as=1 seq=15 device=Headphones" with: hint.hdaa.0.nid33.config="as=1 seq=15 device=Headphones" the automatic switching will be functional (internal speaker...

and another one May 23 01:38:05 kg-core2 kernel: drmn0: GPU fault detected: 147 0x000e2002 May 23 01:38:05 kg-core2 kernel: drmn0: VM_CONTEXT1_PROTECTION_FAULT_ADDR 0x000C0A00 May 23 01:38:05 kg-core2 kernel: drmn0...

I think your EFI partition looks good. This is from my Raspberry Pi 5: root@devpi5:~ # ls -l /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/ total 848 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 853788 Dec 7 20:16 bootaa64.efi which is running root@devpi5:~ # freebsd-version -ku...

Being a good moderator means that you give good people more leeway, at least that is what I try to do. You may also give some notorious people more rope, sometimes. What could happen is that you use some of the "bad words" which are a filter for...