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On Mars. Remember, Mars immediately returns used-up energy. (For the non-German speakers: Old TV commercials from the 1960s: Mars bringt verbrauchte Energie sofort zurueck. It's talking about a chocolate candy bar.) Serious answer: Batteries...

I have recently upgraded my main system to 15.1. Is there any simple way to upgrade all my jails to this version?

My recollection is somewhat less sympathetic to the manufacturers, especially Western Digital, who had always sold Reds as NAS drives. They switched Reds from CMR to SMR in certain common capacities and failed to mention the change. I viewed...

I recommend a vanilla PC mainboard with AMD Ryzen (probably DDR4 now) that supports ECC memory. Most flexibility, you can plug in a 10 Gb ethernet card or more SATA ports.

Look similar thread here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/how-would-you-build-your-own-nas.102119/

It has been committed. https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/commit/?id=2fa6358ccc39f9ef705ca209fc9dacf276ef69df

But but but ... BACKSCHISCH! Who will pay the lobby garden tools then? We should, as citizens, worldwide, do a public pledge. Gather in public places at one day and time and start "I hereby swear never to vote for any party ever again that...

I have a page written by Fred Cash, which he kindly allowed me to post--it explains the RELEASE, CURRENT, and STABLE stuff. It was written around FreeBSD-6-RELEASE or so, but it's still valid. https://srobb.net/release.html He talks about the...

"For systems that boot via BIOS or UEFI CSM and use the GPT partition scheme, bootstrap upgrades are optional unless a ZFS root pool is upgraded (which is discouraged). " ( https://www.freebsd.org/releases/15.1R/upgrading/ ) Can you confirm...

Still would recommend upgrading the bootstrap. It has bug fixes, like everything else.

Which mailing lists? I've not see any of them so I must be missing an important one.

Why are people so focused on boot times? The BIOS post of most of my servers takes well in excess of a minute, it just does not matter if FreeBSD then boots in 25 or 20 seconds. Also, unless there is a kernel upgrade, why reboot a FreeBSD server...

To reply to myself. What happened was the python websocket-client stayed at py311-websockt-client. I saw that I now had py312-websocket and though I had what I needed. But, when I opened the issue on github, someone (I think the creator of...

I accidentally answered this, and can't delete the entire post, so please ignore.

How to detemine legal requirements?

Depends on what are your response and legal requirements. Data centers closer to your users will usually have lower latency, which may or may not be relevant to you. Legal requirements are harder to quantify, but assuming you only cater to US...

Depends on what are your response and legal requirements. Data centers closer to your users will usually have lower latency, which may or may not be relevant to you. Legal requirements are harder to quantify, but assuming you only cater to US...

I was just wondering if Lovable could be used to quickly knock up a prototype which could subsequently be converted into something more traditional or would it be so proprietary as to make conversion impossible?

When picking a hosting provide, how signficance should be attached to the geolocation of the provider? Does it make much difference? If the majority of users are US based would it have much of a detrimental impact if the hosting company was in...

Exactly. I've had 2FA on banking since 20 years ago. However it has certain contextual details - 20 years ago it was https e-banking with physical token - my bank issued those mini-calculator-alike OTP tokens, some other banks had a fixed OTP...

Oh, I am dirty too. Gotta take a bath 😂 $ uname -a FreeBSD freebsd.home.arpa 14.4-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE-p7 #0 -dirty: Tue Jun 30 08:53:56 UTC 2026 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/amd64.amd64/sys/GENERIC amd64

I was using macOS for 12 years (2013-2025), never got problems with any malware on it. I used to have Windows dual booted. I used it like 1% of the time for some gaming. I had 4 computers for macOS (hackintoshes) for that period and Windows was...

Found a workaround—I modified a parameter in newsyslog.conf by adding a minimum period before the when parameter to prevent immediate log rotation. For maillogday, I changed it to 24@T00. This means if the log was created less than 24 hours ago...

And it's not hurting anything is it?

I think this is an epically bad overreaction; first time I can recall this happening and I've been around since the 3.x days.

Yes, Re: 15.1-RELEASE-p1 has dirty tag set?: From: Dag-Erling_Smørgrav <des_at_FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:46:02 UTC Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> writes: > I just upgraded to 15.1-p1. When I log in or if I `uname -a`, the >...

No, similar to security/openvpn it can be configured for all sorts of tasks, as client, server or anything in between. Never used security/xray-core, but looking at the default configuration files it seems you're probably missing some other...

Which ones?

Upgrade via pkg doesn't show -dirty but via freebsd-update does.

As of FreeBSD 15, thas has changed to 4, The FreeBSD support model:

DHCP and setting defaultrouter has nothing to do with any packages or applications you may or may not have installed.

For a small number of home users with intermittent NAS usage, perhaps consider a 'wake on lan' solution. Then you can use pretty much any hardware and the power draw won't be quite so much of an issue. Though in some instances, suspending the...

If you use a standard PC board you can add a SATA/SAS controller.

On the other hand - who would these tier-1 vendors be and what would happen with any money you give them? But a few bright folks with a good idea and a sudden wad of cash that will not go into exec compensation and shareholder value, they might...

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/freebsd-15-1-p1-dirty.103140/ Apparently something went wrong building the updates for freebsd-update.

There's a "tiny" flavor of devel/git. A lot less dependencies. pkg install git-tiny

Using DHCP and setting defaultrouter perhaps? Can you post your rc.conf?

TL;DR Every major version will be supported for at least 5 years. But only the last minor version of that major branch is supported.

Is is an absurd idea, and it was most likely floated to boost the IPO. Now you can flush that. You will not be able to have all the HW rad-hardened to work in that place. You will need an awful lot of shielding, the DLR ran tests and research...

Frankly, in my eyes that's a waste of time and money. You end up with a heap of cable jumble, which is not only pretty fragile per se, but also a juice guzzler. This way you build a setup with at least three wall cubes: 1 for the Pi, 2 for the...

I'm not seeing that, (15.1) 15.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE-p1 releng/15.1-n283582-0f691888dc56 GENERIC amd64

To drive this home: No, you don't: what you need is redundancy, and RAIDZ is only one way that ZFS can provide redundancy; see the list below. As mentioned RAIDZ1, given a minimum of 3 disks, is a reasonable choice to consider. For...

Yeah, this should not happen. I see it, too.

I got several security announcements and updated. Then about 15 minutes later got some more, so for now, I'm waiting awhile I suspect that as bakul said, uncommitted files, but that's just a guess from me, not knowledge.

I know you're trying to get something off the ground for cheap and easy but if it's anything beyond a simple web site you're going to have to pony up some money to get something put together. If Wix can't do what you want then you might try (ugh)...

If I might make a suggestion, and I hope you take it as just that and nothing else, I, and perhaps many others here, find it a bit annoying when someone posts a link with NO explanation of what it is. We get curious, so we click, and then we find...

It seems you lost the package/file associatons but then how can pkg still know everything is up to date? It remembers the installed versions anyway?

I was too enthousiast and after more tests on my jails, the issue is still there. All apologies 🙏🏻 The solution posted above is still the one that works now. I will open a PR on Bugzilla FreeBSD, and I will post this link here.

Recently I started using Cursor AI CLI agent. Officially they don't support FreeBSD, but it runs in Linux compat layer pretty well, I used it to solve real problems in a large PHP project. The only issue I experience is the residual processes...

Latest 15.1-RELEASE-p1 security patches solved this issue. /etc/rc.conf setting in jail isn’t needed anymore. Only securelevel=2; in each jail.conf file is needed, as the initial Bastille setup.