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Looks like I should give up on AWS. What is the cheapest VPS I can get to use FreeBSD on and is such a thing as free trial period available? I'm trying find out if FreeBSD is available, but I don't see an option for picking it.

Why do you say that? FreeBSD works fine on EC2.

Heh. Well, it does look as though river is available: https://www.freshports.org/x11-wm/river/?branch=2025Q3 However, I note that the version supplied by this port is very old, compared to the release version of v0.4.5...

If you have questions with regards to coding for it, you can certainly ask them in the "Userland programming & Scripting" forum. That bit is fine in "Web and Network services". But start with a basic FAMP, or in this case, FAPP (really bad...

I just managed to run ubuntu on oracle's cloud (oracle linux is a catastrophe, no debian offered). It has a console, you can login without ssh. In principle also with ssh to the cloud system, but I did not manage to do it. Of course, when you...

If you have questions with regards to coding for it, you can certainly ask them in the "Userland programming & Scripting" forum. That bit is fine in "Web and Network services". But start with a basic FAMP, or in this case, FAPP (really bad...

Anyone using Drupal? Can you recommend any useful support groups? I'm just getting started and I can see that Drupal is a pretty complicated so will more than likely encounter problems. I'm currently setting up Drupal in a jail along with...

That's why I like Amazon's storage. You can create virtual disks of any size at will and assign it to virtual machines as you see fit. Anytime. To rescue a fatfingered system in EC2 I have an instance dedicated to rescue operations. I then...

allow.mount allows mounting within the jail. Normally filesystems (including devfs) are mounted from the host side.

Might still require creditcard details when you sign up, even if you only use their "free" services. At least that was the case not too long ago when I tried. I don't have a creditcard, so failed to get an account. Nobody seems to have mentioned...

Is there any way to recover a deleted image that was displayed in something like Google chat? Would that image still remain in the computer's cache somewhere?

I had no problem creating various AWS accounts. But that's long ago. Not familiar with the current procedure.

Considering that my nieces have often asked me for tech support, (I'm a boomer) that might be true. I suspect that every generation has folks interested in tech and other folks who just want it to work.

Unfortunately this not a universal standard. It's the same thing as people that love output in a terminal to be colorized others do not. Boot time messages go past rapidly, not easy to read or even pause/scroll lock. Then we have screen size...

A little improvement would be preventing that the kernel puts hardware detection output over the curses installer program without even cursor positioning or a redraw screen option. Probably security-related like no program may see what's already...

I want to try AWS initially, because, AFAIUI it is initially a free service.

No, that example doesn't produce an external file to the org file. That example should output the result of the code within the org file itself. As per the Org mode help file: The reason that the other example worked as you expected is that you...

ls: -G Enable colorized output. This option is equivalent to defining CLICOLOR or COLORTERM in the environment and setting --color=auto. (See below.) This functionality can be compiled out by...

My recommendation. If you do not like the boot messages, just do not look at them, or change to an operating system that hides them like Ubuntu, as soon as possible. You are new user and less dependent on FreeBSD, you can change easily. By the...

misc/colortail deskutils/pipecolor sysutils/colorize

Does anyone have an AWS account? I have tried to sign up several times but my account does not get created. My email address and password have been accepted but get some error message about needing to clear cookies before I can proceed. Anyone...

That example does, but I thought #+begin_src sh :results output echo PID: "$$" #+end_src the result would be placed in a file called 'output'. Presumably that does not work.

You have to talk with lawyer experienced with copyright to get better advices. And BTW, have you finished another law course or the first one is "enough" for you to change the world?

I think the problem is in the crontab enty, not the cronjob (what runs at a scheduled time). I am betting KenGordon is using the format used by the global /etc/crontab, which is "minute hour mday month wday who command". So he likely has minute...

Here you go: 0 3 * * * root /usr/local/bin/lynis_cron.sh Ken Gordon

Well, thank you. First of all, I made a typo in that line: that last word in that line, LOGFILE, should have been preceded by the $. $LOGFILE is defined earlier in the program. But I still don't think this last line is correct. Also, according...

The 580 is the right driver for you card, the most recent driver 595 only supports newer cards 16xx models and above. egl-wayland is a dependency of the nvidia-driver see pkg-info specifically the -r option.

"cdrecord: The current problem looks like a buffer underrun." This likely is the issue - you may have mentioned it earlier but are you using USB3.x or USB2.0? With CD burning you are looking at write speeds which are typically 1/2 of read...

Being Gen-X is fun, getting to provide tech support for Boomers and anybody born in the current millennia. It kind of amazes me that kids today might actually be worse at using technology than the Boomers were.

Doesn't matter, it doesn't change the fact that nothing about the BSD license requires further sharing of the code that you're using. The FTC has absolutely no right or statutory requirement to get involved in this. That's doubly so right now...

OK. I figured out the answer to my previous question, which I repeat here: "So, what does this "root: not found" mean?" And here is the offending line from my short cron job: cat $LOGFILE | mail -s "Lynis Security Warning on $KensOffice" root...

Is it relevant without being a public system? I'm running a modified FreeBSD in several stores. It's not published. They have to call me at problems. It also doesn't contain any license documents and isn't registered somewhere as property. Doing...

The point of it is that the software itself doesn't change licenses just because it's in your possession and included in your product. Except in rare cases the original source code is out there somewhere, it's whatever source that, in this case...

I got completely the wrong end of the stick earlier when I was woffling on about the dual xeon board! You could pretty much do what you want with an N100 mini pc, like a Beelink or mnisforum. There are lots of different types, I'm sure I've...

But Sir, the horse, while dead, has not yet been beaten into constituent molecules. May we flog it for a while longer?

It kind of contradicts its own reason to exist. If everyting is free to use, modify and redistribute, what's the purpose of any license on it?

Even if any scripts from ports are written in sh, it is needed to be installed via ports or pre-built packages (at the era portupgrade first appeared, pkg was not yet started to be developed, thus, called "packages"). So there are no mutual and...

I prefer my main system to be separate from a gateway (firewall) machine. The gateway machine should always be uptodate to deal with any security patches but that will often require reboots but other than that it should always be up if you have...

There's some really well written information in these articles. Thought everyone would find them useful. Jails - From Chroot on Steroids to Full Virtual Networks ZFS - The Last Filesystem You’ll Ever Need The Boot Process - From the Loader to...

Damn. 148 posts in and they still can’t grasp permissive licensing. I think it’s about time to close this troll thread.

Unfortunately this not a universal standard. It's the same thing as people that love output in a terminal to be colorized others do not. Boot time messages go past rapidly, not easy to read or even pause/scroll lock. Then we have screen size...

Hi bob2112, thank you for your reply. That is rather interesting assertion, since most of the information I found was rather emphatic regarding usage of the correct ports tree. Could you list some of the "other pitfalls" for my education...

I think that the chief reason why this idea came about is that people ended-up trying to build against an inconsistent version of the ports tree; that, and other pitfalls, came to be oversimplified as "don't mix ports and package". Quarterly...

Hi Phishfry, thank you for the additional comments, they helped me to clarify the issues. Hi cracauer@, that is a good point. I currently need additional three ports, well, let us say four if I were to mirror the OS installation drive. So...

Hmm, I should have read your your original post more thoroughly, I completely missed the "gateway" part. Two suggestions: 1) for a gateway only - buy a secondhand / reburbished / outlet small form factor desktop (like a HP ProDesk in size). Do...

what freebsd release are you running and do you update the app using the script?

It's also rather telling that while there are a bunch of aliases that are in the shell profile, I can't find any that colorize ls, not even commented out, which probably says something about how popular is, given how easy it would be to add 1...

Not to be too harsh, but there's a reason why the US is basically the only developed country where that sort of thing flies. And also why it's the only developed country that I can think of that's right now falling down to developing world...

That's more or less the route that I'd personally go. I remember decades ago discovering the -G flag for ls and then more or less promptly never using it again because it wasn't really worth the hassle of choosing colors that worked better for...

You need to differentiate between registered and unbuffered memory. The ECC memory that the AM4/AM5 boards discussed so far are taking is unbuffered. It does not come down from big servers, which use registered ECC. Unbuffered ECC is fairly...