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have you tried loading another profile to determine whether the email or feed works?

No need to guess. FreshPorts shows the dependencies: It does not install a server but apache isn't a requirement.

I'd try installing it and see what it presents (it might have PHP mysql extension as a dependency but it probably shouldn't require a mysql server by itself; not sure if wp pkg would be useful without webserver but which one might it present?) I...

Post the output of ls -l /usr/local/bin/lynis_cron.sh

I suppose I should show the entire e-mail I receive from my system. Here it is: Message 5: From root@KensOffice Wed Jul 15 03:00:00 2026 From: Cron Daemon <root@KensOffice> To: root Subject: Cron <root@KensOffice> root...

Well, the latest error message shown in the email I receive from the system is: /bin/sh: root: Permission denied Sigh.... :-( Ken Gordon

FYI, 14.3 is end-of-life. 14.4 is the only supported version from the 14 branch. "NAT" in VirtualBox is using a dhcp server. https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/topics/networkingdetails.html#network_nat . If you stay with "NAT", configure in...

They're coming in thick and fast now... seems someone out there wants to keep X11 alive, thankfully. https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/07/14/frame-a-new-x11-server-implemented-directly-in-assembly/5270498 The guy seems to like writing...

I like low-level assembly :D

No Rust? Disappoint

So do you folks want more or less preemption?

A bloat-free graphics screen would be nice. No display server, just a program that draws pixels on GPU-level at the speed of the GPU in a standardized way and runs from the non-graphical CLI.

covacat are you still around? I want to put some steam behind this.

Hi, I recently thought to try a VPS from OVH in their Beauharnois datacenter. They had no stock when I checked a while back and I went with Hetzner instead. The exchange rate from EUR to CAD is brutal :( At the time of writing of this post, OVH...

Thanks for reply. What I'd really like to figure out is how to use ng_tcpmss to modify the MSS of passing SYN and/or SYN-ACK packets. On a simple interface (no jails). Does ng_tcpmss need ng_eiface?

I did wonder if anyone noticed the effect of it not being set before they noticed the error message. I've never really been sure about the benefit of this - it's easy to convince oneself that a tweak has produced a benefit.

Whilst that shows how to install wordpress, which is relatively straightforward and there are numerous guides, the one above does not actually install the pkg www/wordpress.

This came up when I searched for it. https://journal.bsd.cafe/2025/07/21/wordpress-on-freebsd-with-bastillebsd-a-secure-alternative-to-linux-docker/

How did you get it? :) I tried to get it many times, but I get error, it seems the demand is very big, at least in Frankfurt. This is what I get:

I have just noticed that there is a www/wordpress pkg available on freshports. Is there any documentation on this packages and what else needs to be installed to get it working? I presume apache24 php+ mysql

Why do you have modified the url for fetching the base? Where, on the earth, have you read that? base_latest is one of the STABLE versions... Furthermore, you give a wrong path for getting the pkg key, hence this problem. Just put in...

It's /etc/resolv.conf (without the e), but yes, that's very likely. Your defaultrouter will get changed too. Set defaultrouter if you use static IP addresses, don't set it for DHCP. DHCP typically sets the IP address, subnet mask, gateway address...

Check supersede option in dhclient.conf https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?dhclient.conf

also: is there a dns server/resolver running on localhost?

If you dont want dhcp changes, you can put this into /etc/resolvconf.conf: resolvconf=NO nameserver 127.0.0.1 <-- local-unbound? Did you try local-unbound-setup?

Great, thanks everyone. I'll make some changes and tests and get back soon again.

balanga turn on timestamps in your dmesg. sysctl kern.msgbuf_show_timestamp="2" or create a rc.conf script that responds to faststop by running uptime. See rc.shutdown.

To be honest, now that I have replaced the PSU, I am no longer particulary interested in how long the system runs simply off the battery, but have learnt a thing or two.

What Wifi card? And what driver is it using?

You can safely ignore whatever it's trying to do to /etc/passwd, that file is not important, its a relic from the past. It will get regenerated again from /etc/master.passwd (where the actual accounts live). Just make sure /etc/master.passwd is...

It's /etc/resolv.conf (without the e), but yes, that's very likely. Your defaultrouter will get changed too. Set defaultrouter if you use static IP addresses, don't set it for DHCP. DHCP typically sets the IP address, subnet mask, gateway address...

I have successfully set up a working FreeBSD gateway, but I can't get DNS to work from the gateway itself, when working in the shell. I'm not sure what's wrong, or what I miss, is DHCP on igb0 overwriting the resolv.conf file? This is what I...

If you're on 15.1 then you probably unintentionally installed the display drivers for 15.0. The ones in FreeBSD-ports are newer than the ones in FreeBSD-ports-kmods. But the drivers in FreeBSD-ports are built for 15.0, which won't work on 15.1.

15.0 or 15.1? That distinction is important. What does pkg version -vRx gpu-firmware show? Do you want Wayland or Xorg? If you're going for X use startx (as a user) to test, disable the display manager, for now. Then after startx (and likely...

Write simple rc script that run uptime > mytery_uptime_book.log Update your rc.conf accordingly and test it.

A pretty universally solution for this would be welcome. But I don't have small CUDA projects of my own, I run pretty large ones written by others.

I tried that often with ZFS but I never noticed any improvement of adding a latest gen 256GB m.2 drive as cache or mirror to a pool of mech drives. More RAM is much better if you want performance. It would start to improve if you're on memory...

I’ve been reading this thread for a couple of minutes, and here are my thoughts. ?

For a serious effort (but that wouldn't do on screen) if you want to switch, the tryout period should be at least one month. A week is just playing a game.Just my 0.02 Eurocents.

Yay — that’s one of those background, “forbidden” units that taught me a hard lesson as well.

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I place G.Skill memory in all my client machines for decades. Not one single failure. Corsair was endless failures. Micron regular and ECC has also been flawless. The little bit of Samsung and Kingston I see have not failed. Over many years in...

I would not trust an image of unknown origin. OpenBSD is easy to install, but it will necessary to trick a little to get it there. Did you get an arm VM? I tried many times and gave up, now I am with Ubuntu in the mini AMD VM, and have a second...

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This certainly doesn't belong in the base system. That has to be as lean as possible to keep it compact. Its job is to provide basic functionality, not bells or whistles. As a port to be added for those wanting it, fine if someone is prepared to...

Looks like I made some notes here. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/bluetooth-audio-how-to-connect-and-use-bluetooth-headphones-on-freebsd.82671/page-2#post-715145 And a photo here...

Today I came across a new project that could genuinely shift the balance in the GPU ecosystem — especially considering NVIDIA’s increasingly aggressive pricing and vendor‑lock practices. There might finally be a chance for AMD to shine in areas...

I got bluetooth working on my X220 a good few months ago, I was driving a pair of little battery powered bt speakers. I switched over to headphones and dacs and haven't bothered with bt for quite a long time now, but I did have it working.

I learned that hard on X470 with Rift CV1 PCVR and 4 sensors (Ryzen CPU-side USB went unstable with HMD and 1 sensor; my board luckily had separate ASMedia ports to offload around), and hearing others report issues on 500-series (and now a 600)...

CPU, memory and storage, the standard metrics are the most important. CPU load is interesting to watch but should be averaged out over a longer period of time. It's not that useful to add more cores if you only have an incidental CPU load spike...