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I add operator on desktop for xfce whiskermenu buttons to work, but don't know if it's useful anywhere else (I don't add it on server) I like lsblk output for notes but get more use with df -Ht

A fools errand. No mmu, still 16 bit address bus, no caches...

NapoleonWils0n You do get loads of admiration and appreciation from me at least. You and vermaden have the knowledge I wanted to have when I first started out with FreeBSD but got side tracked running a business. Now that I'm sort of retired I...

The reason you have wait is because new software often requires new dependencies which may not be in the be in the in the quarterly or latest branch Software also has to be ported to Freebsd and tested for bugs and security issues Thats why...

Oh baby it's cold outside. Le sigh.

Banned where? In Belgium? In the US the problem isn't inclusiveness, in the US he's frowned upon because he didn't worry about consent. But as you imply, these forums aren't the place to discuss it.

I am not a junior, even though I am a newcomer to FreeBSD. And no, I do not have neither Unix background nor Linux experience. I am not a programmer at all, and I do not have any sysadmin skills either. I escaped MS Windows 11 in favor of FreeBSD...

I really don't understand people having a problem with this. A person saw what they felt was a problem, came up with a solution and offers it to the community. Noone is being forced to use the tool, feedback has been welcomed, discussions have...

I'm not using any social media of any kind at all. I prefer to meet people in real life, keep training my social skills as a social being and not become quixotic. This forums is the only exception for me, since I want and need to keep in touch...

It's not only a dependancies matter, the ports tree subdirs Mk, Templates, Tools, and others must be present to have a functional compilation of ports. Better to have all the ports tree installed

Re-lay it using partitions of exactly the same size with a 4-way mirror in one pool. Figure out the maximum identical partition size you can use (one which fits on all disks). Destroy the unused mirr_slave. Start constructing the new pool with...

I really don't understand people having a problem with this. A person saw what they felt was a problem, came up with a solution and offers it to the community. Noone is being forced to use the tool, feedback has been welcomed, discussions have...

Just to answer to that. You didn't see? Look into this forum and you will find many disasters. Most of them came from the text we got after zpool upgrade (fortunately, this text has been removed) where it advised to gpart bootcode da0p1 or...

T-Aoki, you are one of those I call "knowledgeable people", but kind and open-minded. That being said, it's not always easy to follow you in the details. It appears to me that you added more complexity where I saw some relative simplicity (ok, my...

Assuming you mean on RamNode, yes you need a default router. I don't recall how I found out what mine was or that I even needed to use it but it was probably from instructions found on their web site's documentation. If my address was yours, my...

Well I prefer using the port. With make find-new-version I can also easily fetch the latest version. Sorry.

Every single one is a fork of VSCode and while VSCode does run on FreeBSD, it takes a ton of patches to make it work. If those patches where up-streamed, this wouldn't be such a problem.

Assuming you mean on RamNode, yes you need a default router. I don't recall how I found out what mine was or that I even needed to use it but it was probably from instructions found on their web site's documentation. If my address was yours, my...

baaz thank you for the offer to help. Anyhow when switching from Wayland/Plasma back to Xlibre/XFCE, all of a sudden, it started to work with i915kms. So, problem solved - changing background and power management now work. One thing I noticed...

Try the command bsdconfig instead and then choose networking...

I would like to change the IP setup on my VPS from dynamic to static and am not sure what changes I need to make. Is this OK? Ifconfig_vtnet0="168.235.83.***/24" Do I need defaultrouter/gateway settings? Presumably I will need to create...

"Le sigh" as Pepe Le Pew would say.

Side note: I drove out to my brother-in-law's house today and, on the way, we passed by a new Google data center they're building next to the highway. That thing is HUGE!!! And they're building one for Amazon not far from it.

that means: you do whatever you want / whatever you think it suits you.

you do you ;)

What kind of installation system packages are you referring to? Distribution sets (base.txz, kernel.txz, src.txz, etc. ), previously stored in /usr/freebsd-dist but not included anymore since 15.0, following the transition to pkgbase, or pkgbase...

You need the package tex-formats.

Just a heads up: Claude code from ports also works under Wayland (plasma) after I disabled animations by setting the animation speed to "immediately". Obviously the claude code session in plasma konsole did not like when those effects were...

Check bsd.cafe https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/home

I'll try a static IP address and see what happens.

Stopped jail due to DHCP failure"Stopped jail due to DHCP failure" is a common FreeBSD jail error. It means the jail was configured to get its IP via DHCP, but dhclient failed to obtain a lease, so the jail was stopped. Why it happens with VNET...

I use IOCAGE at home on an internal network and IP addresses are assigned to 192.168.0.*. Maybe it doesn't need updates because it isn't broken. There is a github page with some recent updates:- https://github.com/freebsd/iocage All this...

I'm not using any social media of any kind at all. I prefer to meet people in real life, keep training my social skills as a social being and not become quixotic. This forums is the only exception for me, since I want and need to keep in touch...

Add yourself to the operator group - then You will have read permission for disk devices in /dev and will be able to use lsblk(8) as regular user. % ls -l /dev/nda* crw-r----- root operator 0 B 2026/07/20 22:02  /dev/nda0 crw-r----- root...

Set mysql_dbdir to the correct directory in rc.conf. # mysql_(instance_)?dbdir (str): Default to "/var/db/mysql" # Base database directory. The rc script launches mysqld with the --datadir command line option...

Add yourself to the operator group - then You will have read permission for disk devices in /dev and will be able to use lsblk(8) as regular user. % ls -l /dev/nda* crw-r----- root operator 0 B 2026/07/20 22:02  /dev/nda0 crw-r----- root...

I really wish FBSD had a /dev/fb interface available similar that of Linux. Having a plain FB that just maps to the best available output driver + mode makes userland's programs jobs much more easier and more secure. IMO low-level things like...

Indeed. Though (as most good things in Linux) it looks like it has become deprecated and isn't guaranteed to be in a number of default kernels. I tried to break down the Xorg vesa driver into a standalone library I could tap into but it became...

I'm not using any social media of any kind at all. I prefer to meet people in real life, keep training my social skills as a social being and not become quixotic. This forums is the only exception for me, since I want and need to keep in touch...

So with drm-612-kmod's i915kms + XLibre you get a startup freeze, While Wayland works with the same DRM configuration, but cluade-code causes Wayland to crash, SCFB + XLibre works, but there is no DPMS (Which is expected), And you just use the...

I was going to start a thread about this but I'll post it here instead. Far too often I read a blog and, at the end, the owner has a list of all their social contact places. And there are a lot of them! Mastadon, Bluesky, X, Facebook and more...

Reading the website again https://www.freshports.org/net-p2p/rslsync It mentions the the package is marked as: We doubt a package is available for this port because we see it marked as as: Package not available Packages are normally not...

Thanks everyone! This is what I have right now, both mirrors (pairs) are empty: # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT mirr_master 936K 225G 96K /www_master mirr_slave 888K 899G 96K...

That xorg.conf.d snipped is exactly what I tried and it resulted in "No screens found". :(

If you're using a two pools mirror consisting of two mirrored drives each, you can also just use the 4 drives in a single mirror. Same redundancy, but less complicated. No rsync is needed to synchronize data within a mirror. That's what ZFS does...

I think you are saying you have striped two mirrors (RAID10 requires 4 disks), and you want to be able to replace failed disks easily. My instincts tell me that triple mirrors, or hot spares, are likely to be operationally superior to using...

So two mirror pairs, mirrored? Not trying to get any extra space out of the four disks? You could lose 3 of the 4 drives and still have the data. But there may be better configurations for the 4 drives for data integrity. That is why setting...

In the rsync situation the second disk would not take over for the first one automatically when the first one breaks. rsync can be pretty intense from a disk traffic standpoint.

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Well after running make install from /use/ports/net-p2p/rsylsync/ it's downloading 43% fetch: resilio-sync_freebsd_x64.tar.gz appears to be truncated: 5810139/13407677 bytes => Attempting to fetch...