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I am trying to set up Nebula and want to properly store the binaries. I browsed through hier but it seems like there may be a few potential options. I don't know if /usr/bin/, /usr/local/bin/, or some other directory would be best. The other issue is that nebula is also available in pkg, but...

I'm almost done porting NsCDE (https://github.com/NsCDE/NsCDE). I'm unsure what category to put it under, however? It's a "modern" re-implementation of CDE, which is under x11. However, NsCDE really just is a bunch of scripts based on fvwm2. I originally thought about placing it under x11-wm...

Port net-mgmt/netbox is a nice tool widely used for IPAM and DECIM maintenance, so I tried to use it for maintenance purposes at work. I never got past the setup, since the example shown in FreeBSD's wiki (https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/net-mgmt/netbox) only covers a setup as vhost, which...

Having a tough time understanding something and can't figure out what happened. This morning an nfs share stopped working on my dev environment, it was working fine yesterday. After some head scratching, I relalized that my /home/ directory isn't a symlink to /usr/home/ anymore, it is a real...

( Disclaimer: Not a native-english speaker, and totally newbie, I do my best ) Hello, world. First thread so I hope to make it right: The concrete question is: Can I have the /home directory (which as I understand, contains my personal data) on a different partition? To help you understand...

I am new to ZFS. A directory under ZFS is behaving strangely: [nyan@orange ~]$ ls nyan16 |wc 23099 23099 1108752 [nyan@orange ~]$ ls nyan16 |wc 17561 17561 842928 [nyan@orange ~]$ ls nyan16 |wc 12413 12413 595824 [nyan@orange ~]$ ls nyan16 |wc 7735 7735 371280...

Hey all, Linux have inotify to monitor individual files, or to monitor directories. When a directory is monitored, inotify will return events for the directory itself, and for files inside the directory. Poor BSD has lacked this for some time, but it seems one clever guy has filled in the...