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I would think they already have the man pages.

I spend too much time noting to these AI bots, "What you said sounds more like a commercial promoting said product." To which it replies, "You're right! I'll rewrite that so it has less bias." Or "I thought we weren't supposed to do it that way"...

Definitely; I was asking if you HAD to use ports. If you don't need to use ports then use the binary packages (exclusively). poudriere has been a bit much for me so I'm looking at moving from portmaster on 13.x to trying binary packages on 14.x...

FWIW it runs in Wine here and have been added to games/mizuma.

Terry Thomas was the best cad

AI/LLMs have been hugely beneficial to my FreeBSD experience, but you'll notice that responses bias significantly towards Linuxisms. You can overcome this somewhat by specifying obvious opening tags like: "In FreeBSD {command, config, system...

Mixing packages and port is bad. I think I can try with poudriere is the best option, but then I have to change a lot of options first😊

What happens when you try? How are you trying to do this? The current theory is that you have a mix of ports, some linked to base OpenSSL, some linked to ports OpenSSL, and you have to rebuild *everything* against just one of those to eliminate...

You are correct, and I retract the assertion that you must have PLP for reliable function. My view that Power Loss Protection (PLP) was mandatory for reliable function came from a time when I was building my ZFS server, a decade ago, and some...

1. Somehow, it takes zero time to find and upload a manpage, and that does not qualify as 'teaching'. Y'know, when you upload a manpage, it's the same as providing teaching materials to someone. 'Teaching materials' is the very manpage you're...

L2ARC needs another mapping table in memory - so it reduces the memory available to conventional ARC. If you are under constant memory pressure, adding a L2ARC will worsen your problems - so unless you completely maxed out your system with RAM...

I have tried to remove the ssl entry from /etc/make.conf, but then I get a lot of warning like !\ WARNING /!\ You have security/openssl installed but do not have DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=ssl=openssl set in your make.conf With SSL_DEFAULT= base I...

Dumbest thing I did, huh... Some of those qualify as 'learning experiences' that simply took up a LOT of my time - like trying to compile a few compilers like GCC on weak processors like a Sandy Bridge i5 2467M. Or another time, I wanted to...

The Fall 2024 FreeBSD Summit is just around the corner, featuring two exciting days of talks, collaboration, and networking. We are excited to present a comprehensive program that covers various topics within the FreeBSD ecosystem. With a lineup...

That's exactly what I do. I make a custom XFCE genmon script for this: [18:46][fmc000@tu45b-freebsd][~/.local/bin] ╰─$ cat pkgaud.sh #!/usr/local/bin/bash PKGAUD=$(doas pkg audit -F|tail -1|awk '{print $1}') OUTPUT=$(doas pkg audit -F|grep -v...

Earlier this year I had no success with FreeBSD on this board. I noticed that Armbian, OpenBSD, and Ubuntu have no problem running. I noticed that the u-boot firmware seems to have a lot to do with a successful boot. It seems that the key to...

Earlier this year I had no success with FreeBSD on this board. I noticed that Armbian, OpenBSD, and Ubuntu have no problem running. I noticed that the u-boot firmware seems to have a lot to do with a successful boot. It seems that the key to...

Dumbest thing I did, huh... Some of those qualify as 'learning experiences' that simply took up a LOT of my time - like trying to compile a few compilers like GCC on weak processors like a Sandy Bridge i5 2467M. Or another time, I wanted to...

Dear aji_pineapple, I think it is a good practice to run pkg audit -F.That checks the packages against a database which lists vulnerable packages. With the option -F the database is fetched before the check. Please see pkg-audit for dteails. I...

FWIW, I usually upgrade only when new vulnerabilities are fixed by the new package releases.

The OP list of CAD programs does not distinguish 2D vs 3D. I use cad/freecad and have been able to develop and 3D resin print prototypes. It has a substantial learning curve - I watched FreeCAD tutorials on youtube: MangoJelly FreeCAD youtube...

OK, I got this resolved (sort of) by booting grml and installing Solidigm's "sst" util and using that to create namespaces. They look almost "right". What I created: Size: 209715200 blocks Capacity...

Ah right, apologies, you had mentioned in your original post. So unless you want to try to update the port (maybe contact the 1.8 maintainer), you might be left with two slightly lame options: Linux emulation Windows emulation (Wine) Luckily...

What do you need it for? Maybe Blender will do?

My usage of CAD is very basic, basically just CSG subtract to create simple doorways. Apparently, CSG subtracting in level editors is an anti-pattern which they try to make awkward (For this reason I maintain a fork of GtkRadiant called OpenRadiant).

Specifically, these issues have been fixed with p6, three security issues and one errata. https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-24:17.bhyve.asc https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-24:18.ctl.asc...

What dd you expect atime to do on an idle machine where nothing is opening files?

This is a server (well, two servers actually) that receives syslog data over the network and keeps it for 400 days. Each server has about 3k clients it receives data from.

I now managed to create a namespace with the "nvme" cli. However, I am not sure if it actually worked. (server-prod </root>) 0 # /usr/local/sbin/nvme create-ns /dev/nvme0 -s 150031139328 -c 200041519104 -d 0 -m 0 -f 0 0xc0484e41: opc: 0xd fuse...

Do you have a need for synchronous writes? Did you know that the ZIL is only used for synchronous writes? When you move the ZIL to a Separate Intent Log (SLOG), the SLOG does not need to be large. To quote Jude & Lucas: "The sysctl...

How does that fit with a mirrored ZIL? OK you are going to mirror drives for ZIL. That is recommended. But 800GB drives? That is so overkill it is silly (expensive too). What is your anticipitated pool size? Spinners or SSD? Installed Memory? I...

P6 fixed a couple of userland issues. The version of the kernel is baked in at compile time and because it hasn't been updated it should still show the 'old' version. If you (re)build the kernel it will show the 'new' version, but there will be...

P6 fixed a couple of userland issues. The version of the kernel is baked in at compile time and because it hasn't been updated it should still show the 'old' version. If you (re)build the kernel it will show the 'new' version, but there will be...

How do I know which field it objects? (server-prod </root>) 0 # nvmecontrol ns create -s 150031139328 -c 200041519104 -L 0 -d 0 nvme0 nvmecontrol: namespace creation failed: Invalid Field

ZFS will show mostly writes to the disks themselves, reading of data will mostly come from ARC (memory) when the caches have been warmed up enough. So you will see comparatively a lot more writes than reads when you look at the actual disk activity.

I noticed this too, it looks like the kernel is at patchlevel 5 whilst the userland is at 6. I assume it's normal but I am not sure about it.

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My traveling notebook runs Linux and KVM native. This part is Linux Laptop specific. I'm posting it here because it supports FreeBSD clients. I already have the clients adjusting their clock when I use the virt-manager to suspend and resume by...

[Edit: the changes described below work when the KVM FreeBSD client is paused using the KVM virt-manager GUI, but not when I close, and some time later, open the lid of my notebook (which is also a KVM server with a FreeBSD client)...

/etc/rc.resume actually restarts /etc/rc.d/ntpd. But that might not be the case for OpenNTPd or Chrony rc.d scripts. rc.resume: files=`rcorder ${rcorder_opts} /etc/rc.d/* ${local_rc} 2>/dev/null` for _rc_elem in $files; do debug...

As Erichans suggests, it takes a little while. Edit: I just measured the delay at 6 minutes on my notebook VM. You can watch what's happening with ntpq -pn. Also, just to cover all the bases, make sure you restart ntpd after changing the...

I managed to get a DOS machine on to a TCP/IP network using Novell ODI drivers. I even managed to make it be dual-homed. I still consider that one of my best hacks. Yeah, I tried to get us to not ship broken software to a large financial...

Did that as a grad student, on a MVS system. We had a weird setup, using IBM's base MVS, libraries and linker, but Fujitsu's Fortran compiler (because it was better). Note that I was a completely normal unprivileged user. One day I decided to...

Looks like a tape library indeed. From the color I would say Qualstar or Compaq but I can't find anything similar on the web.

it works but you have no console output or login (ssh works though) i built it statically and chmoded rc +x

[Edit: the changes described below work when the KVM FreeBSD client is paused using the KVM virt-manager GUI, but not when I close, and some time later, open the lid of my notebook (which is also a KVM server with a FreeBSD client)...

Supermicro wouldn't sell us Optanes for these servers. And 800GB was apparently the smallest they would sell us. OK, I think I've read that splitting the SSD that forms the ZIL isn't a good idea. I still want to underprovision them. Any idea...

Are the volumes variable sized?

So if you split by namespace, do you get separate PCIe devices? As opposed to just different disk devices?

So it's for passing separate /dev/ entries into different security/tenant level machines. I can see that.