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💬 View post · 2023-10-14 · 9 months ago

Picolisp for FreeBSD (at tildegit.org) — I got picolisp to work on FreeBSD (I think, I am still doing some tests, but it seems to work). I should really make a proper port, but the way it likes to install is by creating a symlink to the entire pil21 directory right into /usr/local/lib/ and again, to /usr/local/share... I am not sure it's an acceptable way to do it... What do you think?

💬 4 comments · 2023-10-13 · 9 months ago

Help: How to switch between wifi and wired networks. — My laptop is currently configured for a wired network (em0) and WIFI(wlan0). Relevant /etc/rc.conf: [preformatted] When the system comes up, networking seems to work. However, bringing wlan0 down makes the system stop working. I just spent a few hours trying to figure out what's going on, and I managed to get it working but it seems too convoluted. What's a good way to do this? The Problem When I bring down wlan0, netstat -r still shows (...

💬 2 comments · 1 like · 2023-10-10 · 9 months ago

Is the Lagrange ports maintainer here on BBS? — I was wondering when 1.17 is coming to FreeBSD... Thank you for your work!

💬 1 comment · 2023-10-07 · 9 months ago

Automount problems (ext4 unmounting fails) — I thought I was done, but it is not stable. Has anyone else had issues with sysutils/automount? I am using 17.8 package, with a large ext4 drive. It mounts and works fine, but after leaving it for hours (with lid closed/suspended), the drive was asleep with light off. When I tried to look at a file in the file manager (pcmanfm) it opened and then locked up. dmesg showed continuous failed read and write requests, with many retries. I tried 'automount...

💬 1 like · 2023-10-07 · 9 months ago

Automounting USB drives — I spent most of today getting FreeBSD to automount USB drives. I have several backup drives, some ntfs, others ext4, and some, for compatibility, fat... My first attempt was to follow the FreeBSD handbook -- it has a section with step by step instructions for automounting. After a few minor issues (mostly with my brain), it worked, but it has a terminal flaw - I could not unmount drives. If ext4 is not unmounted cleanly, it would not automount again, and I would have...

💬 View post · 2023-10-06 · 9 months ago

Boot Environments - a big 👍 — It was trivial (in my simple case). There is already a default environment created at installation time. `bectl create foo` creates a bootable system, a new persistent branch in the timeline. `bectl activate foo` and a reboot puts me into that branch. Now I can experiment without fear of polluting the default branch, It's brilliant, and I wish I had figured it out before I accidentally sucked in a gigabyte of gnu tools... I wish the installer made a point about...

💬 4 comments · 1 like · 2023-10-06 · 9 months ago

Polluted my new FreeBSD install! — So, for some stupid reason, I decided to install the Lagrange port, without considering what it means... Before I realized what was happending, it pulled in a big chunk of gnu crap - hundreds of files... I don't know what I was thinking. A few minutes later I slapped my head and ctrl-c'd out of make, and now have a crapload of junk libraries, includes, docs, etc. I suppose it's not the end of the world, and perhaps I will search for all the files created...

💬 5 comments · 2 likes · 2023-10-04 · 9 months ago

Switched to FreeBSD! With a little elbow grease, got it working on my ThinkPad T470, with dwm, and vgmi gemini client (a bit clunky)... What would you recommend for a TUI client, preferrably written in C or something that will not break (i.e. _not_ Python)? Still have to figure out how to get a better font, and make laptoppy things work better...

💬 1 like · 2023-08-14 · 11 months ago

Just submitted a patch to update the lang/zig port to 0.11.0. Zig is a pretty awesome language and has good FreeBSD support on x86_64. Fingers crossed it'll get merged soonish.

💬 View post · 2023-08-12 · 11 months ago

Yesterdays FreeBSD activity was installing updates on my client's machines. SSH is all sorted now. For some reason, I missed that freebsd-update patches /usr/src as well the binaries 😎

👾 fab

How to use pinentry-gtk-2 instead of pinentry-curses? — Can somebody please tell me how to force FreeBSD to use pinentry-gtk-2 instead of pinentry-ncurses? On Debian I'd use "update-alternatives", but I'm not aware of a similar command on FreeBSD...

💬 3 comments · 2023-08-03 · 11 months ago

💬 1 comment · 2 likes · 2023-07-30 · 11 months ago

Just finished updating FreeBSD to patch the SA's revealed yesterday. I went ahead and did a source based update because it's been a long time and I wanted to see how it went. Surprisingly well is how it went. I had never used the `etcupdate` command before, having always used `mergemaster` in the past,and it was a huge improvement. Mergemaster was the most time consuming part of the entire process in years past, requiring the user to individually decide what to do with every file in /etc. The `...

💬 1 comment · 2023-07-29 · 11 months ago

A security advisory for OpenSSH has come out recently. Now would be a great time to run freebsd-update to make sure you're covered 😎

💬 2 likes · 2023-07-03 · 1 year ago

Reminder - FreeBSD 13.1's end of life is expected to be July 31, 2023. Be sure you upgrade your machines soon ☺️

💬 View post · 2023-07-01 · 1 year ago

FreeBSD 13.2 upgrade — Yesterday I visited my main system administration client and upgraded seven of his bare metal servers to FreeBSD 13.2 from 13.1. It went really well with only a few minor hiccups. This time I did practice upgrades by restoring backups onto isolated Bhyve virtual machines. That helped me work through any issues before working on the production hardware. BVCP is a great web interface to Bhyve. I recommend that you take a look.

🚀 antranigv

Any good FreeBSD Gemini clients with a GUI? Hi! I'm #newhere , altho I'm on my macOS now using Lagrange, I was wondering what are YOU using to access Gemini on FreeBSD? :)

💬 3 comments · 2023-06-28 · 1 year ago

☯️ Mirari [mod]

Sadly my laptop has a Broadcom WiFi card so i cant really use FreeBSD

💬 3 comments · 1 like · 2023-06-17 · 1 year ago

💬 3 comments · 5 likes · 2023-06-17 · 1 year ago

The Lagrange port in FreeBSD is two years old — So I'm working on updating it myself. I've gotten the build working fine now with the newest stable, just need to fix the plist to include translations. Posting this from Lagrange-1.16.4 on FreeBSD built with my updated port.