Posts in category FreeBSD
In Other BSDs for 2018/01/06
Note the non-profit link; that may be useful to you.
BSD on New Hardware.
BSDCAN2017 Interview with Peter Hessler, Reyk Floeter, and Henning Brauer. (video)
Moving bacula-sd into a FreeBSD jail.
As noted here in a comment, you can name a BSD non-profit as a recipient of the ‘commission’ from Amazon purchases. Doesn’t cost [...]
About the Meltdown and Spectre attack...
About the Meltdown and Spectre attacks: FreeBSD was made aware of the problems in late December 2017. We\'re working with CPU vendors and the published papers on these attacks to mitigate them on FreeBSD. Due to the fundamental nature of the attacks, no estimate is yet available for the publication date of patches.
BSDDNow 226: SSL: Santa’s Syscall Lis...
I’m a bit late posting this, since I’ve been on the road, but: BSDNow 226 is up, diving into recent FreeBSD status and Foundation reports, OpenBSD work, and other details.
Moving bacula-sd into a FreeBSD jail
In this post:
Bacula 7.4
FreeBSD 11.1
py-iocage 0.9.9.2
I recently wrote about Converting a Dell R710 into a ZFS-based FreeBSD 11.1 tape library bacula-sd and then about getting the drives ready. That system, henceforth referred to as the r710 is now ready for the Bacula setup.
Last night I created a jail and installed the software I’ [...]
July-September 2017 Status Report
The July to September 2017 Status Report is now available.
In Other BSDs for 2017/12/23
Last minute, of course.
OpenBSD 6.2 + CDE. (via)
How to run a PFSense home router in a (linux) hypervisor on your desktop. (via)
“Is TrueOS like the Ubuntu of the BSD’s?”
Trouble mounting root during install from DVD.
Do any of the BSDs support AMD RX 580 GPUs and the new Ryzen (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2017/12/09
Last minute, as always!
The anatomy of tee program on OpenBSD. (via)
Leaving Amazon AWS. (via, I think)
FreeBSD Port-Knocking.
s2k17 Hackathon Report: Stefan Sperling (stsp@) on wireless (iwm(4), athn(4) and more) progress.
DiscoverBSD for 2017/12/03.
Cross-BSD pollination. (DragonFly->OpenBSD, via)
FreeBSD 11.0 is end-of-lifed.
OPNsen [...]
BSDNow 223: Compile once, debug twice
BSDNow 223 covers a wide range: debuggers, Rust, Docker, EuroBSDCon 2017, pine64, and some network tools for FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
In Other BSDs for 2017/12/02
Totally last-minute.
“Permissive licensing is wrong!” – Is it? (1/2)
Reflections on Hackathons.
Cheap temp and humidity sensors. Probably BSD-compatible, given the list.
OpenBSD Router Boilerplate. (via)
Suggestions on High-end Laptop for dual-booting with BSD/Windows.
The LLVM Thread Sanitizer has been ported to NetBSD.
Linux user picking [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/11/25
One month to Christmas!
Anyone with ARM laptop experience?
Hitler Quote Controversy In the BSD Community. I haven’t noticed anything.
Semibug Christmas dinner: 19 December 2017.
Official OpenBSD 6.2 CD set – the only one to be made!
p2k17 Hackathon report: Antoine Jacoutot on ports+packages progress.
Lumina 1.4.0 released.
Disco [...]
R710 – getting the drives ready
I recently installed 6 SSDs into an R710. In this post, I will describe what I did to the empty SSDs before I started using them.
short test
I ran a short test on each one of the drives. I already had smartctl.
$ sudo smartctl -t short /dev/da0
smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p1 amd64] (local build)
(Read more...)
Converting a Dell R710 into a ZFS-bas...
If you’ve read even a little of what I’ve written, the following points will not come as a surprise: I like FreeBSD I’m a fan of backups I use Bacula I like ZFS I have tape libraries In this post, I will cover all of the above and more. Photos will be included. New gear [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/11/18
Whee!
More p2k17 Hackathon: Anthony J. Bentley on firmware, games and securing pkg_add runs, Sebastian Reitenbach on Puppet,
Landry Breuil on Mozilla things,Florian Obser on network stack progress, kernel relinking.
Hyper V VLAN tag on pfSense?
OpenBSD on G4 Cube. (via)
FreeNAS ISCSI Luns & VMware; restricting lun visibility?
FreeNAS vs [...]
Moving FreshPorts
Today I moved the FreshPorts website from one server to another. My goal is for nobody to notice. In preparation for this move, I have: DNS TTL reduced to 60s Posted to Twitter Updated the status page Put the website put in offline mode: Sorry, the website is offline from 2017-11-05 17:01, for approximately 3 [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/11/11
A good variety this week.
Building software with Ravenports.
“SSH Mastery, 2nd Ed” News, Sponsorships, and Cover.
LISA 2017 Conference Recap.
LibreSSL 2.6.3 released. (via)
First Absolute FreeBSD 3rd Edition preorders available.
GhostBSD 11.1 RC1 is ready! (via)
p2k17 Hackathon reports: 1 2 3 4 5.
Why did we build (Read more...)
In Other BSDs for 2017/11/04
This was an easy week for finding links.
API provisioning for BCHS web apps. Looks like there’s a new near-monthly article about using BCHS near-monthly, which I did not know. For example: kwebapp. (via)
Next planned NYCBUG meeting: January 3rd.
FOSDEM 2018 will have a BSD Devroom; the call for papers is out now – (Read more. [...]
In Other BSDs for 2017/10/28
For once, I was able to work ahead and get this done early!
Using the Linux find command with caution. It says “Linux” but most platforms have find(1).
What are BSD’s nonfree firmware blobs?
Linux to bsd.
Are BSD binaries portable across the different BSD flavors?
What’s the current state of optimus support for the B [...]
