Blogging All About BSDs

Changing user password in script on FreeBSD host turned out to be very simpe. Use "pw" for this purpose:

echo "user_password" | pw usermod  -V /jails/myjail/etc -h 0 username

I've just found out, that java plugin is working on FreeBSD with Firefox 3.6 and OpenJDK (openjdk6-b21_3). You just need to compile openjdk port with WEB option and later do

ln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

I can't determine the quality of plugin - all my admin applications work strange (don't work seems right expression), but it may be caused by SSH tunneling...

I've just found out, that java plugin is working on FreeBSD with Firefox 3.6 and OpenJDK (openjdk6-b21_3). You just need to compile openjdk port with WEB option and later do

ln -s /usr/local/openjdk6/jre/lib/IcedTeaPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

I can't determine the quality of plugin - all my admin applications work strange (don't work seems right expression), but it may be caused by SSH tunneling...

I spent weekend updating my desktop system. I've built 8.2, updated Xorg, KDE and different trifles. Finally I reinstalled autoconf,automake,libltdl,libtool, because portmaster couldn't update them (ports moved). Periodically I had to kill grep during port install, because I forgot to update portmaster. These two problems could be solved if I had read "UPDATING"... But the last one was interesting: I

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I spent weekend updating my desktop system. I've built 8.2, updated Xorg, KDE and different trifles. Finally I reinstalled autoconf,automake,libltdl,libtool, because portmaster couldn't update them (ports moved). Periodically I had to kill grep during port install, because I forgot to update portmaster. These two problems could be solved if I had read "UPDATING"... But the last one was interesting: I

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Finally one irritating wine bug was fixed. Now I've just updated my wine to 1.3.3 (I had this in my port tree) with applied suggested patch. Some windows applications still don't work on my desktop (FreeBSD 8.1, xf86-video-ati-6.13.2, wine-1.3.3). However, they work on Linux and Intel integrated video adapter, but it seems I should blame ati video driver for this.

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Finally one irritating wine bug was fixed. Now I've just updated my wine to 1.3.3 (I had this in my port tree) with applied suggested patch. Some windows applications still don't work on my desktop (FreeBSD 8.1, xf86-video-ati-6.13.2, wine-1.3.3). However, they work on Linux and Intel integrated video adapter, but it seems I should blame ati video driver for this.

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Now I'm looking something to replace VMware ESXi... So far I looked at XCP (xen cloud platform). It has issues running OpenIndiana, so it was not a best choice for me. Then I looked at OpenNode. But satisfactory WebUI was available only for latest beta version, and I didn't manage to make it working. Maybe I should look at Aeolus

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Now I'm looking something to replace VMware ESXi... So far I looked at XCP (xen cloud platform). It has issues running OpenIndiana, so it was not a best choice for me. Then I looked at OpenNode. But satisfactory WebUI was available only for latest beta version, and I didn't manage to make it working. Maybe I should look at Aeolus

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I've just managed to create initial prototype of repmgr port for FreeBSD. Port compiles, but repmgrd dumps core for unknown reason... Need to investigate. Shell archive of the port is provided.

Updated: repmgrd works fine with included patch.

# This is a shell archive.  Save it in a file, remove anything before
# this line, and then unpack it by 
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I've just managed to create initial prototype of repmgr port for FreeBSD. Port compiles, but repmgrd dumps core for unknown reason... Need to investigate. Shell archive of the port is provided.

Updated: repmgrd works fine with included patch.

# This is a shell archive.  Save it in a file, remove anything before
# this line, and then unpack it by 
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I'm quite disturbed. I had found file to delete, had copied its name, entered "rm" and pressed ctrl+ins... What effectively pasted in the contents of one script. So I recieved "rm #!/bin/sh". I'm lucky, it wasn't "rm /bin/sh"... I hate several copy-paste buffers - one general buffer in KDE and separate buffer in Konsole.... Uuuuuu..........

I'm quite disturbed. I had found file to delete, had copied its name, entered "rm" and pressed ctrl+ins... What effectively pasted in the contents of one script. So I recieved "rm #!/bin/sh". I'm lucky, it wasn't "rm /bin/sh"... I hate several copy-paste buffers - one general buffer in KDE and separate buffer in Konsole.... Uuuuuu..........

Everyone knows that snapshots are fascinating feature of ZFS. Automatic snapshots in OpenSolaris used to save my mental health. After migration to FreeBSD I thought "It would be easy. There are a lot of decisions for managing ZFS snapshots in FreeBSD". In fact, theare are too many decisions for managing ZFS snapshots in FreeBSD. It's hard to choose one decision.

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Everyone knows that snapshots are fascinating feature of ZFS. Automatic snapshots in OpenSolaris used to save my mental health. After migration to FreeBSD I thought "It would be easy. There are a lot of decisions for managing ZFS snapshots in FreeBSD". In fact, theare are too many decisions for managing ZFS snapshots in FreeBSD. It's hard to choose one decision.

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Chromium was added to FreeBSD ports tree. I'm going to try it... Currently I use Konqueror, but it is not always perfect. And Firefox wants too much memory, works quite slow and (the most annoying for me) doesn't look good with KDE :)

Chromium was added to FreeBSD ports tree. I'm going to try it... Currently I use Konqueror, but it is not always perfect. And Firefox wants too much memory, works quite slow and (the most annoying for me) doesn't look good with KDE :)

I've just updated my FreeBSD desktop. I haven't noticed big changes in KDE 4.5.1 yet, however, some small updates really matter. Now we have useful adblock-like feature in konqueror - I can block any frame/image I like and use some public adblock lists. However, konqueror can't block Flash objects. I'd like it to block them too...
And as always, Google

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