Mind Adrift - freebsd

gui_vps

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 20:53:38 +0000

Gui on a Headless VPS If you wish to run a gui application on a virtual private server (vps) you have two choices. The first one doesn't count - it's painful. That's running X with a virtual frame buffer for the display. Something like Xvfb. It's just too slow. It is also fairly resource heavy.

ipfw_firehol

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 03 May 2024 15:29:35 +0000

IPFW with FireHOL block lists The FireHOL project, another firewall and qos project, compiles a set of ip block lists. There are a number of lists that have different focuses - there is some overlap between them. These could be handy to use with IPFW. So let's see what we can do

ipfw_stateful

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 16:20:53 +0000

IPFW: A Stateful NATing Firewall config Note that the code below is a simplified version of a running configuration. There very well may be typos and syntactical blunders but the main point is to convey the structure of the process.You should do all of your firewall work from the console or have console access easily available. Otherwise you risk locking yourself out of the server. Not nice if it's not near by.

ipfw_stateful_restart

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 02 May 2024 14:14:08 +0000

IPFW: A Stateful Restart When working with IPFW rules you are well advised to work from the console... However, that frequently doesn't happen. Maybe the system is in another room or another location or we just want to do something “quick”. As long as you are careful, it's possible to do this without a huge risk. You will get bit eventually of course.

pkg_checksum_mismatch

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:56:37 +0000

pkg: checksum mismatch Occasionally an error will crop up regarding a checksum mismatch for installed packages. You might see something like the following in your daily security email. Checking for packages with mismatched checksums: py39-certifi-2022.12.7: /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/certifi/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-39.pyc py39-certifi-2022.12.7: /usr/local/lib/python3.9/site-packages/certifi/__pycache__/core.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc py39-certifi-2022.12.7: /usr/local/lib/python3.…

pkg_size_mismatch

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 18:50:47 +0000

pkg: cached package size mismatch Freebsd's pkg system is wonderfully handy. However, on occasion, problems may arise. In this case we're looking at pkg: cached package XXX: size mismatch, cannot continue The error message goes on to suggest running

start

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 19:17:53 +0000

Ramblings I've used FreeBSD for over twenty years. I started with it somewhere around release 2.2.x. It's come a long way. It's an amazing product. Take a gander at the list of products based on it (wikipedia). I don't believe that list is exhaustive by any means. The operating system is at the core of things many of us touch every day.

x_chooser_user

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 17 May 2020 17:59:04 +0000

User Controlled X-Windows Session Chooser A simple one. I prefer to use the bog standard X.org xdm to log into X-Windows. However, I would also like to have the ability to choose a different windows manager on occasion. xdm doesn't provide a session manager. However, it does run the .xsession script in our home directory if it finds it.