rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work

rtprio, That's good too! But here is something to consider. That is internal to the command line shell.

When the command line shell needs to grow memory it will grow.

And in some file system cases using */*/* types of expansion will match all of those and can grow quite large.

After having grown the command line shell never returns memory to the OS. It is only released when the shell itself exits.

It's not something I will even care about on my 16GB RAM workstation. But back in the day on smaller systems it could be pretty memory piggy.

Maybe sh -c 'echo rm -rf /usr/ports/*/*/work' would be better because then the memory growth is in that shell which runs and exits. Maybe? :-)

yeah, it would depend on how many work directories there would be.

question: does FreeBSD resolve any-name-here.localhost to the loopback address?

cryptonector: only if the DNS server does it AFAIK. resolutions based on /etc/hosts won't do that.

sphex: thanks, I figured as much, though it could have been a feature of the C library itself, or the name service switch

hello, getting error "files/792b947a9cb216d3ced502cbfad92c60de607a2efed22d9fbac37bb6a4595b0a.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt." while executing "portsnap fetch extract"

25g free

saltd: freebsd-questions.freebsd.narkive.c…db398-gz-not-found-snapshot-corrupt

Title: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

should probably have looked for it in the freebsd.org lists archives but too lazy

It *REALLY* irritates me that Linus got the market share that the BSD's *should* have gotten. All because AT&T was throwing a big fit of alleged code in FreeBSD. NOW thanks to that, a superiour *nix lost tons of commercial support, for an OS that's glued together!!

Remilia i changed /var/db directory for temp files to /tmp and it gots the snapshot. but of course this is not a good case

hello, is there a way to prevent running script more then once by using already existing tools, without writing extra script ?

nerozero hello, is there a way to prevent running script more then once by using already existing tools, without writing extra script

saltd, ?

saltd: use daemon(8) with -p option may be?

sorry, nerozero ^^^

yuripv, my issue is that cron stacking nextcloud cron processes

I could write a script which stores a pid into a file and then checking file existance and pid

daemon(8) does that for you

yuripv, hm... ok, may be ...

yuripv: checking your access madat or y rules ...

the nice thing that it could replace su command... I could supply user account to it

yuripv, thanks it worked

but when i'm passing command and args in a quotes it doesn't find the executable ... weird

something like this doesn't seems to work daemon -p /var/run/my.pid "/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/nextcloud/cron.php"

why do you need the quotes?

hi, any idea on how to remove clang from nanobsd image (when building nanobsd image) ?

meandrain: related setting in src.conf(5) do not help?

"src.conf(5)" list various variables to affect a build; "WITHOUT_CLANG" is one of those

yuripv: I'll look into that, thanx for the hint

yuripv, i was afraid command line arguments will not be parsed correctly but, it was parsed correctly. Thanks one more time !

ahoi, I don't get why freebsd won't let me mount my fat32 usb harddrive. With "mount -v -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/

I get "Invalid argument"

andmars: what does "gpart show da0" says?

andmars, show please output of : gpart show

you can also use mount_msdosfs

nerozero: when you quote it like that, the entire quoted string is taken as a filename to pass to exec call, and there's no such file "/usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/nextcloud/cron.php" :)

nerozero: gpart show shows the drive (da0 fat32lba)

nerozero: and mount_msdosfs also yields "Invalid argument"

andmars, show the entire output

if it is only da0 then try: mount_msdosfs /dev/da0 /path/to/mount

nerozero: /dev/da0 still "Invalid argument"

yourfate, now I get it, the daemon splits commands into 2 parts, the executable and args .... tnx

please show entire output of the: gpart show

nerozero: can't get it over...different machine

use termbin then

gpart show | nc termbin.com 9999

post the url

nerozero: termbin.com/iqe2

then use partition 1

mount_msdosfs /dev/da0p1 /path/to/mount

you can use autocomplete ( tab )

nerozero: there is not /dev/da0p1 only /dev/da0s1

slice ? hm ...

nerozero: with a usb-stick it's p instead of s

can you access this drive from any other machine ?

nerozero: from my arch linux, yes

could you please show: file -s /dev/da0s1 | nc termbin.com 9999

nerozero: termbin.com/0oll

could you please show then what is already mounted?

mount | nc termbin.com 9999

nerozero: well, I'll get another usb-stick (which I can mount no problem in freebsd) and do my backup with this...kinda had it with this external harddrive. Big thanks for your efforts though :-)

you can do backup over ssh

and with rsync

on the remote machine

nerozero: yes, but the remote machine is what I want to migrate from arch to freebsd

in case of zfs ( which you got ) you can send entire snapshot over ssh

and you doing backup for ?

moving files ?

send it over the network

nerozero: you mean I can send my files from my arch machine over to my freebsd laptop?

sure yes

well that changes things a lot

install openssh-server on arch to connect to arch

or you should already have openssh running on bsd

or configure it from rc.conf

you can do whatever you like over ssh, sky is the limit

nerozero: gonna read the arch wiki about that now...thank you very much

I do recommend ssh-copy-id to your client machine, then you will authenticate automatically

install sshfs - and you can mount things as filesystem over ssh :)

btw read about: ssh -Y things :D

you can also forward X over ssh

(never tried cross platform but, who knows )

I am trying to build nanobsd image on freebsd 13.1 and I get this error: pastebin.mozilla.org/nYBwR4Sq Any hint what to do ?

Title: Mozilla Community Pastebin/nYBwR4Sq (Bash)

It worked ok with FreeBSD 13.0, 12.x, 11.x

I am using i386 branch of FreeBSD 13.1

anybody used BigBlueButton recently? doesn't work at all for me on current + firefox

meandrain: Can you exercise mdconfig manually?

I can but I dont know how to do all those commands nanobsd does

meandrain: I'm guessing that "creating" line is hiding an mdconfig invocation behind it, and that the call is failing but ignored.

meandrain: Might be possible to pull the invocation out of the scripting.

the thing is the image is created, I'll try to mount in first to see if it is empty or not

mason: thanx, I'll try your suggestion

mason: I've monted the image, it seems the data is there so the error in the nanobsd log file might be another command that is not needed ?

instead of /dev/md0s3 the root partition is /dev/md0s1a

hrm

might still be worth a bug report if it's getting that wrong

I'll try to burn the image and see if it boots, then file a bug report

I found this issue on FreeBSD's forum: forums.freebsd.org/threads/nanobsd-…rld-no-such-file-or-directory.85608 (last post)

Title: nanobsd error while performing installworld: "No such file or directory" | The FreeBSD Forums

VimDiesel this is windows support channel, ask for such questions on FreeBSD official channels

har har har?

scramble scramble

hello all, question about freebsd compatibility with my hardware i have a GPU: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] will it work on it?

also is there a sort of user repository on freebsd?

i mean a repo similar to AUR ?

where any user can basically upload software?

skeemer: wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Intel-GPU-Matrix

Title: Graphics/Intel-GPU-Matrix - FreeBSD Wiki

skeemer: the ports tree is like this. you send a patch in, it gets a slight massage, now everybody has it

not quite like AUR

dch, what do you mean by "it gets a slight massage" ?

dch, why not quite like aur ?

skeemer: docs.freebsd.org/en/books/porters-handbook has more details

Title: FreeBSD Porter's Handbook | FreeBSD Documentation Portal

most new contributions need a little bit of tidying up before they get committed

some more than others, depending on contributors general familiarity with FreeBSD and ports

dch, how quick is the process for good enough ports?

skeemer: depends. in my personal experience, a few days on average, some things sit for ages if $LIFE gets in the way of volunteers.

some port areas have active irc or other channels and stuff goes through fast if you ask in there

skeemer: you should try!

there's a #freebsd-ports channel on libera too

morning

koobs: It is

wez: lovely

quite, it has finally stopped raining :D

yay