whew this job market for CIO seems jammed

anyone any advice for finding jobs?

#freebsd isn't really the right place for that.

I have been using duplicity for offsite backups into Azure blob storage (S3 alike). The most recent releasesa have been having issues with incomplete backups, so I'm looking for alternatives.

I know I can zfs-send from one machine to another, but I'm not sure if it's even possible to zfs-send to an object storage system

sure

but it'll stored as a file like old backups

I don't think delphix ever commited their s3 compat backend

I have an old Sun Microsystems USB mouse that does not get recognized as a modern mouse... Any idea if it can be used in modern systems? It gets recognized as the following:

kernel: ugen0.8: <vendor 0x0430 product 0x0100> at usbus0

Oh weird. Second time I plugged it in, it worked fine. Nevermind! :)

Do I need any specific preparation to load an image file as a preload-type md device?

Or can I just load an image neat like a kernel module?

or do I have to create it when building the kernel

hello, I'm new to FreeBSD, after some time and efforts I succeded in setting usb bluetooth audio with virtual_oss. but still I have 2 problems remaining:

1 - there is no sound in firefox even with media.cubeb.backend: oss

2 - I'm unable to set sound level with virtual_oss_ctl (the gui is diplayed, I can see the controls but when pressing up or down sound level does not change)

I'm looking for clues but I don't knwow where to find them.

and I'm a bit confused by all the different audio stacks (sndio, oss, virtual_oss, pulseaudio, etc)...

oss is a programming interface for audio on UNIX. sound(4) (device drivers are prefixed snd_*) is the main driver that supports the oss programming interface on FreeBSD, and the other is virtual_oss, which runs in userspace and is able to use bluetooth devices. sndio is something that openbsd made up, and then compatibility libraries were made to use on other operating systems (if I'm not

mistaken). pulseaudio has always been something that exists in userspace, and it exists, among other reasons, to allow sound to be transported over a network for short distances, but it seems to be the default for applications to use over on the Linux side, so we here have to deal with some software trying to use it. it works, albeit poorly, on FreeBSD.

AmyMalik: Yes, i figured this out yet. What is confusing me is what is that it seems to have all of those running at the same time

so tryong to understand what is not working is hard

does firefox use pulseaudio ? I can't tell. I read some docs telling it use it and I may have to make it use OSS with " media.cubeb.backend: oss" in about:config

still it is not working either and I'm stuck

$ pgrep pulseaudio

63747

pgrep pulseaudio

2307

looks like it was started by either firefox or thunderbird on my system as that PID is jailled and I use a jail for firefox and thunderbird

so yes, I have pulseaudio running. Firefox played sound before I set up the BT audio with virtual_oss

and by by setting "pacmd set-default-sink 2", firefox get sound again but output is not the virtual_oss device

no gparted for freebsd?

FreeBSD has own utilities for it

it does, although they are command-line only at this time. I have not found them difficult to get my head around - if anything, they're some of the easiest tools I have ever used to partition a storage module.

enter `man 8 gpart` for information on partitioning, and `apropos newfs` for pointers to information on formatting partitions.

bummer, well thanks

qbittorrent seems to hang, needs to be kill -9

this is in 13.1 RELEASE p5 x86-64

nmz-: if it's hanging, you wanna get a core and examine it: docs.freebsd.org/en/books/developers-handbook/tools/#debugging

Title: Chapter 2. Programming Tools | FreeBSD Documentation Portal

but it's c++!

 

godo morning

good morning

yeah im switching to bhyve from virtual box tired of having networking issues when running my vms using the bridge interface

uggghg

anybody here familiar with `xtrs' the TRS-80 emulator? I'd like to find some help for running cassettes and can't seem to find any channel on libera focused on it

im not gzar sorry

thanks anyway, i managed to run a different emulator with wine

even the bug reporting site has a bug!

lmao

what site and what software

bugs.freebsd.org, clicking paste text as attachment brings up a textbox, but the textbox cannot be typed on

nmz-: it's certainly a stupid idea from me but if you use NO SCRIP extension, may it block a javascript used by the button.

Ha, I do have ublocker but its not turned on for the website

trying to set up opendkim... i have milteropendkim_enable="YES" and milteropendkim_cfgfile="/usr/local/etc/mail/opendkim.conf" in my /etc/rc.conf - rebooted - but `service milter-opendkim start` complains $milteropendkim_enable isn't set to YES

little confused

it's not unset anywhere else afaict

YOu know, on the surface, it looks like you can get some really good deals on refurbished server hardware from Amazon. . .

But then you realize they want to charge you an extra $100-150 for the rails.

Hola

nmz-: I can type into the textbox for pasting attachments just fine, using Firefox v110 on FreeBSD

Try creating a new profile using about:profiles, launch the new profile, and create a bug there. If that works, it's one of your add-ons or an issue with the way you set up Firefox.

..well, assuming you're using Firefox. If not, I've no clue what to do.

omg its frigging html quote versus real ascii quote

parli spagnolo?

copy and pasted milteropendkim_enable=”YES”

et09: try this: sysrv milteropendkim_enable=YES

or, service milteropendkim enable

Sweet! I'm able to play Railroad Tycoon II on Wine on FreeBSD!

I remember playing hours of that game back in the late 90s/early 2000s.

meena: i just had to edit the quotes

yay now i'm 100% dmarc/spf/dkim as god intended

(i thought i was already ...)

et09: i know. I'm just telling you two methods you cash safely forego the quotes, because they will do the thing for you

gotcha - it was a few other config opts as well

I reckon service foo enable probably calls sysrc, but maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part

hm - 12.4 is more decent than 13.1 ?

recent **

Yes, but some things are in 13.1 that aren't in 12.4, because 13.x overall is more recent than 12.x.

et09 13.1 is the release (most stable

12.4 is just still being updated i take it

et09 you want to go with that.

right yeah i already upgrade to 13

while back

et09: it's updated with security fixes and hopefully with bug fixes… but there's usually no new features once there's another branch out

meena, yes, "service foo enable" appears to use sysrc, through /etc/rc.subr run_rc_command().

Any suggestions on what is the safest (the saaafest) methodologies to promptly resume operations if OS gets corrupted or disk fails?

meena maybe a auto update on security updates will help

will help et09

Is this the only freebsd channel on libera. Very calm for a 700 people channel

Beladona: it's a Sunday, and this is the calm before the storm (release of 13.2)

:)

when is that scheduled?

no idea, i have not kept up with this release at all 😬

ok

what is your contingency strategy?

Title: FreeBSD 13.2 Release Process | The FreeBSD Project

I mean, usually i build and test every Alpha, Beta and RC, and I have not had time to do any such thing

its too far for me to wait

will stick with 13.1

I am more worried in contingency right now

Beladona: can you elaborate what you mean by contingency?

meena I meant this:  suggestions on what is the safest (the saaafest) methodologies to promptly resume operations if OS gets corrupted or disk fails?

OS gets corrupted??

OS files. Yes

like, how? a virus? what do you mean?

FS corruption caused by bad hardware or misbehaving softwares is not the same as OS corruption

like, i don't even know what means

yes, i mean any or both

if your OS is corrupted there's no trusting that thing anymore

i wouldn't trust the hardware anymore either, because the firmware might be corrupted as well

How do you know if something is corrupted? anything beyond scrub?

I don't know what corrupted OS means, to begin with.

Freebsd files corrupted. It means.

yes, but depending on *how* it was corrupted there's no clear way to figure out if it's even happened, let alone figure out what exactly happened to which part of the system

Ok

if you suspect that your OS is corrupted, you have you unplug that machine from the power and the Internet and not let any electrons come close to it

then you plug the disks into a secured machine, pass then thru to a virtual machine with all the tooling installed to analyse what happened

ok :)

I am still looking for more advanced strategy.

I will be searching internet more

if you want to secure your infrastructure too avoid an OS corruption on ONE machine, create a cluste with, for exemple and because a friend work for them) HAProxy.

If I crrectly understood what you mean.

correctly*

well HAProxy is a web thing. Kind of load balancer. Your suggestion is valid overall but I was talking more on controlling and hardening the OS files. E.g bad blocks, disk failures etc for starters

there is other system for that, I did know them because I did use them, I talk about HAProxy to give you and idea

bad blocks on disks are generally marked as bad by the disk itself

did not know*

Ok

meena: sure, but a process who check bad block could decide o swith to the known cluste machine. Is is a dream from me?

Lovis_IX: smartctl can tell you how broken a disk is, you can plug that into your monitoring

Title: FreshPorts -- net-mgmt/smartctl_exporter: Prometheus metrics exporter for smartctl

well done meena

meena great

exporter? That's not a spelling mistake?

Visit the URL?

Dammit, I again loose time exploring freshports.

All your time belong to us..

If I wanted to test out the new 13.2 RC5 candidate, what should i be looking for or doing?

Im interested in testing out the system, but I don't know what to look for or what to report back

RoyalYork: if it doesn't boot or crashes, that's bad. if there's performance degradation, that's bad. If an application you used doesn't work for some reason that's bad

all of those should be reported

got it, thanks