Does anyone know if setting machdep.hwpstate_pkg_ctrl package/per-core control for Intel Speed Shift is an energy saving thing, a performance thing, or both?

Trying to figure out if it's worth setting per-core for a Xero server that's always on

Xeon

whats the freebsd name that listen for tcp connections before booting ?

before... booting? for what?

before booting sounds like wake on lan, but pretty sure that is a maiboard thing and the operating system doesn't matter for that

unless its some serial over tcp thing

WoL is 100% a mainboard thing because the CPU is typically in a very low-power state during it (almost completely off; not sure of the details, but I wouldn't be surprised if it *is* off, and it's some coprocessor handling it at that point, or even the network card itself).

Hi.. wrote a rc script to run as a user using /usr/sbin/daemon.. and I am getting: daemon: failed to set user environment. The user exists, it's also in a group, and it has shell of /usr/sbin/nologin.. any ideas how to fix?

if I run the daemon cmdline the rc.d script tries to run by hand, on the cmdline.. it runs fine

seeing: initgroups(<username>,<uid#>): Operation not permitted in /var/log/messages on the jail

odd.. I remove -u from it.. and it runs.. as the user I had after -u.. how does it determine that?

pertho: see lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ports/2024-October/006756.html

Alver: yeah that's what I found.. but.. how does it determine what user to run it as? After removing -u <username> from the daemon line?

pertho: I'm not that familiar with the specifics but it would appear that the daemon process itself is spawned as that user, rather than telling the daemon process to use it

Which is kind of confusing :°)

heh..well stop doesn't work.. it doesn't think it's running and yet the pidfile is there with the right pid in it

rtprio, nimaje, FatalFUUU oh its dropbear.

how would that listen for connection on an unbooted system?

nimaje: i dont know, never used =p

but thats what i was trying to remember :P

maybe i explained it wrong

Wake on lan is a network interface feature which interacts with the mainboard, and is entirely unrelated to the operating system

nimaje: i was trying to remember how to boot remotely an encrypted system. and it seems dropbear is one option and its part of the soution: freebsd: github.com/Sec42/freebsd-remote-crypto linux: cyberciti.biz/security/how-to-unloc…dropbear-ssh-keys-remotely-in-linux

ah, yeah for something like that you boot a small system with a ssh server to unlock the system you want to and then start that system

Yeah, works great. Did that for many many many years on my home servers.

The only annoying thing is that either you have to configure a different IP for the unlocking shell, or get slapped with nonmatching SSH keys after booting, or have to keep keys in sync between the unlocking ramdisk and the OS

But WoL shells give you full plausible deniability, which you cannot get from any system with a local bootloader.

(and you can avoid the whole legacy nastiness of partitions)

Does anyone know of a good CLI tool or online resource (e.g. via cpuid flags) or whatnot to determine an exact processor model from cpu info?

Nevermind, found it --- instlatx64.atw.hu

hernan604: are you trying to set a serial console? that happens well after boot

Hello , in python3 with socket module , I can use AF_PACKET and raw socket in linux but I can't in freebsd, how to use raw socket in freebsd?

I've installed freebsd on a dell inspiron r17 5720 and I'm having trouble getting an (external, analogue) microphone working. when I plug in the cable, freebsd recognizes that ("hdaa0: Pin sense: nid=10 sense=0x80000000 (connected)" "pcm0: Automatically set rec source to: mic"), but selecting the default device (pcm0) in mumble gives just silence

cool

if I change it to use pcm1 (the built-in microphone) that does work, so the device is being driven correctly-ish at least

nortti: that's a lot to set there, please take a look at wiki.freebsd.org/Sound

it's also possible that Dell inspiron r17 5720 is not driven correctly

yeah one thing I've been wondering about is if the association is being traced incorrectly

dwho: are you in a jail? if so, you need to allow raw_sockets

scoobybejesus: Not in jail , only in defalt system in python3 script

raw socket seems different from linux kernel

In linux I can use AF_PACKET but no in freebsd

Can I use /dev/bpf with python3 to read raw socket?

dwho: probably, if you're uid0

rtprio: yes in root , i try but I have an OSError 22 if i use open with /dev/bpf

dwho: how are you reading? you can't just read() /dev/bpf

rtprio: I find a python3 script to read the catch packet

it's very different to linux

i suggest you review the bpf man pages on freebsd

rtprio: paste.debian.net/1346673

it work fine

It ' s in French

great, glad you got it working

Little confused with wpa_supplicant, so the man pages state you can use hex password

oops didnt mean to send yet

so I use pass, so I did the following: pass <password> | head -n1 | tr -d "\n" | od -A n -t x1 | tr -d "\n "

the two tr's are to remove the newline and any spacing

however when I attempt to use this with psk field wpa_supplicant config is invalid...

how do you do WPA-PSK with symbols otherwise?

polarian: Maybe I’m understanding you wrong, but can’t you use wpa_passphrase?

...

yeah, they mean wpa_passphrase

ouch

echo -n password | wpa_passphrase ssid

O.o

even creates the entry for you

if that solved you problem, yoh might still want to open the file with an editor (/etc/wpa_supplicant/something) and remove the plain text password from the configuration file. Depending on your security model :D

janvhs: it makes zero difference no?

doesn't it just hex the password?

the man page doesn't really say what it does

polarian: for me it doesn’t, especially if it’s a single user system. I am not sure how it generates the PKS, but it works xD

well according to what I read psk field takes password formatted as hex so I assumed just format the damn thing as hex and call it a day

I have used wpa_supplicant for half a decade, and I have never realised wpa_passphrase(8) was a thing

thank you janvhs and rtprio

haha no problemo… I don’t really love the UX of wpa_supplicant but Alpine Linux forced me to use it a couple of times recently lol

Hi, im little bit noob and tired. I run freebsd and znc, now I need to renew my SSL-cers, I dont (cant/dont know how the znc should renew ssl with certbot) but I dont remember the command to renew it, I am root and in /root, tired ./ssl, and also tab ./ssl so the command should come up auto, but it dosent, have search some on internet but its mostly about certbot. Someone tha can help a noob

out?

Sorry didnt see topic :/

certbot renew

if you're using certbot. what are you using for certs.