Hey I’m doing a baremetal install of FreeBSD I need help

The installer detected my WiFi card but is asking for resolver configuration what do I type in there? Checked the manual but it doesn’t mention it

Okay I managed to use my phones tethering for now but the problem is that FreeBSD only wants to install on the entire hard drive rather than installing on the unallocated space

Fixed, had to use ufs

Hey I'm unable to update pkg post installation. It says unable to update freebsd ports no srv record found for freebsdports kmods

Fix: I had to add 1.1.1.1 in /etc/resolve.conf

Any idea why sshd in FreeBSD 15 dies all the time on a box not doing anything?

sshd[1353]: fatal: pack_hostkeys: serialize hostkey private: string is too large

0234 this morning, a system that is only reachable by my IP and was totally idle

that error message seems like a pretty good hint

have you tried recreating the host keys?

It's a one week old VM that's literally done absolutely nothing, but across all FreeBSD 15 hosts sshd has been dying off randomly

Apparently it's a known issue with sshd being broken in FreeBSD 15

At least I still have a few years I can revert to 14 before it's EOL

riceandbeans: you are on FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE ?

SponiX: Yeah

I'd like to just scrap all my FreeBSD 15 boxes, but as a ports maintainer I can't exactly do that.

riceandbeans: you are on the latest kernel and userland patches ? And is this sshd in the base userland, or is it a port ?

I have two FreeBSD CURRENT vms running the latest stab-week builds with users (arrowd mainly) logging in by ssh, and I've had no complaints of ssh crashes

I also wonder why as a port maintainer you aren't on CURRENT as well, and just specifying the OS build versions needed with poudriere as build jails

That is why my FreeBSD KDE Desktop building folks do for their test runs of port builds

There was a CVE related to ssh recently though, something that was in the configuration mainly specific to Debian/Ubuntu. But I haven't looked for that Auth Type in the FreeBSD sshd_config yet

I think it was a "user after free" related bug, if this isn't patched for you yet, it could be someone crashing your sshd on purposes just for the lolz

I installed wifibox but how do I connect to a WiFi via KDE plasma now? I can't see any options

SponiX: it's a base problem and yes i am fully patched. it's been a problem since 15 was released

a jail would not deal with base sshd crashing

i had to just write a shell script to run on cron every minute to nake sure sshd is up

So coming from a rolling linux distro into the *bsds. How often is prudent to update on bsds?

I update packages daily

Running a `# pkg update´ daily is enough? I don't need to "update && upgrade"?

weekly

you need to run pkg upgrade, running update by itself is not usually required

and you only need to run it when new SA/EN are released, assuming you're on a release version

Sorry, SA/EN?

Security Advisory I am guessing. EN?

security advisories and errata notices: freebsd.org/security/advisories freebsd.org/security/notices

Ooh! Nice, thank you!

Uh, is there a mailing list?

if you use ports packages (for software that's not part of the base system) you also need to keep those up to date, which is a bit of a pain for various reason, but the easiest way is to use the periodic script that checks for insecure and updated packages, that should happen automatically as long as root's mail is being forwarded somewhere

lists.freebsd.org/subscription/freebsd-announce is the most useful list for that, it gets SA, EN, and announcements about new releases

as well as some other very low volume stuff like the quarterly status reports

Sounds exactly like what I want. Thank you kindly!

I have both an AMD EPYC and an AMD 5950x systems both running 15.0 Release. Why does the EPYC system report an IOMMU in dmesg but the 5950x does not?

Is it disabled in BIOS?

After thinking of all systemd-free operating systems i was familliar with based on their pros and cons i decided to main freebsd seriously for the first time :)

Because i cant find many systemd-free options in the linux land matching or surpassing gentoo quality level

that's one way to get rid of systemd

librecat, VoidLinux?

Devuan?

no, the kernel is different completely

so - no not linux

is it compatile - another discussion

is there a way to force a service to run in the background via service file? meaning, I have a binary that doesn't fork, so I need "service binary start" to automatically run it in the background. all I can think of is to write a shell script that runs /usr/local/bin/binary &

in openbsd one can use rc_bg=YES, but that doesn't seem to exist in freebsd

typically, I would think the common answer is you run it via an rc file with daemon(8)

i tried that and failed. i clearly haven't had to write a service file from scratch in a long time

is it a straight up executable, or is it like a python script or something? the latter can be more tedious to get right