Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TrueNAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrueNAS</span></a> 25.04 Released For Unifying SCALE & CORE Offerings<br>TrueNAS 25.04 is notable for unifying their <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a>-based <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TrueNASSCALE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrueNASSCALE</span></a> and <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/TrueNASCORE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrueNASCORE</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a>-based platforms. While TrueNAS was previously known for its BSD base, Linux has proven viable for this network attached storage platform. TrueNAS 25.04 is powered by the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel while employing the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenZFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenZFS</span></a> file-system support. <br><a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/TrueNAS-25.04-Released" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">phoronix.com/news/TrueNAS-25.0</span><span class="invisible">4-Released</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NAS</span></a></p>
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Uwe Trenkner<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.hetzner.social/@hetzner" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>hetzner</span></a></span> <br>I am responsible for two dedicated <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> servers at Hetzner in Germany. For backup, we use a StorageBox at your Finnish datacenter to protect us from incidents like the big OHV fire a few years ago.</p>
lw<p>the FreeBSD ${svc}_svcj_ipaddrs rc.conf option for service jail was committed, so how you can limit an rc service to a specific set of IP addresses: <a href="https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=6fbd1bed6e7bf880a6cc579b06bdc6476983613a" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?i</span><span class="invisible">d=6fbd1bed6e7bf880a6cc579b06bdc6476983613a</span></a></p><p>thanks netchild@</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a></p>
Peter Czanik<p>The <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@FreeBSDFoundation" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>FreeBSDFoundation</span></a></span> 15 release schedule was just announced, but I already see people saying that "looks good, I already use it in production" :-) So, I installed the latest snapshot in a VM, and tested <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/syslog_ng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>syslog_ng</span></a> on it.</p><p>As expected: syslog-ng works fine on it :-)</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/syslog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>syslog</span></a></p>
Ricardo Martín<p>Why shouldn't a FreeBSD ISO image count as a "custom ISO" Hetzner? 🤔 <br><a href="https://docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers/faq#how-can-i-get-a-custom-iso" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">docs.hetzner.com/cloud/servers</span><span class="invisible">/faq#how-can-i-get-a-custom-iso</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/hetzner" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hetzner</span></a></p>
Conan the Sysadmin<p>Packed tightly, a voyager might easily carry many scrolls across the wastelands to distant caravanserays. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/external-disk/?s=mc" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cromwell-intl.com/open-source/</span><span class="invisible">external-disk/?s=mc</span></a></p>
argv minus one<p>Do any operating systems other than <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Windows</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a>, etc) have an API for non-blocking file IO?</p><p>I know Linux has that in <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/io_uring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>io_uring</span></a>, which can do almost any IO operation (even fsync) in the background and tell you when it's done, but is that the only OS with such a feature?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/async" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>async</span></a></p>
Gabe Saltar<p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a><br> I changed my "/etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf" file to "latest" instead of quarterly. </p><p>Now when I do PKG search there are a lot of packages I cannot find, yet the FreshPorts webpage claim those packages are indeed available.</p><p>Any ideas? Please assist! Thanks.</p>
Justine Smithies<b>[ SOLVED ]</b><br><br>Really strange but on the 5th attempt FreeBSD magically see's the NVME drive and so is currently installing. Thank you for boosting and or helping though.<br><br><a href="https://snac.smithies.me.uk?t=freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeBSD</a> Family I require a little help if possible please ?<br>I have installed a new PCIe Gen4 NVMe M2 1Tb in my Dell Optiplex 3080 Tower i5-10500 along with 32Gb ram.<br>The BIOS sees both and I have secure boot turned off. But when I boot the FreeBSD installer it only ever sees the USB memory stick. Yet I can see the nvme in dev. I've tried several times but no joy. So I tried the GhostBSD live USB memory stick I have and it see's the drive as 1Tb.<br>What gives or am I missing ?<br>Please boost for a larger reach and thankyou.<br>
Thomas Steen Rasmussen<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedi.jonatkinson.co.uk/@jon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jon</span></a></span> this is on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> but good guess otherwise, it has that selinux sense of mystery about it</p>
Apicultor 🐝<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/@niconiconi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>niconiconi</span></a></span> Unacceptable for a serious OS, especially one which wants to be taken seriously as a desktop OS.</p><p>Why would a package no longer found be grounds for its removal?!</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a></p>
vermaden<p>Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱/𝟬𝟰/𝟭𝟰 (Valuable News - 2025/04/14) available.</p><p> <a href="https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/valuable-news-2025-04-14/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/04</span><span class="invisible">/14/valuable-news-2025-04-14/</span></a></p><p>Past releases: <a href="https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">vermaden.wordpress.com/news/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/verblog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>verblog</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/vernews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vernews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/netbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>netbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unix</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/zfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zfs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/opnsense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opnsense</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/ghostbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ghostbsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/solaris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solaris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/vermadenday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vermadenday</span></a></p>
niconiconi<p><a href="https://mk.absturztau.be/tags/FreeBSD" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeBSD</a> build/pkg server is having a serious outage for about a week already... A ton of packages disappeared entirely from the repo because of failed build jobs. Not only making them uninstallable, running a regular system upgrade with pkg may delete existing versions from your system. "Wait and see" seems to be the only solution (other than building from port). :woozy_baa:</p>
Dan Langille<p>Anyone running zfsd? Did you do anything in particular to configure it? I just added my first hot-spare to a <a href="https://bsd.network/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> zpool.</p>
BSD NL<p>📢 Exciting news! 📢</p><p>We've set up a Signal 📱 announcement group to keep you all in the loop about the upcoming events and talks. 🚀</p><p>Join us to stay connected and never miss a 🐡😈⛳ bit! </p><p>Announcements: <a href="https://signal.group/#CjQKIPCuAMW0SvteNYtoyndOVEy2xYPIozPWlzpeAqSfmHE4EhCDjTBBLEftyzv28_Ny4SdT" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">signal.group/#CjQKIPCuAMW0Svte</span><span class="invisible">NYtoyndOVEy2xYPIozPWlzpeAqSfmHE4EhCDjTBBLEftyzv28_Ny4SdT</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSDNL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSDNL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RUNBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RUNBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/HardenedBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HardenedBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SecBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SecBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/DragonflyBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DragonflyBSD</span></a></p>
BSD NL<p>🎉 It's a wrap! The BSD-NL Conference - Early 2025 was a blast! 🐡😈⛳</p><p>A huge thank you to all the amazing speakers, (Kristof and Benedict!), attendees, and sponsors who made this event possible! 🙏</p><p>📹 Check out the videos of the talks here: <a href="https://exquisite.tube/c/bsdnlconference/videos" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">exquisite.tube/c/bsdnlconferen</span><span class="invisible">ce/videos</span></a></p><p>🌐 Visit the website for more info and the next edition: <a href="https://bsdnl.nl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">bsdnl.nl</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p>See you at the next one!</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSDNL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSDNL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/RUNBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RUNBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/OpenBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/HardenedBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HardenedBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SecBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SecBSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/DragonflyBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DragonflyBSD</span></a></p>
One-and-only Allen Versfeld<p>Question for people who use <a href="https://mastodon.monoceros.co.za/tags/rkhunter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rkhunter</span></a> on <a href="https://mastodon.monoceros.co.za/tags/FreeBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeBSD</span></a>:</p><p>Wait, first a prelude: The out-of-the-box defaults are so nice, just turn it on in periodical and you get daily reports that are actually meaningful and easy to understand.</p><p>Okay,the question: Given that it's still extremely verbose, pages and pages and pages of checks that have passed, what does an alert look like?</p><p>Do I have to scroll down all the way to read the exact same unchanging wall of text every day, on every host, for months and months, to have any hope of spotting the word "Failed" on line 2760 one day? Or does it make a bit of noise, put something in all caps at the top of the email, something that I'm likely to notice through the banner blindness?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.monoceros.co.za/tags/SysAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SysAdmin</span></a></p>
♡ Eva Winterschön ♡<p>💻 FreeBSD CUDA drm-61-kmod 💻</p><p>"Just going to test the current pkg driver, this will only take a second...", the old refrain goes. Surely, it will not punt away an hour or so of messing about in loader.conf on this EPYC system... </p><p>- Here are some notes to back-track a botched/crashing driver kernel panic situation. <br>- Standard stuff, nothing new over the years here with loader prompt. <br>- A few directives are specific to this system, though may provide a useful general reference. <br>- The server has an integrated GPU in addition to nvidia pcie, so a module blacklist for the "amdgpu" driver is necessary (EPYC 4564P).</p><p>Step 1: during boot-up, "exit to loader prompt"<br>Step 2: set/unset the values as needed at the loader prompt</p><p>unset nvidia_load<br>unset nvidia_modeset_load<br>unset hw.nvidiadrm.modeset<br>set module_blacklist=amdgpu,nvidia,nvidia_modeset<br>set machdep.hyperthreading_intr_allowed=0<br>set verbose_loading=YES<br>set boot_verbose=YES<br>set acpi_dsdt_load=YES<br>set audit_event_load=YES<br>kern.consmsgbuf_size=1048576<br>set loader_menu_title=waffenschwester<br>boot</p><p>Step 3: login to standard tty shell <br>Step 4: edit /boot/loader.conf (and maybe .local)<br>Step 5: edit /etc/rc.conf (and maybe .local)<br>Step 6: debug the vast output from kern.consmsgbuf logs</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/nvidia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nvidia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/cuda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cuda</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/gpu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gpu</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>terminal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/saturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>saturday</span></a></p>
lw<p>i'm looking for a new HBA for my FreeBSD file server, is the LSI SAS3416 a reasonable choice?</p><p>it seems to be supported by the mps(4) driver and does both SAS/SATA and PCIe, and has PCIe 3.1 for the host interface, so i'm assuming it's a reasonable upgrade for my current LSI SAS2008. </p><p>(i mostly just want more ports, but more performance and the ability to use NVMe disks would be nice too.)</p><p>edit: i received one good report on the 3416 and one bad report, so i bought one, we will see how it goes.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freebsd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/zfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zfs</span></a></p>
Justine SmithiesJust updated my <a href="https://snac.smithies.me.uk?t=freebsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FreeBSD</a> to 14.2-RELEASE-p3 :freebsd: <a href="https://snac.smithies.me.uk?t=runbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RunBSD</a><br>
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