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One pxeboot to find them and in the darkness bind them
Irritatingly, I couldn’t find a decent cut-n-paste how to on the Internet for using a much loved and mostly overlooked FreeBSD installation and boot up process using a fully cooked diskless image fetched via TFTP instead of the really well documented and fantastic howto on NFS booting. Primarily, I wanted to switch off of NFS […]
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#FreeBSD Vim port updated … ewwwww
I just ran across a system with ports/vim-lite updated to version 8. I now know why a coworker of mine, in the past, said using vim was like “running your fingers down a chalkboard, but for your eyes.” In order to make vim usable for what I do, I asked the friendly folks in #bsdports […]
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Sometimes less is more. Checkout individual #FreeBSD ports for testing.
I needed to test a single FreeBSD port today for a specific release. The FreeBSD project maintains a series of reference build machines for this type of work, but normally I maintain an entire ports tree checkout for this type of work. The FreeBSD ports tree has 20k+ individual software packages maintained in it, and […]
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The EEPROM you have reached is no longer in service, #FreeBSD recovery of em(4) devices
Ran into a very strange error with legacy em(4) devices on FreeBSD this week. Something I was doing while working on the EM_MULTIQUEUE kernel config option for em(4) seems to have blown up the PXE configuration in the EEPROM of one of my lem(4) devices. Else, cosmic rays did it: em3: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Legacy Network […]
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The Short List #8: fetchmailrc/gmail/ssl … grrr #FreeBSD
Didn’t realize that a fetchmail implementation I was using was actually *not* using SSL for a month. I had installed security/ca_root_nss but FreeBSD doesn’t assume that you want to use the certificates in this package. I don’t understand it, but whatever. So, add this to your fetchmailrc to actually use the certificate authorities in there […]
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The Short List #7: net-im/finch and password protected IRC channels on #FreeBSD
I discovered recently that net-im/finch can indeed join password protected IRC channels even though the channel add dialogue box doesn’t support it. Add an IRC chat room that requires a password to your buddy list. Exit out of finch and edit ~/.purple/blist.xml Find the chat room you just added: <chat proto=’prpl-irc’ account=’you@irc.server.net’> <component name=’channel’>#supersekritircchannel</component> <setting […]