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Exciting News About BSD News!
Exciting News About BSD News! BSD News, one of the BSD community’s token news blogs, announced today the ability of users to submit stories for consideration to be posted to BSD News. Take a moment to...
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Enabling mrepo Support for FreeBSD Packages
Enabling mrepo Support for FreeBSD Packages mrepo is a content management application for Yum/APT RPM Repositories which does not support FreeBSD packages. While this is not necessarily an elegant...
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OpenBSD at vBSDcon October 25 – 27, 2013 in Virginia
OpenBSD at vBSDcon October 25 – 27, 2013 in Virginia For only USD$75 you can register for vBSDcon hosted by Verisign on October 25 – 27, 2013 in Herndon, VA. That is less than 3 weeks away! If you...
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vBSDcon Wrap-Ups
vBSDcon Wrap-Ups! Verisign’s first-ever vBSDcon was a very successful event which was held October 25 – 27, 2013 at the Dulles Hyatt in Herndon, VA. Speakers and attendees from all over the US and...
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FreeBSD Ports: Managing Custom Ports/Physical Categories
Managing Custom Ports/Physical Categories Overview This post describes a method of managing custom FreeBSD Ports involving creating a directory (a.k.a. a physical category) of subdirectories; Each an...
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FreeBSD 10.0: release.sh mapped
FreeBSD‘s release.sh is a shell script introduced in FreeBSD 9.x whose purpose is to automate FreeBSD release building from source. This post maps the release.sh into a table of variables and a...
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BSDCan 2014 Travel Woes
I wasn’t going to post anything about my travel woes to Ottawa, ON for BSDCan 2014, but upon receiving the revised itinerary after the 3rd flight cancellation, I decided it was too humorous to pass...
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Manual Package Builds For FreeBSD < 10.0-RELEASE
Just wanted to link to an older blog post I found useful recently… Given the current state of migration from legacy pkg_* tools to pkg(8) within FreeBSD, the content here is old, but still useful for...
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Troubleshooting Large, Stalling git/ssh Transfers
Why is git/ssh stalling? While working with the freebsd-ports repo on github in order to track and combine it with an internal remote repo, it was found to apparently stall during a git push to the...
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QEMU: Convert non-Sparse Image to qcow/qcow2 Sparse Image
Convert non-Sparse Image to qcow/qcow2 Sparse Image While this is not always ideal, I’ve found it handy to build qcow/qcow2 images (for use in OpenStack) by converting a vmdk on FreeBSD. Often times,...
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Starting A Daemon via daemon(8) in FreeBSD
Starting A Daemon via daemon(8) in FreeBSD Daemonizing an application that must persist across reboots while including native process management capability is easily accomplished by combining the...
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Verisign Announces vBSDcon 2015
Verisign has recently announced the dates for a second vBSDcon to occur September 11 – 13, 2015 in Reston, VA. vBSDcon is technical, BSD-based conference for users, developers, engineers, and...
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Integrating FreeBSD w/ FreeIPA/SSSD
Integrating FreeBSD w/ FreeIPA/SSSD One of my more recent projects was to integrate FreeBSD into a Kerberos-secured authentication and authorization system based on the FreeIPA architecture. This...
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Disk I/O Performance Under Filesystem Journaling on FreeBSD 10.3
Overview This post describes disk I/O performance capabilities of the HP DL360p G8 in terms of filesystem journaling mechanisms on FreeBSD 10.3. References...
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Internet Privacy: Who Do You Trust?
Who do you trust? The rollback of the not yet effective USA FCC regulations enacted during the Obama administration poses an interesting dilemma. With the regulations set to take effect in 2017,...
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Windows 10, VirtualBox 5.2.0 w/ FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT Guest
This post describes installation of a FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT guest in VirtualBox 5.2.0 on Windows 10. The hardware is a HP Spectre x360 Convertible Touch 15″ laptop. Guests must be 64-bit and support...
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The Known Costs of Security Embargoes
The Known Costs of Security Embargoes A security embargo is an agreement between parties, typically a vendor and interested parties. The interested parties are generally individual(s) or...
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FreeBSD Bootonly ISO failures PXE booting under UEFI
FreeBSD Bootonly ISO failures PXE booting under UEFI The image below illustrates an error observed on some hardware platforms that fail to PXE boot FreeBSD’s bootonly ISO under UEFI. The failure...
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