Questions tagged [freebsd]
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How to format the creation timestamp of a ZFS snapshot with TrueNAS?
I would like to know the precise creation time of a ZFS snapshot. Note that I am not referring to the timestamp in the snapshot name itself but the result of querying the creation property when using ...
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How to use grep in specific case? [closed]
How to extract part of the search with grep.
Example: I would like to extract lines with "bc" in them
but not lines containing "abc".
My not-so-elegant solution is:
cat file.txt | ...
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...from 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt xcb platform plugin ERROR trying to run KDE 6 plasma and Wayland on FreeBSD 14.1
I wanted to try to run Wayland + KDE 6 plasma on FreeBSD 14.1. I've created the following tutorial that unfortunately has some errors inside,since the project does not work.
The steps that I have ...
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Does FreeBSD have copyfile()/fcopyfile()? If so, where can the documentation be found?
This StackOverflow answer How can I copy a file on Unix using C? claims that FreeBSD has copyfile()/fcopyfile() and has recieved 27 upvotes.
But FreeBSD Manual Pages found nothing for either copyfile()...
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Check FreeBSD version at compile-time with the preprocessor
I am aware that I can use __FreeBSD__ to detect the operating system, but how do I detect the version of the operating system?
My requirement is to detect whether copy_file_range() function is ...
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unable to get wsgi running on apache with flask on a freeBSD host
I have installed and configured apache and get no errors or warnings when I run:
sudo apachectl configtest
and when I access the page in a browser, I get this:
Internal Server Error
The server ...
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Freebsd: devd.conf, how can I find the proper matches?
Anyone know where or how to find the needed matches for an automation inside devd.conf? I am trying to run a script when the pppoe goes down.
This is what I have till now:
Code:
# Notify WAN 1 Down
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Why does my simple HTTP server need two instances running in order to work?
Noob here. I have been following Beej's Guide to Network Programming and tried constructing an HTTP server following the style of code used in the book. I am running FreeBSD 14.0.
My issue is that all ...
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Invalid regular expression 'Trailing backslash' error on FreeBSD
I'm trying to use sed on a file.
My command is as follows:
sed -e 's/\-.*\ \ET/ ET/g'
This works fine on Debian but on FreeBSD I am getting the following error:
sed: 1: "s/\-.*\ \ET/ ET/g ":...
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How to kill a subprocess and all of its descendants on timeout in Python?
I have a Python program which launches subprocesses like this:
subprocess.run(cmdline, shell=True)
A subprocess can be anything that can be executed from a shell: Python programs, binaries or scripts ...
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set: Illegal option -o pipefail while running make
I'm running FreeBSD 10.4-RELEASE and can't upgrade it at the moment. Previously, 'make' was working fine, but recently I've been getting this error-
$ sudo make install
set: Illegal option -o pipefail
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Bug only manifests on FreeBSD, but works perfectly fine on Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Here's the relevant part of the code from an arena allocator:
#ifdef DEBUG
#include <string.h>
#define D(x) x
#else
#define D(x) (void) 0
#endif
/* Allocates a pointer from `arena`.
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How to escape backticks in FreeBSD
This is on csh (FreeBSD):
echo "complete service 'c/-/(e l r v)/' 'p/1/`service -l`/' 'n/*/(start stop reload restart status rcvar onestart onestop)/'" >> /root/.cshrc
I want to use ...
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Issues while using a loop on a bash script [duplicate]
I am using mkvdts2ac3.sh script (see https://github.com/JakeWharton/mkvdts2ac3), and I have troubles to use it in a loop. This script is able to extract a dts track from a mkv file, convert it in AC3 ...
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blacklistd on freebsd not consistently blocking on ssh timeout
Roughly every minute, I'm getting the following in my log:
sshd[####]: fatal: Timeout before authentication for 118.26.194.190
There are many hundreds, this has been happening for hours.
# grep 118.26....
