Apart from being an aparent Linux user, I’m also a fan of FreeBSD. A few years ago I challenged myself to perform all work related tasks on a FreeBSD machine for 6 months. It turned out that FreeBSD’s been working out quite well as a general usage work desktop. Today, I’d like to share a quick solution to a small annoying issue that may or may not affect you when you’re using FreeBSD....
On Linux to list running services and open ports, I either use netstat or ss (socket stat?) most recently. Though netstat is available on FreeBSD, the syntax is completely different. Today, I have the need to list the running services with the port display. On FreeBSD, we can do this using sockstat command. root@bsd1:~ # sockstat -4 -l USER COMMAND PID FD PROTO LOCAL ADDRESS FOREIGN ADDRESS minio minio 49274 10 tcp46 *:9000 *:* root sendmail 675 4 tcp4 127....
This post briefly explains how to install Ansible on a FreeBSD host. I’m going to install Ansible in a virtual environment using Python 3. (If you still use Python 2, it’s time to start migrating to Python 3 now.) $ sudo pkg install python36 $ mkdir ~/dev/python3-venv $ python3 -m venv ~/dev/python3-venv/ansible Next, activate the Python venv (ansible), and start installing Ansible using pip: $ source ~/dev/python3-venv/ansible $ pip install ansible You may or may not need to update pip module as I did....
FreeBSD 12.0 install media :20180208 misses a lot of timezone file. E.g. it doesn’t have /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Sydney. Ensure: zoneinfo package is installed. Then run: And confirm: Fri Feb 16 00:19:48 AEDT 2018
Ever since I have FreeBSD 12 installed on a spare laptop, I notice that this is the most frequently used portable machine at home. (Of course, I still use my main desktop, which runs Fedoda 27, for everything.) I think one of the main reasons is that I like the experiences when I started using Linux years ago – not everything works out of the box, and sometimes I’m forced to learn and understand better about an issue before it can be fixed....
This laptop runs FreeBSD 12.0 current. The version of the installed Firefox is 59, which is pretty new isn’t it? Well, that’s not new or good enough to browse outlook.office365.com email. What happened is that, the Outlook web based email would just automatically switch to class Outlook web access. This problem is not unique to Outlook email, even some work related websites refuse to load correctly on Firefox running FreeBSD....
I have a FreeBSD server which used to run of a smaller SSD drive. When replaced with a larger capacity SSD by using dd command to clone the disk, there is free space allocated. I want to extend the existing zroot pool to use this space. The following describes how I achieve this with the help of a forum post. Let’s list some information about the zroot pool: root@nas:~ # zfs list zroot NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT zroot 4....
It’s another night with another FreeBSD problem. Well, I could just use Linux like Ubuntu or Void, but then things would just work. Where is the fun? 😉 So, I’ve been having problem with upgrading or installing new binary packages on a machine running FreeBSD 12.0 for a few days now. root@vansota:~ # pkg upgrade Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date....
This weekend I replaced Kubuntu 16.04 with FreeBSD 12 on an old HP laptop. I came across with lots of problems, but mainly because I wanted to have some experiences with UEFI and GPT. Anyway, currently the laptop is running FreeBSD 12-current with i3 as the windows manager. After Firefox was installed, I ran it from the menu (rofi) and nothing appeared. So I ran it from a terminal instead. Here was the output:...
I need to create a bootable FreeBSD install disk and the downloaded file happened to be on a Mac laptop. Since OS X is based on BSD, it also comes with dd utility. After a USB is inserted, I need to identify the disk. This can be done using diskutil command: $ sudo diskutil list /dev/disk0 (internal): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0: GUID_partition_scheme 251.0 GB disk0 1: EFI EFI 314....