Author: Trond Endrestøl
Migrating FreeBSD from i386 to amd64
I have (successfully) attempted to migrate a running i386 stable/9 system into a running amd64 stable/9 system, and attempted to migrate a running i386 stable/10 system into a running amd64 stable/10 system, only to see if these tasks are in fact feasible. The results speaks for themselves, given the boundary conditions outlined below. If your […]
Read More → Migrating FreeBSD from i386 to amd64Upgrading FreeBSD from stable/8 to stable/9, and to stable/10
Update 2015-01-23 Order has once again been restored. I have successfully upgraded 8.4-RELEASE (r251259) to stable/8 r277528, and further to stable/9 r277528, and finally to stable/10 r277559. Update 2015-01-14 Work is underway enabling latest stable/8 to go directly to latest stable/9. All my FreeBSD systems have run stable/something-something, compiled from source, for as long as […]
Read More → Upgrading FreeBSD from stable/8 to stable/9, and to stable/10Nyord fra 10 år tilbake
investerning (in-vest-er-ning eller in-ves-ter-ning) utvilkling (u-tvil-kling eller ut-vil-kling) Ref.: https://www.politi.no/vedlegg/rapport/Vedlegg_452.pdf, side 41 (side 43 rent fysisk).
Read More → Nyord fra 10 år tilbakeMissing chroot for dns/bind9{9,10}?
The removal of BIND from base in stable/10 left us with the option of running BIND from ports either in a jail, or as an ordinary service. The old BIND in base was able to run in a chroot environment, isolated from the rest of the system. Some of us believe a chroot is a […]
Read More → Missing chroot for dns/bind9{9,10}?Enabling encrypted swap in stable/10
Enabling encrypted swap has changed in FreeBSD stable/10. I was interested in running AES-XTS with a 256 bit random key and a simulated blocksize of 4096 bytes. I had to change the line in /etc/fstab for the swap partition from to The kernel could then happily report:
Read More → Enabling encrypted swap in stable/10Happy New Year 2015
Happy New Year 2015!
Read More → Happy New Year 2015Likegyldighet, malware, og sinte og sure brukere
Sitatet under er tatt ut av sammenhengen, men det er likevel en viss sannhet i de utvalgte ordene. Problemet er ikke unikt for Microsoft-systemer. … likegyldighet er et problem for Microsoft, fordi dette er brukere som ikke klarer å holde maskinen sin oppdatert og som får installert all slags malware. Så blir de sinte og […]
Read More → Likegyldighet, malware, og sinte og sure brukereMerry Xmas 2014
DRADIS contact! Santa’s sleigh inbound. It’s definitely friendly! Have you been a good boy/girl this year? Merry Xmas!
Read More → Merry Xmas 2014Solving conflicts between print/texlive-base and devel/tex-kpathsea
The 20141214 entry in ports/head/UPDATING says: 20141214: AFFECTS: users of TeXLive AUTHOR: hrs@FreeBSD.org Several scripts in print/texlive-base have been moved to devel/tex-kpathsea. Upgrading them can fail because texlive-base depends on tex-kpathsea, and the new ex-kpathsea tries to install files which were installed by the old texlive-base. The following error message indicates this situation: pkg-static: tex-kpathsea-6.2.0_1 […]
Read More → Solving conflicts between print/texlive-base and devel/tex-kpathseaHørte du ikke at jeg gråt nede ved kopimaskinen?
Hørte du ikke at jeg gråt nede ved kopimaskinen? Uttalt av Henrik V., 2014-12-04.
Read More → Hørte du ikke at jeg gråt nede ved kopimaskinen?