Questions tagged [bsd]
Berkeley Software Distribution is a Unix operating system
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Getting Tuxedo laptop fans to work on BSD
This question pertains to Tuxedo laptops (and possibly Clevo, Uniwill, or Tongfang laptops, which Tuxedo systems appear to be based on). Tuxedo provides official support for Windows and Linux, but I'm ...
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Is there a Linux or *BSD distribution that has full support for a 2017 Macbook 12"?
I have a MacBook Retina 12" (2017) machine that unfortunately has developed an error with the power system that shows up in Apple Diagnostics and result in the machine being severely throttled ...
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How to delete multipath (disk) device?
This is on TrueNAS 13.0U6.3 (FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p9)
I had a disk in my ZFS pool die. I replaced it, but I updated TrueNAS (Core) first - I think I was on U6.0 or U6.1 before the update.
When I try ...
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Need help for a manual calculation of MBR after /bin/dd of Virtualbox flat hard disk image to actual HDD on 32-bit P4 laptop (2003)
I have an old laptop which I am trying to install OpenStep 4.2 with Patch 3 pack (Which supports over 8GB and has a VESA driver) on to a 2003 laptop which is a 32-bit pentium 4 with 512MB RAM and a ...
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To copy using cp non-recursively if the '-a' option is already used
BSD cp:
-a Archive mode. Same as -RpP options. Preserves structure and
attributes of files but not directory structure.
-P No symbolic links are followed. This is the ...
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Trailing slash in GNU and BSD cp and find commands [duplicate]
What might be a reason that BSD cp and find don't "like" a trailing slash for directory names?
| | cp | mv |
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Use underscore or hyphen for a CLI utility name? [closed]
I'm creating a CLI utility which is aimed at *nix OS:es. Let's call it
'Super CLI Project'.
Looking at the latest POSIX Issue 7, 2018 edition - https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/ - ...
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How to find file names with non-printable characters using BSD `find -regex`?
Some folders on macOS have custom icons that are stored in a file named Icon?, where the ? is actually a CR character, and only prints as "?" in most cases (in Terminal and Finder).
But when ...
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How to disable logical processors in OpenBSD?
It is well known that OpenBSD disables hyper-threading by default. However, htop shows 16 CPUs: 8 online and 8 offline, which takes extra space on the screen and is not very informative.
Moreover, ...
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Old 43BSD and netstat output
On old 43BSD...
netstat -f unix
Active UNIX domain sockets
Address Type Recv-Q Send-Q Inode Conn Refs Nextref Addr
801ca38c dgram 0 0 8008b5c0 0 0 0 /dev/...
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Is there a way to install docker on freeBSD?
Is there any way to install docker on FreeBSD? I tried following the official freeBSD handbook but from what i have found the version of docker on FreeBSD is broken (i read that on docker page). i ...
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What should be done when a terminal application does not recognise some keyboard inputs? [duplicate]
I'm trying to play a very old Star Trek BSD game. It recognises characters that I type, but I occasionally make an error and want to use the arrow keys to correct it. This always fails. The pressing ...
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Installing BSD tools on linux
I wrote a bash script to simplify some boring task in my codebase. As most of my coworkers are using MacOS, I aimed at POSIX complience and tried to stay away from bashisms.
When it was time to ...
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tar alternative to bsdtar --include
I'm trying to adapt a script that uses bsdtar, which is not available on my Linux distribution.
bsdtar -x -f <file> --include="SOME/FOLDER/"
What is the alternative of --include in ...
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Second router can't access addresses when a main router routes over it
I have a main BSD router (A) routing some subnets via a second Linux router (B) and everything works fine.
But when I try to access those subnets from the second router, it doesn't work. It sounds ...
