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Mason Diaz
Cameron Campbell
News:
- Shitty env vars and unused ports cruft contained under the build user. Who compiles things from source in 2016 anyway?
- vmd works great, but only if you bought Intel
- No need to alias doas to sudo on BSD; easier to alias sudo to doas on Linux
Oliver Foster
is this the new bsd thread?
Dylan Campbell
What *BSD has application layer firewall so I can block a specific application from accessing the internet.
I want to block virtualbox, geany etc. Is it possible?
Connor Peterson
Good question. If you're running VirtualBox, you're not running OpenBSD, so that's that.
All BSDs have Snort in the ports tree, but you know it's possible to configure VMs without a network device too.
Mason Jackson
OpenBSD has a god tier firewall called pf, the best out of all the other BSDs firewalls and better than Linux iptables.
Blake Edwards
How to update OBSD?
Aaron Fisher
>BSD
Logan Fisher
Short answer:
1. Download sets
2. Reboot, type "bsd.rd" at boot prompt
3. Select "upgrade" and follow steps
4. Install sets from /mnt/path/to/downloaded/sets
5. Reboot, do sysmerge and pkg_add -u
Long answer:
bsdly.blogspot.com
Hudson Campbell
Austin Price
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Evan Phillips
>2 reboots
That seems like a lot of work. What is the freebsd-update fetch install equivalent?
William Morris
It's scriptable with sh, autoinstall, and cron, but I haven't tried that yet so no comment.
When I get back on bare metal we'll see how easy it is
Luis Bennett
I love how they don't actually answer your question.
>BSD user's face when you ask if it has a feature.
Owen Barnes
Well I gave 3 answers:
- Don't use OBSD if you want VBox
- Use Snort if you think you need it
- Disabling virtual networking in VBox is literally 1 click: Settings > Network > Uncheck "enable network adapter"
Otherwise, using a layer 7 firewall is more of a bug than a feature if your system comes with pf, as every BSD does
Wyatt Carter
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Isaiah Sullivan
Bump, tripfags need not apply.
I'm getting ready to go 100% OpenBSD, but all my files are on an ext4 partition. ext4 read access is shoddy on OBSD, but ext2 is supported fine. Assuming I have 1 spare disk and a gparted live cd, what's the least labor-intensive way to transfer the files? Can i do it in one transfer, or do I need 2?
old ext4 data -> new ext2 disk
format old ext4 as FFS in OBSD
transfer back and format new disk as FFS
Hunter Peterson
does bsd have have anything like linux-phc to undervolt core duo cpus?
Kevin Russell
OBSD comes with apmd. set the -A flag in /etc/rc.conf.local and it will underclock your CPU as needed. works on all supported platforms, aka virtually every i386 or amd64 processor
Leo Robinson
you can't mount ext4 in openbsd? i'm pretty sure you can at least read the partitions
if it can read NTFS just fine, why wouldn't it read ext4
i think you can actually set the frequency using sysctl but im not sure about undervolting
Austin Gomez
>can't mount ext4
Honestly I'm not sure. there's a mount_ext2fs utility, and read access for ext4 is apparently supported by the devs, but people online say it's imperfect.
>set the frequency using sysctl
this is also possible, yes
Bentley Campbell
i never ran into problems with NTFS reading, which was also claimed to be imperfect
i don't know, maybe it varies for ext4, but you would think it's better with it being open and all
Nolan Moore
All right, good to know, thanks. looks like I can just do this then:
1. Set up encrypted /home on new HDD during install
2. Mount old HDD and rsync it all
3. Nuke old HDD and do bioctl/softraid encryption as seen here