Problem : What would be FreeBSD password file equivalent of linux /etc/shadow and /etc/passwd? Is it the same? According to […]
Tag: freebsd
What’s are the technical differences between “chmod -w file” and “chflags uchg file”
QUESTION : BSD/MacOS question. chmod -w file will remove all the write permissions from file chflags uchg file will set […]
Setting up a home server – what to use? (ZFS vs btrfs, BSD vs Linux, misc other requirements)
Problem : I need to get all our home content off individual machines and onto a central server. What I’d […]
Use the ascii code of a character as an input to sort
Problem : I’d like to sort a file with a specific delimiter (ascii 0xff) and the records are zero-terminated. I […]
How to write FreeBSD image to USB flash drive
Problem : I am trying to write FreeBSD-10.3-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img to a USB flash drive, in the hopes of installing FreeBSD on […]
Hardsubbing MKV files that use .ass subtitles and embedded fonts
Problem : This question pertains only to Linux and FreeBSD. I have several soft subbed anime mkv files that I […]
encrypted backups for Linux and FreeBSD readable for both
Problem : I have a Linux and a FreeBSD computer, both encrypted (LUKS and geli respectively). I am wondering how […]
SSH hangs when halting a remote system
Problem : I successfully used ssh -q -i pubkey root@192.168.200.122 ‘halt’ for years now to halt a FreeBSD system (FreeNAS) […]
Installing new OS on Powerbook G4 without USB key or CD
Problem : I recently got a PowerBook G4 17″ with a 1.67 GHz PowerPC CPU, 2GB of RAM, 100 GB […]
Inverse multiplexing to speed up file transfer
Problem : I have send a large amount of data from one machine to another. If I send with rsync […]