Krond
When you run more then one server updating separate DNS entry is easier if you need to move just one service.
Badugar
Maybe comes from using www. as a prefix for everything web-related too
Anonymous
Just installed 13.0 and it’s running slow / booting slow despite updating graphics driver. Anything I am missing that I should be doing after a fresh install to optimize?
Anonymous
Just installed 13.0 and it’s running slow / booting slow despite updating graphics driver. Anything I am missing that I should be doing after a fresh install to optimize?
What services are starting and running during boot? Disable the ones you don't need
Anonymous
Slow= how long?
20+ seconds to boot after putting in root password. It’s an encrypted ZFS install so I’d expect there to be some delay. But this is over twice as slow as my Debian install. I am also noticing some lag in the GUI (XFCE)
K
Well 20 seconds is quite fast tbh
No clue as for GUI, I only use FreeBSD as CLI server
Anonymous
Anonymous
I’m thinking maybe I’m missing some essential drivers or need to do some more configuration. Not sure, I’m new to FreeBSD. All I’ve installed is a graphics driver, xorg, XFCE, and a web browser
K
FreeBSD is not famous for being the fastest OS in regards to boot time
Its normal for it to take longer than systemd Linux
Anonymous
I’m thinking maybe I’m missing some essential drivers or need to do some more configuration. Not sure, I’m new to FreeBSD. All I’ve installed is a graphics driver, xorg, XFCE, and a web browser
Did you look at your boot services like I told you to? Plus I think it should be normal since its an encrypted drive,
ZFS and LUKS are not the same thing, so the boot times differing doesn't indicate anything
Anonymous
why worry about boot times ? freebsd machines have uptimes in years.
Anonymous
why worry about boot times ? freebsd machines have uptimes in years.
This machine will be rebooted regularly
Anonymous
purpose ?
Anonymous
Well disable the ones you don't need
stuff like the NTP daemon noticeably affect boot time, since init waits for NTP to get the time and exit
You can either try disabling NTP, or somehow start it in the background ( I don't know how ) or after you've logged in
Anonymous
Also to fully disable sendmail, you need a few more flags
Anonymous
You'll also experience tearing on i915, so try enabling the tear free option in xorg.conf
Anonymous
Probably not, I’ll try without
Its the ssh daemon, if you're not gonna ssh into your laptop disable it
Anonymous
ya think he needs ipv6 too?
Anonymous
ya think he needs ipv6 too?
Depends on him, we can't tell, though I've never actually needed it in my life
Anonymous
I didn't enable it.
Anonymous
Still pretty slow. Maybe that’s just ZFS decryption. I’ll try a UFS install instead and compare. Don’t really need ZFS
Anonymous
I do have one other question. I’m trying to mount an NTFS external HDD using “ntfs-3g” but keep getting an “operation not permitted” error. I think this has to do with the fact that the drive was encrypted with Veracrypt, maybe it’s not supported? I was able to plug the drive into Debian and windows and it would prompt for a password and mount without any further configuration
Anonymous
ya need the pkg fuse ?
Anonymous
I do have one other question. I’m trying to mount an NTFS external HDD using “ntfs-3g” but keep getting an “operation not permitted” error. I think this has to do with the fact that the drive was encrypted with Veracrypt, maybe it’s not supported? I was able to plug the drive into Debian and windows and it would prompt for a password and mount without any further configuration
You were able to mount and use a veracrypt encrypted NTFS windows drive on Linux?
Anonymous
You were able to mount and use a veracrypt encrypted NTFS windows drive on Linux?
Yes, unless I’m completely missing something
bittin-
Just installed GhostBSD on an old trusty laptop
Anonymous
I'm having some difficulty figuring out how to boot my system directly into a graphical login manager for XFCE. I want the machine to boot directly into the XFCE DE, rather than needing to use the startx command from CLI.
Anonymous
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Anonymous
I'm having some difficulty figuring out how to boot my system directly into a graphical login manager for XFCE. I want the machine to boot directly into the XFCE DE, rather than needing to use the startx command from CLI.
You can use startx too.
For going to graphical environment.
Anonymous
I had thought XFCE was packaged with a login manager, but it's not?
Anonymous
I had thought XFCE was packaged with a login manager, but it's not?
I think it is.
You should enable the LightDM service.
Anonymous
By editing rc.conf?
Anonymous
You can use sysrc(8) to editing /etc/rc.conf.
Anonymous
I use a GUI text editor, to be honest. Not that great with navigating directories from CLI
Anonymous
nano man
Anonymous
I do have nano installed. Just need to spend some more time learning it
Anonymous
I use a GUI text editor, to be honest. Not that great with navigating directories from CLI
It is not important.
But if you use sysrc(8) or vi(1), would be better.
Anonymous
nano is easy
Anonymous
what are the benefits to vi or sysrc over a GUI tool? Isn't the end result the same?
Anonymous
I would not recomend VI to a nube
Anonymous
I do understand that CLI is faster and more efficient, but are there any benefits beyond that
Anonymous
Anonymous
I'm curious to know how it's safer
Anonymous
vi is error prone
Anonymous
So lightdm_enable="YES" is correct?
Anonymous
yes
Anonymous
okay, thanks for the help everyone
Anonymous
yw
Anonymous
<o0O> did he use vi. LOL
Anonymous
for giggles look at emacs
Jackie
So lightdm_enable="YES" is correct?
remember for lightdm you need a greeter, lightdm itself is not enough.
Jackie
use lightdm-gtk-greeter or slick-greeter
Anonymous
use lightdm-gtk-greeter or slick-greeter
Is this a separate package that I need to install or just something I need to enable?
Jackie
package of course
Carlos
https://twitter.com/freebsdjobs/status/1453502633369505793?s=12
Anonymous
I do understand that CLI is faster and more efficient, but are there any benefits beyond that
depends on the circumstance, there is no one answer
Anonymous
what are the benefits to vi or sysrc over a GUI tool? Isn't the end result the same?
I don't know about sysrc
vi doesn't depend on any GUI framework, and can be found on almost any UNIX
Anonymous
I do have nano installed. Just need to spend some more time learning it
Don't learn nano, you'll be much more efficient with vi
But the learning curve for vi is really high, so use nano for now
but learn vi at some point
Anonymous
I use a GUI text editor, to be honest. Not that great with navigating directories from CLI
well you better get familiar with the CLI, this is freebsd
Anonymous
I feel like you would have had a better time intstalling GhostBSD
ɴꙩᴍᴀᴅ
Don't learn nano, you'll be much more efficient with vi
But the learning curve for vi is really high, so use nano for now
but learn vi at some point
Also there is ee in vanilla FreeBSD if you don't want to install nano.
Badugar
bsdconfig is useful
Badugar
TUI program for configuring many parts of the OS
Jackie
can ntfs-3g handle a 4TB removable disk?
Jackie
I have one and use it normally on Windows and Linux, but can never get it mount successfully in FreeBSD
Jackie
Jackie
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I never had problems with ntfs-3g but I remember ntfs disk named da0s1 instead of da0p1