Get ready for the European *BSD event of 2025!
54 days to go!
BSDCan Videos are being published. It can give you a taste of the great content you can witness live in Zagreb.
Grab your tickets at https://tickets.eurobsdcon.org
The schedule is at https://events.eurobsdcon.org/2025/schedule/
For everything else, peek at https://2025.eurobsdcon.org/
More information is added all the time.
EuroBSDCon 2025 in Zagreb, Croatia
September 25-28, 2025
First release:
I wrote an Ansible connection-plugin to automate FreeBSD Jails
via their host, by utilizing jls and jexec to run automation via a SSH connection to the FreeBSD host.
I released that on GitHub https://github.com/chofstede/ansible_jailexec
And on my Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/Larvitz/ansible_jailexec
Released under a BSD license.
This enables seamless automation of FreeBSD jails without needing a SSH connection to the Jails themselves.
What are you missing at @BoxyBSD?
Let me know what miss, what you need and how I can improve the service to make it easier and better for you!
Do I go full scorched earth and nuke my Proxmox install for FreeBSD and utilize Jails?
Project reveal:
For the past couple of weeks, I was working on a modern Ansible connection plugin for FreeBSD Jails: jailexec.py
It utilizes the SSH connection to the host-system and jexec to execute Ansible automation within FreeBSD jails.
Makes it even possible to automate jails, that aren't reachable via SSH themselves (or even have no IP address).
Bonus features:
- Connection pooling and persistence for improved performance
- Efficient file transfer with proper permission handling
- Jail command execution via jexec with privilege escalation (doas/sudo)
- Comprehensive error handling and logging with multiple log-levels (-v -vv and -vvv)
After some polishing and testing, I will publish that under a BSD 2-Clause license on my Codeberg repositories and GitHub (Likely during the weekend)
#freebsd #bsd #ansible #automation #python #devops @vermaden
Hello Fedi - what is your most used *BSD service that is builtin to the OS?
From Jails to Pledge, name your favorite!
New Kitten Release
To GNU tar or not to GNU tar?
• Installing Kitten on Linux should no longer display a screenful of gibberish from the tar command.
You see, macOS, being special, includes BSD tar, not GNU tar, and adds a bunch of Mac-specific metadata and extended header keywords to archives that GNU tar on Linux machines then chokes on and regurgitates onto your screen as warnings.
With this release, Kitten’s packaging script expects GNU tar to be available on macOS and uses that instead of BSD tar.
The latest release of Kitten now installs without any warnings on Linux (at least on my Fedora Silverblue box).
Enjoy!
@Viss This is why I am a fan of not doing anything in the #cloud or using any #microsoft product. It is wholly possible to run your business on #Linux, #BSD, and #opensource. When it comes time for me to start my therapy practice, I will be completely on-premises and open source.
@raiderrobert @ianthetechie I too learned a lot from attending conferences and chatting with others. I enjoyed going to #Linux and #BSD conferences and participating in talks and tutorials.
FreeBSD: Shorter support for the professional focus
From FreeBSD 15 onwards, there will only be four years of support, but more updates are planned. Several teams in the project need some relief.
Yes I mean chown.
For some odd reason my usage of chown gave only warnings the past few years when I used the current 21 year old syntax.
Thank you for the correction and Enlightenment
chmod user.user
was the syntax until until I recently noticed that it was changed to
chmod user:user
I have to check out why that occurred. I also have to check if they only changed it in the Linux version of the command or if the change was also propagated to the BSD flavors of operating systems
Message in a bottle time again #GetFediHired (not a peep from anyone yet).
Growing desperate in search for (remote) software developer work in the #Ottawa #Montreal areas. #C C# #Erlang #Java #NodeJS #Shell #SQL #BSD #Linux #English #French and more. Very versatile, adaptable, experienced.
Hey! If its remote, its possible to work world wide too!
I'm running 11 operating systems across my laptops & computers:
- Debian-Testing Gnome (my default)
- Linux Mint Cinnamon (my go-to)
- Ubuntu Gnome
- Fedora Mate
- SuSE Slowroll KDE
- EndeavourOS/Arch XFce
- Pop_OS Cosmic
- ElementaryOS Pantheon
- Haiku
- MacOS
- DietPi (navidrome server)
I wanted *BSD in there too, but it doesn't play nice as a partition (it prefers its own SSD).
I like to say 'C' started out as a failed Fortran compiler.