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Step-by-step: two single-node SeaweedFS 4 boxes on FreeBSD 15.1 — a public write target and an internal pull mirror over NAT, deletions replayed upstream, then point PhotoSync at it.

How to set up cross-site S3 sync with SeaweedFS on FreeBSD: a public box takes uploads from anywhere, a box at home pulls a full copy over NAT — one node per site, no split-brain, no port-forwarding at home.

Compact guide for building an OpenClaw workspace focused on child protection, minimal retention, local models, direct-message-only behavior, and guardian escalation.

OpenClaw is not just for automation.

For those you haven’t heard of Sylve: Sylve is pretty new VM and Jailmanager for FreeBSD.

If you want to try it on MacOS you can use this tutorial https://hackacad.net/post/2025-07-12-local-chatbot-rag-with-freebsd-knowledge/ Out of multiple conversations with people at BSD conferences, I noticed that many would love to see a chatbot that prov…

If you want to try it on MacOS you can use this tutorial https://hackacad.net/post/2025-07-15-local-chatbot-rag-with-freebsd-knowledge-freebsd-host/ Out of multiple conversations with people at BSD conferences, I noticed that many would love to see a chat…

Overview This tutorial walks you through downloading and configuring the FreeBSD 14.2 image for Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4).

If you want to test OpenSearch Data Prepper on FreeBSD.

Since I wasn’t happy with my hosting provider anymore I chose to switch to a local data center.

How to create secure remote access with zero trust policy This short how-to should give you some ideas on how to create secure web access to your web services without VPN.

UPDATE 21/09/19: Everything has been comitted and merged upstream.

In case your poudriere ports are no longer beeing updated via poudriere ports -u : Did you hear about the Git migration?

Upgrade BastilleBSD jails from source Using bastille upgrade 12.1-RELEASE 12.2-RELEASE is the prefered way of upgrading.

Create a jailed Ubuntu Linux with Bastille on FreeBSD 12.2 Make sure Bastille is installed and configured. click here This is not offically supported, so don’t use it in production!

HowTo create jails with Bastille 0.8 TDLR of https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/ (updated for Bastille 0.8.20210115) install bastille Bastille is very active so make sure you switch to latest pkg mirror vim /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf FreeBSD: { url: "p…

This a short how-to for creating a FreeBSD pkg mirror using BastilleBSD and Poudriere.

If you want/need to add password authentication to your FreeBSD Elasticsearch cluster (this should work on any FreeBSD with elasticsearch7) TLDR; (again) Add the following lines to your /usr/local/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml: xpack.security.enable…

This is a short how-to for securing Saltstack communication via spiped.

OpenSSH 8.2p1 with FIDO2 support was recently added to MacOS (via Homebrew) and FreeBSD (via ports/pkg).

Stop the running jail and export it: iocage stop jailname iocage export jailname Move the backup files (.zip and .sha256) into Bastille backup dir (default: /usr/local/bastille/backups/): mv /iocage/images/jailname_2020-03-26.* /usr/local/bastille/backup…

Go to 2021 version HowTo create jails with Bastille TDLR of https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille/ install bastille Bastille is very active so make sure you switch to latest pkg mirror vim /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf FreeBSD: { url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD…

TLDR for Redmine on FreeBSD 11.2 install redmine and a bunch of dependencies UPDATE 2019/03/11 redmine pkg is currently not available on quaterly mirror (make sure you use latest branch in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf) pkg install redmine apache24 mysql56-server…

HowTo Secure Elasticsearch using spiped on FreeBSD, Debian and CentOS Spiped makes it really easy to secure connections between clients and Elasticsearch databases.

Logstash services failes on FreeBSD (11.x) [2018-11-06T12:24:56,663][INFO ][logstash.modules.scaffold] Initializing module {:module_name=>"fb_apache", :directory=>"/usr/share/logstash/modules/fb_apache/configuration"} [2018-11-06T12:24:56,664][INFO ][logs…

If your Salt Minion fails to start with [salt.utils.process:754 ][ERROR ][5542] An un-handled exception from the multiprocessing process > ‘SignalHandlingMultiprocessingProcess-1:59’ was caught: Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/local/lib/pyth…

If you try to run Elasticsearch in a Jail without an external IP address you might get an error like: No up-and-running loopback addresses found, got [name:lo1 (lo1)] How to solve it?

If you see the following error after pkg upgrade or pkg install Shared object “libdl.so.1” not found Your FreeBSD version might be outdated.

pw: user 'username' disappeared during update How to fix it?