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NetBSD is a freely available open source version of Unix-derivative Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD); due to convenient license and portability, NetBSD is often used in embedded systems.

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pkg_admin audit said.. Package sqlite3-3.49.2 has a memory-corruption vulnerability, see https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-6965 Package libxml2-2.14.4 has a use-after-free vulnerability, see ...
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On Linux, this command fstrim -av I will remove all unused blocks (particularly interesting on VM disks and necessary on SSD to preserve/get a longer duration). NetBSD has a similar command called ...
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I can't understand what "-f" option to find command on NetBSD mean. Manual: https://man.netbsd.org/find.1 says -f Specifies a file hierarchy for find to traverse. File hierarchies may ...
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I am trying to install, for the first time, NetBSD-10.0-amd64 on HP EliteBook 8570w. After choosing "Install BSD" option installer goes to the booting mode and gets interrupted with an error:...
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After several sessions with intense Google searching and trying several angles with ChatGPT, I seem to be at a dead-end, my problem arises when I try to build OpenSSL from source, it seems that the ...
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I am trying to use OpenVPN as a client under NetBSD using this command: openvpn --client --config /etc/openvpn/config.ovpn I am getting the following output and errors: localhost# openvpn --client --...
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I'm debugging the NetBSD kernel with gdb, but I would like to be able to display information about the memory region an address is in. I'm mainly interested in finding out the permissions of a page of ...
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I have create a disk image on netbsd newfs -F -s 10G 1.img How to mount it? I have tried "nodev" but give error and try to mount /mnt/p2 mount -v -o nodev /home/user/1.img /mnt/p2
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Simple question: On Fedora, i want to search mplayer.. dnf provides *bin/mplayer on Debian apt -y install apt-file apt-file update apt-file search mplayer|grep bin on Freebsd pkg install -y pkg-...
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Simple question, today making iostat on netbsd machine I see.. iostat 2 3 tty ld0 ld1 dk0 dk1 dk2 dk3 ...
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I'm experimenting with podman under NetBSD and want to mount a host directory into the container. According to this answer I did: podman machine init -v ~/podman/volumes/:/mnt/podman tpvm podman ...
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I've done a "Minimal" installation of NetBSD 9.3 from the ISO image, just to examine the behavior of one particular command (mktemp) as it differs from Linux. I'm not seeing man pages for… ...
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On a headless Ubuntu 22.04 machine, I'd like to start a headless installation of NetBSD 9.2 in VirtualBox. I have a prepared virtual machine with a set of blank disk images attached, as well as with ...
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macOS has its "osascript" with "display notification", Linux has its "notify-send". Both are the most native way to generate DE notifications. What is the most native way ...
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I have access to just *nix systems. Either NetBSD and/or bare Linux-based OS. So my question comes from the fact that ADB is not widely available on all platforms, if so is very hard to install or ...
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I'm working through examples in APUE. On a NetBSD 9.0 system, under no major load, I time a call to grep and get an unremarkable result: apue$ cd /usr/include apue$ time -p grep __POSIX_SOURCE */*.h &...
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I'm reviewing man(2) pages on NetBSD 9, and have seen that all of the documents (write(2), open(2), pipe(2)) mention the Standard C Library at the top. My understanding was that system calls were ...
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I'm testing the portability of some stuff I'm writing to BSD. It's working on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD. It isn't working on NetBSD. The following is on a fresh VM installation I've made just for the ...
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I have a remote server running NetBSD 6, to which I have access only via SSH. I have very limited Unix/Linux experience but I guess there are some command line torrent cliens available for Unixes like ...
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I'm wanting to modify some firewall/NAT rules on a device (Apple Airport) running NetBSD 4.0. I'm not that familiar with BSD and pf, so want to check the right approach. I can change the pf.conf file (...
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Does FreeBSD, NetBSD, or OpenBSD have an encryption feature like Linux's dm-crypt? And will it work for a system partition?
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Coming from Linux land, I assumed that pkgin is some sort of higher-level frontend for pkg_add et al, something like what apt is to dpkg or yum/dnf to rpm. But pkg_add appears to handle installation ...
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If you're shopping for an SSD, you've surely seen one of those screenshots from CrystalDiskMark with a few green squares, and the 2x4 matrix with results of doing read/write tests for the given ...
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I'm trying to use resize_ffs with NetBSD to increase the size of my partition. I have NetBSD running in a virtual machine, and have expanded the size of the disk, and now wish to grow the partition to ...
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I'm trying to compile fIcy (https://gitlab.com/wavexx/fIcy) for NetBSD/FreeBSD. When I'm executing the make command nothing happens. Even no error message. The same source package compiles without ...
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Is the NetBSD primes utility (or equivalent) available on MacOS in any package, other than via manual download-and-compile (e.g. curl)? I searched quite a lot and couldn't find any package (other than ...
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NetBSD 7.1 (GENERIC.201703111743Z) amd64 In TTY without gui , the better screen resolution is set at boot time but the font is really to small. So how to change that On debian dpkg-reconfigure ...
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Is there any way to make the simple command sudo pkg_add some-package work on an ordinary installation of NetBSD without recompiling anything from source code? All other Unix systems that I have ...
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I have installed "NetBSD JWM" in the virtual environment of VMware Workstation 14 Pro. I'd like to set wallpaper but I do not know how to do it.
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Is there any way to install software from the *.tgz file that is its package, in NetBSD? Or indeed in operating systems with similar package managers such as OpenBSD or FreeBSD? For example, I can ...
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I just installed NetBSD 7.1.1 (i386) on my old laptop. During the installation, I could not install pgkin (I don't know why), so I skipped it and now I have a NetBSD 7.1.1 installed on my laptop ...
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I installed NetBSD and Firefox browser successfully but cannot install Chromium: tak# pkgin install chromium calculating dependencies... done. nothing to do. tak# How to do this?
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I'm trying to run tnftpd on OS X, which is NetBSD's FTP server and used to be OS X's FTP server. I built and installed it from Apple's sources. Unfortunately, it seems that I cannot run the server ...
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I'm having issues with php70-fpm not including any config files. I installed php70-fpm using pkgin in php70-fpm. It installs from here: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/earmv6hf/7.1/...
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I'm running NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi 1 Model B. uname -a NetBSD rpi 7.99.64 NetBSD 7.99.64 (RPI.201703032010Z) evbarm I'm trying to install pkgin but I'm receiving an error about version mismatch .....
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I'm relatively new to UNIX-like OS's, though I know some basic concepts. I managed to build X server and KDE workspace from pkgsrc for my NetBSD 7.0.2. X starts normally, but KDE won't, because it ...
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I'm new to NetBSD, although often using pkgsrc on ubuntu. I can build and install packages from source without any effect ubuntu's package dependencies. For example, even if ruby 2.2 is installed by ...
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I want to start using npf on my NetBSD server, rather than relying solely on the external firewall for protection. However, I get: $ npfctl show npfctl: /dev/npf: No such file or directory Alright, ...
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I've recently installed NetBSD 7.0.2, and I'm having trouble setting my hostname right. I'm using DHCP, so I got dhclient=YES in my /etc/rc.conf. Now, the documentation says, that there are several ...
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According to NetBSD's wiki I can use pkg_add -uu to upgrade packages. However, when I attempt to use pkg_add -uu it results in an error. pkg_add -uu pkg_add: missing package name(s) ... pkg_add -uu * ...
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I claim an IPv6 address using ifconfig in a script. This address is then immediately used to listen on a TCP port. When I write the script like this, it fails because the service is unable to listen: ...
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I just install NetBSD in from ISO image inside VirtualBox. Official source ISO media contains only MD5/SHA512 sums. Similarly pkg_add binary packag repository contains only SHA512 sums. Both FTP ...
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On my NetBSD installation, I have it set so that root has no password. I can login as root without typing a password. But, when I create a user with just useradd -m <username>, log out, then ...
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I'm running NetBSD in a virtual machine. Documentation and explanations on how to use pkgsrc are scarce. Let's say I want to install vim for NetBSD. What would I type? Do I need a URL? Do I need a ...
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I am interested to use NetBSD as the operating system on my server. I have not used a system where security updates are performed by source, but have read enough in the guide to feel comfortable ...
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To install Gnome on NetBSD, I did so: #cd /usr/pkgsrc/meta-pkgs/gnome #make fetch-list|sh And waited until all dependencies downloaded, then typed: #make install clean Build started, and after a ...
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I'm in NetBSD installation process, when configuring network, I'm stuck in this command and there is no way out of it: Status: Command failed Command: /sbin/ifconfig fwip0 media Hi enter to continue ...
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I've got OSX 10.9.5 . I want to build NetBSD (or at least it's kernel) on my OSX box. I've tried building the 'config' program but I can't find 'build.sh'. Is this possible and what would be the steps ...
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Is there some form of automated NetBSD installation? I would like to automate this manual process: https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-exinst.html But I found no examples.
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After switching to the us layout with wsconsctl -w encoding=us I was looking for a way to modify the keymap to my liking. I did: wsconsctl -w map+="keycode 1 = Cmd_Debugger Caps_Lock" wsconsctl -w ...
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