I did this just now so I though I'll add it to the thread. Install NFS Server on Debian 9 apt install nfs-server As you may know debian installer start services automatically so it's just less to write. By default folders for nfs goes into /srv.

@DustinB3403 said in OSX Power Saving Settings: @black3dynamite said in OSX Power Saving Settings: Does that also prevent it from sleeping when the lid is closed? The lid closed is powernap

So with further testing, a restart is required if the user is using their system, otherwise they'll continue to get the notifications.

@dbeato said in lpadmin - remove printer with a space in the name: @DustinB3403 said in lpadmin - remove printer with a space in the name: Nevermind! lpadmin adds spaces as underscores! So with lpadmin -p I was able to find the list of printers. lpadmin -p Accounting_Printer And with lpadmin -x Accounting_Printer was able to remove the printer! Removed Accounting_Printer Good to know for central administration of Apple devices. What are you using right now? ARD and Unix cli

@scottalanmiller said in OSX Unix Using Brew to install software remotely: @DustinB3403 said in OSX Unix Using Brew to install software remotely: So I can just unpack the dmg file, and have an Copy job, copy the application to the Applications folder for any user. As my admin user account. All via Apple Remote Desktop. This works without issue. What I am trying to do is avoid having to locally download the app at all, unpack it and then have a Copy job to run. I'd like to streamline the process. That's what the script is doing already. Making your own "sudo friendly" script for your install might make sense. The issue is there is no way AFAIK without adding my local admin account to this group. Which is more work than it may be worth since the existing solution works but is annoying.

Traditionally TrueOS has been a good desktop.

I was pretty surprised to find that uuidgen was not available, not even available for install!

See the following for ideas as to how you can accomplish what you're seeking to do: https://macmule.com/2011/09/08/how-to-map-drives-printers-based-on-ad-group-membership-on-osx/

@black3dynamite said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD: @scottalanmiller said in Allowing Root Password Login via SSH to Dragonfly BSD: Dragonfly is tough by default because unless you use something like Salt, you can't connect to it to get keys to it in the first place. You can curl keys to it, of course. But you need totally different processes than you would typically use with any other OS to get it set up. That means it's not even Ansible friendly. Pretty much agent-based tools like Puppet, Salt, etc... is the way to go. Yup, unless you have some way to push the Ansible key ahead of time, like in a curl. So back to the beginning there

@scottalanmiller said in Errors Installing SaltStack on NetBSD 7.1.1: Got it, it was a packaging versioning issue. I had accidentally set the verison to 8.0 when it was 7.1.1. I got a clean install and set the package version correctly and now it works fine. If you want to know how to set the version accurately automatically, try this that I just made... export PKG_PATH="http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/`uname -m`/`uname -r`/All/" That's exactly what I was thinking but didn't say anything. I wanted to see what you'd do.

@black3dynamite said in GhostBSD 11.1 Released with MATE and Xfce: @scottalanmiller said in GhostBSD 11.1 Released with MATE and Xfce: My Xfce download is underway. What's GhostBSD default desktop environment? MATE and Xfce. Those are the only two that they make.

The Linux world is complex enough for normal users. BSD just pushed them that much farther over the edge.

Hope they will keep the pace

Start with old Desktop with Virtualization extension, something that you can install OS and dont have to remove cause of free space or you need it for something else. Cause learning Linux or Centos or anything else needs environment, and virtualbox can work but it wont allow you play with KVM, and thats for me the big part of the fun. Also you need to keep learning that means its is process some day you will leave it 4-5 days dormat cause your stuck in an issue the other day bulb lights up mainly due to reading this site and you get back on it.

All of the RHEL/CentOS 7 stuff I've used has started at 1000. Identity Management sets users in a random range around 1,000,000,000.

@scottalanmiller Replacement as (rather than use vanilla rsync) I'll go with this version.

I've used rsnapshot a good bit and it's a really nice tool for simple backups.

@obsolesce said in Systemd timers instead of cron: @stacksofplates said in Systemd timers instead of cron: Now just enable each one systemctl enable backup-tower backup-pbx backup.target backup.timer I'm not sure how this works. Why wouldn't you just enable the backup.timer? Why add everything else in there? I'm not clear on how it's all linked. Yeah you don't. I honestly don't remember why I had it this way. Could have just been an accident. Was quite a while ago.

@dafyre said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released: @scottalanmiller said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released: @matteo-nunziati said in DragonFly BSD 4.8 Released: for curiosity sake: who is actually using dragonfly bsd and why? I've deployed it a bit in labs. I'm always watching it closely because Hammer is very important. Hammer? One of the world's most advanced fileystems. Dragonfly is important as a kernel alternative ecosystem to FreeBSD, from which it split (in many ways Dragonfly is the real FreeBSD and FreeBSD is the "new" product that split from it) but its real relevance is as a filesystem research platform. The kernel maintainer there writes a totally unique filesystem, called Hammer, just for Dragonfly.

I have a copy of SCO Unix. Very niche. Full box and license. Found it when i was clearing out the IT attic at work. I havent seen a Solaris box since 2010.