Register a SA Forums Account here!
JOINING THE SA FORUMS WILL REMOVE THIS BIG AD, THE ANNOYING UNDERLINED ADS, AND STUPID INTERSTITIAL ADS!!!

You can: log in, read the tech support FAQ, or request your lost password. This dumb message (and those ads) will appear on every screen until you register! Get rid of this crap by registering your own SA Forums Account and joining roughly 150,000 Goons, for the one-time price of $9.95! We charge money because it costs us money per month for bills, and since we don't believe in showing ads to our users, we try to make the money back through forum registrations.
The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Ultimate BSD Thread™ - The Devil Wears a Neckbeard
 
  • Locked thread
adorai
Nov 2, 2002

10/27/04 Never forget
Grimey Drawer
ethernet devices are typically named after their driver. like xe0 or rl0 are two that I know of off the top of my head.

* # ¿ Mar 16, 2008 19:05
  • Quote
Adbot
ADBOT LOVES YOU

# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 01:37
  • Quote
adorai
Nov 2, 2002

10/27/04 Never forget
Grimey Drawer
requiring users to be in the wheel group in order to su to root from ssh has been in freebsd for a long time. I always think it's odd when I install redhat or centos and don't have to be in the wheel group, in fact, I can just ssh in as root!

* # ¿ Oct 8, 2009 02:34
  • Quote
adorai
Nov 2, 2002

10/27/04 Never forget
Grimey Drawer

Bob Morales posted:

Dare I ask what the 20 hard drives are for?
he's probably building a home virtualization environment and needs 20 spindles worth of IO.

* # ¿ Oct 8, 2009 02:58
  • Quote
  • Locked thread
The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Ultimate BSD Thread™ - The Devil Wears a Neckbeard