Month: January 2026

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rebuild

I messed up with DMA mail agent as automatically installed SSMTP as I have done for each server rebuild and did not trust the SSMTP delete to reset the everything its installation would have changed, so re-installed the base OS again from scratch.

At least using Packages now (also weaning myself of using ports as not using cutting edge versions or complex needs) its very quick to rebuild and once I have SUDO and WEBMIN installed its nice and easy to quickly build.

Samba was a bit of a pain as FreeBSD is lagging so far behind the main branches supported by Samba so even the latest version (4.20) is out of support. Anyway.. its installed and works so that will have to do.

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FreeBSD 15

I have been very slow to migrate content to the new replacement server, to the point I should already look at new low power spec hardware as so much has moved on in recent years. Given I had not yet promoted my replacement server to production ready, I took the plunge and wiped it back to a clean install of FreeBSD now that its been released so that future updates/upgrades are not degraded by trying to use ‘legacy’ versions of OpenSSL or PKG management.

The other key upgrade for me is DMA – the Dragonfly Mail Agent to replace SSMTP, this is more suited to a hobbyist install like myself and allows me to use GMAIL as my mail transport simplifying email setup.

I am also going to trying installing Lumina as the native desktop again as the new hardware has a dedicated Graphics Card and it maybe handy to be able to run some apps from the GUI rather than CLI only