Questions tagged [netbsd]
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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Netbsd: where are patches/fixes?
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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NetBSD "-f" option in find
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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How to build OpenSSL from source, without depending on /lib/libcrypto.so
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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NetBSD - how to display information about kernel memory in GDB?
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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Is possible to find a single file of NOT installed package on Netbsd?
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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NetBSD: podman mount volume: Error: statfs : no such file or directory
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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Issues starting headless installation of NetBSD in VirtualBox
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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How to "talk" to a "parent" IP in a subnet?
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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