freebsd-tips: Add fortune to find font providing Unicode character

Reviewed by: emaste
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D45183

freebsd-tips: freebsd-update fetch, then install

In end of life (EOL) warning cases: freebsd-update fetch install (the
two commands, combined) may fetch and patch, but not install.

Instead: run the

freebsd-tips: freebsd-update fetch, then install

In end of life (EOL) warning cases: freebsd-update fetch install (the
two commands, combined) may fetch and patch, but not install.

Instead: run the two consecutively. Consistent with installation
information in /releases/ areas and with accepted
https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42722

Reviewed by: imp
Pull Request: https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/1096

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fortune: update mailing list search url

Markmail no longer exists.

Reviewed by: markj
MFC after: 3 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D43209

fortune: use 115200 in serial example

Commit 4722ceb7d53e switched the default serial rate to 115200 bps.
Follow suit in the freebsd-tips fortune example.

Reviewed by: bcr
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD

fortune: use 115200 in serial example

Commit 4722ceb7d53e switched the default serial rate to 115200 bps.
Follow suit in the freebsd-tips fortune example.

Reviewed by: bcr
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D41495

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Update tip for adding a user to wheel:

Use "pw groupmod" instead of hand-editing /etc/group

Reviewed by: bcr, gjb

Approved by: gjb (mentor)

mixer: remove volume backwards compat, add % interpretation

The current situation is fairly confusing, where an integer is interpreted
as a percent until you slap a decimal on it and magically it be

mixer: remove volume backwards compat, add % interpretation

The current situation is fairly confusing, where an integer is interpreted
as a percent until you slap a decimal on it and magically it becomes an
absolute value.

Let's have a flag day in 14.0 and remove this shim entirely. Setting with
percent can still be useful, so allow a trailing '%' to indicate as such.
As a side effect, we tighten down the format allowed in the volume a little
bit by ensuring there's no trailing garbage after the value once it's
separated into left and right components.

Reviewed by: christos, hselasky, pauamma_gundo.com (manpages)
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35101

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Chase mixer(8) command-line interface changes

FreeBSD 14.0 is going to ship with a new implementation of the mixer(8)
command. Unfortunately, in order to support new features like mute, the
command-

Chase mixer(8) command-line interface changes

FreeBSD 14.0 is going to ship with a new implementation of the mixer(8)
command. Unfortunately, in order to support new features like mute, the
command-line interface of the new implementation is not backwards
compatible.

Update all the remaining documentation and scripts in the src tree
to use the new syntax.

While here, document in usbhidaction.1 that the mute functionality is
now supported.

Reviewed by: christos, debdrup, hselasky
Approved by: hselasky (src)
Fixes: 903873ce1560 Implement and use new mixer(3) library for FreeBSD.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D34545

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freebsd-tips: Fix the description of fetch(1) to match the command

Reported by: jrtc27
MFC with: ffe6afc4f0121f1909f2fa88694228f771dd3fcb

freebsd-tips: Use a fetchable URL as example

MFC after: 3 days

freebsd-tips: Add fortune on kern.tty_info_kstacks

Add fortune explaining how to use `sysctl kern.tty_info_kstacks' to
alter the output of ^T (tty info).

Reviewed by: ceri
Differential Revision: ht

freebsd-tips: Add fortune on kern.tty_info_kstacks

Add fortune explaining how to use `sysctl kern.tty_info_kstacks' to
alter the output of ^T (tty info).

Reviewed by: ceri
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30388

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sys/*/conf/*, docs: fix links to handbook

While here, fix all links to older en_US.ISO8859-1 documentation
in the src/ tree.

PR: 255026
Reported by: Michael Büker <freebsd@michael-bu

sys/*/conf/*, docs: fix links to handbook

While here, fix all links to older en_US.ISO8859-1 documentation
in the src/ tree.

PR: 255026
Reported by: Michael Büker <freebsd@michael-bueker.de>
Reviewed by: dbaio
Approved by: blackend (mentor), re (gjb)
MFC after: 10 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D30265

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fortune/freebsd-tips: Fix markup and wording

'ps' is not a word - rather, it is a utility with its own manual page.
As every other utility referenced in the file has it, append the
relevant manual s

fortune/freebsd-tips: Fix markup and wording

'ps' is not a word - rather, it is a utility with its own manual page.
As every other utility referenced in the file has it, append the
relevant manual section that ps(1) can be found in.

While here, also wordsmith a sentence to avoid awkward phrasing, and fix
a typo.

Pointy hat to: me
Reported by: danfe, brueffer, maxim

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fortune/freebsd-tips: Add a few fortunes

These are fortunes I've used locally, probably for decades, so there's
no reason why they shouldn't be available to everyone.

fortune/freebsd-tips: Remove errant spaces

I noticed these errant spaces while removing a bogus fortune, and
decided I might as well fix them.

While here, reflow a line to it within 80 columns

fortune/freebsd-tips: Remove bogus fortune

The RCS IDs have been retired as of the move to git, so on 14-CURRENT
and 13.0-STABLE this fortune returns the following.

This fortune brought to you by:

fortune/freebsd-tips: Remove bogus fortune

The RCS IDs have been retired as of the move to git, so on 14-CURRENT
and 13.0-STABLE this fortune returns the following.

This fortune brought to you by:
$FreeBSD$

While faintly amusing the first time, this might just cause confusion
for folks, and in addition it's not the most useful of tips, so doesn't
add much.

Therefore it seems prudent to get rid of it.

MFC: Not to 11-STABLE or 12-STABLE.

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fortune: add a tip about gstat

MFC after: 3 weeks

Drop superfluous "of" from the systat example.

fortune(6): Grammar fix for a hint on searching ports

PR: 249078
Submitted by: PauAmma <pauamma at gundo dot com>
Reported by: PauAmma <pauamma at gundo dot com>
MFC after: 3 days

Revert r362466

Such change should not have happen without prior discussion and review.

With hat: transitioning core

Improve wording to be more precise and clear.
No functional change intended.

s/Master Boot/Main Boot/ (also called MBR)

MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies

A few corrections and clarifications to r343406.

- Use "in" instead of "on" when referring to directory and UFS partition.
- Switch from hw.physmem to hw.realmem and add a description to
distinguish

A few corrections and clarifications to r343406.

- Use "in" instead of "on" when referring to directory and UFS partition.
- Switch from hw.physmem to hw.realmem and add a description to
distinguish the two.
- Explain why the "df" command is having trouble displaying ZFS sizes
correctly. Add a bit more descriptive text to help why the output of
"zfs list -o space" should be used.
- Switch to vmstat instead of iostat display for systat(1) as it shows
more information on one screen. Describe what is displayed based on the
text of the man page. Change the list of the other values accordingly.
- Sort the flags to "zfs destroy" alphabetically.

Reviewed by: rgrimes
Approved by: rgrimes
MFC after: 8 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18993

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Add ZFS usage tips to freebsd-tips.

Add a bunch of examples on how to use ZFS features like:
- listing available space,
- setting and displaying a userquota,
- displaying pool I/O statistics and poo

Add ZFS usage tips to freebsd-tips.

Add a bunch of examples on how to use ZFS features like:
- listing available space,
- setting and displaying a userquota,
- displaying pool I/O statistics and pool history,
- displaying the compression ratio for a dataset,
- various list options (sorting, removing headers),
- performing a dry-run of a snapshot delete,
- removing a range of snapshots,
- setting a custom property,
- preventing removal of a snapshot with ZFS holds,
- permission sets for zfs send/receive.

Additionally, clarify the existing examples a bit when
it comes to displaying space by mentioning UFS explicitly.
Other examples include displaying I/O in top(1), querying
sysctl(8) for active CPUs and available RAM. Mention systat(1)
and its options, too.
While here, reformat the example to upload a dmesg(8) a bit
to wrap properly.

Thanks to Allan Jude for his help with some of the ZFS examples.

Reviewed by: dru,allanjude
Approved by: allanjude (earlier version)
MFC after: 3 days
Relnotes: yes (ZFS examples in freebsd-tips)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18541

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Add a fortune describing how to upload a machine's dmesg information to the
NYCBUG database.

We want to encourage our users to upload their dmesgs so that the project can
get a better insight into w

Add a fortune describing how to upload a machine's dmesg information to the
NYCBUG database.

We want to encourage our users to upload their dmesgs so that the project can
get a better insight into what kind of hardware is run on. This helps in making
data-driven decisions about i.e., platform and driver support.

Note that dmesgs may contain sensitive information like hardware serial numbers,
hence uploading them without review is discouraged.

Reviewed by: brooks, imp, allanjude
Approved by: allanjude
MFC after: 5 days
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17705

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The !! trick does not apply to all shells

Requested by: emaste

Modernize freebsd-tips a bit

- Prefer UTF-8 over ISO-8859-1
- Remove some references to printing man pages
- Combine duplicate '!!' tips
- 'rehash' is no longer needed