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Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD?

Posted by timothy on from the hiring-a-new-traffic-cop dept.

An anonymous reader writes I'm in the camp that doesn't trust systemd. You can discuss the technical merits of all init solutions all you want, but if I wanted to run Windows NT I'd run Windows NT, not Linux. So I've decided to migrate my homebrew router/firewall/samba server to one of the BSDs. Question one is: which BSD? Question two: where's some good documentation regarding setting up a home router/firewall on your favorite BSD?
It's fine if the documentation is highly technical, I've written linux kernel drivers before :) (Got a question? You can Ask Slashdot, too.)

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  1. because 'tail /var/log/httpd/error_log' was hard by raymorris · · Score: 1, Troll

    > My understanding is that SystemD makes binary logs for its own purposes, and that the binary features include indexes so it can very quickly answer queries like "what were the last ten things logged by Apache?"

    Oh okay, this huge monstrosity is worth it if it does things like make it easy to see the last ten log entries from Apache. Because for the last 35 years we've never been able to do:

    tail /var/log/httpd/error_log

    Lennart would add a hundred thousand extra lines of code before thinking about "tail".

  2. Re:pfsense by rahvin112 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Would you like a burp and a nap too?