For those who are interested, I have been playing a large library of Steam games on Void Linux with a only a few minor issues over the past few years. Proton works great. FWIW, I am also using the Nvidia drivers from the Void nonfree repo.

Some quick updates just a few days before the official start of Fall 2023. Recent downtime (a few minutes) for server software and kernel updates. Nothing out of the ordinary, as usual no hiccups during updates. New portal extension installed and configured as the index page. Expect to see some smal...

Hello MeanerdNL, Unfortunately I don't think many package maintainers are on these forums (yet!). Doing some looking, it appears the last update to fail2ban in the void-repo was to get it working with Python 3.10. Reading some of the Github issues on fail2ban's repo it appears it will require more t...

The forum received just a few minutes of downtime today due to the move from a shared hosting service with Bluehost to a Virtual Private Server (VPS) with Kamatera. The previous webhost server was running CentOS 7,cPanel, PHP 7.4, Apache 2.4, and MySQL 5.7. Our new VPS is running Void Linux with PHP...

Hi DoruVoid, Yes, the fish shell is available in the Void XBPS repository. sudo xbps-install -S fish-shell When you search the XBPS repository for available packages, remember to use the -R flag for remote . If you search without the -R flag, you will only be searching the packages you have installe...

I just installed smbclient-4.14.12_2 on my laptop and gave it a shot. brad@zenith ~ % smbclient -L allsafe Enter MYGROUP\brad's password: Sharename Type Comment --------- ---- ------- SMB1 disabled -- no workgroup available Here is the expected output on a FreeBSD client: brad@htpc:~ % smbclient -L ...

Glad you got it sorted. FWIW, every *NIX/BSD system I have ever used, I had to provide the full path for the shell using useradd/usermod. By default, Void uses DASH for root and BASH for any other user as DASH is a smaller footprint with fewer exploitable features - i.e. somewhat more secure for the...

Just to be clear, you run the command void-installer to initiate the installation script, correct? For what it's worth, you are also entirely able to install Void Linux from any working Linux environment using chroot if you are familiar with its use. You must manually partition and format your disk(...

Ah that makes sense. I recall having to create a few special directories and chowning them for certain services to work. I vaguely recall having to do this for syslogs at one point.

Glad it's working!

Hi Gimi, Glad you figured out a way to get logged in. I don't know of any issues with socklog-unix. I use it on all of my Void systems and have had no trouble with it. Some things I'd check: /var is out of space or mounted RO Something is sending insane amounts of output to syslog Try default syslog...