FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for a variety of architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley; and is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. It is a complete Operating System, including the kernel, drivers, ...
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How do I non-interactively update FreeBSD system (and ports)?
Essentially, I am looking for a fully silent, non-interactive version of
freebsd-update fetch
freebsd-update install
and
portsnap fetch update
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How to install Apache and PHP by using only packages on FreeBSD?
Is there a way to install without compiling them through the ports? I installed Apache from packages and it works, but 'pkg_add -r php53' doesn't install mod_php5.so/libphp5.so. I experiment on ...
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WinXp + FreeBSd and booting [closed]
I have about 300G unformatted space on my HDD with another 300G occupied by WinXP, so I would like to install FreeBSD on the spare space. I have two questions:
1) It's DELL Inspiron 1525, what ...
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FreeBSD drops connection on file upload
Very strange error, first I thought it related to PHP settings or nginx (both have all proper settings up to 1G limits and all timeouts are properly set), but then I checked with Ruby (Sinatra), and ...
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Gitweb Auth using Apache on Freebsd [closed]
I'm having trouble trying to set up gitweb so that a private project repository may be accessed through the browser, requiring a simple user/pass for the process.
My vhost conf is as follows
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Which jailing strategy should I use (Debian 7 Wheezy/kFreeBSD) [closed]
I'm running on Debian 7/kFreeBSD and I'm building a small scale server for many users and services. I would like to ask you for an advice about setting up jails: should I create one jail per service ...
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imagemagic con't convert gif animation [closed]
I'm using php+imagemagic to deal with images.
For now I found that on my server imagemagic can't convert gif animation correctly.
Only the 1 frame can be converted by imagemagic.
I'm wondering that ...
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Apache recompile does not find new OpenSSL
I'm trying to upgrade both Apache and OpenSSL at the same time. I've gotten Apache compiled with all the modules I need, and it pops up and runs, but still shows an old version of OpenSSL.
Here is ...
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FreeBSD's ng_nat stopping pass the packets periodically
I have FreeBSD router:
#uname
9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #0: Fri Jan 18 16:20:47 YEKT 2013
It's a powerful computer with a lot of memory
#top -S
last pid: 45076; load averages: 1.54, 1.46, ...
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Puppet agent on FreeBSD skipping runs
I am experimenting with puppet and we are using FreeBSD on some servers. I noticed that the agent on the FreeBSD is for some reason skipping runs, i.e.:
May 6 09:19:15 eagle puppet-agent[66970]: ...
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quagga 0.9.22 does not throw the routes to OS routing table on FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE
I have FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p6 amd64 on board with quagga 0.9.22 (previously it was 0.9.21).
I have 2 peers as my ISP. One provides the traffic to country-based endpoints, the other - to the rest of ...
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Netstat doesn't work on FreeBSD by php function exec()
In my php-app I need the list of all IP's connected on port 80. I've chosen to do it this way:
<?php
$ips = exec("netstat -an |grep 'tcp\|udp' | awk '{print $5}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq ...
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1answer
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ZFS configuration opinions [closed]
Currently, I'm tasked with progressively building a ZFS store. IOPS are not the priority, data security and capacity are.
In essence what we have is one brute of a machine, that contains an OS ...
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1answer
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Safely migrate from 3ware 9650SE-8LPML to a 3ware SAS 9750-8i?
I have a server with a potenially faulty 3ware 9650SE-8LPML. I can log in to the server but the interface keeps reseting causing the whole system to lock down for minutes.
My host suspects its the ...
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1answer
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exim virtual domains vs main domain - rewriting rules
I currently have two servers
first.mydomain.com (ip:A.B.C.28) and
second.mydomain.com (ip:A.B.C.30)
Both servers have DNS and reverse dns entries, e.g. A.B.C.30 -> second.mydomain.com
The ...
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obtain the MAC Address/interface name from GUI on FreeBSD?
Is there any way I can obtain the MAC Address/interface name from GUI on FreeBSD?
Are there any system calls to do that?
I was searching everywhere but couldn't find any information.
Can you please ...
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ICMP time exceeded in-transit
In the last few days my server suffers an attack of this kind:
(bandwith > 60MBit/s, XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX are multiple IPs)
tcpdump -n proto ICMP
17:15:19.267464 IP XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX > my_ip: ...
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1answer
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ProFTPD permissions in FreeBSD 9
I'm currently administrating a FreeBSD 9 server with multiple sites hosted.
For example:
example1.com
example2.com
example3.com
I need to grant read/write permissions to developers so they will be ...
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0answers
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Snort error on FreeBSD-9: Unknown preprocessor “ftp_telnet”
I've installed "Snort" on FreeBSD-9.1 (32-bit) from the standard ports using:
pkg_add -r snort
After configuring and running with:
snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf -A full -u snort -g snort -i em1 ...
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How does broadcasting work on a server with multiple IPs?
Say you have two dhcp servers, A and B.
Server A has two IP addresses, 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2.
Server B has one IP address, 10.0.0.3.
Server A has two instances of isc-dhcp running, one specifying a ...
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hi How do I rename all files like wp-admin/index.php? [duplicate]
I need a script like for i in $(locate wp-admin/index.php); do mv $i to something ; done but this doesen't work like this my bash skills are not good enough to complete this ;)
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FreeBSD static routing set gateway to link
I am running FreeBSD 8.1 and configuring static routes. What is the route command to set the gateway to link#1 and not an IP address?
I tried route add default link#1 but FreeBSD doesn't take it. ...
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Increase size of multiple FreeBSD slices
I have a KVM virual machine running FreeBSD 9.1, with a typical one-partition layout with slices for swap, /, /tmp, /var, /usr. Now I need to upgrade that virtual server, beside others to a larger ...
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1answer
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FreeBSD Nic Setup - Dual NICs with lagg
I have a server running FreeBSD 9.0. It has two NICs using the igb network drivers. I was given a range of IPs, for example's sake I'm just going to make up some IP addresses, so let's say ...
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Pfsense 2.02 ipsec vpn tunnel goes down randomly
Ipsec vpn tunnels got disconnected randomly but when we restart raccon all tunnel will come up again with out any issue.I would like to know a permanent fix for this.
These are the logs:
racoon: ...
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1answer
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Supress FreeBSD “link down: cable prοblem?” messages
I have a FreeBSD lab machine that is regularly connected and disconnected from the network, sometimes to borrow the port temporarily for another machine and other times to test the ability of certain ...
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1answer
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How can I get FreeNAS and pfSense to report more using SNMP?
I have two servers which run variants of FreeBSD: One is a pfSense router and one is a FreeNAS 8 server. Both these servers run SNMP, and I am collecting and graphing their information using a third ...
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1answer
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freebsd pf.conf [closed]
Please, give me an advice of how to build firewall filter rules for PF in FreeBSD.
There are many tutorials, however they are all different from each other, and I don't really have a clue how to do ...
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ezjail-admin update -i can't create tank/ezjail/basejail
I updated the server FreeBSD 8.2-p10 amd64 to 9.1-p1 amd64, and I want to update jails started ezjail. I downloaded the source, built the world and run the command:
ezjail-admin update -i
but got ...
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Changing WebServer to use BSD Jails
I'm thinking of changing my web server so that Apache (and all of django web apps) run inside of a jail rather then on my host machine. I want to make this change for two reasons, the first and ...
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Memory leak in flow_fanout flow_capture. And strange ip in flow_capture output
On my freebsd box:
#uname -rimp
9.1-STABLE amd64 amd64 GENERIC
flow_tools:
> pkg_info -x flow
Information for flow-tools-0.68_7:
Comment:
Suite of tools and library to work with netflow data
...
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1answer
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Protect webmin access with username/password [closed]
I just installed webmin in my FreeBSD box, now it can be accessed as http://my-ip.com:10000, When I enter that address in browser I can see the login page of webmin directly. I want to have some ...
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1answer
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freebsd pf squid transparent
I have broken my brain dealing with this.
Squid was built from ports /usr/ports/www/squid32 with PF_TP enabled.
I have internet but strangely it bypasses squid. Obviously, squid logs are empty.
I ...
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2answers
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FreeBSD 9.1; bridge0 and default gateway issue
I've got a FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p1 system with three nics, I'm using: igb0, sfxge1 and sfxge2. igb0 used for internet access and is default gateway. Other two nics, I need to use to create bridge0.
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1answer
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FreeBSD 2 network cards
We have server with 2 network cards with FreeBSD on it. 1 card used for internet (works fine) and another one for local network connection (to 192.168.227.0/24 net). When i try to ping gateway of ...
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Snort Based Firewall
I have not worked with SNORT much or done too much research on this but it sounds possible.
If I setup a server and run snort on it. Would it then be possible to route ALL my traffic through it like ...
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ZFS import pool ahcich0: timeout (NanoBSD 8.2 -> 9.1)
Many times when I had to make changes to the system, I boot from the USB drive to the new build NanoBSD then import the pool to the system. In the transition from 8.2 to 9.1, I do the same - boot from ...
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Route Metrics and Redundant OpenVPN Ring with FreeBSD
So BSD doesn't seem to support route metrics which has been a bit of an issue with something I'm setting up.
I've created an OpenVPN ring between 2 Linux servers and a pfSense box - with the ...
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1answer
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Rsync Backup from XFS to ZFS
I currently have a backup solution in place that uses rsync to backup all out Linux servers from remote sites, to an XFS drive in our HQ. I am now trying to rsync the folder from the XFS drive in our ...
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1answer
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Binary zone file on BIND9
Binary Zone File Problem (FREEBSD)
DNS Master transfered zone file to slave But I cannot read zone file
less db.example.com
"db.example.com "may be a binary file. See it anyway?
This happend ...
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1answer
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FreeBSD Jail with Loopback IP, IPFW, and natd - Outbound connections fail from jail
I've got a FreeBSD 9.0 server. It has several jails, but they all have this same issue. They can not initiate connections to the outside world. They communicate with each other and the host fine.
...
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1answer
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FreeBSD IP aliases in different subnets and default outgoing IP address
I have a FreeBSD VPS that until recently had assigned 3 public ip addresses in a /29 subnet. When making outgoing connections, the IP address used was always the non aliased one ".20", however now I ...
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1answer
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How do I confirm that nginx aio is working on FreeBSD?
I have nginx configured with
aio on;
and no special prep on the OS side.
I tested loading lots of small jpegs from multiple clients, but there was not much of a different between aio on and aio ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to update a package w/out rebuilding it from /usr/ports on FreeBSD?
I'm running FreeBSD:
# uname -a
FreeBSD f9.XXX.org 9.0-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Jun 12 02:52:29 UTC 2012 root@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
#
...
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Force sendmail to ignore local domain when sending mail (FreeBSD)
I send mail using PHP. Everything works good until I send mail to domain (@example.com) which I have in /etc/rc.conf >> hostname="box.example.com".
I guess sendmail catches mail for this domain (even ...
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FreeBSD rc.d scripts do not return to proper shell
My interesting problem is that when running some rc.d scripts they do not actually drop back to the root shell, but leave me at an intermediate shell as the user they're supposed to be running as.
A ...
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PAM_LDAP Authentication failure with correct credentials on freebsd
I need to get our freebsd servers to auth via AD, but it is giving me problems.
Environment:
AD backend (Win 2k8r2). This works with other linux hosts which auth via SSSD
FreeBSD 9.1 for client ...
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1answer
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How can I setup PCI passthrough for my HighPoint 1144A USB 3.0 card under ESXi 5.1?
I have an Apple Mac Pro (MacPro5,1) running VMware ESXi 5.1.0 (799733) with a HighPoint RocketU 1144A USB 3.0 PCI-express card installed. Given that VMware ESXi 5.1 doesn't support USB 3.0 for ...
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1answer
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Segfault PHP-FPM, Nginx, Freebsd
We are experiencing CPU shortage at high-load. It only happens at some point when online users are around 1300-1400 (according google analytics). We are receiving Empty Response in browser.
It seems ...
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understanding disk space on ec2 freebsd instance
So I probably lack some basic fundamental understanding when it comes to unix drives.
On amazon-ec2, I just created an instance where I specified the root device to be 30 GB. If I goto volumes I see ...
