Questions tagged [freebsd]
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, and userland utilities such as shells.
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FreeBSD default MySQL basedir, port, etc., for my.cnf
I'm working on a FreeBSD 9.2 server and have run mysqltuner.pl to check the memory and cache needs of MySQL. Now I need to add a my.cnf file to FreeBSD so it uses that instead of the auto cnf file.
I ...
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Best way to upgrade FreeBSD with non generic kernel (XENHVM)
Since manually upgrading from source (cvsup) is deprecated and the recommendation is to use freebsd-update:
What's the best way to upgrade (e.g. 9.1 to 9.2) while keeping a non-generic (XENHVM) ...
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Cannot create zpool, how to get rid of intel raid volume?
This is a FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 computer. It has 5 disks installed. The ada0 and ada1 disks are used with a hw raid to provide the root filesystem:
root@gw:/home/gandalf # ls /dev | grep ada
ada0
ada1
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freebsd creating a script to check if service is active and start the service if not
Here's the deal:
I'm running a freebsd webserver with apache solr on a jetty
every now and then ( few times a month ) jetty quits and I have to restart it by typing:
service jetty start
I'm kinda ...
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Uninstall last n of ports/packages
While compiling some port, I realized that it depends on 1000+ of other ports and will install forever until I die or my disk is full (my hdd is really small).
I interrupted make install clean.
How ...
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FreeBSD rc.d script doesn't work when starting up
I am trying to write a rc.d script to startup the fastcgi-mono-server4 on FreeBSD when the computer starts up - in order to run it with nginx.
The script works when I execute it while being logged in ...
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How to chroot VirtualHosts on a Apache server?
I have a FreeBSD server (company's OS of choice). Currently we run several websites on each of the webservers. Websites are in PHP which is run in Apache Module mode. At the Apache is not chrooted so ...
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Why is it necessary to set a netmask of 255.255.255.255 for “alias” addresses in FreeBSD?
From FreeBSD handbook on the topic of virtual hosts:
For a given interface, there must be
one address which correctly represents
the network's netmask. Any other
addresses which fall within ...
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Migrating from IPv4 to IPv6 with three WAN, 1 LAN
I'm in a bind right now. Here I got this wonderful thing called Google, but I am stumped for resources that will allow me to better develop my basic desire.
I run the internet for a local special ...
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System-wide bashrc on FreeBSD
On linux there's usually a global bashrc file (/etc/bash.bashrc or /etc/bashrc). On FreeBSD however bash doesn't seem to support this feature. What's the best way to add a system-wide bashrc then?
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Dell "identify server" light in FreeBSD?
Does anyone know of a way to turn on the identification light on a Dell rack-mount server. This is the light which you can switch on locally by pushing the (i) button on the front of the server which ...
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FreeBSD's sendmail
-bash-3.2# hostname
name.foo.bar.domain.tld
-bash-3.2#
whenever I send an email it leaves as [email protected], I need to have sendmail change it to [email protected]
how do I do that?...
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How to install DHCP server on FreeBSD 7.2?
I have a clean install of FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE. I want to install a simple DHCP server for a few windows computers. But, unfortunately, following don't work:
pkg_add -r isc-dhcp3-server
Error is: "...
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Option 82 and dhcpd. "No free leases" for second computer
There is DHCP server in network (isc-dhcpd-server-3.0 on FreeBSD 7.2) than gives one IP per switch port to every user via Option 82
The problem appears when user disconnects one of his computers and ...
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What's your suggested mail server configuration for a FreeBSD server?
What would be your suggestion if installing a FreeBSD 7 (7.2, actually) email server?
I am interested in:
SMTP agent
Imap/Pop backend
Authentication (OS users, OpenLDAP)
Anti-Spam server side tools
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SERVERFAIL error while doing nslookup on server itself. FreeBSD
I am using FreeBSD to setup a DNS server.
I have install BIND and setup everything in resolv.conf and named.conf file.
This is the ip address of my DNS server 192.168.10.100.
in resolv.conf I added ...
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How to get the attached disk size on FreeBSD
When I attach a disk to FreeBSD I can list any attached disks by doing:
[root@freenas] ~# sysctl kern.disks
kern.disks: xbd2 xbd1 ada0
[root@freenas] ~#
How can I then find out the size of each ...
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BIND 9 : rndc reload has no effect
I'm running a BIND 9.10.2 port on FreeBSD 10 in a jailed configuration, and I'm having a problem that rndc reload does not pick up any (primary master) zone file changes, even though the SOA serial is ...
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“Unknown host machine name.” on FreeBSD + unixODBC + FreeTDS
I got some issues connecting to a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 from my FreeBSD 10.1 server.
I installed FreeTDS and unixODBC via ports. I compiled FreeTDS with unixODBC support. This ist my freetds.conf:...
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File name too long mount_nfs
I have a FreeBSD Vagrant box that looks like this:
# -*- mode: ruby -*-
# vi: set ft=ruby :
VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION = "2"
Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
config.vm.box = "...
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Can't boot FreeBSD 10 iso by PXE
I'm trying to boot FreeBSD 10 bootonly iso from with pxelinux and tftp, unfortunately the following error appears during freebsd boot:
cd9660 :/dev/iso9660 error :/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL ...
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FreeBSD's pkg "No trusted fingerprint found matching package's certificate"
I just installed FreeBSD 10 and trying to get pkg going, but something isn't working:
# uname -a
FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0 r260789: Thu Jan 16 22:34:59 UTC 2014 root@snap....
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ssh-copy-id in one line with password, possible?
I'm trying to setup an automated script in Ansible to set a new server, and i'm using ssh-copy-id to add the Ansible master server to the new server's authorized ssh keys.
I created a script which ...
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How can the root password on FreeBSD 9.1 be changed for the system for the purposes of root logins?
I've never encountered this before when using FreeBSD, but I recently got a new BSD VPS, and when I logged in as a wheel user and su to root, I used "passwd" to change the root password, but this only ...
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Having a ball re-selecting PHP make config settings...FreeBSD
I am installing PHP 5.3 and having accidentally hit enter when selecting options failed to enable a module.
After the installation make no longer gives me options but continues with saved options.
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FreeBSD 9 unattended installation: how to perform?
That is, like you do with kickstart on Redhat or autoyast in SuSE or jumpstart in Solaris? The OS docs do not seem to answer that simple question.
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Why is ZFS replication single threaded?
On my 8 core NAS I see only one core maxed out when ZFS replication over SSH is running.
I would expect that transferring a snapshot would scale perfectly with the number or cores, as the snapshot ...
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Internal traffic card and external traffic cards on the same server... how to configure?
This might sound like a noob question, but here is what I have to configure:
FreeBSD
1 server with 2 network cards
1 network card for internal IP addresses (5 of them)
1 network card for external IP ...
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FreeBSD jails access
I want to run an application inside jail so that allowed users can only connect to the jailed environment (application) and nothing else on my box.
But they need to be able to connect to the jail ...
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start-stop-daemon freebsd
Have a line in sh script starting service from rc.d
start-stop-daemon --quiet --start --background --chuid "$USER" --exec /usr/local/bin/env -- $ARGS RETVAL=$?
it returns
/etc/rc.d/spat: start-stop-...
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Scripting GNU Screen sessions
I have a couple of VM images that I run on a regular basis on my FreeBSD 9.0 fileserver.
I have scripts written that start them with my desired settings (startUbuntuVM and startWindowsVM).
I would ...
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Error creating new slice using gpart on FreeBSD
The virtual hard disk of one of my VPS has been enlarged, and I want to create a new ZFS slice using the extra space, but I couldn't be able to perform that.
# gpart add -s 10G -t freebsd-zfs da0
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Is SASL not supported in Postfix on FreeBSD?
I'm managing a mail server that was set up on FreeBSD that runs Postfix and Dovecot. When I type postconf -a, nothing is returned. As I understand it, this command should tell me if SASL is supported ...
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KVM: how to confirm does kvm uses kvm-kernel-module?
This can sound a little bit paranoid but I really have a doubt that my configured libvirt+kvm uses any hardware acceleration in debian. I setuped it with this guide. in fact i've checked already, kvm-...
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FreeBSD: how can I make "top" not cut off commands?
I use top in a perl script for storing information about the system in DB. The actual command is:
top -b -d1 -a all
However the COMMAND field seems to be 60 chars max and everything else is cut off. ...
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'pargs' command in FreeBSD or Linux
What's the FreeBSD (or Linux) equivalent to the 'pargs' command, available in Solaris? Many times I want to know what are the environment variables for a given process space, with no help from these ...
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Find the source of malware?
I have a server that was running an older version of lighttpd (1.4.19 on a freebsd 6.2-RELEASE (yea, old) machine) and google alerted me that it had found malware embedded on one of my server's pages. ...
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BSD route(8) MAN page bug
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=route
Route is a utility used to manually
manipulate the network routing tables.
It normally is not needed, as a system
routing table management ...
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What should a computer science student include/run on his first server to learn the most?
A group of us CompSci students are trying to get our first server up and running. We're gonna try and install FreeBSD on this box. Would be great if you can suggest utilities/packages we should ...
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Creating pflog interface
I'm attempting to create a pflog interface using ifconfig so I can log to more than one file and when I attempt to execute the following command I get this error. I'm attempting this on a vanilla ...
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Monitorable Inter-company Messaging and XMPP Server on FreeBSD
We are looking to give access to some of our employees to chat with each other - however we are worried about them abusing the privilege and chatting we friends outside work. We have decided to deploy ...
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Running Shell Script without a Password Prompt
I have a shell script that runs on a freebsd OS.
the script has some commands that needs the sudo privileges
Im excuting the script remotley and it's skipping the sudo commands
i tried the following :
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Relatively new WD Red Pro yielding ATA status: 41 (DRDY ERR), error: 40 (UNC ) on FreeBSD 12.2
I am running a TrueNAS server based on FreeBSD 12.2. I migrated the storage to 10 TB WD Red Pro. They're running for 42 days now.
Out of the sudden, during a ZFS scrub, one of the disks yielded 5 ...
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FreeBSD perform certain task when a new user is created
Is there a way to perform additional tasks every time a new user is created with adduser(8) in FreeBSD?
To be more precise, i'd like to create a directory for every new user and map this user with ...
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Sendmail in FreeBSD send with external SMTP without auth
I'm sorry if this might sound confusing at first.
My brother asked me to make a web server for him because he wanted to self host his own website and not use a hosting service anymore. The problem ...
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mount FreeBSD encrypted ZFS from live CD AND find the root partition
I followed the menu to install FreeBSD 11 with encrypted ZFS. After using the system fine for some days, I messed something in /boot/loader.conf so can not boot. I searched and the way to recover is ...
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Opendkim doesn't sign emails sending from external clients
I've setup opendkim with my sendmail and it looks like everything works correctly, but it signs only those messages that sent locally (from webmail client or automatic subscriptions). when I try to ...
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Check headers of a sent e-mail (by sendmail)
When I send an e-mail in console, like:
echo "Body of the message" | mail -s "Some clever subject" [email protected]
I would like to check the headers of the e-mail once it is sent.
They do not ...
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How do you expand /var in pfsense when you run it in memory?
I have a pfsense box running 32GBs of RAM. I enabled /var and other directories to be in RAM due to have so much space and wanted to improve performance.
How do you alter and increase the size of /...
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ZFS corrupted directory, but zpool doesn't detect anything wrong
A directory on my FreeBSD 10.2 server somehow got hopelessly corrupted (wasn't ZFS supposed to prevent that?)
ls or any other command against it leads to current session getting frozen on the kernel ...