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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 VirtualBox disk performance using mdmfs

I am having some trouble with poor I/O running a Windows 7 VM on VirtualBox on FreeBSD 9.0. I would like to change my virtual disk type to immutable, and then change the location of the differencing ...
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freebsd shell package not execute after successfull install

After successfull installing midnight commander with pkg_add - mc i try to load it from shell command "mc", but it did not work. Leaving the root and going root again fixes that problem. The same ...
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trying to "setup apache fastcgi"

my system is: wx3# uname -a FreeBSD wx3 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:46:30 UTC 2012 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 wx3# packages installed:...
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Htop installation failed

I'm trying to install the htop , but I can't since I'm getting this fatal error: # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/htop && make install clean ===> Installing for htop-1.0.1 ===> htop-1.0.1 ...
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DDoS - How to detect an attacker IP address [duplicate]

Someone keep attacking my server, but unfortunately I've switched my OS to the FreeBSD, as I've earlier used Debian 5.0 Lenny, and none of netstat or tcpdump commands I used on Debian, works on ...
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What may cause apache slowing down

I have a server setup with FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE running Apache/2.2.22. Since this morning it became very slow. Connections are quickly established, but the response is very slow. This is valid even for ...
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PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library

I have tried to run my script via cron, but it was not working... */1 * * * * /usr/local/bin/php -f /usr/local/www/maintain.php > /usr/local/www/php.log So I decided to try to run this script ...
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FreeNAS box has slow network transmit speeds

I'm seeing some really odd issues with network speeds on my FreeNas 8.0.3 box. Receiving traffic is fine, but sending traffic slows down to 10-50kb/s, and stalls a lot. Receiving: Transmitting: ...
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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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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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puppet: freebsd - installing package error

I have this module: class bash { package { "shells/bash": ensure => "installed", } } After the execution, I found this in the puppet dashboard: change from absent to present failed:...
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How can I connect to MySQL remotely and still keep it safe?

As you know, keeping the MySQL port 3306 open is unsafe. However, I would like to use a good MySQL administration program instead of phpMyAdmin, which requires 3306 port to be open. Of course I can ...
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HP NC107i (BCM5723) on freebsd 9

We've purchased 3 hp proliant dl120 servers. They come with 2 integrated network adapters - HP NC107i PCIe Gigabit Server Adapter which is based on BCM5723. After Freebsd 9 installation I've ...
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How to build snappy-java under FreeBSD 8.1? (build error)

I'm trying to build snappy-java for FreeBSD 8.1 to use it with cassandra (can't enable columns compression without it). Trying to build it from source and getting an error: $ hg clone https://...
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MikroTik as PPPoE server

I'm working at ISP and we provide internet over PPPoE. Our servers are running on FreeBSD and we are considering some improvement to enhance the administration of the server. We've thought of moving ...
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setting up svn on a FreeBSD server with SSH access

I'm not too familiar with this, and not a network administrator in general, but I am attempting to set up multiuser access to an svn repository on a local server. So far I have installed subversion ...
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FreeBSD ixgbe driver not working

I recently got a brand new Dell PowerEdge R610 server, I installed VMWare ESXi 5.0 on it and attempted to install FreeBSD as guest OS for squid caching. The server has a PCI-E Intel X520-T2 10Gig ...
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qmail not working

I recently installed qmail in one of my freebsd machines. But whenever I telnet to its port 25 from the same machine or from remote machine, i get instantly disconnected. Trying 127.0.0.1 Connected ...
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How do I get internal hosts to use a VPN connection set up on a FreeBSD router?

Question in short: How do I get traffic from a host on an internal network, using NAT behind a router, to use a VPN connection set up on the router? I have a FreeBSD 9 router with 4 network ...
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Installing FreeBSD remotely using Ubuntu LiveCD

I realised this is a very specific question, but I am wondering if there is a way to install FreeBSD on a machine using only SSH access to a Ubuntu LiveCD on the server?
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"route add default -iface em1" in rc.conf on FreeBSD

I have two NICs on my FreeBSD server, which are set up like this in rc.conf: ifconfig_em0="10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0" # LAN NIC ifconfig_em1="DHCP" #...
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Multicast routing across two subnets with FreeBSD 9 (Bonjour between subnets)?

I have a FreeBSD 9 router (a Soekris net6501) connected to the internet via a dsl modem (bridged), doing NAT for two internal subnets, 10.0.1.0/24 (LAN) and 10.0.2.0/24 (wifi net). There are routes ...
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Building NanoBSD inside a jail

I'm trying to setup a jail to enable building a NanoBSD image. It's actually a jail on top of a NanoBSD install. The problem I have is that I'm unable to mount the md device in order to do the 'build ...
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zfs and future expandability

I want to build a server using freebsd 9 and zfs. I have some old hardware (intel quad core with 8 gb ram) lying around, and I am willing to purchase two or three 1 TB disks. I also have a dlink RAID ...
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Moving live files on a unix like system

On a recent job posting for a general Unix admin at a datacenter, a listed requirement was to move live files in a data center setting. What does this mean and how can one move live files?
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Remote Logging with syslog

I have two machines running FreeBSD, bsdclient and bsdserver. I am trying to setup remote logging such that bsdclient sends all the logs to bsdserver. My syslog.conf on bsdclient goes like this *.* ...
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FreeBSD netstat -di, Idrop vs Drop and drop count from NIC or kernel?

On FreeBSD what's the difference between Drop and Idrop in the netstat output? $ netstat -di Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Idrop Opkts Oerrs Coll Drop bge0* 1500 &...
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Samba authentication when AD is down?

I have succesfully added my Freebsd 9 to a Windows server 2008 R2 AD Domain. Using samba 3.6. The problem is that i want to be able to connect to the shares when the AD server is down. Because the ...
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Freebsd ssh key doesn't work

I have a problem with ssh key on freebsd vps. I generated a key and it works on debian. i usually just copy paste it to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and it starting to work. In freebsd it doesn't. I tried ...
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ZFS RaidZ Import Failure when migrating

So my the USB drive attached to my FreeNas 7 system, went bad so I used the situation as an opportunity to upgrade to FreeNas 8. The problem is now I'm having trouble getting my ZFS to spin up: [...
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Freebsd 9 on Z68 chipset support

Does Freebsd 9 support Z68 chipset like in Intel DZ68BC motherboard? Will I have any "unrecognized device" issues ? What about Freebsd 8? What's the best way to find it out ?
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Recommendations on ZFS on FreeBSD as a NAS box?

Please note that the answers on this page are from 2009, and should not be relied on as gospel. If you have a specific question about zfs then please click the Ask a Question button and ask a specific ...
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FreeBSD running in Hyper-V

I'd like to install FreeBSD 8.0 in a Hyper-V VM but I get a kernel panic whenever I try to boot the install ISO. I've tried both i386 and amd64; with and without APIC enabled; with and without ...
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bandwidth monitoring issue on PfSense router

I have a PfSense router installed , where it has 4 interfaces. one of them is WAN and rest 3 are LAN networks, which have different subnets and IP address ranges. wan interface name = em0 lan ...
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MongoDB isn't installing on FreeBSD 8.2 by any way

Firstly I've tried to perform step by step building of MongoDB on my vps with FreeBSD 8.2 on it. I've faced problem with the last step of building it: vm3578# scons . scons: Reading SConscript files ....
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Incoming SSH stopped working on FreeBSD 7.2

Somehow sshd stopped running and no amount of start, restart or onestart will make it go again. I normally ssh into it from a dual-boot laptop computer that shows up on the network as gabi-buntu when ...
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Odd rsync issue - duplicating and uncompressing files

I have two servers: our production web server(freebsd) and a backup server(centos). The production server does mysql database dumps every 3 hours and compresses the dump file using bzip2. So we have a ...
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Download FreeBSD print system

Where can I get to download FreeBSD print system? I have webmin installed on mac os x 10.6.4 and when i want to setup printer administration i get this error The spool directory /var/spool/lpd does ...
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Cloud Providers that support FreeBSD? [closed]

NOTE: Even though I've accepted an answer for this, if you have a better one, please put it below. Thanks! I'm looking for recommendations from the wise and all-knowing Server Fault community on ...
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How to share USB drive via NFS on FreeBSD

I'm trying to share USB hard drive with msdosfs connected like this: mount_msdosfs -o large /dev/da1s1 /mnt/usb I can see mounted drive: /dev/da1s1 on /mnt/usb (msdosfs, local) but when I'm ...
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FreeBSD 9.0 supports only IPv6. What this practically means?

I have very scarce knowledge of IPv6 but I'm considering installing FreeBSD on an RDC device which acts as a server to my home network running services. The last release states that one of the changes ...
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Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin not working with mod_rewrite + mod_jk

My first question on here on SF so please forgive me if I manage to bork the post. :) Anyways, I'm using mod_rewrite on one of my machines with a simple rule that redirects to a webapp on another ...
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Strange GD error when working on PNG images from PHP on FreeBSD

I have a problem with my FreeBSD 7.1 server. PHP's GD implementation no longer works on PNG images. Whenever the system tries to work with PNG images, I get these three error messages: [Sat Jul 18 21:...
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httpready problem on Apache httpd restart on FreeBSD?

I run Apache HTTPD 2.2 on my FreeBSD 7.2 webserver. I have enabled the httpready and dataready in my /boot/loader.conf, like this: accf_http_load="YES" accf_data_load="YES" That works great when the ...
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snmptrapd traphandle to php script

I have to receive snmptraps in php script, so what i've done is: snmptrapd.conf traphandle 1.3.6.1.4.1.3.1.1 /usr/home/user/trap/l.php l.php #!/usr/local/bin/php <?php $flow = fopen("php://...
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Make a file accesible by PHP but not from the outside

My host gives me two folders for my use, a /home/public/ which is where the pages go, and /home/private/, which is for my personal use. I would like for PHP to create a file that's readable by me from ...
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"zpool replace" hangs and locks up the pool

Given my four disk RAIDZ1, one disk has become physically noisy, not producing errors yet, but not sounding healthy either. So I've chosen to pre-emptively replace it. I have done: zpool offline ...
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FreeBSD: periodic(8) is too noisy. How can I control the noise level?

FreeBSD & MacOSX ship with the the periodic(8) utility, which is a neatly organized set of utilities to periodically run system functions like ZFS filesystem checks, security checks, checking for ...
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How to find a file that contains the specified string in FreeBSD?

I'm searching for the way to find a file that contains specified string text. It should be fast as possible but its not that important. I was reading the manual, and I've build something like that: ...
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ZFS and non Sun OS's

Is there any other Unix like distros that can read and write to ZFS filesystems. I know its currently unstable in FreeBSD :( The reason I am asking is I love ZFS but don't get on so well with Solaris.

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