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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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Offline uncorrectable sectors in SSDs being used for ZFS L2ARC?

I have two enterprise-grade SSDs that I've been using for L2ARC in an OpenZFS pool for a few years. Workflow during this time has been fairly heavy, with lots of reads and writes, serving up video to ...
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ZFS replace disks in freebsd, how and when

I have the following zpool configuration: zpool status NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM data ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz2-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 da1 ...
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Freebsd shutdown privileges

I need to create a user and deny them permission to turn off the machine. DO SOMEONE KNOW HOW TO CHANGE THE PERMISSIONS OF A NORMAL USER TO NOT ALLOW ME TO TURN OFF?
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How do I configure ZFS to panic on da (SCSI) disk failure?

Situation: two redundant FreeBSD machines using CARP to share a primary IP, running a frontend proxy (E.G. HAproxy or nginx) Primary machine experiences a loss of SCSI disk (E.G. disk failure, SAN ...
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I can not compile samba

I can not compile samba,I make the command "./configure" and it returns this error "Samba AD DC and --enable-selftest requires lmdb 0.9.16 or later"
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DKIM - how to account for different hostnames for the mail host (sendmail, FreeBSD 10.3)

I'm trying to use DKIM on a FreeBSD 10.3 box using "stock" sendmail. I followed this tutorial: https://www.dan.me.uk/blog/2016/06/01/add-dkim-signing-to-freebsd-servers and now DKIM "works" -- ...
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Routing troubles on secondary FIB/routing table on FreeBSD

I have a need for a secondary routing table on this machine. I've got everything mostly set up, but I'm having an issue getting the default route working on the secondary fib. In most information I ...
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How can I clear freebsd caсhe

I used scp to copy a file from another system. After copy has finished I want to clear the cache. My os is FreeBS 9.2. Can I do this and how should I do this? Thanks
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Mount a partition from a VM disk ZFS snapshot in FreeNAS

I have a KVM image running on a Zvol in linux that is a block device containing an ext4 partition. It is snapshotted regularly and pushed to a FreeNAS box for backup. If I ever need to recover a ...
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FreeBSD networking setup for multiple jails - interface clones or aliases

While setting up multiple jails on a FreeBSD machine, I also (naturally) need to set up the networking for each jail. It seems to me there are two ways of achieving the same goal setting up multiple ...
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How to reinstall boot loader on FreeBSD?

I'm planning to use rsync to clone an entire FreeBSD server to another machine, overwriting the files of the existing old FreeBSD OS (minus /etc/hostid and a few others) But that would break the boot ...
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NFS share group permission not respected

I have a linux client and freebsd nfs server (NAS4free actually) NFS share is mounted by fstab this way: server:/mnt/disk/ZHomeData on /data type nfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,vers=3,rsize=32768,wsize=...
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Unable to connect postfix to amavisd in FreeBSD-11 jail

Attempting to send a message through Postfix on a jailed instance of FreeBSD-11 results in the following error when amavisd is configured: /usr/local/sbin/amavisd[47180]: (!)DENIED ACCESS from IP 127....
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swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer

I am using ZFS to receive some datasets around 60GB: bzip2 -c -d mail.bz2 | zfs receive -F tank/jails/mail Almost before finishing I start to get this error multiple times: swap_pager: indefinite ...
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iocage jail with different subnet cannot ping network

I have a FreeBSD 11.1 iocage jail on a different subnet than the host and I want it to reach other hosts on the same subnet as the host. Host IP: 192.168.0.10 (interface re0) Default GW: 192.168.0.1 ...
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Stuck at setting up Postfix correctly with my own list of domains [closed]

I'm setting up Postfix + PostgreSql on FreeBsd to host my email server. I'm about 50% done. I'm confused with several *.cf files and can't figure out which I should use for this. I own several ...
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Unable to start OpenVpn on FreeBsd 11, it asks for --dev which I've already specified

My /etc/rc.conf in FreeBsd 11: hostname="abcd" sshd_enable="YES" static_routes="linklocal" ifconfig_vtnet0="DHCP" ifconfig_vtnet0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv" ipv6_activate_all_interfaces="...
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migrate stopped mariadb server to new one

Hi I'm running a freenas system where I have two jails. One jail is broken in a way that I cannot start the mariadb server anymore due to userland and kernel version mismatch. So I created a new jail ...
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Plan for hot replacing damaged RAID-1 drive in freebsd 9.0

i have System FreeBSD 9.0 with RAID configuration # mfiutil show config mfi0 Configuration: 2 arrays, 2 volumes, 0 spares array 0 of 2 drives: drive 4 ( 558G) ONLINE <SEAGATE ...
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Move Let's Encrypt from Ubuntu+Nginx to FreeBSD+Nginx

I have been running Let's Encrypt's certbot utility with NGINX on Ubuntu Server 17.10 for a while now, and while it has been working well, I prefer FreeBSD. Until recently (Feb 2018), the nginx plugin ...
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problems getting openvpn to start: segmentation fault 11

I am having some trouble getting open vpn to start on FreeBSD I am doing this in a Freenas Jail and trying to follow the guide at https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/how-to-install-openvpn-...
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carp single wan address

I try to put in place 2 freebsd routers with carp interfaces. since I have only one wan address, lets say : 1.2.3.4 I'd like to use private range ips to do carp jobs : 10.0.0.1(router1) alias (1.2.3....
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set umask 000 on Windows?

Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question, but don't have a lot of experience with NFS and Windows together. I have a user on a Win10 ENT box, connected up to a FreeBSD server. And with the Macs, when ...
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CPU Total is wrong displayed for a process in monit

I am using Monit, and I am monitoring a few processes. I have 12 vCPUS, and system is around 20% usage. Yet M/Monit shows some processes to go up to 100%. Well they actually do but just a single CPU. ...
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Access denied for all users after MariaDb upgrade

I discovered this morning that MariaDb had been removed from my server in the process of upgrading from FreeBSD 10.3 to 11.1. After getting the database engine reinstalled, and resolving the problems ...
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Sendmail process crashes as soon as STARTTLS is received

I just upgraded my server from FreeBSD 10.3 to 11.1. It's now running Sendmail 8.15.2 and OpenSSL 1.0.2k-freebsd 26 Jan 2017. Since the upgrade, sending mail to my server is failing. I cranked up ...
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How can I determine what permissions my user is missing for receiving a ZFS dataset?

I have a FreeNAS (11.1-U1) and a FreeBSD (11.1-RELEASE-p6) machine. On the FreeNAS I'd like to zfs receive recursive snapshots as a non-root user with delegated privileges. This appears to work well ...
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How to automatically restart a process after a crash or reboot in FreeBsd 11?

What's the idiomatic way? I'd prefer the most standard and yet simple way with fewer additional dependencies. Something like an alternative to systemd of Linux.
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need to reset dirty bit on usb flash memory stick

We have a usb memory stick that FreeBSD-11 will not mount because its file system is not clean. It is not clean because it was removed from an extension cable while it was mounted on a FreeBSD-11 ...
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How to fix inode 2 on a FreeBSD ufs filesystem

My FreeBSD 11.1 system keeps panic-ing with this: kernel: panic: ufs_dirbad: /mnt: bad dir ino 2 at offset 0: mangled entry For such an error most forums suggest an older article (http://phaq....
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FreeBSD: Directory called ^C (really!) - how to remove?

I made a typo: $ history 169 9:34 la /usr/local/etc/ 170 9:35 sudo mkdir ^C 171 9:36 sudo mkdir /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d Now I have a file that is called ^C (ctrl+C)!! When I use ls I just ...
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sshd matching user config not working

On server i have only ssh auth, but for one user I need to add a specific folder and password based auth. So I created a user sudo adduser myuser then in /etc/ssh/sshd_config file I added: Match ...
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Does using jails in FreeBSD count as having a switch?

My network administrators don't like when I plug switch into the building network to fan-out to multiple computers. They want single link drop per physical NIC. Previously the blocked those MACs on ...
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How to enable users to manage certain groups on file server

Let's assume we are in a business environment and we want to configure a *nix/*BSD file server. The business does work for several customers, thus the folder structure has the clients' names on the ...
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php-fpm (PHP-7.1) cannot serve content to nginx on FreeBSD

I am trying to install nginx and php-fpm following this guide on a FreeBSD 11.1 system on a raspberrypi-B+. Everything behaves as described in the guide up to point 14, which involves opening a php ...
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doas on FreeBSD does not respect 5 minute timeout

I've setup doas to run on FreeBSD 11.1 as per these instructions and added the following line to my doas.conf: permit persist :wheel I've noticed that I need to insert my password every time I run ...
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What to set uwsgi uid and gid to?

I'm trying to have nginx connect to a uwsgi socket on FreeBSD. I've set the socket to 666 but whenever I issue a request in my browser I can see the following in my nginx logs: 2017/12/12 11:34:04 [...
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FreeBSD gateway between two private networks - NAT required?

I have two networks: 10.0.0.0/24 and 10.1.1.1/24. Default gateway to the Internet is 10.1.1.1 and my gateway system gets assigned 10.1.1.20 on the external interface and has 10.0.0.1 on the internal ...
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FreeBSD unecpected shutdown/power off

My digital ocean droplet have some unecpected shutdowns in the last days. The droplet ist off and i have to power it on again. If the system requested a power down then a log entry should exist. But ...
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How can I adjust the name of a process I run?

I have a rack/ruby application on a server. I run it as follows: nohup rackup -o 0.0.0.0 -p 1234 & In the output of "top" command it appears as simply "ruby" PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE ...
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3-drive RAID-1 on pfSense box

I have a pfSense box with a 2-drive RAID-1 using gmirror. Recently, a drive failed, and I replaced the drive, and the RAID-1 is now back to normal. But this incident also made me interested in ...
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Freebsd ssh gives no prompt

I'm trying to connect to a FreeBsd machine via ssh, but get no prompt in a client. I have changed these options in sshd_config: Port 253 PermitRootLogin no PasswordAuthentication yes It is possible ...
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Allowing Incoming Traffic over IPv6 with PF on FreeBSD

This is my current pf.conf on FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE. It allows incoming connections from OpenVPN/UDP and SSH, as well as allows everything on the private/vpn networks (vtnet1 and tun0 respectively). ...
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Samba, FreeBSD, ZFS: Group permissions are ignored

I am running Samba 4.6 on FreeBSD 11 with ZFS. Each user belongs to the fileserver group. In addition, there are additional groups for each department, such as sales group. And here comes my problem....
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FreeBSD equivalent for Linux configuration of OpenVPN

I'm following a tutorial (https://snikt.net/blog/2016/12/01/openvpn-over-https/) regarding OpenVPN via SSL on Linux machines. At one point it states: We modify /etc/default/openvpn to automatically ...
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How to fix zpool detach hanging the entire pool?

When trying to replace a disk in a zpool on a FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE-p20 system yesterday, the zfs filesystems became unresponsive after issuing the zpool detach srv gpt/d0 command. The server acts as ...
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check if two ZFS filesystems are identical

I would like to verify that two ZFS filesystems (in this case on different pools) are identical. Is there a best practice way to do this?
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BTX halted error on FreeBSD

I understand there are a few threads about this out there but my issue seems particular. Recently my boot disk, an SSD, failed and I have just rebuilt it. Given the opportunity, I thought I might go ...
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Bhyve + IPv6 can't ping from guest to host until host ping guest

Both host/guest are using FreeBSD 11.1, I created the VM using vm-byhbe. This is host configuration in /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_igb0_ipv6="inet6 2a01:4f8:150:84ec::1 prefixlen 64" ...
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Configure Munin to monitor multiple instances on one node

I need to configure Munin to monitor multiple instances of a server daemon that run on a single host. I've tried creating a different named symlink for each instance, but unless I also pass an env ...
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