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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ifconfig fails because usb ethernet adapter is not ready yet on FreeBSD
I have an ethernet adapter connected via USB-C and its configuration in my /etc/rc.conf.
On system startup the configuration fails because the usb stack is loaded after the configuration is initiated ...
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Equivalent ipfw config for firewalld
On a system managed by firewalld it is possible to redirect incoming traffic on 443 to 8443 so the process listening doesn't have to run as root to bind to 443 which requires root.
firewall-cmd --add-...
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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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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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Scheduling a script execution with cron in a jail on FreeNas
I have a jail on my FreeNAS server containing Plex, and I have at the root of this jail a script called PMS_Updater.sh which checks if a new version of Plex is available and install it if it is the ...
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How to configure file permissions for written files on my FreeBSD NFS server?
TLDR: When I copy a file from my macOS client to the FreeBSD NFS server, it's written with 777 permission and owned by 501:staff.
In my example below, I want "license.properties" to be owned ...
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What does zfs receive -F do?
When I read man zfs for zfs receive I see
-F Force a rollback of the file system to the most recent snap-
shot before performing the receive operation. If receiving an
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How to reliably & portably serialize binary information into POSIX shell
Problem context
I am trying to implement a job orchestrator whose agent/worker programs, connect to machines via an SSH session/shell. I would like to transfer (potentially binary) files to these ...
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How to block MAC address in pf firewall
I want to block particular MAC address on PF firewall. I know PF firewall works on the Layer 3 i.e it operates on the IP addresses rather than MAC address.But is there any way to block the MAC address ...
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How to Install (nic) drivers on TrueNAS
How can one update a network card driver on TrueNAS 12.0?
My nic is on the motherboard directly it's a Intel Motherboard DH55HC, the NIC is 82578DC gigabit enabled.
I've found the driver directly at ...
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Bare metal or virtualize?
I am looking to upgrade servers and am trying to figure out a good plan.
We currently have 4 servers:
OpenBSD firewall/VPN server
FreeNAS backup servers (local) that receives ZFS snapshots
FreeNAS ...
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Can't get Wireguard running on Freebsd to ping
I have a Freebsd installation running VirtualBox on my local LAN behind NAT trying to connect out to a Scaleway VPS running Ubuntu 20.04.
Using Debian 10 the VPN connects just find and I can ping all ...
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How to configure FreeBSD to reject configuration options in the ports tree that have graphical dependencies?
I have a couple of personal-use servers on which I would like to prevent the unnecessary installation of X11, Wayland, or any other unnecessary GUI dependencies. Is there a way to configure my ...
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Exim4 Configuration of Maildir Delivery
Documentation online is rather sparse on how to go about configuring Exim4 to use the Maildir delivery method instead of the default mbox format. This is on a FreeBSD system with Exim4 compiled from ...
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"service my_service stop" is deemed an error whenever a service is in the "stopped" condition already. How to move on despite an error?
I have a bunch of bash commands that are run via ssh:
#!/bin/bash
CMD="
set -e
cmd1
cmd2
# ........
service my_service stop
# .........
# some commands here......
# .........
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freebsd packet filter match last digit of IP address
On my freebsd system I want to use port forwarding to distribute incoming traffic, based on the last digit of the source IP.
The following works on linux with iptables:
iptables -t nat -A ...
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PXE Boot FreeBSD ISO from a Linux PXE server
I have a working PXE boot server running on CentOS 5.5 that works perfectly for any flavor of Linux. I'm trying to add FreeBSD to the install options as a ISO memdisk, but so far nothing is working ...
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rsync broken pipe between two servers on different networks
I have two FreeBSD servers, both on different networks, with a firewall in between. I have no control over the firewall.
Server 1:
IP: 10.1.0.2
GW (firewall): 10.1.0.1
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IP: ...
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USB Drive at the same location on FreeBSD
I have a number of USB drives that are attached to a FreeNAS server. These are then used as offline backup targets. One problem is that the order that the drives are plugged into matters.
On a Linux ...
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FreeBSD server - certified compatible hardware? [closed]
I am looking for recommendations for hardware that is "certified" with FreeBSD (8+)
I suspect I am looking for a small server manufacturer that will build me a server that "just works".
I have read ...
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Why would I configure the /etc/networks file? [closed]
I'm playing with a FreeBSD VM. I'm more accustomed to Linux, which doesn't need /etc/networks as far as I'm aware.
Nik Clayton's FreeBSD Network Administrators Guide says this about the /etc/networks ...
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Backing up a MySQL database via ZFS snapshots
I've found a number of sites talking about doing exactly this, but I'm missing a few important details. The general steps are
Run FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK
Take the ZFS snapshot
Run UNLOCK TABLES
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Cyrus-sasl config in Postfix in FreeBSD without dovecot
Good Afternoon, I have installed a Freebsd 12.1 with postfix and when trying to start see this in /var/log/maillog
warning: SASL: Connect to /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf failed: No such file or ...
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Cannot set MTU for Network interface in FreeNAS-11.3-U3.2 Web Interface
I'm trying to set the MTU value for my network interface in FreeNAS-11.3-U3.2 to 9000.
However, when I select the interface to EDIT in the WebUI, enter 9000 for the MTU field, then click "APPLY&...
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Execute a Program On Remote And Send Back Resulting File
we have a powerful server to compile any code on it. For reasons, I am generally not allowed to copy my files to the server, and when I can, I can only use /temp which will be deleted after a reboot. ...
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Allowing access to UDP range port in ipfw/FreeBSD
I have prepared the following configuration:
# cat /etc/firewall.conf
add 1000 count udp from any to me 10000
add 1001 count udp from any to me 10001
add 1002 count udp from any to me 10002
add ...
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Should a unified bare metal application suite outperform multiple VMs on the same hardware?
Assuming one single-socket Xeon D server, 8 cores, 16 threads, two 10G SFP+ interfaces, 64 GB of RAM, two SSDs...
An application bundle that includes a nginx, MariaDB, some app logic, and maybe Redis. ...
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FreeBSD permissions issue
I am slowly learning FreeBSD through a home server build and have run into a permissions issue that I can't seem to resolve despite a great deal of searching.
As my admin user "sadmin", when ...
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Releasing zfs arc memory on FreeBSD
I have a machine running FreeBSD that is subject to a variety of workloads, rabging from Disk intensive to memory intensive.
If large amounts of ZFS data are accessed, then the Wired Memory usage can ...
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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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Unresponsive FreeBSD kldload process locks up whole system
Newly installed FreeBSD 12.1 and 11.4 immediately freezes when loading oce by running kldload if_oce. The whole system becomes locked up at this time. CTRL+c and CTRL+z don't work.
What is the ...
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Shrink FreeBSD root partition
I currently have a pfSense 2.3.2-RELEASE which was installed with too little RAM and, now I realized that the swap partition is too small (8GB) and I want to expand it. The problem is there's no free ...
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Track Bandwidth on shared interface
On our servers running FreeBSD, we've allocated multiple public ip addresses to host different clients on single eth0 interface. The purpose of allocating separate ip to each client is to distinguish ...
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FreeBSD jail routing issue
I have the following setup with FreeBSD jails and VNET which is supposed to grow into a DNS core net lab setup. The jailhost and the jails are running FreeBSD 12.1. The jails are connected by epair ...
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How to print list of users and groups on FreeBSD?
How to print list of users and groups on FreeBSD?
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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
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portsnap fetch update
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After upgrade free-bsd 11.1->12.0->12.1 libraries are missing
How can I restore these?
pkg misses a library (libarchive.so.6) so that way is closed
BTW the missing libs still show up in locate (/usr/lib)
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postfix in a jail how to notify blacklistd running in main host
I have postfix compiled with blacklistd support running in a jail.
On the main host (FreeBSD 12.1) blascklistd is running with this config:
# Blacklist rule
# adr/mask:port type proto owner ...
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How to configure FreeNAS for a WireGuard VPN?
I have a FreeNAS 11.3 system and followed iXsystems' instructions on setting up WireGuard. With a simple wg0.conf I'm now able to connect successfully. I'd like to be able to use this setup as a ...
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How to change rc.d startup order in FreeBSD?
My question exactly same as this question except I want to change services in FreeBSD.
I made some research and I found rcorder command which gives full order of services with below paramaters.
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Verify authenticity of SSH host on Digital Ocean droplet (FreeBSD)
When first connecting via SSH with keys to a newly minted Digital Ocean droplet VM running FreeBSD (per this tutorial), we get a message about “The authenticity of host blah-blah can’t be established”....
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ZFS on top of Hardware Mirroring, or just mirror in ZFS?
I have an IBM x346 with dual 3.2Ghz Xeons and 2x36GB 15k SCSI disks. I'm running an entirely ZFS-based install of FreeBSD 8.1.
I can configure the bios to mirror the two disks, and then put ZFS on ...
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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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RAID-Z Failure Notification
I have a FreeBSD file server with a 10TB array in RAID-Z (so 8TB usable with 2TB redundancy). I am trying to figure out how to get the system to notify me, preferably by email, if one of the drives ...
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How to flush DNS resolver cache on Linux (and FreeBSD)
I am admin for several Linux and FreeBSD servers and here is a problem I have:
The servers run a tool that does a lot of DNS queries every minute for the entire network. When it does a query, the ...
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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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FreeBSD documentation: syslogd_enable and syslogd_flags in /etc/rc.conf?
I am having problems understanding FreeBSD's documentation on "Configuring System Logging":
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-syslog.html
The documentation: "By default, syslogd is ...
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Static files getting requested with internal IP address prefix instead of domain-name prefix
I have a smoothly running FreeBSD box with a couple of jails running their own servers.
Nginx runs in its own jail and the main machine uses pf to redirect all http/s requests to Nginx. Nginx ...
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LACP doesn't work on FreeBSD VM without promiscuous mode
I'm running two identical FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE VMs on VirtualBox. Each VM has 2 network interfaces, em0 and em1, set to Internal network mode. em0 interfaces are set to intnet0 network and em1 are to ...
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Copying one 16TB folder onto several consecutive 8TB drives on a standalone Freebsd
I have a very old server that stores 16Tb of data. It is running FreeNAS (freebsd). Network cards are physically damaged and the server is on its last breath.
I have 2 8TB NTFS external hard drives. ...