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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Redis connection issue
We are currently experiencing a lot of Redis errors with the message
Unable to connect: read error on connection, trying next server
We run Redis on FreeBSD using PHP Redis and we have a hard time ...
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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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How do I disable NFSv3/v2 connections to a FreeBSD NFSv4 server?
I am using a Kubuntu 11.10 client with a FreeBSD 9.0 server.
The server has the following lines in /etc/rc.conf
nfs_server_enable="YES"
nfsv4_server_enable="YES"
nfsuserd_enable="YES"
and the ...
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pfSense Internal Traffic Policy Based Routing
What is the current and correct way to apply policy based routing to pfSense internal traffic (originating from the firewall itself)? Creating a floating rule with the WAN interfaces selected, ...
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Hidden features of FreeBSD?
For completeness, similar to Hidden Features of Linux and Hidden Features of Solaris/OpenSolaris, what are the hidden features of FreeBSD?
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ZFS on OpenSolaris or FreeBSD
I have no real experience with ZFS, and very limited experience with Solaris & FreeBSD. After reading numerous articles about ZFS, I'm pretty convinced ZFS is something I want to use for my home ...
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Web site kills hard disk I/O, how to prevent?
The situation: I have a server, on which we have 2-3 projects. Starting not long ago, the server started hanging up (We could not connect to it by ssh, and the connected clients had to wait 20 minutes ...
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FreeBSD rc.d script doesn't start as a daemon
I have developed the following script at location /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bluesky
#!/bin/sh
# PROVIDE: bluesky
# REQUIRE: mysql sshd
# BEFORE:
# KEYWORD:
. /etc/rc.subr
name="bluesky"
rcvar=...
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What is the ZFS ACL limit?
Does anyone know how many user ACL's ZFS can handle?
With other words: for how many users can I set ACL's like this one for the same directory?
setfacl -m user:test1:rwxpDdaARWcCos:fd----:allow /mnt/...
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booting FreeBSD 9 from USB stick: boot error
I am trying to boot FreeBSD 9 from a USB stick that I created following the official guidelines:
dd if=FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=64k
Booting fails with a simple 'boot ...
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Is Apache stalled? /server-status shows over 240 requests like "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" 200 - "-" "Apache (internal dummy connection)"
Some details:
Webserver: Apache/2.2.13 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.8e
OS: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE
This is a FreeBSD Jail.
I believe I use the Apache 'prefork' MPM (I run the default for FreeBSD)...
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How can I determine what RAIDZ level my volume is using?
I am looking at a ZFS volume on FreeBSD system, and I have no idea what RAIDZ level it is configured at. How can I find out using the ZFS command line or other?
I tried "zpool status" already, and ...
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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 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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Check ChangeLog of FreeBSD port before upgrading
Is there an easy way to check a ChangeLog of a FreeBSD port before you upgrade? For instance, I'd like to check what upgrades are mandatory before I do portmaster -ad. It would be nice to have ...
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Creating you own FreeBSD ami in EC2
I'm running XVM on my laptop. XVM has got FreeBSD installed with all the required ports to run APACHE/PHP.
I want this .vdi file to be imported into an EC2 instance.
Is it possible to import a ...
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Pfsense mbuf full, what to do?
I noticed today that the MBUF usage has hit its limit.
Apparently the site I'm running under pfsense is having some troubles too, I'd like to know if it would be safe to just
sysctl kern.ipc....
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Why does ifconfig reset the default gateway route?
In FreeBSD, an ifconfig call seems to delete the default gateway route, even when given the same IP-address (e.g. when updating the netmask only). Is it a bug or a feature?
As fas as I remember Linux ...
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Failed to enable the 'dataready' Accept Filter
I'm not sure why, but I'm getting this warning when I start my apache...
su-3.2# /usr/local/apache2/bin/apachectl start
[Wed Sep 23 13:40:42 2009] [warn] (2)No such file or directory: Failed to ...
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ZFS Reporting (on FreeBSD and Linux via ZoL)
As a longtime mdadm user is was just experiencing a disk error and remembered that I configured a Auto Mail reporting for mdadm on disk errors.
Therefore i just had to insert my Mail address inside /...
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How to check pf's queues?
I use FreeBSD and working with pf+ALTQ now.
Something doesn't work and I need a tool to view what requests are marked and moved to a queue "queue_name"
Need something like pftop but showing queues. ...
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Using bash shell when logging into FreeBSD ssh
I'm searching a way to be sure my commands are executed by bash on some FreeBSD 11 machines that use csh as default shell.
The following is my code that works on Linux CentOS / Debian / MacOS X / ...
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where does uname get version number in FreeBSD RELEASE?
I installed FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE, after binary upgrading to 9.2-RELEASE using freebsd-update, all files I checked are correctly in 9.2-RELEASE-p4. For example:
the kernel contains the new version:
# ...
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SSHing with the nobody user
I am on FreeBSD. Essentially, I am trying to have a php script (run by apache) ssh into another machine. I am running into the problem that nobody does not have a .ssh configuration file and so am ...
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Mounting NFSv4 share from Debian Linux 6 to Freebsd 9-RC3 "server requires stronger authentication"
I've run into a strange problem while trying to mount from FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 to a Debian Linux box.
The command I'm using is:
sudo mount -v gorkon:/dustbin /tmp/test
This returns the following ...
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Portable firewall rules for Linux and Free/Net/Open/DragonFlyBSD
I need apply the same rules (lists of IPs with allow and drop rules) in firewalls of Linux and *BSD. Do you know some application (CLI) for to convert a list of rules in the specific format of each ...
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How can I adjust subversion repository file permissions automatically for use w. Apache/DAV?
I've set-up a subversion server accessible with Apache/DAV and after screwing up the repositories file permissions a couple of days ago I started wondering if there's a better way to do this than the ...
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Block Google requests to 16k using pf firewall
I'd like to block access to Google search using PF after the threshold of 17500 requests (connection established) in 24h, from a host running FreeBSD 9.
What I came up with, after reading pf-faq is ...
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freebsd-update from 8.3-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE: How to deal with dozens of diffs?
I am upgrading a FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE system to FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE using freebsd-update. This is my first time performing a major version upgrade in FreeBSD.
At one point in the process, freebsd-...
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What is the Microsoft iSCSI initiator target limit?
What is the Microsoft iSCSI initiator target limit ? I mean - how many disks from single iSCSI server can the initiator handle ? I have a FreeBSD 11.x kernel iSCSI target, and hundreds of disks ...
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How to tell if a FreeBSD host needs a reboot to activate the new kernel?
"uname" will tell me the version of the running kernel. How do I know if this is different from the installed kernel (i.e. the one that will be loaded on the next reboot)?
Ideally I'd like to write a ...
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File is different when read from NFS server
So I have a backup server we've been using for some time, it's a FreeBSD server running zfs and serving it over NFS. The export is simple: /backup/vm -maproot=root -alldirs. If relevant, that was ...
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Router advertisement for ipv6 is advertising link-local adress
I have the following situation: I configured a FreeBSD 9.1 machine as the endpoint of a heartbeat SixXS tunnel on a gif0 interface. It works so far, and I can ping6 via IPv6.
I assigned to another ...
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Freebsd jail for an small company - checklist - what shouldn't forget
Looking for an checklist for an "small company freebsd/jail server".
Having pretty common starting point:
FreeBSD jail (remote/headless) for the company:
public web, email, ftp server, and
private (...
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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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Why won't FreeBSD reboot after a kernel crash?
Once in a while I get my server running FreeBSD 8.0 amd64 fail due to bad memory (incompatible with motherboard) modules. Each time it happens, the box stalls with the last note saying that it will ...
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Freebsd doesn't show command output correctly in Putty
I have just installed the latest stable version of FreeBSD to a computer and I have the following problem:
If, in Putty, I issue a command like ps uxa which gives long lines of output, they get ...
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ZFS shows pool state FAULTED, but all devices are ONLINE; how can I recover my data?
Our 100TB NAS based on FreeNAS 8 was unexpectedly powered off due to power failure. After turning it on back, 100TB zpool "projects" was unmounted with state "FAULTED".
I've tried zpool import -fFX, ...
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Does kern.hz still have any relevance in FreeBSD if "dynamic tick mode" is enabled?
I'm running a FreeBSD 9.0 setup as a virtual machine in a KVM setup. In previous versions of FreeBSD it was common to force the kern.hz setting to a lower value so that the virtual machine does not ...
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Supermicro + IPMI + FreeBSD: Kernel prints at 1-bps
I am running FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE. The machine is a Supermicro 5015M with a IPMI 2.0 daughterboard.
When I boot this host, the boot process proceeds fine. I see the BIOS, the RAID BIOS, the first and ...
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BIND 9.10 constantly killed on FreeBSD 10.0 with out of swap space
In one of our slave DNS servers BIND, version bind910-9.10.0P2_3, constantly get killed with the following message in /var/log/messages:
Jul 30 01:00:10 cinnabar kernel: pid 602 (named), uid 53, was ...
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FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE: No lagg0 after reboot
I have a server running Freebsd 10.0-RELEASE. I'm trying to create bridge interface with three participant interfaces, ix0, ix1 and lagg0. Lagg0 is virtual interface made from ix2 and ix3. My problem ...
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lacp, cicso 3550, 3560, help with configuration
Hey all this is a repost from a question I asked on the cisco forums but never got a useful reply.
Hey I'm trying to convert the FreeBSD servers at work to dual-gig lagg links from regular gigabit ...
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how to troubleshoot using rsyslog to output to a mysql database
Using FreeBSD 8.0 32 bit.
I have installed rsyslogd 5.5.5 with ommysql. (installed ports /usr/ports/sysutils/rsyslog55 and /usr/ports/sysutils/rsyslog55-mysql)
My rsyslog.conf file looks like:
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OpenVPN - client-to-client traffic working in one direction but not the other
I have the following VPN configuration:
+------------+ +------------+ +------------+
| outpost |----------------| kino |----------------| guchuko |
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Increasing FreeBSD threads
For network apps that create one thread per connection (like Pound), threadcount can become a bottleneck on the number of concurrent connections you can server.
I'm running FreeBSD 8 x64:
$ sysctl ...
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How to share a ZFS pool between Debian and FreeBSD?
I am having a setup of a dual boot PC running FreeBSD 12 and Debian 10. There is a three disk zraid in the system created by FreeBSD which I would like to use as a common storage pool for both ...
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How to mount a fuse-sshfs file system inside a FreeBSD-12.0p10 jail
I wish to mount a remote data source locally as a fuse file system. This is listed as supported by lsvfs:
lsvfs
Filesystem Num Refs Flags
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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 does not recognise that php was installed via ports
I have php 5.2.12 installed on FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE. It was installed from ports and I am trying to upgrade it to 5.3.2.
However for some reason my system is not recognising that php was installed via ...
