Questions tagged [netbsd]
NetBSD is an open-source Unix-like operating system. It is descended from Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) and one of the three most popular BSD operating systems.
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NetBSD 9.3 - NFS Permissions
I have installed NFS on a server in my lab, the server exports two disks, /disk1 and /disk2, i can successfully see the exported drives using:
showmount -e 192.168.1.245
I can also mount the drives:
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NetBSD 9.3 - NFS Setup /etc/exports
I am trying to setup NFS, i have run into some problems with regards to /etc/exports
When the content of my /etc/exports file is this:
/data1 192.168.1.213(rw)
I get this from showmount -e 192.168.1....
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NetBSD + openLDAP + SASL
I try to set up a connection to a openLDAP server running on NetBSD 10 via TLS and SASL. When I try ldapsreach -Y EXTERNAL
I get
ldapsearch: not compiled with SASL support
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ldd /usr/bin/ldapsearch
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How to configure NetBSD to accept vlan tagged packets
I am trying to set up a NetBSD install with a static ip that is on a vlan. The router is set up to only allow other vlans to access this vlan, but not the other way around. So the NetBSD install ...
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chroot not able to start service - not found. What is missing?
I would like to run a service inside a chroot in a NetBSD 9.1 amd64 system.
The service runs if invoked from OS.
The service in question is dendrite-monolith-server. I just copied the file for ease ...
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Non-standard IP address with dashes
I ran the who command on a shared NetBSD box, and this weird user IP came up:
<redacted> pts/33 May 13 02:13 (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX)
<redacted> pts/35 May 12 20:59 (202-172-110-147-)
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NetBSD web server performance
I am interesting in the difference web server performance between Linux, FreeBSD and NetBSD since I have heard that NetBSD and FreeBSD have the good TCP/IP implementation.
As the result, I setup VMs ...
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Poor IPsec over GRE performances
I have set up an IPsec over GRE connection with a remote host, both are NetBSD 6.1 based. The "client" is connected to the Internet through a 400Mbps fiber
connection. The "server" is located on a ...
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Archive & analyse network logs from NetBSD on another machine
I want to use the the new NetBSD's NPF firewall on a gateway that also has the legal obligation to log the traffic for 1 year.
To offload the gateway, I though to put the logging stuff (and IDS, quota ...
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How to log ssh client connection/command?
I would like to know how i could log SSH command lines a user is using on a server. For exemple, if the user Alex on my server is doing the following set of commands :
$ cd /tmp
$ touch myfile
$ ssh ...
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netbsd: How to read cdrom labels
I'm trying to create a NetBSD image to be used on my opennebula cloud, and for its contextualization I need to look for a disk labeled "CONTEXT", in fact it is a cdrom, usually on debian I would look ...
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Password Change With Command Line On NetBSD
How can I change root password with one line command on NetBSD?
On FreeBSD, it's something like this
echo "password" | pw mod user root -h 0 ;
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ssh tunnel refusing connections with "channel 2: open failed"
All of a sudden (read: without changing any parameters) my netbsd virtualmachine started acting oddly. The symptoms concern ssh tunneling.
From my laptop I launch:
$ ssh -L 7000:localhost:7000 user@...
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NetBSD syslog timestamp format
Syslog uses a timestamps like the following:
Sep 19 13:36:56
Is there a way to adjust the format (to add the year for example) without touching the source code? I am some what shocked to find that ...
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Which BSD best suited to run as VMware guest?
I want to deploy a VM to serve DNS and files (via NFS) to other *nix systems in my infrastructure.
Due to reasons beyond my control, I need a very light OS, so I naturally choose the *BSD family.
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ZFS or hardware RAID5
I got couple servers not long time ago with pre-installed hardware RAID5. I plan to use those servers as a dedicated NAS (with some VMs) on my LAN.
Currently I see these options:
disconnect HDDs ...
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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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What are some specific changes you make when hardening a new NetBSD install?
I know most of the general advice: "turn off unnecessary services", "no really, turn off unnecessary services", "least privilege", etc. I've also seen a few guides and/or tools, e.g., Bastille, for ...
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Best OS for a web server hosting dynamic content in Apache?
I have the freedom to pick an OS for a server, so I want to dedicate my time and effort in learning one platform. My main objective is to start with something that would be as efficient as possible ...
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Troubles installing KDE with pkgsrc
Im in school right now and I have taken two classes, Networking and Unix Development, that focus on C programming in Unix. Specifically we have been using NetBSD for our machines that we develop on (...
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OS router distribution with very low memory footprint?
I'm looking for an os router distribution with a very low memory footprint. I want to start it in a VM to join multiple VM subnets together in a lab environment.
Anything that requires that the host ...
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NetBSD 5.0 SMP Perfomance for Dom0/DomU
Since the release of NetBSD 5.0, it is said that the work of Doran Andrew concerning SMP in the NetBSD kernel has improve drastically performance for multi-threaded and/or multi-core processors.
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