FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX.
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Installing new Operating System such as FreeBSD with PXE boot?
I am no expert on this issue, I am maybe even using the wrong technical term. Anyway, my goal is this: to install a new OS from a server that has the installation documents etc so some settings in ...
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How to Install BASH in FreeBSD
I really find that using bash helps a lot, when you need to retrieve strings of text that you used previously.
But how can I install it on FreeBSD?
I have tried typing bash into the terminal, but ...
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FreeBSD and Windows show different times
In a dual-boot system, I usually use FreeBSD 9 but when I boot to Windows 7 my system time in both OS automatically change and show incorrect time. What's the problem and How can I solve it?
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Korn Shell: End, pgup, pgdown, and delete key not working
So basically my End, Pageup/Pagedown, and Delete key are not working in ksh93. I'm running FreeBSD by the way.
My arrow keys are working, and so is my home key.
Those keys work when I put this in my ...
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Is there a way to create cow-copies in ZFS?
I am trying to make cow-copies of some files/directories, but of the several ways I know of, all seem sub-optimal.
For example, btrfs can, with the use of cp --reflink=auto quickly generate ...
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First FreeBSD install. Is there anything I should know about differences between Linux and BSD?
I want to install FreeBSD today on a spare HDD I have lying around. I'd like to give it a trial run, learn a few things, and if it suits me I'll replace my current Ubuntu 10.10 'server/NAS/encoding ...
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How to use Public IP in case of Two ISP which difers from each other Pfsense [closed]
Please bare with my long explanation but this is important to explain the actual problem. Please also pardon my knowledge with PFsense as i am new to
this.
I have single PFSense box with 3 Ethernet ...
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FreeBSD kernel nat or natd?
As I notice more often with FreeBSD, there are always plenty of ways that lead to some specific goal.
After figuring out which firewall I wanted (I choose ipfw) I now am completely insecure about ...
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Can I use divert as an alternative to ipfw fwd?
I would like to lead some traffic through a transparent proxy (which actually is on another server and connected with an ssh tunnel).
Normally I could do this:
ipfw add forward localhost,8080 tcp ...
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How to mount FreeBSD 9.0 iso file writable mode?
I want to edit bsdinstall script of freebsd 9.0 iso file.
I tried to extract files,edit and recreate iso but I couldn't boot it.I realized that some of files missed while extracting. I also use ...
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Enabling bwn in FreeBSD
I am trying to load the bwn driver as a module as mentioned in the man page.
However, when I attempted to edit /boot/defaults/loader.conf I could not write the changes to the file, this was attempted ...
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OpenSSH, chroot user: Root needs to own the user directory, is there any consequence?
I want to create an account for my friend on my computer, but I don't want my friend to be able to view all my files. I saw that with OpenSSH, there is an option for that.
Inside the SSHD ...
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How to completely hide stuff from a user?
I want to let some of my friends access my computer by making them user accounts. They will mostly access my computer by sftp and ssh, but they could also sometimes access it at my home. However I ...
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National characters in manpages
I am trying to get a proper display of national characters with FreeBSD man.
I have tried running the following on 8.1 and 9.0:
# PAGER=less LANG="pl_PL.UTF-8" man -d -M. ./man.1
-- Using ...
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X.org missing fonts
I have a font installed (7x14, part of the xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps package), which I would like to use in my xterm. Problem is, X won't let me.
X seems to pick up the font dir:
# grep -A 3 FontPath ...
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How to find if hyperthreading is enabled on FreeBSD
Is it possible to find out if hyperthreading is enabled within the BSD kernel of a given machine without watching the boot up sequence?
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Media server RAID difficulties (on FreeNAS)
Disclaimer: I've never used FreeNAS or any type of RAID before, so this is a first.
I've decided to build a media server in my new apartment. I'm going to be going with a total 10TB of space (6x2TB ...
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what is inode for, in FreeBSD or Solaris
I know a little about linux kernel. BUt for Freebsd, the "vnode" actually is similar to the "inode" in Linux kernel.
And there is a "inode" concept in FreeBSD or Solaris.
So my question is: what is ...
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Which virtual terminal is a given X process running on?
When X starts, it searches for the lowest unused VT, and attaches to it. My problem is that when there are several running X processes, I need to be able to identify which one is the currently active ...
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stderr redirection not working in csh
I run the following command:
pkg_add emacs-23.4,2.tbz 2> output.log
The output still displays in the terminal. When I press ↑, I get
pkg_add emacs-23.4,2.tbz 2 > output.log
with a space ...
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installed teamspeak 3 on freebsd using portinstall but can't connect
I installed teamspeak 3 on freebsd 7 using portinstall.
When i do service teamspeak status i see teamspeak is running
but somehow I cannot connect to the server.
did I miss something? I followed ...
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FreeBSD source and how to build
A few questions about FreeBSD
Where/how should I obtain the source code (ex. through terminal, Download off website)
How (on ubuntu) should I build it?
Before I build it can I customize it (in other ...
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How to install LuaJIT on FreeBSD without using Gmake?
Has anyone been able to install LuaJIT v2 on FreeBSD AMD64(x64) without using Gmake (just freebsd-make)?
If so how?
When I attempt to use freebsd-make, LuaJIT doesn't build.
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Manually setting environment variables for Metasploit
How do I set manually environment variables for metasploit, when I execute db_driver I get this message:
[*] No Active Driver
[*] Available:
[*] DB Support: Enable the postgresql driver ...
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How to set up FreeBSD for my region?
im currently installing FreeBSD. Im at the "Time Zone Selector" screen. I don't know what should i choose. Normally, since i live in Quebec (Canada), i choose Eastern time GMT -5, but there is no such ...
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Recompile Apache22 with threading seamlessly?
I just found out today that our apache installation was installed without threading support (we need this for mod_wsgi).
Will the following in the apache22 ports folder reinstall our apache with ...
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Java on FreeBSD
Is it possible to get the latest Java (Java 7u3 or Java 6u31) on FreeBSD? Everything i found on the internet is outdated. I currently have 6u24 from the packagemanager which works for now but may get ...
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Best practice when installing programs in FreeBSD?
Just started with FreeBSD and I am not sure whether I need to be root to install programs or not? For example, the manual for installing X11 never says that we should issue su command.
However - it ...
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error when i try to reboot freebsd on a virtual machine - vmware
this morning i start this topic with a problem in my virtual machine what i install and configureted in my laptop. Is a freebsd .iso version 8.2. Right now i want to reboot the system and is ...
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switching from user to root and revers (freebsd)
i want to make some modificaciones with root and then with my user, in fact i want to install sudo and he give me the error in the first step:
cd /usr/ports/security/sudo
make install clean
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How do I setup two or more IPv6 address on one NIC in FreeBSD?
How i can assign two or more IPv6 address on one NIC. I tried Google but no luck. I've done it with ipv4 but ipv6 can not .
Thanks in advance!
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how to get out from the command iostat on unix?
I was installing a .iso 8,2 version in a vmware to learn unix., and i am stuck with iostat command, i run iostat 3 and is keep going to show me the results, but whem i put exit or q or q! to exit, he ...
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802.3ad on FreeBSD and Linux using crossover cables?
I have setup a NFS server on FreeBSD 8.1, which will be serving one Linux client. Each box has a dual-port 1gig fiber card, and each box is directly connected to the other over this link. There is ...
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Hamachi for Web Surfing
I recently installed Hamachi on my FreeBSD 9 and I want to know how can I browse web anonymously by this software?
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user disappeared during update error
I did a upgrade to FreeBSD 9 a few weeks ago and just started using it, and when I try and create a new user, I get the follow:
pw: user 'todd' disappeared during update
adduser: ERROR: There was an ...
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ls to show only directory/filename and size
First of all, this is not a duplicate of this: Linux ls to show only filename date and size
Because I want to print actual directory name additionally.
I was always using this command:
ls -l | awk ...
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FreeBSD 9.0 with GNOME 3
Is this possible , to install GNOME 3 on FreeBSD , at the moment ? I did not find a clear answer about this.
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Do BSD and SunOS have multithreaded architectures?
I'm interested in operating systems that have a multithreading architecture, like Mach and BeOS; not ones that depend on libraries like POSIX to be multithreading. Do BSD and SunOS have a ...
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Too many open files in system in FreeBSD 9
I just installed FreeBSD 9 version with GNOME interface. Each time I want to open a folder from root a message box pops up and warns me with this message: Too many open files in system. What is the ...
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FreeBSD is not Unix. But its Unix-Like Unix. Where is then the main Unix to read the source code?
I want to really understand System V, the main origin of Unix (not Unix-like nor modified Unix to Linux). The main origin which is very confusing and not really with care its written somewhere.
Is it ...
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Extract files from FreeBSD 9 ISO
With FreeBSD 8 you could manually install by doing something like:
# mdconfig -f /FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso
# mount -t cd9660 /dev/md0 /cdrom
# cd /cdrom/8.*
# export DESTDIR=/mnt
# cd ...
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pfsense long ping to google
I have a pfsense box set up. What happens is I set a rule so I can't hit the admin interface 192.168.3.1 from the box.
With the rule enabled
--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
2 packets ...
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Gnome 3 on FreeBSD 9
I recently installed FreeBSD 9-Release and I want to install Gnome 3 after having installed marcuscom ports. However after a long time, it stops with an error in libgdata.
How can I solve this ...
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Extract files from FreeBSD ISOs - how to know locations?
How can I extract some of the folders of a stock FreeBSD install from the ISO without actually installing FreeBSD?
I am trying to build a number of cross-compilers for various major versions of ...
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PostgreSQL on FreeBSD - 'Kerberos 5 authentication not supported'
I've been trying to get a FreeBSD machine to talk to a networked postgreSQL database. I assumed that the machine had kerberos installed, as it's what I use to log in, and I was told that FreeBSD has ...
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What's the motivation behind kfreebsd
I use both FreeBSD and Debian-based Linuxes on a daily basis. (I am mostly a user/developer/sysadmin not an OS-developer).
I want to know what is the motivation behind kFreeBSD? Why people may want ...
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FreeBSD zfs create gpt
How can i create gpt marks on working system.
NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
zroot ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
ad4p3 ONLINE ...
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Inserting a nat solution into a network while it's not the gateway
I have tried this a few different ways. Currently trying with pf on freebsd 8.2
I am trying to insert a nat solution into an existing network that will redirect traffic from an outside ip address to ...
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ipfw : Traffic Shaping
I'm not sure what but it seems like I'm doing something wrong... my objective is to be able to limit some of my traffic, to be exact www traffic. One of my clients os running what's called a ...
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Full screen mode for Chromium or other applications on FreeBSD with Gnome 2
Can I set Chromium and some other applications on Gnome 2 in FreeBSD 9 to run in
full screen mode? I mean a window that covers the top panel, not Chrome full screen or toggle full screen key binding.
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