FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX.
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FreeNAS grub2 booting ISO
I've got usb-keys setup to multi-boot different Linux images. I wouldn't mind adding FreeNAS, and there's a doc with samples to add to grub.cfg
menuentry "FreeNAS-8.0.4-RELEASE-x64" {
insmod ufs2
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Installing FreeBSD without removable media from CentOS 6
I've been tasked with installing FreeBSD 8 alongside CentOS 6, without the luxury of removable media. CentOS 6 is already on the machine, and running quite nicely. However, I cannot figure out how to ...
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How can I boot the PC-BSD live DVD-ISO IMAGE directly via GRUB2?
Via the loopback command, GRUB2 allows to directly boot an ISO file.
Now, I've configured the according menuentry to boot the PC-BSD Live DVD ISO, but when I try to boot it, the FreeBSD bootstrap ...
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How do I make use of unused space on my boot drive on FreeBSD
I have an old FreeBSD Server (running 7.3-RELEASE) that desperately needs additional storage. In fact, it has some-- the original 20G SCSI drives have been replaced by 300G SCSI drives, so in theory ...
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What port range will ipfw nat use for aliasing?
I am using ipfw nat with the following config
ipfw -q nat 1 config if em0
Which TCP and UDP ranges will the NAT choose its alias ports from? I would like it to be always from the range 49152–65535, ...
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tcsh alias - find FreeBSD port
I am trying to create an alias for tcsh. I would like to find a program in ports (FreeBSD ports).
So far I made an alias, which works, but finds only ports which end in *port_name. I would like it to ...
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NAT and source IP filtering in PF, using OpenBSD >= 4.7
I just read a book about PF (The Book Of PF, No Starch), but there's one question not answered by it.
If I have a gateway machine using two interfaces, $int_if and $ext_if, and I NAT the packages ...
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freebsd make install openjdk6
I am having problem installing openjdk6 using ports using the make install clean commands. The error I got is:
/usr/ports/java/openjdk6/work/build/bsd-i586-debug-fastdebug/j2sdk-image: No such ...
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GDM not showing when I boot my FreeBSD system
I've installed FreeBSD 9.1 in a VirtualBox VM, and did some basic setup.
After that, I had installed Gnome2 via sudo pkg_add -r gnome2.
Along the way, there were some errors. Mostly it was (I think) ...
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How to give an ordinary user privileged access to a particular syscall in FreeBSD?
I want to give an ordinary user the ability to fchown() files arbitrarily (as if they were the superuser) on FreeBSD. Generally speaking, is there a right way to change the privilege-checking of a ...
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Find out what /dev/cuaU maps to?
I have an USB 3G modem (Huawei E353-u2) on pfSense 2.0.2 (which is based on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13), it seems to create 2 /dev/cuaU devices:
/dev/cuaU0.0
/dev/cuaU0.3
1) Why are there 2 devices? ...
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zfs one pool error
I have zpool with name zroot
and zroot has 4 pool
when electricity down system reboots and than i saw some error with 1 pool:
Solaris: Warning: can`t open object for zroot/var/crash
log_sysevent: ...
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FreeBSD zfs timeout errors
I have FreeBSD 8.2 with ZFS v28. 8 cpu core, 16Gb ram.
Two disk drives (1.5Tb WD Green) on zfs mirror raid.
My system strangely uses memory.
With alot of free (wired) memory it start to use swap and ...
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Install r5u87x on FreeBSD
I need to install Ricoh r5u87x webcam loader on FreeBSD, because it solve not suspending in unix/linux boxes on my vaio laptop as I try it in UBUNTU, but the loader is simply for Linux, I think. Is ...
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How to add GTK Theme Preference on Gnome 2 using FreeBSD
GTK Theme Preferences is available in the Shimmer Project PPA for Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin and 12.10 Quantal Quetzal. Add the PPA and install it using the following commands:
sudo ...
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Mouse and keyboard not working in FreeBSD 9.0
Could not use keyboard and mouse at KDM log in screen in FreeBSD 9.0 KDE
Typed on nano:
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
local_startup=${local_startup} /usr/local/kde4/etc/rc.d"
kdm4_enable="YES"
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NFS mount fails at boot time
I have the following in /etc/fstab on FreeBSD:
venture:/usr/redacted /usr/local/redacted nfs rw 0 0
This fails during boot. However, after boot, the following command succeeds
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Nas4free (freeBSD) wont make it past bootloader without keyboard?
I've got an old Compaq machine re-purposed as a Home NAS using Nas4free. I've had it connected up to a monitor and keyboard (PS/2) for a while, (which boots fine, no issues) but I would like to have ...
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VirtualBox Hangs when installing freebsd 9.0
When installing Freebsd 9.0 as virtualbox guest, it hangs. Freezes the guest OS, other VirtualBox windows works fine.
Logs attached, hardware is pentium D, 4 GB ram, Asus p5ld2 deluxe mainboard, OS - ...
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FreeBSD: “Too many open files” but should be able to open another 160,000 files
I have a FreeBSD 8 system running ZFS, with a MySQL 5.5 server which is about 355GB and projected to grow to be a couple of Terabytes.
MySQL is triggering errors about "Too many open files" on ...
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How do I go about making a wrapper for a driver to be used on FreeBSD?
The situation:
I found myself in need of an additional NIC for my pfSense router/firewall. I had a few choices...
shell out over $100 for a dual port gigabit card
buy a new motherboard that has ...
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Unable to reduce core frequency freebsd
I'm working on a FreeBSD project where I need to maintain the temperature of the processor below a threshold value. In order to reduce the temperature I'm trying to dynamically change the frequency of ...
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Startx failing in FreeBSD
I've install gnome2, xorg, and xinit (should xorg have done that for me?), and startx yields:
"xinit: unable to run server "/usr/local/bin/X": No such file or directory"
I checked in the directory, ...
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FreeBSD 9.1 buildworld fails in libclangsema
I just went thru and updated a dozen or so machines from 9.0-RELEASE to 9.1-RELEASE and the last one is dieing during buildworld:
c++ -O2 -pipe ...
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FreeBSD 9.0 install NOT configuring ports
We have a new FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE with a ports tree generated via portsnap and none of the ports perform make config.
To some degree it is behaving as though BATCH=yes was set. However, that variable ...
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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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How Solaris sub-partitions can be accessed in FreeBSD?
First of all, Linux detects it okay:
sdg1: <solaris: [s0] sdg5 [s1] sdg6 [s2] sdg7 [s8] sdg8 >
But FreeBSD 9.0 does show only main partition. Possibly only Solaris labels for sparc64 is ...
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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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How to boot into FreeBSD installed in the second partition of an external drive
I have installed FreeBSD 9.1 on the second partition of an external hard disk and I'm not able to get my computer to boot from it. FreeBSD was installed using the FreeBSD memstick image dd'd onto a ...
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Looking for meta-recipe for installing homebrew recipes under BSD
Is there a way to install homebrew recipes under BSD? (NetBSD, to be more precise.)
(To make matters worse, I don't have write access to /usr/local in this system, so I'd be installing homebrew ...
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nas4free server can't access local network
I'm not a linux/unix/freebsd expert. I'm a Microsoft .NET developer that knows Windows pretty well. Please bear with me :)
I'm trying to configure an old desktop machine as a NAS device with ...
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Obtain device name and mount point if partition label is known
How to obtain the partition device name and mount point when the file system
label is known?
There are several possibilities:
Linux
File system label to device name
The device name can be obtained ...
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FreeBSD 9,1 - upowerd's cpu consumption off the roof and causes OS to restart
I've been experiencing a really annoying problem with a FreeBSD setup on my laptop. The setup is as follows:
FreeBSD 9.1 / KDE4 desktop / Broadcom wireless 4313 through NDIS / Intel GPU with the new ...
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Can I install junos on an alix router?
Has anyone tried installing junos on an alix router?
I was going to follow the following tutorial for installing junos in a vm on top of freeBSD, but instead installing it for the alix router and was ...
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Installing IPSEC on FreeBSD
how to install IPSEC on two FreeBSD 9.0 machines to can send an encrypted packets between them , and let them read the encrypted packets .
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Perform Cisco's DNS Doctoring on FreeBSD
How to perform a change in the DNS response from a DNS server to be a different IP address than the DNS server actually answered for a given name?
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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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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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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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slow samba seek performance
I am using FreeBSD 9.0 RC3 (PCBSD distro) with samba 3.4.14.
I am trying to access portions of several large (4 - 10 GB) files over samba using seek commands, and I am seeing that calls to the front ...
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Is there an in-memory compressed swap facility (like Compcache) for FreeBSD?
Is there anything like CompCache for FreeBSD?
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Hidden directory in samba share
I'm using freenas and have a samba share that I'm accessing from a windows machine.
When I browse to the share I can view all directories except one ("ProblemDirectory" below). I can navigate to this ...
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VNC: Text/fonts not showing up on XFCE tip of day window?
Using FreeBSD 8.2. Setup a vncserver on my FreeBSD machine. Accessing it from Windows using Tightvnc Viewer. Most fonts show up fine. However my Xfce tip of the day window shows up blank. If I ...
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Network fail on FreeBSD: Ping to router fails, but router believes computer is connected
I have a TP-Link TL-WN851N wireless adapter, which is based on an Atheros device. When I attempt to connect to my WPA2 wireless network, ifconfig wlan0 tells me that the connection is 'associated'. My ...
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Why is mouse freezing in FreeBSD 9.1 Gnome or Fluxbox?
I'm new to FreeBSD 9.1 and I wanted to install a desktop GUI environment. I first tried Gnome 2 since I am familiar with it. I appended the following lines to the /etc/rc.conf file:
hald_enable="YES"
...
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Does Chrome run on Debian kFreeBSD?
I know that some Linux applications run on FreeBSD. All the more so, they should run on Debian kFreeBSD (since it only uses a FreeBSD kernel while Linux userspace).
Does Google Chrome (not Chromium, ...
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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 ...
