What is FreeBSD? FreeBSD is a Unix-like (for legal reasons it can't be called UNIX) operating system which has grown out of the original BSD (Berkeley System Development) operating system of the early days of Unix. The history of FreeBSD BSD was started back in 1977 by the studens and staff of ...
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What to do if kill -9 doesn't work?
I've got a pesky process (in this case, a stranded process that was supposed to be running in iPhone Simulator (now long quit).
97442 ?? 0:00.00 (MyProcess)
I've tried everything I can ...
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growisofs and DVD burning on FreeBSD
Having trouble with burning files to DVD+RW discs in FreeBSD 8.2. Procedure was working in the recent past but is now giving me an exit error.
Using crontab to run script to burn 7 files to DVD ...
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Create floppy disk image with FreeBSD
So I don't have a usb floppy drive for my laptop, but oddly enough, I find myself wishing I did now. I do have an old machine with a floppy drive running FreeBSD 8.2, so I thought I might just use it ...
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Cannot access FreeBSD 8.2 client in VirtualBox from host browser
So, on my MacBook I have installed VirtualBox because I want to develop a web app that will be running on FreeBSD OS.
I have installed FreeBSD 8.2 inside virtual PC I have created in VirtualBox. I ...
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FreeBSD ee editor - can't type numbers
So I am using ee editor in FreeBSD 8.1 box. I cannot type numbers though. I open a file with:
ee file
I start writing letters which works fine but when I press a number on my keyboard (1, 2, 3 etc) ...
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How can determine how my partition is full even when it appears it is not?
I have run "df -kh" on my FreeBSD box and I see that /var is near 100% full. It was over but I have trimmed what I can but there is less then 500MB total on the partition according to running "du -ksh ...
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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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What does it take to get software added to FreeBSD ports system? [closed]
What does it take to get software added to FreeBSD official ports system?
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Cannot access virtual machine via ping from the physical host machine
I'm installing a FreeBSD Server on VirtualBox. I set up the IP address (192.168.10.5) for the virtual server to run a mail server and the host computer(Windows 7) with 192.168.10.184. The two machines ...
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using java from freebsd
I installed the openjdk on freebsd 9.0 RC2 as advised here. It was a bit slow, but it seemed to complete successfully. Now when I type:
mammalucco# java myjar.jar nogui
java: command not found
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FreeBSD Can't recognize my network
I'm trying to install FreeBSD on VirtualBox in my Ubuntu 11.10 .
When I try to download the packages via FTP, the systems fails to correctly configure the DHCP. There are two possible behaviors, ...
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Why's my Tomcat failing to start on FreeBSD?
Tomcat 7 on FreeBSD 8.2 is throwing the following error in catalina.log.
SEVERE: StandardServer.await: create[localhost:8005]:
java.net.BindException: Can't assign requested address
at ...
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virtualbox GUI in freebsd
I have a problem with virtualbox-ose port in freebsd.
ns387352# make install clean
===> virtualbox-ose-4.0.12 is marked as broken: QT4 frontend requires X11 support. Run 'make config' again!.
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List directories containing files that match a regular expression
I would like to set up a simple filtering system on my FreeBSD server that allows me to create arbitrary "views" of directories.
For instance, I'd like to be able to list all directories that match ...
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What does kill -3 mean?
I know kill -9 mean, but anyone can explain what does kill -3 mean? Any special signal it sends out?
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Filesystem for UNIX (Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux) [closed]
I have some Linux (Arch/Fedora/Ubuntu), FreeBSD and solaris (open indiana) desktop machines. What is the best filesystem that can be used in all of them. I want to use it in some external hard drives. ...
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installing column unix utility on windows
I would like to be able to use the BSD unix utilities: column, join and
paste in my cygwin installation. It seems that they are not available,
or I cannot find them. Is there a way to install them ...
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Why are parentheses and numbers used in FreeBSD documentation? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What do the parentheses and number after a Linux command or C function mean?
I just installed FreeBSD 8.2 using a DVD ISO and I'm a first time user of FreeBSD. I wonder ...
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mv - move dir with destination-dir having the same subdirs as source-dir
In FreeBSD (I suppose it works like Linux et al in this regard), I'd like to move src_parent/mydir to dst_parent/mydir. dst_parent/mydir already exists, and it contains some subdirs that's also ...
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Get temperature of CPU (Intel Core i5) in FreeBSD
Does anyone know how to get the temperature of an Intel Core i5 processor in FreeBSD?
Relevant info:
Motherboard: Asus P8P67 Deluxe
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500
OS: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE (64bit)
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Cron alternative with timeouts and second resolution
Do you know an alternative to cron daemon that has second resolution, timeouts, and advanced system for error reporting? But it should be lightweight and should support different platforms(linux and ...
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wget doesn't see proxy under cron
I'm new to freebsd and have a problem:
my script uses wget. when I call it from the command line it works fine and I see the output like this:
--2011-09-22 15:55:58-- ...
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Can not read file content from samba
I installed a FreeBSD/ZFS based NAS (FreeBSD 9.0-Beta3) and configured an samba several to deliver movies to a WD TV Live device. Both of them are connected behind the same Airport Extreme.
The ...
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why doesn't broadcast ping work?
I have Freebsd as a router.
Local network is on interface sk0: inet 10.254.239.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.254.239.255
In my local network I have a computer(windows 7) that gets it's ...
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exec command “who”: Broken Pipe && “ps”:bad namelist
I typed "who" under Freebsd4.5, the information showed as below:
stdout: Broken pipe
......
but showed "test ttyp0 Sep 20 20:39 (192.X.X.8)"last line.
and exec command ps, it returns ...
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Questions about installing BSD on a *technically* external HDD
A little bit of background:
1) I have a 160 GB hard drive from a netbook
2) I also have a SATA->USB enclosure that the drive fits in perfectly
Now, I'd like to install some flavor of BSD (probably ...
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Load balancing two WAN connections with FreeBSD
We have two DSL (3MBit ADSL + 2MBit SDSL) connections into the world and I would like to load balance outgoing traffic over both using FreeBSD 8.2. (NAT traffic from the local network and distribute ...
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How do you export an mhddfs share out nfs on FreeBSD?
I am trying to export a mhddfs directory via nfs and it won't allow me to. Think it has to do with fuse. I have it working on linux but not sure how to do things like set the fsid and can't find ...
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What's the best OS to install Nessus on? [closed]
I have a machine that I want to install Nessus on it.
Nessus supports many Operating Systems:
Microsoft Windows
Mac OS X
Linux
FreeBSD
The full list is here: ...
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How to mount Amazon S3 bucket to a directory on FreeBSD?
I can't find a solution on how to mount an Amazon S3 bucket to an existing directory on FreeBSD.
I suspect, I need to install port fusefs-s3fs.
But how should I configure it? I can't find any info.
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freebsd post-installation issues
I've installed freeBSD 8.2 and now trying to get GUI working. I did install KDE and related packages from sysinstall.
On bootup, at shell prompt, when I do X or Xorg, screen goes blank and I cannot ...
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How to make freebsd box accessible from internet?
I have a freebsd box sitting at home. I want my friends to be able to access that via ssh. Basically I want to make it some sort of server where they can have an account.
How can I do that?
It ...
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Mouse back/forward buttons in FreeBSD under VMWare Workstation
VMWare Workstation 7.1.4
Host: Windows 7 (laptop with touchpad).
Guest: FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE (yesterday's)
vmmouse driver: 12.6.9_1 (from ports)
The problem: xev doesn't see mouse back/forward ...
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Encrypt file on freebsd?
I can't get mcrypt to work on a freebsd server. [Bus error 10]
gpg doesn't work, it says it cannot open /dev/tty
any ideas?
Also, I kind need to be able to decrypt the file on Linux [ubuntu]. I ...
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How to encrypt a large file with limited disk quota?
On a FreeBSD server, is there any way to encrypt a file, which is probably 90%+ of my quota?
I thought of using split, then after encrypting a file, delete the original.. but then, when I have all ...
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Troubleshooting random reboots with FreeNAS
I've got a FreeNAS box running 8.0 (based off of FreeBSD 8.0) that's rebooting at random every 10min to 3 hours. I'm struggling to get to an error message.
FreeNAS seems to same any actual logs to ...
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FreeBSD 8.2: Keystrokes in Bash do not show up
I just installed the latest FreeBSD 8.2 distro using Parallels Desktop. Problem: Whatever I type in the Bash/Shell it is not echoed on the screen. It's behaving like a password prompt. As soon I hit ...
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How to download the latest versions of Juniper SRX series Junos. And how to install it?
I have old version of JunOS, how can i install the latest version. Is there any torrent or public free iso where we can download it? But anyway how do you install it from http or telnet location?
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FreeBSD 8.2 : Can't login x window session (gnome)
Environment:
OS: FreeBSD 8.2 64 bit
GNOME: I don't know how to check gnome's version in console. I install it from the latest port collection via internet.
Issue:
Each time I boot the OS, it ...
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SSH registration script
Could anyone write or help me write a bash script that would do the fallowing:
New user connects to my FreeBSD server and log-ins via SSH with certain credentials like 'user registration, pass ...
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Hardsubbing MKV files that use .ass subtitles and embedded fonts
This question pertains only to Linux and FreeBSD.
I have several soft subbed anime mkv files that I need to hardsub. they are all using .ass subtitles with embedded fonts. for example mkvinfo on one ...
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FREEBSD Jails in MAC OS X
I was wondering if, Are FreeBSD Jails available on MacOSX or Perhaps an equivalent?
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How to get all hardlinks to the same data?
Have several hardlinks to the same file.
How (for example) by one file(hardlink) get others pointing to the same data?
No real task. Just interesting. May be useful.
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Running emacs in GNU Screen overrides .emacs settings for [home] key binding in FreeBSD 8.2
If I use the following .emacs file, I am able to go to the beginning/end of the current line using the home/end keys as I would expect.
(keyboard-translate ?\C-h ?\C-?)
(add-to-list 'load-path ...
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How to make [home] go to beginning of line instead of beginning of buffer?
I know there is an existing shortcut to do this but I'd like to have the home key mapped to beginning-of-line instead of beginning-of-buffer.
I tried putting this in my ~/.emacs file but it seems ...
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Freebsd (Freenas 8) and robocopy gives Error 5 Time-Stamping Destination File WHy?
I have a NAS running FreeBSD/FreeNas 8. When I copy files from a windows system to it via SMB/CIFS normally (explorer/copy) it all goes fine. User can create/delete/update files
When i attempt the ...
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How to dump data to DVD when the disk space reach 80% on RAID 1, and clean the dumped space from disk after burn
How to monitor in unix (FreeBSD) /linux (CentOS 5.6) the disk space if its greater or equal to 80%?
If its equal or greater then 80%. How can i tell dump the data from a specific /misc/ folder to ...
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compare cygwin to bsd
I have a Windows 7 laptop and I need UNIX/LINUX for an application. I have run across Cygwin which creates a UNIX 'shell' so that you can run software that requires this on your PC. One of the ...
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Running FreeBSD binaries on Linux
In general, will binaries built on FreeBSD run on Linux operating systems, especially Ubuntu?
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Recommended media server software for FreeBSD for UPnP/DLNA
The list of media servers on Wikipedia is a bit overwhelming and I've had experience with firefly not being well maintained with regards to keeping up with newer standards. My specific need is being ...
