Questions tagged [freebsd]
FreeBSD is a Unix-like operating system which has grown out of the original BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) of the early days of Unix.
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How to configure bind/named for this simple nameserver task?
I need to configure bind/named (on FreeBSD) to:
listen on port 53 of a single IP,
never look up records or forward any queries to any other server,
never try and update its records from other ...
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Unlimited recursive while displaying time for every directory
I want to display all directories in my current directory recursively, but I also want to display the full date and time (even after 6 months). Considering I am using a Mac I had to use the FreeBSD ...
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Why is ZFS send/receive sending so much data across my LAN?
Just last weekend, I set up a new (clean install) backup server for my main FreeNAS machine, and started a manual complete pool backup between them. Both machines are enterprise hardware and run fast, ...
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The simplest way of running a cross-compiled executable in a FreeBSD environment
I have an executable cross-compiled for FreeBSD in a docker container.
What is the simplest way of running it?
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VirtualBox and Solidworks license manager
I'd like to install Solidworks license manager in a VirtualBox guest (Win7 Pro) - not Solidworks itself, just the licensing server. However, I get this error:
"Activation license mode is not ...
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Does Samba need some kind of permissions/ACLs set on a *subdir*, for that subdir to appear in a list of contents of its *parent*?
I'm on FreeBSD and I've hit a quirky issue, that surprises me.
I created a share, and within that share created a subdirectory called subdir.
When I open smbclient with current directory = share root,...
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Error booting GhostBSD in VirtualBox after trying to get sound to work
Boot: F1
/boot/config: device sound
device snd_hda
device snd_sbc
device snd_sb16
FreeBSD/x86 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)snd_sb16
bootL Bi sbd)sb16
FreeBSD/x86 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)snd_sb16
boot:
What ...
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Error loading Xfce on FreeBSD in VirtualBox
I typed startxfce4, but it showed the error message:
failed to set mtrr: Device not configured
process 1675: D-Bus library appears to be incorrectly set up; failed to read machine uuid: Failed
to ...
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Error trying to install GhostBSD into VirtualBox
I am using Windows 10 Home on an HP laptop with an eighth-generation Intel core i5.
When I loaded GhostBSD from a live CD/DVD, when I logged in to the VM, the error was:
The instruction at ...
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Unable to create a *.gz archieve
Trying to create a .gz archive - my_gz.gz - and add multiple files to it:
$ gzip my_gz.gz file1.txt file12.txt
gzip: can't stat: my_gz.gz: No such file or directory
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GlusterFS on FreeBSD 11.1 / Mount issue
I want to use GlusterFS as a distributed Filestorage on FreeBSD 11.1
Documentation is poor, so I followed some howtos on the net.
I could create the glusterfs volume, but I have trouble to mount it on ...
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Adding a DVD drive to a headless VirtualBox on FreeBSD
I have a Windows 10 VM running headless in VirtualBox on FreeBSD 11.1. It runs without issues. I'd like to enable the VM to access physical CDs/DVDs so that I can insert real discs and open them in ...
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Reading LUKS encrypted devices under FreeBSD
I have currently Debian installed. All my external devices a encrypted LUKS devices.
Now I want to switch to FreeBSD, but my question is, is it possible to read my devices under FreeBSD?
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Practicality of Root on ZFS
I'm preparing to install a fresh OS on my desktop machine. Its basic specs are i7 3770S with 16GB Non-ECC RAM, which is the maximum that this board supports. I actually have XenServer on there now, ...
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Arg handling in a script for a modified "find" function?
I'm using FreeBSD and I understand and use the -prune option on find to prevent the command descending into a subdirectory. But I find the necessary syntax very clumsy and awkward. It also doesn't ...
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Managing FreeBSD host with Ansible fails: Shared object \"libdl.so.1\" not found, required by \"python\"\r\n
Management of FreeBSD on Raspberry pi 3 (FreeBSD-aarch64-12.0-GENERIC-320146M from RaspBSD project - http://www.raspbsd.org/) fails.
Control host is MacOS 10.13.2.
python is successfully installed ...
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Installation Issue with FreeBSD 12.0 CURRENT & 11.1 Installation on AMD EPYC (BIOS - RSW1005E)
Tried several times to install FreeBSD 11.1 and 12.0 CURRENT on AMD EPYC processor(EPYC 32 core devices (7601)) with BIOS - RSW1005E, installation is getting failed.
For 11.1, Kernel Crash is ...
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Completely hiding a dir, but leaving its descendants accessible via symlinks, in Samba
Due to the way Samba handles symlinks and wide links (it can only distinguish "within the share root" or "outside the share root") I want to create fixed symlinks in the share root to the "actual" ...
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Linux equivalent to BSD's vis(1) utility
I have a bunch of zsh scripts for cli-based tasks, and developed most of them on FreeBSD and MacOS (both BSD Unix flavors)
I've been using Ubuntu lately, and noticed some of my scripts were broken. ...
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Canot mount FreeNas 8 mirror in freenas 11
Have a freenas 8 with 2 disks on raid(Mirror) of 1Tb each and only 1Gb Ram. I didn't notice that it only have 1Gb ram and update to Freenas 10 because i need install OpenVPN. When the system boot up ...
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Allow Samba connections *only* from internal LAN (PF firewall)?
There is a FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE machine with only 1 NIC, serving Samba shares behind a PF firewall on same server.
I need to allow connections only from clients connecting from the internal network (/...
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Repeated error message in PfSense
My PfSense box is constantly writing this message in the error log every few seconds. I think this is a sound card related error but have found no solution to fix this. All packages in PfSense are up ...
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How to determine whether any of my ZFS snapshots are truly redundant and safe to delete without data loss?
I'm using FreeBSD 11.1 and the output of zfs list -t snap -r poolname shows a large number of my snapshots with "0" under "USED". I've read up on how ZFS accounts for space so I understand the basics, ...
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Why RSA key is adding in the same line(sometimes) in the known_hosts file
When I'm doing scp a file to my remote machine, Usually the RSA and DSS keys will be added in the next lines. But sometimes(very rarely) it is appending the key to the previous key. And this is ...
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Why does Xorg come up in 1024x768 mode instead of full 1600x1200 resolution?
I have Xorg configured to use the radeon-driver and run two monitors I have attached to my Radeon HD 5670 card. It works.
But, every time Xorg restarts, it comes up in 1024x768-mode with monitors ...
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Shell Script email output formatting
I am trying to create a shell script that echo's a bunch of commands and have gotten it to send out emails fairly simply.
{
echo $(hostname)
echo ""
echo "Uptime" $(uptime)
echo ""
echo "...
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Issue with TFTP when trying to Flash Aironet 1142N
I am having an interesting issue trying to flash (to convert an AP from lightweight to autonomous) Cisco Aironet 1142Ns
I have a small network setup with a computer serving as TFTP (FreeBSD 11) and ...
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How to avoid "Proceed with this action? [y/N]" of pkg?
Or: What's the equivalent of apt-get install --yes in FreeBSD's pkg?
I know about yes | pkg install ..., but an option seems to be much more conveniant and savely avoids answering y to questions ...
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Vagrant with FreeBSD guest and Windows 10 Host fails to connect
Has anyone been able to see /vagrant dir on a FreeBSD vagrant box? I cannot, for the life of me get it work.
Tested on Windows 10, I imagine these problems are cross-platform however. Tested with ...
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Bash history not working?
I'm using FreeBSD 11, and Bash as my shell. I've checked all the basics.
History shows as "on"
HISTFILE, HISTFILESIZE and HISTSIZE are all set with sensible values.
$HISTFILE exists and has rw ...
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Keyboard not working in FreeBSD installer on MacBook Pro 2017
I'm trying to install FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE on my 2017 MacBook Pro (the touch bar one). It boots the bootloader screen fine, and the keyboard works perfectly there.
However, as soon as I select a boot ...
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freebsd postfix python policyd-spf ip addres validation error
I recently encountered a problem on my freebsd postfix mail server with the packet py27-postfix-policyd-spf-python-1.3.2_1
My maillogs where full with the following messages:
policyd-spf[16637]: ...
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Can I use my NAS as a bridge between Modem and Router?
My current home network setup is this:
ISP <-> Modem <-> Router(with NAT)/Wireless AP <-> Home Network
My NAS is on the home network. I'm using FreeNAS, an OS based on FreeBSD. I ...
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How to change brightness in FreeBSD?
I installed FreeBSD 10.3 stable on my HP laptop and installed Mate desktop, but I can not change laptop's brightness.
I used xrandr, xbacklight, redshift and they did not work. I loaded acpi_video ...
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Jailing old FreeBSD build machine on modern FreeBSD
We have very old FreeBSD build systems (6.3) which we use to maintain backwards compatibility with the system libraries for our proprietary binaries and avoid building on each and every FreeBSD ...
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How to get from a logical interface to the interface of the underlying NIC a device is using, in FreeBSD?
In FreeBSD, if the interface that an IP device is on happens to be a physical NIC, then I can look up the interface for the physical NIC using arp -a.
But what is the easiest way to get from an IP ...
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How can I get Chrome to open one process per tab?
I am on amd64 FreeBSD 11.0-p9 using Chromium 57.0.2987.133 precompiled from the ports. Version 58 causes graphical glitches on my system so I haven't upgraded yet.
Since about half a year I encounter ...
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Cannot find "Fallback boot loader" of rEFInd
I've installed FreeBSD on my MacBook Air, and it runs smoothly. However, instead of appearing with the BSD Daemon icon, it must be booted through a "Fallback boot loader" entry, and I want to change ...
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Bash script to copy backup file bigger than and it's subfiles sorted by date
I have Veeam backing up to a nas, but I'd like to copy the last backups to a removable unit every day.
This means copying the vbk and vib files related to the vbk.
Example of file listing I have:
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Cannot boot into FreeBSD after installation
I installed FreeBSD on my MacBook Air through a USB stick. During the installation, I'm asked to choose partition on which FreeBSD is installed. I created a freebsd-ufs partition and a freebsd-swap ...
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Do I need an separate EFI partition for each OS sharing a common disk?
I was installing FreeBSD on my MacBook Air. When partitioning the disk, the installer told me
This partition scheme requires a boot partition for the disk to be bootable. Would you like to make ...
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pkg install using specific version of Python in FreeBSD?
How do you 'pkg install' a package using specific version of Python in FreeBSD 11? say I want to 'pkg install' using Python 3?
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Does chroot make the root directory unwritable in Freebsd 11?
When a a directory is chroot in Freebsd 11 will the root directory write protected that is it won't be writable?
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source ~/.cshrccommand error source not found in freeBSD 11?
source ~/.cshrc
produces this error:
-sh: source: not found
in freeBSD 11. It works for version 10.
What is the equivalent in 11?
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How to connect to the Internet via 3g modem in the FreeBSD terminal?
I installed FreeBSD, but it does not have a default GUI, so I have to install it myself.
I watched a lot of videos about installing the GUI in FreeBSD, and there all the video authors install it by ...
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Why is my tape drive so slow?
I have bought a used Quantum Ultrium LTO-4 tape drive and attached it to an HP Smart Array P400 SAS controller in my HP ProLiant N54l. I use FreeBSD 11 as my operating system.
Now I have inserted a ...
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HAProxy 1.7.2 refuses to match Host in ACL
I have a weird scenario where HAProxy is being used to reverse proxy several sites from a single IP. No problem there, this worked before in an earlier version. This latest install and with a similar ...
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How can I pin an application to a workspace in Gnome 3?
I am using a static workspace layout in GNOME 3.18 with the "workspace grid" extension (because I can't stand vertically-stacked workspaces). It would be great if, when I started an application, the ...
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How to get rid of ZFS signature on Ubuntu 16.04?
I am trying to set up hard drives that have previously been used with a FreeBSD installation to form a new LVM.
When running vgcreate, I get the message that zfs signatures were found. Due to a bug ...
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How To Set Wine Executable Location In KDE?
I'm using FreeBSD so that might have resulted in an abnormal installation location for Wine, but it's in /usr/local/bin/wine64. For whatever reason KDE is not picking up the location for Wine and ...