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Berkeley Software Distribution is a UNIX-derived operating system developed at the University of California from 1977 through 1995.

Berkeley Software Distribution is a UNIX-derived operating system developed at the University of California from 1977 through 1995.

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Force ZFS to ignore checksum errors without removing the offending disk

EDIT: (see the end of this question) after more digging this appears to be a system USB issue and not ZFS that's causing the drives to be kicked. I'll leave this question up for posterity, because I'm still curious if there's an answer, but in the…
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What are main differences between Linux and FreeBSD system from sysadmin point of view?

What are main differences between Linux and FreeBSD system from sysadmin point of view ? What specifically and significantly differs Linux from BSD (memory/resources/users management, other administrative approach, configuration, file systems, etc.)…
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OpenBSD Apache version 1.3.29?

I recently installed OpenBSD and went to check the version of Apache HTTPD and when I run httpd -v it tells me the version is Apache/1.3.29 (Unix). Surely this can't be right? I am using the latest version of OpenBSD (5.3), why is Apache SO out of…
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Shared authentication across FreeBSD Jails

I am using FreeBSD with ZFS to run several jails. For jail management I'm using ezjail, and I have a template jail which I use for provisioning. I want to share passwd, groups, and authentication information across all jails and the host. For the…
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How can I port forward over a VPN NAT?

I have a multi-site VPN currently running with pfSense boxes and currently using OpenVPN. However I can change the OS and VPN type if need be. The main router has a 10.13.0.0/16 subnet and a series of public IPs For example, a branch has a…
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Resource consumption of FreeBSD's jails

Just for curiosity. An example machine: an dedicated amd64 server with the last stable version of FreeBSD and UFS for the partitions. How much resources consume FreeBSD for each empty jail? I mean, I don't want know what is the resource consumption…
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FreeBSD Jail own network stack with vimage

I want to throw all services from the host system and put them in jails. Unfortunatly this doesn't work for file sharing (e.g. nfsd) because the jails don't have there own network stack by default. I know read something about vimage which would…
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How to get windows xp to authenticate against kerberos or heimdal

How do you get windows XP as a client to authenticate against kerberos or heimdal (where the OS is either Ubuntu, FreeBSD or OpenBSD)
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What's the best ThinkPad regarding Linux support?

Currently Mac user but will switch to ThinkPad soon, with Arch Linux, Debian or some BSD loaded on it. Everything except T and SL series is out of the consideration for me. I am leaning towards T500. Wondering what are the experiences with those…
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During OpenBSD installation, what is "DNS domain name" for?

During the installation of OpenBSD 6.1, right after setting up network interfaces, the installer prompts me: DNS domain name? (e.g. 'bar.com') [my.domain] I am not sure what this setting is for, I left it at default my.domain and besides showing up…
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How do I make su wait before retries in freebsd?

I want to make attempts at using the su command timeout for 1 second between tries. Alas, the Google and StackExchange, and rtfm have not yielded results.
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Layer 3 routing based on HTTP packet content

I'm running a HTTP proxy service and want to route traffic to various Layer 3 TUNs based on the contents of HTTP packets (e.g. HTTP headers). I'm using BSD and Linux to do this but it doesn't look like either of these are capable of Layer 7…
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Looking for FTP server recommendations for BSD

I'm currently deciding on what ftp server we should use for an internal system that we have running FreeBSD 6.2. The requirements that we'll need are the following: must be able to handle SSL, as all of our traffic outside our network must be…
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Safe to run firewall off single ethernet port?

This is for either Linux/BSD. I was just wondering if it was safe to run a firewall off a single ethernet port. The firewall machine would have a single ethernet port that is connected to a switch. The ADSL modem is also connected to the same…
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Can't boot FreeBSD 10 iso by PXE

I'm trying to boot FreeBSD 10 bootonly iso from with pxelinux and tftp, unfortunately the following error appears during freebsd boot: cd9660 :/dev/iso9660 error :/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL failed with error 19 mountroot> command ? List of…
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