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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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Operating system for optimal performance on x86 (virtualized)

What operating system would achieve the best performance on x86 from within Qemu or Virtualbox? I only need to use a handful of programs regularly: tmux, vi(m), curl, a package manager (mainly to install libraries), gcc/clang, git, etc. I don't…
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why does "pkg_info -Q bash" on OpenBSD give me an "empty" result?

i installed a fresh OpenBSD server on a Linux - Proxmox server with kvm. I tried to to install bash but pkg_info returns "empty": root@openbsd:~# echo $PKG_PATH https://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD root@openbsd:~# ping -c 1 cdn.openbsd.org ping:…
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Copy/Snyc files with extended attributes between Linux and BSD

I would like to copy/sync files from a Linux box to a FreeBSD server. As the files tend to have extended attributes, I want to preserve these on the target file system. The source filesystems are either Ext4 or BTFRS, the target filesystem is ZFS…
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OPNsense auto nat between two interfaces

Having trouble with ONPSense configuration. Explanation I've just configured a OPNSense Fw, which has 3 interfaces: WAN, LAN, ZRT LAN: 192.168.101.1/23 (DHCP server from 192.168.101.50 to 192.168.101.150) Addresses on 192.168.100.0/24 mustn't go…
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How to force Apache to skip binding to failed interface?

I run Apache inside VirtualBox on a laptop. I also used IP based VirtualHost-s. I want to be able to have LAN access whenever I move about, to certain pre-known networks. The IP, however, is not "moving", since I've setup DHCPs on the network…
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Does PF support divert like IPFW?

I'm currently using IPFW on 3 dedicated firewall servers, and I would like to convert them to PF for some of its functionalities, but I need divert to work. Specifically I am teeing packets to a custom application for network analysis purposes. Is…
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Where is Apache's 000-default.conf in FreeBSD?

Where is Apache 2.4's 000-default.conf in FreeBSD 11? It seems it does not exist in FreeBSD 11.
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BSD jail availability in the event of NFS server failure

I have some BSD systems where I am considering the use of jails for processes that should be isolated from the rest of the system. The host system has some NFS mounts, and there is the issue that in the event of an NFS server failure, a NFS client…
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How do you expand /var in pfsense when you run it in memory?

I have a pfsense box running 32GBs of RAM. I enabled /var and other directories to be in RAM due to have so much space and wanted to improve performance. How do you alter and increase the size of /var in RAM? I've looked in the settings and I see no…
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Ideal Linux/BSD distribution to emulate Mac OS X

I've recently moved to a Mac OS X workstation. I am doing my best to stick to the command line, but am wary of corrupting my system. Is there a BSD distro that I can throw in a VM to experiment with? As far as I know, OpenDarwin has…
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pfsense live cd and boot options

I donwloaded pfsense live cd 2.1.3 and now I want to run pfsense from an usb cdrom drive. It loads a while and than crahses with "unable to mount ..." I know I have to choose boot option 3 in order to boot from an usb cdrom but I don't see this…
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ezjail-admin update -i can't create tank/ezjail/basejail

I updated the server FreeBSD 8.2-p10 amd64 to 9.1-p1 amd64, and I want to update jails started ezjail. I downloaded the source, built the world and run the command: ezjail-admin update -i but got the message: can't create tank/ezjail/basejail…
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FreeBSD Jail with Ruby multiple web deployment

I am looking to offer a free deployment system for ruby web applications (based on rack and not ruby on rails) so essentially I will allow users to upload a file with their app and the app will show at http://user.domain.com While I am trying to…
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Using Free/Open BSD + pf as a DDoS filter

Is using Free/Open BSD + pf a workable option for filtering DDoS? Which of the two would perform better under heavy load? (SYN flood maxing a 1 gbit pipe) Is this even an option to consider, or is a full hardware DDoS filter needed to get fast…
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Gateway status checking methods on linux/bsd

I'd like to know if there's any reliable tools I could use (integrate with my network config) to monitor the status of the gateway and switch the default gw when it detects that the main gateway is dead? How reliable is ping based checking, anything…
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