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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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OS Distro benchmarks website?

Im looking for website which contains OS distro benchmarks (comparing in 32 & 64 bit, comparing PHP execution on the distro, etc.)
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How can I lauch a GNU screen from jailshell (no pty)

I have my personal stuff hosted with a company that uses cpanel. It seems that a "feature" of cpanel is that the hosting company can use their "jailshell" when granting (terminal, not goofy AJAX faked) SSH access. Unfortunately you do not have…
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Clone ports from bsd installation to another

I have a production FreeBSD webserver which I would like to "clone" to create a development/preproduction server. I've installed a clean FreeBSD server and now I would like to know if there's an easy way to list all the ports installed on the…
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How will BSD fare in the future for servers?

How do you think the BSD's like FreeBSD will fare in the future for servers against various distributions of Linux? Considering many servers will be moved to a cloud like environment, how will this affect the BSD's?
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Running PostgreSQL Inside a Jail Using FreeBSD

I'm using FreeBSD 8.0 and I've setup a jail, pgsql, to act as a database server. After installing, I've tried to run initdb but get the following error: $ /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/home/pgsql cannot create /dev/null: Permission…
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How to add a static route to a host via interface using 'route' tool?

I'm new to *bsd systems. Usually in linux-based I add routes like that: # eth0 ip address ip a add 10.100.1.2 dev eth0 # gw is accessible via eth0 interface ip route add 10.100.2.1 dev eth0 # default route via 10.100.2.1 ip route add default via…
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Different behavior of SGID in *BSD and Linux

I came across an interesting thing: on BSD systems a new file will have group set to the group of the directory. On System V systems it will have the primary group of the user that created the file. As for BSD systems, what is the purpose of such…
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Is XNU based on FreeBSD or OpenBSD?

I'm curious, is the xnu kernel based on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or some other BSD distribution? Thank you, James Pedersen
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ARP Connectivity Issues Between OpenMediaVault Server and BSD Jails

On my network I have two servers. Server1 is running TrueNas(BSD) with multiple applications running in iocage jails. It's connected to the network with a 3-nic LAGG. Server2 is an OpenMediaVault (Debian) installation with multiple applications that…
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BSD Connection 'Drops'

I've been setting up a BSD server and every thing went fine. It still works fine except on my own IP address I cannot connect to my webserver at all and with SSH I can login but then as soon as I type a command it just times out. If I use a…
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Need help finding (linux compatible) source code for 'pathchar' program

Am unable to locate the source for pathchar (Van Jacobson's wonderful hack - http://www.caida.org/tools/utilities/others/pathchar/) inspite of searching over many places. What happened to it and is it still part of some obscure package on…
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Which distro support ReiserFS out of the box?

I need an OS distro (Linux, BSD ,or any other open source) which out of the box give option to use ReiserFS for the file system
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What's a good choice for a general-purpose "non-advanced" filesystem with Linux R/W and Windows/BSD R/O support?

I'd like advice and recomendations as to what filesystem would be ideal for me to use for a 320GB HDD that will replace what appears to be an aging/failing 250GB one. Ideally, I'd like something I can at least /read/ from Windows/BSD, but the disk…
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Setting up a FreeBSD Server for packet filtering and routing

I have heard the many goods of using FreeBSD in Networking over Linux with utils such as pf and ipfw I currently have an multi tier application hosted on a vSphere environment with seperate servers for the application and database how can i…
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MariaDB service won't start on FreeBSD jail

Just set up a dedicated database jail running databases/mariadb55-server and for some reason it won't start on demand nor on boot. Any suggestions? # service mysql-server start Starting mysql. /usr/sbin/daemon: Permission…
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