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FreeBSD is an advanced operating system for a variety of architectures. It is derived from BSD, the version of UNIX® developed at the University of California, Berkeley; and is developed and maintained by a large team of individuals. It is a complete Operating System, including the kernel, drivers, and userland utilities such as shells.

FreeBSD includes many modern OS features including advanced IP stacks and networking, Virtualization, hardened security, and high availability techniques.
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transfer raid 0 array from freenas to windows

I have three disks in raid 0 with some data on it (not mission critical). This pool was created on a freenas installation and I was wondering if there is a way to re-mount the same raid 0 array in windows server. I created three vdisks in my raid…
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How can I adjust the name of a process I run?

I have a rack/ruby application on a server. I run it as follows: nohup rackup -o 0.0.0.0 -p 1234 & In the output of "top" command it appears as simply "ruby" PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU COMMAND 98421 …
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pfSense networking/routing troubleshooting

I have set up a pfSense virtual machine with two networks adaptators : WAN : 192.168.0.27/24 that is connected to an other router 192.168.0.1 to get internet access LAN : 172.16.0.1/16 that is connected to the LAN 192.168.1.0/24 ( but that's not…
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System CPU use on freeBSD

I have a large number of small jobs that I need to run. If I run them on a 6core Xeon, Broadwell, it runs with at least 80-90% userland CPU If I run the same assignment on a box with 2X16 core CPU Broadwell, if I scale the number of jobs, I end up…
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OpenVPN isn't found in FreeBSD 11 -- why?

I'm trying to install OpenVPN on Freebsd 11, but it says it's not found: # pkg install openvpn Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up-to-date. All repositories are up-to-date. pkg: No packages available to install matching…
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How can I install Oracle JDK on FreeBSD_10.3

I've fetched jdk-8u102-i586.tar.gz from http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html and already place it in /usr/ports/distfiles directory. But, "make install" command prints same message when I first command make install…
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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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env not working in FreeBSD cronjob

On my FreeBSD server, I have setup a cron script for backups using Duplicity. This script is as follows: #!/bin/sh export PASSPHRASE= export FTP_PASSWORD= keyid= remote= excludelist= /usr/local/bin/duplicity --volsize 1000 --max-blocksize=20480…
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FreeBSD -no internet access -no packages

I just used this command: make -DBATCH install clean and realized that I don't have access to internet from FreeBSD. If I type the address manually the browser doesn't let me see them. Can someone tell me if there is a place to retrieve a full…
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IPFW interface with special character

I'm new using FreeBSD and IPFW, but in my work we need to change from GNU/Linux, using IPtables, to FreeBSD and IPFW to packege filter. We have some rules in IPtables script that we need to put on IPFW. Almost all rules are working fine, but there…
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Increase the capacity of a RAIDZ1 vdev on ZFS

I'm running FreeNAS on a Mini-ITX Box at home. I have 3x3TB HDDs in a RAIDZ1 udev. Now I'm running out of space. I have space for one additional HDD in my case. I want to convert the 3x3TB RAIDZ1 into a 4x3TB RAIDZ1. Can I do that without sending a…
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pf firewall server configuration

I am trying to configure a fire wall for a server that host http, smtp and ssh on a custom port. When I initialize pf, I get an error at the command line: No ALTQ support in kernel and my ssh connection freezes config: [\u@vader:/root] # cat…
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apt-get on Ubuntu gets too out-dated-software

It seems the package repository for Ubuntu (apt-get) is somehow not actively updating for the new versions of packages. I didn't realize this until I tried FreeBSD's package manager. Ubuntu gives me nginx1.4.6, while FreeBSD gives me 1.8.x. I'm…
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LSI MegaRAID 9240-4i & RAID1 (mirroring) on ZFS filesystem

Exist any incompatibility between an existing virtual drive created on LSI MegaRAID 9240-4i SAS/SATA Controller with RAID1 and the ZFS filesystem? I tried to make mirror(2xSATA HDD 300Gb) on freebsd 10.1 release but don't worked. Detected…
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Why does nvi think I have files being editing?

I've got a couple of FreeBSD servers that throw several copies of the following error on reboot: On Wed Oct 10 15:13:16 2012, the user root was editing a file named /tmp/crontab.s00huOAZD2 on the machine server, when it was saved for recovery. You…
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