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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.
For more information about FreeBSD, see their website (FreeBSD.org).

Questions are welcome here on Server Fault, the Unix and Linux Stack Exchange or the FreeBSD Forums.

Additionally Wikipedia has en entry on FreeBSD and the original BSD OS.

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Simple web-frontend for remote svn administration?

We run a SVN repository. Some of our more advanced users need to be able to perform some SVN administration without relying on the system administrator. They need to be able to do things like create SVN repositories, delete SVN repositories,, and…
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Install Java 9, 10, 11, or 12 on FreeBSD 11.1

When I look to my up-to-date Ports collection: cd /usr/ports/java && ls -d openjdk* … I see only versions 6, 7, and 8 of Java in the OpenJDK releases: openjdk6 openjdk6-jre openjdk7 openjdk7-jre openjdk8 openjdk8-jre ➥ How does one…
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cpulimit for FreeBSD

Does any one know of an equivalent of the GNU/Linux utility cpulimit for FreeBSD? I'm not talking about process niceness or setting limits on a user account, but actually limiting the percentage of cpu used by a specific process.
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Setting timezone to UTC in unattended install

In FreeBSD, I'd like to set the timezone to UTC in an unattended way. If I run tzsetup, and select "yes" and "a" in the dialogs, for choosing UTC, I see that there are no /etc/localtime files present. So if I want to set up UTC on a server in an…
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ZFS and non Sun OS's

Is there any other Unix like distros that can read and write to ZFS filesystems. I know its currently unstable in FreeBSD :( The reason I am asking is I love ZFS but don't get on so well with Solaris.
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Disk size addressable by the OS

I have a 3ware 9550SXU-12 storage controller and 750G disks connected to it. The disks are configured as single units (not JBOD). I've been running some performance tests, mainly to see the impact of partition alignment, encryption, raid level, etc.…
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FreeBSD how to rebuild all p5-* Perl 5 ports

On a FreeBSD system, instructions say to rebuild all p5-* ports - how do I do that? A bit of background... I'm an experienced Linux person, trialling (and liking) the latest PC-BSD (PCBSD9.2-RELEASE-x64). I've previously installed simple packages…
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What does zfs receive -F do?

When I read man zfs for zfs receive I see -F Force a rollback of the file system to the most recent snap- shot before performing the receive operation. If receiving an incremental replication stream (for example,…
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FreeBSD's ng_nat stopping pass the packets periodically

I have FreeBSD router: #uname 9.1-STABLE FreeBSD 9.1-STABLE #0: Fri Jan 18 16:20:47 YEKT 2013 It's a powerful computer with a lot of memory #top -S last pid: 45076; load averages: 1.54, 1.46, 1.29 up…
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PAM_LDAP Authentication failure with correct credentials on freebsd

I need to get our freebsd servers to auth via AD, but it is giving me problems. Environment: AD backend (Win 2k8r2). This works with other linux hosts which auth via SSSD FreeBSD 9.1 for client servers I have configured everything I can think of,…
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Identify which process is responsible for heavy disk i/o under FreeBSD

I wonder how I can monitor which process takes out all my IO bandwith. The only command i know is gstat but it shows cumulative info. Is there any tools i can use to inspect the running processes for their io usage? The system is FreeBSD 8.3 Thank…
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How to put FreeBSD configuration under Revision Control?

I heard once that in Linux it's possible to put whole /etc/ directory into repository. In fact i already done too much crap on server and I quite disoriented what exactly is setup in there at all. Question is how to put FreeBSD all configuration…
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FreeBSD Host ZFS on Root Running VirtualBox with Windows Server 2003 Guests Very Slow HD Speeds

Here is my setup: I am running a Dual Quad Core Xeon 2.0Ghz with 16GB of Ram and 2 x 2TB WD Green drives with FreeBSD 7 that has ZFS on root. The Hard Drives are in a ZFS Mirror. I am running VirtualBox 4.0.14. I have 2 Windows Server 2003 Guests…
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How to use nginx PAM module?

I would like to use nginx PAM module to authenticate a site with existing users on a FreeBSD system. I tried to use pam_unix.so, but no luck. It's just not let me in with my usr/psw pair. :( nginx conf: location / { root html; …
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PXE Boot FreeBSD ISO from a Linux PXE server

I have a working PXE boot server running on CentOS 5.5 that works perfectly for any flavor of Linux. I'm trying to add FreeBSD to the install options as a ISO memdisk, but so far nothing is working out. When I try to boot, I get the…
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