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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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OpenSSH-Portable trying to install X11?

I'm trying to upgrade OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and Apache22 on a FreeBSD 8.1 system. I'm already running OpenSSH-Portable, so that's not really a problem. Where I run into trouble is that openssh-portable is trying to install libXext. How can I tell this…
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Can not start the mysql server

I got the problem with starting my mysql server, it was working fine until I copied the "read" mysql configuration file (/usr/local/share/mysql/my-huge.cnf) to the /etc/my.cnf, then I restarted my mysql server and unfortunatelly it stopped , instead…
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DDoS - How to detect an attacker IP address

Someone keep attacking my server, but unfortunately I've switched my OS to the FreeBSD, as I've earlier used Debian 5.0 Lenny, and none of netstat or tcpdump commands I used on Debian, works on FreeBSD. So how can I detect attacker IP address so I…
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What may cause apache slowing down

I have a server setup with FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE running Apache/2.2.22. Since this morning it became very slow. Connections are quickly established, but the response is very slow. This is valid even for regular files (not scripts) such as images, css…
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puppet: freebsd - installing package error

I have this module: class bash { package { "shells/bash": ensure => "installed", } } After the execution, I found this in the puppet dashboard: change from absent to present failed: Could not fetch ports INDEX: 425 Failed to…
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qmail not working

I recently installed qmail in one of my freebsd machines. But whenever I telnet to its port 25 from the same machine or from remote machine, i get instantly disconnected. Trying 127.0.0.1 Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]' and within…
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are these firewall settings correct on my freebsd server to allow postfix to pass trough?

I'm trying to set a mail server up on my freebsd 7 virtual host. But when I try to send or receive an email the log files tell me something about connection refused like this: Feb 8 17:54:42 vps-id2247 postfix/error[29886]: 2A9E044A96F:…
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Samba authentication when AD is down?

I have succesfully added my Freebsd 9 to a Windows server 2008 R2 AD Domain. Using samba 3.6. The problem is that i want to be able to connect to the shares when the AD server is down. Because the backup of the AD server is placed onto the BSD 9…
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Freebsd ssh key doesn't work

I have a problem with ssh key on freebsd vps. I generated a key and it works on debian. i usually just copy paste it to ~/.ssh/authorized_keys and it starting to work. In freebsd it doesn't. I tried to put it into ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 still…
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Freebsd 9 on Z68 chipset support

Does Freebsd 9 support Z68 chipset like in Intel DZ68BC motherboard? Will I have any "unrecognized device" issues ? What about Freebsd 8? What's the best way to find it out ?
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nagios nrpe plugin output not complete

I have written a small script to check the states of PfSense, and using this script to get the output in nagios, through NRPE... Here is the script used=`pfctl -s state | wc -l | bc | cut -c1-5 | bc` echo "States consumed=$used" Normal output of…
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proftpd overwrite permission denied ftp user

I have a freebsd server with proftpd installed. When I chmod 777 the directory I can overwrite files, but using 755 permissions on the folder I can not overwrite files in the folder. In the conf file: I changed 'AllowOverwrite' to 'on' I changed…
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Locally redirect Domain1.com to Domain2.com/subdir on one computer

I am running a FreeBSD server and I want to redirect a specific website domain to another domain including subdirectory. I want to bypass that domain to alter the XML results it returns. I tried the hosts file solution, but that way I can only…
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Making a user with FTP only access in FreeBSD. How?

Possible Duplicate: How can I create a user only for sftp I can't seem to find any brief explanation on how do i allow or add a user with an FTP only access.. This is what i did in order: I made a group "homeftp" I make a user and added it to…
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freebsd bcrypt install error

/usr/ports/security/bcrypt when I'm trying to install it I get this: cc -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -c main.c cc -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -c blowfish.c cc -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -c rwfile.c cc -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -c…
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