Questions tagged [freebsd]

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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FreeBSD on Home Routers?

Is it possible to install FreeBSD on a typical home router such as the NetGear DG834G? Or is there an alternative that is suitable for a home setup?
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Using FreeBSD to tunnel IPv6 over IPv4 WAN

On a WAN I have 5 different locations connected by point to point T1s via Cisco 2801s, with one central location routing each location to all the others, sort of a star configuration. The routers' iOS is too old and doesn't support IPv6, so in…
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how to change mysql data directory

I use FreeBSD 8.2, mysql 5.1.58. I want change mysql default directory. I config datadir= /path OR my-data-dir= /path on my.cnf but not done. Note: i permission for /path is 755 and owner mysql:mysql. By another way, i set in /etc/rc.conf but not…
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PHP Fatal error: Ca ll to undefined function json_encode() ..?

Possible Duplicate: Enable json_decode() on my system Im trying to use json with php and i keep getting the error "PHP Fatal error: Ca ll to undefined function json_encode()". I am using php version 5.3.6 and on phpinfo(); nothing mentions json.…
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Apache: Failed to enable the 'httpready' Accept Filter

So kernel modules are loaded!! what goes on?? accf_http_load="YES" accf_data_load="YES" trying to load ... dev# kldload accf_data.ko kldload: can't load accf_data.ko: File exists and still having this errors [Fri Aug 26 09:23:31 2011] [warn]…
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CVS does not run properly as nonroot user

I get an "rejected acces to DIR for user USER" message, when I try an "cvs login" to my local cvs... BUT everything works just fine, when cvs is set to run as root... Im running FreeBSD 7.2, here is my config: /etc/inetd.conf: cvspserver stream …
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amazon ec2 instance stopped being accessible

Up until this morning, I had a website running on ec2 (freeBSD, ami-8cce3fe5, running django/uwsgi/nginx), with an elastic ip of 50.19.97.56 . The site was being served, and I could ssh into the instance. Now the site is down and I can't even ssh…
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how to view history command for user root

On FreeBSD 8.1 how to view history command for user root. Detail many sesion , because user root use by 3 people system admin. Thank all
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How to combine partitions in FreeBSD

I have FreeBSD 8.3, two HDD drive. 1 HDD /var partition 80GB 2 HDD /var partition 300Mb How they can be combined into single /var partition like Linux LVM?
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choise option when install syscp on freebsd

I install syscp on freeport (install from port). Guide me install syscp with choise option (ex: remover ftp or apache on syscp because I intalled ftp server)
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How to redirect request to second host if the first one is off-line?

I have two hosts in different networks (different ISPs). I would like to redirect all traffic to second host only in case if first one is off-line (unexpectedly). What are technical solutions to manage this problem? Is there a way to set queue of IP…
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M0n0wall won't pass traffic on different LAN subnets unless "Bypass firewall rules" is checked

I have a working configuration, but a question is bugging me. The question centers around having multiple subnets on a single interface. LAN: 10.10.10.1/24 OpenVPN Server LAN IP: 10.10.10.250 OpenVPN Server virtual subnet: 10.11.10.0/24 LAN Static…
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need help with resolv.conf

my freebsd server runs a nameserver. the nameserver has information about a single domain. a common, I think, setup for a dedicated server. I also have an upstream nameserver that i would like to forward all requests to that do not concern the…
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Why can't add a hot spare in freebsd? Can anybody help me fix it?

Why can't add a hot spare? # mfiutil add e1:s1 mfid0 mfiutil: Drive 1 is not available I found the reason is e1:s1 is marked online, it must be Marked as an unconfigured good drive, and to mark that it must not be part of an existing array. Then…
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FreeBSD and Linux VLAN

I have a LAN and i need to create a LAB with three VLAN on my boxes, Linux and FreeBSD. Well i create a VLAN 1 on the linux box as follow: sudo vconfig add eth0 1 sudo ifconfig eth0.1 inet6 add 2001:470:9b36:2::2/64 and i do the same on the…
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