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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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FreeBSD 8.2 + Apache 2.2 + mod_auth_pam2: unable to authenticate

I've installed Apache 2.2 and mod_auth_pam2 from ports, but I can't get local UNIX authentication to work. When I access the protected part of my local website, I do get the authentication request, and with pam_permit.so, it works. However, when I…
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FreeBSD hardware recommendations

I'm looking for hardware to run FreeBSD. I really like the chassis of the Dell R210, because two of them can stack up on a shelf in my wiring closet and take up the space of a single tower (laying on its side). However, after spending weeks trying…
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FreeBSD guests running on ESX hang without panic log

We have three servers running on a same ESX host, all virtual disks are from a remote SAN storage controller. These tree servers hanged and restarted several days ago, and it happened to the DB server today once more. The weird thing is there is not…
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Both DC's able to connect to branch office, Branch DC can only connect to one local DC

I am stumped on this one, I appreciate any help with this scenario because this just seems odd. We have 3 domain controllers: DC1 - 192.168.1.2 - main office (LAN port of PFSense) DC2 - 192.168.1.4 - main office (LAn port of PFSense) PFSense -…
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Rewrite sh script for freebsd

I have an sh script: #!/bin/bash fullpath="$1" filename="${fullpath##*/}" dir="${fullpath:0:${#fullpath} - ${#filename}}" base="${filename%.[^.]*}" ext="${filename:${#base} + 1}" if [ -f $fullpath ]; then if [ $ext != "mp4" ]; then …
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Portsnap error, doesn't work anymore FreeBSD 8.2

I can't seem to run portsnap anymore, there seems to be an error and /usr/ports/sysutils/portsnap doesn't exist for a reinstallation. The error I'm getting when running portsnap is: /usr/sbin/portsnap: line 882: syntax error near unexpected token…
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PF rules and configuration to allow a local IP alias to NAT on FreeBSD?

Here's exact details of my configuration: Firewall/DNS Server: 192.168.2.1 (local lan) which routes out to the internet. <-- NOT UNDER MY CONTROL My FreeBSD Server: 192.168.2.23 (LAN) "Inside" of my server, I have a jail. (I will have more, once my…
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uWSGI touch-reload feature not working with 100% CPU

On my development box, I have configured uWSGI to reload every time a file gets touched (using the --touch-reload command line argument). When I specify a non-existent file, I get a warning in the uWSGI logs. If I specify an existing file (say,…
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Install MySQL on FreeBSD 8.2 without ports

I have downloaded and extracted the latest MySQL package from their website on my FreeBSD machine, I would like to install it. But I don't want to use the inbuilt ports, I want the latest version to be installed. All tutorials I have looked at just…
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using "include" like statement in pf.conf to include some parts from other files

I want to be able to include some parts of my pf.conf from other set of files. For example I will include "set timeout" vs like statements in another file. Using anchors and "load anchor from file" statements will not help because anchor can not…
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How to check who is logged in on jail?

Is there an easy way to check who is logged in on any jail?
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FreeBSD 4.7 missing IPFW - How do I install it?

I have two FreeBSD servers that are on 4.7. These are two older servers that were already configure and setup when I got here. Now that the original admins are gone, I've started looking a bit more at these servers and I've come to find there's no…
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Dual WAN failover issue with squid and bind on FreeBSD

When we route http or Https traffic over our backup T1 our squid proxy server stops being able to reach anything. This has worked in the past, however we recently replaced the T1.(mere hours ago) Computers have firefox configured to use the proxy,…
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hosts.deny file missing

On a freeBSD server, I have a hosts.allow and a hosts.equiv, but no hosts.deny file. Does freeBSD not use the deny file? If it does, can I make the file myself or does it have to be generated by something? I'm doing this to limit SSH access to our…
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What's required to configure VPN (over IPsec) server with FreeBSD which can accept connections from iPhone?

What's required to configure VPN (over IPsec) server with FreeBSD which can accept connections from iPhone? As I guess, the server should have ability to manage incoming connections, but I don't know to do that. And how to integrate the management…
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