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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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Is it possible to mount NFS volume serving from FreeBSD server via SSH tunnel on Mac OS X?

I heard that NFS share via SSH tunnel is impossible on Mac OS X: http://biowiki.org/MountingNFSThroughSSHTunnel I have been trying 2 days to make it, but I failed. Is it really impossible? Or what should I have to do?
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How to restrict anonymous FTP access to downloads only?

I have a server running FreeBSD and have enabled anonymous FTP access, but wish to restrict the access to only being able to download files I have put on the server myself, because I don't want people putting unapproved things on it. Do I have to…
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How can I see dumps of wholе HTTP packets in FreeBSD?

I need to see whole HTTP packets sent and recieved by an application for debugging purposes. How can this be done in command-line?
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How can I check disk slices and part status on FreeBSD?

How can I check disk slices and part status on FreeBSD?
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FreeBSD disk parts with no mounting. How does this work?

I'm using a VPS service. I installed FreeBSD 8.1, and now configuring. And today, I found really wired thing. This is my disklabel editor screen from sysinstall. FreeBSD Disklabel Editor Disk: ad0 Partition name:…
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Is GHC porting to FreeBSD stopped?

I'm playing with GHC package on FreeBSD 8.1. I installed GHC with pkg_add -r ghc. But it was not worked well. I tried some more but I realized the installed GHC version is just 6.10.x. This version is came out in 2009. Current recent version is 7.x,…
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Post-installation process of PostgreSQL 8.4 in FreeBSD?

I have installed PostgreSQL 8.4 with pkg_add -r postgres84-server. I added 'postgresql_enable="YES"to/etc/rc.conf, and executed/usr/local/etc/rc.d/postgresql initdb`. And when I run psql to start, it printed these errors: %psql psql: FATAL: …
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How to configure hostname for `apache22` package on FreeBSD?

I'm configuring development & test FreeBSD machine on VM. I installed apache22 package and restarted. But the daemon does not started with this error: %apachectl start httpd: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for test.box httpd: Could not reliably…
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How to make a normal user can install package with `pkg_add` on FreeBSD?

How to make a normal user can install package with pkg_add on FreeBSD? pkg_add -r command fails with normal user with sudo. Downloading succeeds, but installation fails with this error message. Equal command executed successfully with root…
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What does "WPA" mean in ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"

The handbook suggests that these settings can be used for WPA in FreeBSD: wlans_ath0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" But as far as I'm concerned this very settings can be used for WEP. So what does "WPA" here stand for?
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How to make my normal account can execute `sudo`?

I installed bare-bone FreeBSD, and added a new user. And added sudo package with command pkg_add -r sudo. When I logged into the box with new user account, it cannot run sudo command. What procedure is required to do this?.
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How can I install man pages from FreeBSD server via console command?

How can I install man pages from FreeBSD server via console command?
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Under FreeBSD, can a VLAN interface have a smaller MTU than the primary interface?

I have a system with two physical interfaces, combined into a LACP aggregation group. That LACP channel has two VLANs, one untagged (the "native vlan") and one using VLAN tagging. This gives us: lagg0:…
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install mysql on freebsd

How to install Mysql on freebsd , i have tried a lot but after i am getting lot many error so i have removed it , but now i want to reinstall it so , can anyone suggest me the link / commands to install it ?
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How to deploy Rails 3 on FreeBSD 8?

I'm pretty nooby to FreeBSD and I only have worked before with ROR on Mac OS and Heroku. Now I've got VPS with installed FreeBSD 8 and found it problematic to install ror 3 with mongrel properly. Google gives me only really outdated guides, so I was…
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