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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).

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

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Should I mount the procfs on a FreeBSD server?

The procfs manpage states that procfs is required for the complete operation of programs such as ps and w. I want to mount it but wonder if there are any security implications of doing this.
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Which processes are swapped out?

Is there a way to easily find exactly which processes are currently "swapped out" (i.e. currently taking up my swap space). I know that processes are dynamically swapped in and out as needed, but I'm interested in the current state they are in. I…
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FreeBSD 7.2 problem with libjpeg.so.10

Greetings all. I am not well experienced FreeBSD user and somtimes being completely stuck. While installing webalizer port couple days ago, I did something bad (I am not sure what certainly). Today I have discovered that Imagemagick stopped working,…
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t_delta too long error on Freenas 0.7.1

I am using FreeNas 0.7.1 (FreeBSD 7.2-release-p6) Recently I have been getting a series of these error messages to the console. I am using ZFS pools mirrored on the FreeNAS system, and they report as healthy and in good status. I think this error…
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Data grapsh for local IP addresses in pfSense

I am using pfSense as router with LightSquid transparent proxy. Reports that LightSquid offers me are great, I can see amount of data transfered trought router, grouped by hours,months,weeks, Also I can compare local addresses one with others in…
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Extremely stupid FreeBSD mistake

I accidently did a echo "" > /etc/rc.conf on my box and I locked my self out completely stupidly tring to get the rc.conf back then rebooted making my self locked out.
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FreeNas running on ESXi - sometimes gets very slugish

I have a ESXi server (dual quad core, 8GB of DDR3 ram, 6x 1TB WD Blacks running in RAid 5 on the PErc 6/i controller. I have a 64bit freenas VM running, on this VM I keep about 200Gigs of stuff that my windows machines access. every now and then the…
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freebsd syslog server limit

whats the max numbers of syslog servers can I configure on a freebsd machine?
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Strange local DNS bug

I have a strange problem with our local network at office. We have linksys router, wifi accesspoint (for laptops) and freebsd server which is connected directly to the linksys router. We have intranet web page (x.company.com) which becomes…
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Uploaded Site Files not Displaying After Creating Virtual Host on FreeBSD

Good Morning, Newbie Alert!! :) I created a virtual host on my FreeBSD server and have the domain name pointing to the server. I uploaded site files to /home/servername/www/virtualhostname. I see there are alos files in /usr/local/apache2/htdocs. …
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Secondary DNS is not up to date

I have a primary DNS on my FreeBSD server ns0.dddddd.eu and secondary DNS on Xname.org. But secondary DNS's on Xname.org are not up to date! Commands """#dig @ns0.xname.org dddddd.eu mx"""" and ""#dig @ns0.dddddd.eu dddddd.eu mx"""" return different…
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How I can redirect DNS requests trought FreeBSD to another DNS

How to configure FreeBSD to redirect all DNS requests to other DNS. We have set up FreeBSD as router for our company. We have two cards, one for lan and second for WAN whic is configured as Public static IP adress. What I want to do is: When some…
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Openvpn, FreeBSD, Linux and routing

There is a network in the office. There are a router powered by FreeBSD in the network and a server powered by CentOS outside. Task: provide an access from anywhere to the network in the office. Data: network — 192.168.0.0 behind FreeBSD with…
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Installing MySQL on freebsd

I have a server running Freebsd 6.3, and I'm trying to install mysql-server. I went to the /ports/databases/mysql51-server directory and did: make make install And everything seemed to go smooth. MySQL was not running, so I tried…
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FreeBSD 8.0 upgraded from 7.2 won't configure network interface from rc.conf

Prior to upgrade, the network interfaces were configured with brex_ifconfig statements in rc.conf. After upgrade, this fails. If I log in locally, and do ifconfig from the command line, and then start by hand all the services that failed because…
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