Questions tagged [freebsd]

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How to pass environment variables with FreeBSD service command?

The rc.subr ${name}_env specifies this for setting environment variable: ${name}_env A list of environment variables to run command with. This will be passed as arguments to env(1) utility. So I tried using it like…
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PF firewall how to increase `max states per rule`

My firewall is hitting a problem related to max states per rule. # pfctl -vvsi Status: Enabled for 0 days 13:05:38 Debug: Urgent Hostid: 0x6556c6a9 Checksum: 0xe80368af9b3c0a876218cd2af59fbed5 State Table …
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jackett pkg outdated. is it possible to manually install the latest update?

The pkg and port listed for Jackett on FreeBSD is Version v0.20.989 however, the most up to date version is v0.20.2189. This version difference is causing some of my trackers to fail and will not consistently work. Is there any way to manually…
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Memory errors in dmesg, do I need to replace a DIMM?

The following errors show up in dmesg 10-20 times per day: MCA: Bank 5, Status 0x8c00004000010092 MCA: Global Cap 0x0000000001000c10, Status 0x0000000000000000 MCA: Vendor "GenuineIntel", ID 0x206d7, APIC ID 0 MCA: CPU 0 COR (1) RD channel 2 memory…
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How to efficiently backup shares (ZFS). Folder structure might change but media usually do not

The Issue: I have 18 large shares (each 24TBs), that contain lots of big media files. Mostly the media files themselves stay untouched. However, sometimes the folder structure changes, and thus my implementation of rsync forces TB's of data to be…
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Multiple name matching statements in dhcpd.conf

Can a class have multiple match hostname statements, e.g. match if substring (option host-name,0,2) = "foo"; match if substring (option host-name,0,3) = "DESK" ?
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trying to get an md5 from badly named files

I am trying to get the md5 from a lot of files. I would use ls to list files and md5 to get a hash of all the files from multiple directories like so md5 `ls -R /` this would work if the names of the files didn't include spaces like…
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Is XNU based on FreeBSD or OpenBSD?

I'm curious, is the xnu kernel based on FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or some other BSD distribution? Thank you, James Pedersen
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Mysql auto start on freebsd 5.3

I can't seem to figure out how to have mysql start up when booting up for a server than I am now managing. root@: uname -a FreeBSD .server1 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 5 04:19:18 UTC 2004 …
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FreeBSD 13.1 under Hyper-V on Windows 10 Pro

I am building a new FreeBSD 13.1 Workstation on a Windows 10 machine under Hyper-V. I have been successful doing this with previous version of FreeBSD, back to releases 6, and previous releases of Windows back to XP Pro. I have a couple problems…
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FreeBSD: NAT of internal IPv6 addresses with one external source IPv6 address

I need to make NAT of internal IP addresses with one external source IPv6 address. Is it possible on FreeBSD 13.X? What to use for this: IPFW or PF? As far as I understand IPFW can do prefix translation (NPTV6), but cannot replace all internal…
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How to change pickupexten on asterisk 11

I'm looking for a way to change ‍pickupexten in Asterisk 11. Is there a way? The features.conf: pickupexten = *8 pickupgroup=1 pickupsound = beep pickupfailsound = beeperr I want to change *8 with any number. But when I changed it, It doesn't…
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Issue using dd to write 1GB file to zfs dataset on FreeBSD 13

Hey guys I am turning up a little FAMP stack on an Azure VM. 4 Xeon cores 16GB ram. Second SSD is using ZFS and the boot drive is UFS2 (Default). When I dd if=/dev/zero of=testfile bs=1024 count=1024000 to my home directory which is located on the…
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How to improve TCP tolerance to out-of-order delivery in Linux balance-rr bonds and/or FreeBSD roundrobin laggs?

I have 3 servers networ kwise configured as follows A is a DELL R710 is running Linux 5.13.19-1-pve Proxmox VE 7.1 and has 4 NICs teamed in a balance-rr mode bond. B is a DELL R610 is running Linux 5.13.19-1-pve Proxmox VE 7.1 and has 4 NICs teamed…
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Joomla redirects wrong after POST

Situation: FreeBSD 13 server with Apache 2.4 as reverse proxy on SSL. Bastille jail with nginx on port 80 and joomla 4.04 Problem: When doing a POST within Joomla (actually any POST except the one from logging in), the update gets handled okay but…
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