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Cyrus-sasl config in Postfix in FreeBSD without dovecot

Good Afternoon, I have installed a Freebsd 12.1 with postfix and when trying to start see this in /var/log/maillog warning: SASL: Connect to /usr/local/lib/sasl2/smtpd.conf failed: No such file or directory Jul 16 16:01:57 mailrelay4…
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Cannot set MTU for Network interface in FreeNAS-11.3-U3.2 Web Interface

I'm trying to set the MTU value for my network interface in FreeNAS-11.3-U3.2 to 9000. However, when I select the interface to EDIT in the WebUI, enter 9000 for the MTU field, then click "APPLY", I get the following error. VALLIDATION…
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Allowing access to UDP range port in ipfw/FreeBSD

I have prepared the following configuration: # cat /etc/firewall.conf add 1000 count udp from any to me 10000 add 1001 count udp from any to me 10001 add 1002 count udp from any to me 10002 add 65000 allow ip from any to any This is the output…
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Track Bandwidth on shared interface

On our servers running FreeBSD, we've allocated multiple public ip addresses to host different clients on single eth0 interface. The purpose of allocating separate ip to each client is to distinguish their traffic from one another. Now the problem…
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Execute a Program On Remote And Send Back Resulting File

we have a powerful server to compile any code on it. For reasons, I am generally not allowed to copy my files to the server, and when I can, I can only use /temp which will be deleted after a reboot. And it gets really annoying having to copy files,…
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After upgrade free-bsd 11.1->12.0->12.1 libraries are missing

How can I restore these? pkg misses a library (libarchive.so.6) so that way is closed BTW the missing libs still show up in locate (/usr/lib) J
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FreeBSD documentation: syslogd_enable and syslogd_flags in /etc/rc.conf?

I am having problems understanding FreeBSD's documentation on "Configuring System Logging": https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/configtuning-syslog.html The documentation: "By default, syslogd is started when the system boots." So far so good. But…
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Static files getting requested with internal IP address prefix instead of domain-name prefix

I have a smoothly running FreeBSD box with a couple of jails running their own servers. Nginx runs in its own jail and the main machine uses pf to redirect all http/s requests to Nginx. Nginx checks the requested domain name and does a proxy-pass…
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Copying one 16TB folder onto several consecutive 8TB drives on a standalone Freebsd

I have a very old server that stores 16Tb of data. It is running FreeNAS (freebsd). Network cards are physically damaged and the server is on its last breath. I have 2 8TB NTFS external hard drives. I'm trying to copy all those files into hdd1, and…
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CARP + IPV6 failover

I am using a vSwitch from Hetzner with an IPv6 network, I have configured CARP and works as expected, but the problem that I have noticed is that either because my IPv6 configuration or the vSwitch, is taking over a minute or more to start sending…
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freebsd packet filter match last digit of IP address

On my freebsd system I want to use port forwarding to distribute incoming traffic, based on the last digit of the source IP. The following works on linux with iptables: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp -s 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.7 -d w.x.y.z --dport 443…
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cant ssh to hostname of server, but can ip

On a local LAN I am unable to connect to my FreeBSD8 server with OpenSSH. I can on the other hand ssh directly by IP address and it works fine. The server as well as my workstation are behind the same NAT router which is the DNS relay/delegator…
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MIT Kerberos renew lifetime does not work

I am trying to figure out why my tickets only get a renewable life of 0 instead of 7 days as I specified. I tried setting both the max_renewable_life (as indicated in another question) as well as renew_lifetime to 7 days (7d and 856800) in my…
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How to delete inaccessible data on root ZFS dataset?

I have a mirrored ZFS array on a FreeBSD that I used for home NAS, consisting of a 6TB internal drive and a 8TB external USB drive. I have 2TB of space occupied that should not be occupied, but I cannot delete or even see any of its contents. I…
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FreeBSD top disk io read write units

In FreeBSD you can run "top -m io" and it will show you disk io. For example: What units is the WRITE/READ in, bytes or kilobytes or megabytes?
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