I have Squid running and I am looking for a way to block Yahoo and MSN messenger. My search of the Internet has not come up with any working solutions.
Has anybody been able to successfully...
What Unix command(s) would I use to remove all files within a directory that contain a specified string?
Specifically, I have thousands of files in /var/spool/mqueue/ that are to a junk ad...
Dear Experts,
I am a newbie to this arena. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
1) I have installed FreeBSD on one of our server with Webmin. There are software like Wildfire that I ...
Can you help me download a FreeBSD OS?
docs# apachectl restart
httpd not running, trying to start
(48)Address already in use: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:443
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to...
I already have a static IP address. I used DHCP when I first set up the FreeBSD. How do I change that now to static?
I'm the using a Verio VPS running FreeBSD. I have written the following simple shell script:
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#!/bin/tcsh
cat /dev/null > /var/log/messages
cat /dev/null > /var/mail/spam
/usr/loca...
Hi, I am wondering if anybody knows how to include a password in a script. I want to run a backup script as sudo and I need to include the password.
Many thanks.
I'm trying to increase the amount of memory a process can use (we're running MySQL cluster on a machine with 4GB of memory; FreeBSD 6.0). I added the following values to /boot/loader.conf whic...
Hi,
Last step in the add disk instructions is to modify the /etc/fstab file.
I know what Device, Mountpoint, FStype, and Options are but what is Dump and Pass#?
I saw this in man fsta...
Hi,
I'm superuser and a weird process keeps starting..
How do i list crontab entries of entire systerm including users,root,etc
Thanks!
Hi,
I am running a FreeBSD 6 server. It has been customized and is now running a few websites, mail servers etc. and I am looking into getting a control panel to help out with some day-to-d...
I have installed freebsd for the first time so I'm an extreme newbie. My problems are:
I have installed the kde gui and configured my video card with an 800 by 600 resolution during install...
have a freebsd box and a postfix mail server, Server works fine and all mail are being delievered expect to yahoo and hotmail address.
here are a few messages I am getting.
Final-Recipi...
Im looking to do the following with a sh shell script.
modify /etc/sysctl.conf by adding a set of records surrounded by a marker of some kind.
writing to the file is no big deal really...
i've tried to install the DesktopBSD but X server don't work,and this is the error :
using config file : "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
nvrm : rminit adapter failed
nvidia0 : nvrm : rm_init_adapter...
Hi all,
We have a T1 with about 30 active users at our office. Attempting to set up a FreeBSD system with IPFW and DummyNet to share the bandwidth evenly among all users. I've been working ...
Is it possible to use sed with a script (i.e. the -f switch) and still have it edit the target file(s) in-place (i.e the -i switch). If so, what is the correct order of the switches?
I trie...
Hello everybody,
I have an ADSL connection. Yesterday i've bought a USRobotics ADSL2+Ethernet/USB Router and now i'm using it via Ethernet under Vista. I've configured it through the Web (...
Can anyone tell me how to resize a partition in FreeBSD. We recently ghosted a 36GB hard drive to a 72GB, and would like to maximize the use of the remaining disk.
Thanks in advance!
I have recently set up Squid 2.5 Stable 6 running on FreeBSD box running 4.9
Everything is working, however I have all my client machines using an automatic configuration script, so that ev...
I am using putty to connect to a FreeBSD system. I would like the delete key to operate by deleting the character under the cursor and leaving the cursor in the same posiion.
Instead, it ca...
Hi There,
I'm new to FreeBSD and I want to start GNOME automatically before login. Can I do that? In Redhat , it's the same as changing the run level in inittab, can I do that in FreeBSD?
Hello there,
How can I add an extra ip address to my FreeBSD 6.2 machine, and let it work without rebooting the machine?
Many thanks...
Hi,
Can someone explain to me how the services set to start-up on a system boot in FreeBSD are configured. I have some services specified in /etc/rc.conf and some additional services specif...
