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Hello! FreeBSD machine has 32 IP's. Want bind ProFTPD to only one IP adress ( Not to use all socket like *:21 - only 192.168.0.1:21) It's for jails. Tried all possible variants - zero re...
Hi, I'd like to come up with a disaster recovery scheme for our FreeBSD based webmail server, ideally using a USB drive for backup purposes.  I'd like to be able to go from bare metal back to...
Is there any way to see the progress of cp/mv during copying/moving files? or is there any improved tool that has this ability? Since I'm moving large (4GB-10GB) files in command line and I'...
i have a dual boot system that is a poor excuse for whatever and apparently i am a pathetic luser who has no business trying to run freeBSD.  i have a dual partition system, and have a root pr...
when I using gcc to compile this error appeared: # gcc sniffer.c -o sniffer sniffer.c:4:21: error: features.h: No such file or directory sniffer.c:5:28: error: linux/if_packet.h: No such f...
I have a dell laptop (Inspiron 5100). It has a Mobility Radeon 7500c Series video card. I would like to get Xwindows to work since its a laptop for basic web browsing etc. I have tried Xset...
I have tinkered around with freesbie, a livecd distro of freebsd that boots up and runs from a cd (http://www.freesbie.org/) There is a port of this that lives in sysutils area : (/usr/ports/...
I am back again, We are using squid  squid-2.5.STABLE6 on FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p8 , at first we had the following problem the server after few hours hangs up and give this error 2004/08/25 15:...
Hello, i run a windows xp pc .. hdd 160 gb. i want to install freebsd as well ... my problem is ... i created an ext2 partition 20 gb with partition magic ... but when i booted freebsd, it onl...
Hello, I try to block yahoo messenger, but i wanna allow some of my users to use messenger. My network schema: Routable ip -> Freebsd NATD fwd -> 192.168.4.x Here is my firewall.sh s...
We're running into issues getting good network throughput on MySQL 5.0.20 cluster on FreeBSD 6.0 on a gigabit network (bge NICs). Two FreeBSD machine host the cluster (dual 3.0ghz, 4gb ram,...
I have MySQL setup on a FreeBSD system but cannot connect remotely to the MySQL server. It was suggested that I try to Telnet to port 3306 to see if there was any response, but doing this does...
I need to execute a command on a remote freebsd from a local system both running 4.9, via ssh and as a part of a script. The only part I'm having problem is that of authentication. What is req...
Hello, I am trying to use FreeBSD as a firewall/router solution I'm using the PF software.  I have 2 network cards on the BSD machine xl0: (internal network) : 192.168.1.254 xl1:(externa...
Hi , Actually i am trying  the 6.1 release  . i would like to download some software from the internet but a dont want no GUI. I installed the wget4web ports but il does'nt seems to  be  the ...
I currently have my FreeBSD 6.2 build with xorg 7.3 working with dual monitors on a dual-head ati 9200 video card.  I recently put in a 2nd, single head ati radeon 9260 to use a 3rd monitor. ...
I have some Samba shares served by a Slackware Linux box. 1) I would like to automount them on bootup. 2) I would like not to be prompted for passwords to the shares. security risks are unde...
I need to compile PHP with GDlib, what are the command line swtiches to do that? I installed GDlib independently of PHP but php won't recognize it that way. Can't find any docs. Thanks D
Apr 20 16:47:08 rage named[2541]: *** POKED TIMER *** Apr 20 16:48:56 rage named[2541]: *** POKED TIMER *** I receive this message pretty often and i have absolutely no ideas why ... I...
Hi I've been trying to install JDK on my FreeBSD 6.1 box. When I try building it using /usr/ports/java/jdk15 it requests me to download the files manually. I've done so accordingly and downlo...
Hi, I'm running Apache2 with Tomcat 5.5 (Java 1.4) on Freebsd 5.3, and I'll need to find a way to authenticate against a Oracle 9i database (running elsewhere).  Did you have any similar ex...
I'm converting a load of mailboxes from Courier to Dovecot, and need to rename the mail folders (Courier assumes anything with a . is a subfolder of the INBOX, but Dovecot doesn't).  Therefore...
I have a Python script which runs perfectly from the command line but when run as a cgi script behaves lerss well.  The script is in Pythoin 2.3.4 (the OS is FreeBSD  4.8 Stable).  The line th...
Hello, I'm trying to do a FreeBSD script which uses perl to do a RegEx replace in a textfile and should match string even with new line characters. I have tried all variants I could and no...
I've inherited a Sun Enterprise 420R.  I want to install FreeBSD 6.2 on it.  It looks as though 'auto-boot' is configured in openboot, so it boots to the HD rather than the CDROM.  I'm accessi...