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I've installed FreeBSD 7.0. I get to the login and I want to start xwindows, or KDE, or Gnome. WIth these commands, I get 'command not found' as a reply: startx x11 When I try 'startkde...
I have a FreeBSD drive that I want to get its data. I have piggybacked it as a slave to my OpenSuSE box I can see it as /dev/sdb. The partition I want is /dev/sdb1. I am trying to mount it to ...
Installation of  FreeBSD 7.0 RC1 failed 'cause this error : freebsd : write failure on transfer ! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) unable to transfer the generic distribution from acd0 ...
I want to add 10 (perhaps 20) GB of swapspace to /dev/ad0s1a as Swapfiles http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html The Free BSD help has this: But I'm not s...
I am planning on installing freebsd 5.4 with a RAID 1 configuration for a fileserver.  According to the hardware compatability list the RAID controller cards I am looking at may not be support...
I need to backup my FreeBsd Operative System, what can i do? I want to backup it (FreeBsd Operative System complete) to another hard disk or CdRom like Ghost do in Windows Systems.
# ./configure --with-mysql=/usr/local/include/mysql  (plus host of other args which all configure 100% OK) Configure error:  cannot find MYSQL header files under /usr/local/include/mysql ...
Is it possible to have a FreeBSD startup with having to logon?  Ideally I would like to startup the system and start an application. Thanks!
I am using proftpd on  a FreeBSD 4.0 server.  After I disconnect from the ftp server there are multiple TCP connections in the CLOSE_WAIT state when I run a netstat. tcp4       0      0  m...
Hello all. I will preface this by saying this is my first foray into the world of UNIX, so please forgive my noobliness. I just installed FreeBSD on a VM on my PC. The setup process went...
I was trying to follow the directions previously given: http://www.experts-exchange.com/OS/Unix/BSD/FreeBSD/Q_22540657.html the makes failed like this: nstall -o root -g wheel -m 555 ...
I just purchesed 3 domain names from a Registar and would like to host them on my FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE server that has a Static IP address. All the domain names are pointing to the FreeBSD serv...
I'm trying to compile Nagios NSCA 2.7 on FreeBSD 4.7 (I know it's very old). and get the following errors: bash-2.05b# make cd ./src/; make all ; cd .. gcc -g -O2 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o ns...
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. ...
Is it possible to scp a entire dir to another server? scp /brothers mario@redhat12.admarkonline.com:/usr/home/mario/brothers   I get this result: "No such file or directory" I am...
Hello, Is it possible and how would this be done to have a point to multipoint vpn on FreeBSD. If I have an ADSL connection with a static IP I would like to be able to connect this box to ...
On our FreeBSD firewall we've just started getting these random reboots. I caught one just before it rebooted today, it said " Fatal Trap 19: Non maskable interrupt trap while in kernel mo...
I'm attempting to install a brand new machine with FreeBSD 5.4 and would like to set up various RAID levels on the partitions.  Namely, /, /usr, and /var will be mirrored and swap and /tmp wil...
Hi, I have a question regarding folder access permissions using proFTPd.  The proFTPd application is running and I'm able to log in using different accounts but the permissions are not work...
Our pxe process is done from a FreeBSD box. Is it possible for a user to boot into a network boot disk and grab a ghost .gho file from a http mount or a samba share; and then ghost off of it. ...
What do I need to do to to get sendmail to receive internet mail? I think I am only configured for local listening... ie) ON a working site I see: %netstat -na |grep LIST tcp4       0 ...
hello there, I am trying to get the same results on freebsd as I get them in linux.. how can I do that?
I'm running FreeBSD 6.01 on a Dell Poweredge 2650 with five 73GB 15K Maxtor Atlas Drives in a Raid-5 configuration. Those drives are from 2003 and are starting to flake out.  I just ordered...
I've just set up freenas on a stand alone computer. I've set up interface and ipv4. I can ping it from any other pc but i cannot access the web page.
I need to add mod_proxy to my httpd.conf apache configuration; I tried to 'make_deinstall' and 'make install ' again but I dont see mod_proxy loaded. I know/think its not loaded because I di...