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I can attach a Buffalo USB eternal drive after FreeBSD starts up.  But, when rebooting with the drive connected I get this error: get Max Lun not supported I am ready to build/make world an...
Hello, I need to use PPP/SLIP, please let me know how can I install wvdial in freebsd7. I can't find it in /usr/ports though. Thank you, Balbir
Hello guys, I am trying to install Java 1.6 on Unix FreeBSD 6.2, however my attempts are unsuccessful. Is there anyone who can help me to fix this, because it is a big problem to me. I ...
Hi I recently installed samba on my FreeBSD through ports. I remember setting something like this up, in a file.. auth        sufficient   pam_winbind.so account     sufficient   pam_w...
Problem: Can't ping the FreeBSD Host machine, but can ping the rest of the subnet and things like google.com I am running FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0. The host machine's static ip address i...
I have 2 nic's on my freebsd box.  I have one nic with an external ip.  Now I bought another nic card that I want to put with a local ip address on it. I want to be able to communicate with...
Is it possible to configure BIND to only listen to querries made from the local computer?  I'd like to setup BIND for use on a mail server to cache dns requests locally but I do not want outsi...
*I am fairly new to unix and FreeBSD I previosly did a minimal installation of FreeBSD 6 in order to test some C++ programs before going to work on the real server. Tommorow I will need to ...
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...
I have a development server that has been exhibiting odd behavior for a number of month. At varying intervals, the server unexpectedly powers off, and requires a manual restart. I believe I...
i'm using FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE (latest freeNAS) booting from a USB drive. the storage is currently 4 drives of 1TB each in Raid 5 attached to an Areca ARC-1220 PCI-Express x8 SATA II Controller...
I am currently using FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0 and have Apache 2.2 installed to /usr/local/etc/apache22. I have been instructed to install a separate instance of Apache 2.2 on this O/S for use...
Can someone tell me what I have to do to get mod_setenvif.so to install with this port? Thanks -D-
Hi, i think i properly configured the xwindows thing but when i type startx i get a fatal server error.. addscreen/screeninit failed for driver 0... and a bunch of other stuff. does anyone hav...
What command(s) are necessary to backup the complete FreeBSD filesystem to /dev/sa0 ??
Hello, can you please tell me how to limit the number of folders a user can create using acls on freebsd ? or limite number of inodes ? or something like that ? i really need it. using freebsd...
Newbie on FreeBSD 5.4.  I have a directory with at least 10k files.  I need to move all files in this directory that contain a certain email address to a different directory.  I tried grep, bu...
Hi everyone, can you help me give me some step by step solution for buliding a proxy server under FREEBSD 6.2. we have w2k server and i want to monitor and filter the site of the users for acc...
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...
i am running dual boot with a fried vista and freeBSD gnome werking.  i want to get vista data, but there is serious problem.  i want to try to do things with MBR tools of the ultimate boot C...
what is the best way to back up freebsd 6.1 and restore it to a larger drive (same computer)?
Do I need to start some service on the client side? I see 'showmount -e servername' is not working on a freebsd box. 'servername' is also a freebsd box
I need to uninstall pure-ftpd.  I have it installed, but it is not working.  when I run this command, "pure-ftpd status " I get unable to start a stand alone server. I would like to uninsta...
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...
I have installed php5, apache2, and MySql from ports. I would like to use Pear::DB in my coding, but discovered that php5 didnt come with it. So, am looking through ports, and cannot find p...