I am trying to install FreeNAS from a USB on a server and am running into all sorts of problems. I have used UNetBootIn, Universal USB Installer, and ISO to USB to try to get the ISO on the stick, but they don't boot because there is a missing boot loader.  So I did a search and discovered that the only way to install from a Windows computer was to use Win32 Disk Imager.  However, that required an .img file and all I had was an ,ISO file.  So, I used PowerISO to make a .img file from the ,ISO file.  This resulted in:

No /boot/loader
FreeBSD/i386 boot
BTX halted

Can anyone provide any insights into how I am supposed to be doing this?

Hi,

I created a few different zpool configs on ZFS using FreeNAS and I'm trying to figure out a way to reliably benchmark the performance.

I first tried it from a remote host connecting to an SMB share. In Windows I can't get any higher than 60 MBps. Both using a normal file copy (big file) and using various benchmarking tools. On linux I tried filling up a file using
to a smb mapped drive using a simple dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/cifs-share1/test1.img bs=1G count=5 There I get up to 106 MBps and then I guess I'm hitting the 1 Gbps Ethernet connection speed limit.

On to the host itself: So far I tried the default way using iozone which ships with FreeNAS. But the results seem to be high to be true so the question is how do I do it reliably and how to interpete the results?

The result I'm getting is:

    sudo iozone -i 0 -R -l 5 -u 5 -r 4k -s 10G | tee -a /tmp/iozone_results.txt
         

Excel chart generation enabled
        Record Size 4 kB
        File size set to 10485760 kB
        Command line used: iozone -i 0 -R -l 5 -u 5 -r 4k -s 10G
        Output is in kBytes/sec
        Time Resolution = 0.000001 seconds.
        Processor cache size set to 1024 kBytes.
        Processor cache line size set to 32 bytes.
        File stride size set to 17 * record size.
        Min process = 5
        Max process = 5
        Throughput test with 5 processes
        Each process writes a 10485760 kByte file in 4 kByte records

        Children see throughput 

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Hello,

  I would like to know if there is a way to create a Symlink-like file but with the difference that the file it points to gets executed when the link is read and the output is what I get from reading it.
  It should work on freebsd/linux.

Thanks

Best regards

I inherited a FreeBSD box that is forwarding email using Postfix through various JLS (jails).

Two days ago I switched the MX record(s) to point to a third party service that is going to replace this FreeBSD server.

When I log into the FreeBSD machine and look at the logs (specifically to see if mail is flowing), I see two or three messages in a handful of jails.

A week ago before the MX record change there would have been 20 emails every few minutes, so something obviously changed, which was expected.

What was NOT expected was to see ANY mail flow through the FreeBSD machine.

My question is: Should I expect to see some mail for an extended amount of time? I'm asking because I thought that once I changed the MX record - with a TTL of 300 for all 5 priorities - that it would handle all the mail.

Thanks for your help!

Hi everyone. I'm going crazy trying to join my FREENAS server to windows 2008 AD service. I've tried almost everything with no luck. I always get this message:

Unable to find domain controllers for innovateperu.local.

and the log shows:  

FreeNAS_ActiveDirectory_Base.get_SRV_records: no SRV records for _ldap._tcp.dc._msdcs.innovateperu.local found, fail!

I have attached some screenshots of my FREENAS configuration

PS.
My local domain is: innovateperu.local
ad_conf.png
cifs_conf.png
network_conf.png
config.png
krb5.png
resolv.png
smb4.png

I know that I can organize a single directory listing with:

LS -LTR

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How would I look for all .php files on the whole drive, with the latest being at the bottom?

Any ideas?

I'm trying to figure out what the very top (dot) directory is, and why it shows that it was created today.

We have a FreeBSD Pfsense appliance on a physical Dell PE1950 in a remote office. It becomes essential for the appliance to send out an alert if its hard drive(s) got bad. How to accomplish that?

Hi there, i need to extract from a FreeBSD server running Qmail the list of all domains and mailboxes, and for each mailbox in the domain the space used.

Example format needed:
Domain1   user1  120MB
Domain1   user2  200MB

Domain2  user1  50MB
Domain2  user2  30MB

and so on...


I wrote the following script that does a partial job:

du -h /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/ |sort -n|grep Maildir$ |tail -15000 |awk -F'/' '{print "Space Used: "$1"\t Domain: "$6,"\t\t\tMailbox:"$7}'

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This mainly works, however the main problem is that in the /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/ folder there are also folders "0", "1", "2" containing domains inside (something like postfix does i guess) that i cannot count. So the above command counts correctly only the domains inside /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/$domain_name but not the /usr/local/vpopmail/domains/0/$domain_name.

Anyone can help me please?

Thank you all in advance

I have to manually migrate our DNS servers from the FreeBSD to Microsoft DNS.  We tried the run zone transfers from the Microsoft DNS servers to FreeBSD but had no luck so the next best option is to manually create all the entries.  Just curious if anyone has any suggestions on what we need to do to successfully migrate all those entries over.  What all are those records that we need to copy over to the Microsoft Active Directory servers (A records..NS records)?  The reverse  zone files and records should be created automatically on the new servers when clients start joining and accessing the networks?

thanks!

What is wrong with by shell script?

#!/bin/bash

numberFirst=1
jump=100
max=500

while [ $numberFirst -le $max ]
do
 numberLast=$(( numberFirst+$jump-1 ))
 curl 'http://my_domain.com/new_crm/migration/db_Contacts.asp?numberFirst='$numberFirst'&numberLast='$numberLast   -o '/data/x'$numberFirst'_'$numberLast'.txt'

/usr/local/bin/mysql --defaults-file=/conf/m.conf << EOF
use mydb;
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE '/data/x'$numberFirst'_'$numberLast'.txt' 
INTO TABLE Contacts  
CHARACTER SET UTF8
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '###|COLUMN|###' 
OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
LINES  TERMINATED BY '###|ROW|###';
EOF

numberFirst=$(( numberFirst+$jump ))
done

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I get an error:
Syntax error: end of file unexpected

My file system is full and I'm having a hard time trying to find space.  I don't know how to get to that first drive:


I'm using FreeBSD.

We use McAfee's SaaS Email Protection as a anti-spam gateway. Our MX records are properly set up so all mail to the domain goes through the gateway. However, we have found that some spammers are able to bypass the service entirely by sending mail directly to the IP address instead of the MX record.

McAfee says this:

I have the IP list from McAffee in CIDR/21 and CIDR/24 formats as well as individual IP addresses. I manage the email server myself, but not sure where or how to enable this. Perhaps in /usr/etc/access ?

I do not believe the configuration is specific to FreeBSD platform, probably any Linux or other server running Sendmail.

Looking for some instructions on exactly how to configure this. Thanks in advance!