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A lot of the differences between Linux distributions and FreeBSD can be neatly summarised by this principle: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/freebsd-glossary.html#pola-glossary.

There's some anecdotal evidence here: http://nileshgr.com/2013/06/07/the-move-from-linux-to-freebsd. As always, YMMV. To most "switchers" the compelling reasons are features like ZFS, jails, nicer firewall (PF), DTrace etc.

It was powerd that was causing the lockup. FYI here's why you'd want powerd running on servers: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-performance/2012-March/004560.html

Thanks for the feedback everyone. @grabes, can you post your hardware and system configuration to see what we have in common? I have a bit more puzzling information, which indicates it *may not* be a kernel issue. I use two separate datasets tank/91RELEASE and tank/92RELEASE for testing. I...

I tested out 9.2-RC3 on a HP Proliant DL165 that has been running 9.1 and found it locks up a couple of minutes after boot. I needed to physically power cycle the machine to get it to reboot. I detected no panic found no (text)dump afterwards. The system has an 8-core Opteron 6136, 8G 8 G(i)B...

If you don't want to roll your own just use sysutils/ezjail.

Since shared libraries are (by definition) mapped into the process's address space I don't think there's a general way to restrict its memory access. However, shared libraries themselves have no active threads. So how would the library write to the process' address space? Is it via callback? Or...

No madness involved if you just go with PC-BSD. Fully tested NVidia drivers are included.

Hey this is a great idea, especially the JSON. I've often wondered why there wasn't a machine-readable version of /usr/ports/UPDATING that a tool could use to (interactively) perform the modifications necessary on a particular system. Just one thing. Since we already have tools like portaudit...

Thanks for the suggestion, but the BMC console is a "regular UART" and not 3wire. It actually turned out to be an issue with HP's ILO firmware randomly resetting the baud rate to the default 9600. Setting it back to 115200 brought it back.

I've installed Apache 2.4 + modphp 5.4 in a jail on my FreeBSD 9.1 host to test it out. It runs but occasionally worker processes get killed due to a bus error. error.log:[Sat Feb 02 13:10:19.951891 2013] [core] [pid 32078:tid 34389128192] AH00052: child pid 32245 exit signal Bus error (10) I...

Dear Mods/Warren, Can we have a sticky somewhere pointing newcomers to PC-BSD and any other alternatives that will get help them get up and running quickly? I see a lot of "help me get started" sort of posts here, and let's face it the vanilla FreeBSD installation experience is a bit...

Hi, thanks for the suggestion. This would work, but I was hoping for a more elegant (and performant) solution. In the end I decided to go with collectd, which has a ZFS module instead of SNMP. Apparently OpenBSD has an SNMP daemon in development with some of these capabilities...

I'd like to export some sysctls (specifically kstat.zfs tree) via SNMP using bsnmp. I found this example in net-mgmt/bsnmp-ucd module's man page: extNames.0 = "lastpid" extCommand.0 = "/sbin/sysctl -n kern.lastpid" However this method (agent-x?) is inappropriate for exporting an entire sysctl...

If you're new to setting up FreeBSD on a server why not try TrueOS? All the goodness of FreeBSD 9.1 with a nice GUI installer providing ZFS based setup. You also get Warden for jail management and PBI package management while retaining all the power and flexibility of a standard FreeBSD...

I have a dedicated jail for port builds as is common practice. I usually run make package-recursive and do a pkg_add in the production jail. However this also pulls in build dependencies of the package. So is there a make target or flag to package only run-time dependencies? (i.e. packaging...

Hello all, I've been using pkg on FreeBSD 9.0 with no issues. But after upgrading to 9.1 it looks as though there are no packages available for this release. Does anybody else have this problem?

Don't have much experience with CARP, but you could try to provide NAT to jails on the loopback interface.

Can you do any DNS queries at all? host -l sin.x

Thanks for the howto. Did you have to install any dependencies by hand or does waf handle it? Regarding your Kerberos issue, you can use sockstat -l and pgrep to verify that the necessary daemons are started. If you suspect that the problem is with nsupdate check if a samba-specific version is...