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  1. hansivers

    Can I use PF to filter traffic for a specific process?

    Maybe you can limit your software to be started by a specific user, and allow only traffic to/from this user in your PF rules?
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    Sparc64 - Upgrade from 7.0 to 9.2

    The freebsd-update tool has never been available for the sparc64 port, but may soon be, according to the FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report (september 2013): http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/repo ... 13-09.html
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    freebsd-update on sparc64

    For a long time, there have been discussions about why freebsd-update tools were not available to update/upgrade sparc64 port (for example, read this March 2010 thread on -sparc64 mailing list) : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2010-March/007078.html But things are...
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    Unable to find FreeBSD 8.4 ISO (release) for Sparc64

    Yop, I've noticed it when searching for the release ISO. My question is more about why there was no release ISO for sparc64 for 8.4. For 8.3, both RC2 and RELEASE ISO are available on sparc64. Same thing for 9.2. I've consulted both -stable and -sparc64 mailings lists archives, searching for a...
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    Unable to find FreeBSD 8.4 ISO (release) for Sparc64

    Hi everybody, I'm unable to find on the main FreeBSD FTP site and mirrors the Sparc64 ISO for FreeBSD 8.4 final release. I am able to find the 8.3 ISO for Sparc64: http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/8.3/ as well as the 8.4 RC2 ISO...
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    Some guys say: "FreeBSD's pkgng: A broken fork of Debian's a

    Some of us have been answered by the author of the blog.. See for yourself : [ troll link removed ]
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    freshports.org versus freebsd.org/ports

    I just did a request for one port and the footer read like this : So no updates for about 5 months, when problems with the FreeBSD infrastructure were first reported.
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    Some guys say: "FreeBSD's pkgng: A broken fork of Debian's a

    Haha! Is he a real troller or it's just a big joke? I'm just asking... Seriously, the guy is carefully shooting in *every* direction: Apple control of FreeBSD agenda, FBI planting back doors in OpenBSD (yes, again!), OpenBSD developers behind the 2012 hacking of the FreeBSD infrastructure...
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    What got you into UNIX/Linux/BSD?

    My first contact with computers was on DOS (IBM/PC and various clones) near 1987. I bought a x86 clone in college but the Win95 fiasco bit me hardly : I had to reinstall about 20 times Win95 on my 486 because of problems with drivers, instability, etc. I began to search for alternatives and I...
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    How do I install FreeBSD w/ZFS on Sparc64

    Hi Simba, I have two SunFire V100. Compact, cheap and reliable machines (but a bit noisy!). I use them for firewalling and static websites, under OpenBSD and FreeBSD respectively. My feeling is that the UltraSparc IIi (550 or 650 Mhz) processor, the ATA-66 drive bus and the slow (PC133...
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    Why did you choose to stay with FreeBSD?

    Got a few minutes to spend.. I count the various reasons in this thread. Here the top 10 so far : 1. The Ports system (so far, 22 persons mentionned it) 2. Stability of FreeBSD (18) 3. Documentation (15) 4. Clean organisation (base vs ports) (10) 5. True UNIX / history (9) 6. Jails (8) 7...
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    want to study FreeBSD kernel, which book is best?

    You got already many excellent answers! My suggestion : Like others posts, you should first read The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System (2004) by Dr McKusick, to get an overview and a good understanding of the various kernel subsystems. After that, Advanced...
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    Upgrading Ancient FreeBSD install

    I'm not aware of a way to directly move the VM to a physical machine (which kind of VM are you speaking of?) Maybe a dump of all partitions on the VM image? Then just create partitions on the new physical machine and restore the dump. It should be faster than cloning.
  14. hansivers

    Debian--->FreeBSD

    I've used Debian (stable "branch") on file/web servers for about 4 years before turning to FreeBSD. Three reasons : + Monthly and even (sometimes) weekly Linux kernel security updates, with their inevitable reboots, were annoying + 3-4 times, changes in subsystems were "silently" pushed...
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    Where is what's new for the upcoming releases ?

    If you look at the latest FreeBSD quarterly status report, ZFS v28 has been committed since August for wider testing: http://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2010-07-2010-09.html#ZFSv28-is-Ready-for-Wider-Testing It may not be ready for production yet but hard work has clearly been done!
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    Where is what's new for the upcoming releases ?

    Very interesting blog to follow for the future FreeBSD 9 : http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd9.html
  17. hansivers

    ad0 failure read_dma

    Just to add my personal experience to this very interesting thread. I have seen just the same error (error read_dma lba) when booting a FreeBSD 7.3 RELEASE, which has been very stable for months until this problem. The boot sequence always aborted when trying to mount the root FS (when trying...
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    Silicon Image SIL3124 SATA cards and FreeBSD

    I have a file server with FreeBSD 7.3 RELEASE (p2), with 4 drives running ZFS v13 in stripped mirror pools (RAID 1+0). Since the motherboard was short on SATA ports, I've installed an add-in 4 SATA2 ports PCI-X card based on the SiI3124 chipset. Reading this thread, I was expecting to have to...
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    OpenSolaris is dead

    Well, another week, another senior Sun engineer leaving Oracle.. http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/and_now_page_2
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    HOWTO: FreeBSD Binary Upgrade (base system + packages)

    Yes, I have noticed. My question was more about what to do after installation of newer packages. If I follow your script step by step, the older config files are not lost (because of the initial backup) but they are no longer installed in the /usr/local/etc directory. So I understand that...
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