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Is there a website somewhere that has a conversion table that can tell me what the device names are under FreeBSD versus Linux? I understand what eth0 and eth1 are in Linux but I have no clue what the hell le0 means. Note that I'm running FreeBSD under VMWare, should that make a difference.quote:I've never really had good luck even getting FreeBSD installed right. I should download the newest version and give it a shot. The hardest thing for me to pick up was the partition versus slice moniker they have going. It seems to me that slices act as a kind of sub-partition under a normal FreeBSD partition. Is this a correct statement or am I way off? EDIT: Well, I found part of what I was looking for in the FreeBSD handbook, Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Mar 16, 2008 |
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Aha. FreeBSD Handbook Chapter 11 Section 11.8.1: /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES and /usr/src/sys/arch/conf/NOTES will give you the list of network interface drivers with some information about the supported chipsets/cards. I think I'm starting to like this handbook. adorai posted:ethernet devices are typically named after their driver. like xe0 or rl0 are two that I know of off the top of my head. That makes sense. Thanks.
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Mar 16, 2008 19:10
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H110Hawk posted:This cannot be stressed enough. For a newbie, simply open the handbook on page 1 and read the whole thing through once. It only takes about an hour or two, and it will simplify your life. When I first picked up FreeBSD 4.4 my friends told me that, and life was good. Will do, after finals are done that is. quote:I think you can even rename them to be eth0/eth1/etc, but why bother. Yeah, I definitely see the advantage in the naming scheme here. I'll leave the Linux-isms to Linux.
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Mar 17, 2008 03:44
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Let me see if I understand this: Slices in FreeBSD are kind of like traditional partitions and FreeBSD partitions are like sub-partitions? This is how I read the Handbook section on allocating disk space.
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Apr 12, 2008 04:31
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Toiletbrush posted:More like the other way around. You slice regular partitions. At least I think. According to this, it seems slices = primary partitions and partitions (in FreeBSD) = logical partitions. There can be only 4 slices and as many partitions within the slices as you want or can have (at least that's the impression I get). This way appears to be the simplest method of looking at it that I've found. That and the naming scheme goes [physical disk name][slice number][slice partition] (i.e. ad0s1a, ad0s2a, etc.). The slice mechanism seems to be a rather nice little way of doing things as opposed to the Linux way which is basically to make as many disk-level partitions as needed for your mount points (at least that's how I've been doing it; then again, I haven't really gone any further than separate /usr and /var partitions). P.S. The more I read the Handbook, the more I love it.  EDIT: Temporary Internet malfunction almost made me double-post. Whew. Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Apr 12, 2008 |
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Word around the Internet is that FreeBSD's Samba performance is not as good as Linux. Can anyone confirm or deny this? I'm asking because if there's ever a need to replace my current Linux box, I want to know that FreeBSD can perform just as well, if not better. Side note: I'm about 2/3 of the way through the Handbook (not counting the appendices and such). I'm just wondering how much it has been updated for 7.0, not that I imagine stuff from 6.3 wouldn't apply.
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EvilMoFo posted:i have not read the entire handbook and i can safely say that all (but 1) of my friends that use freebsd are in the same boat Well, some of the chapters have mostly been "Do you have hardware x? Install software y to use it!" which makes for a rather dull read since there are things I don't even have (TV tuner cards). It's nice for a reference but I'm kind of skipping through stuff like that to get to the real stuff (Administration and networking -- the last third of the handbook). The other reason I'm reading more of the Handbook is that I don't really have a reason to implement FreeBSD right now on anything I have. My Arch Linux box is working fine enough (the cardinal "If it's not broken, don't fix it" rule) and I don't have a fourth computer to act as a screw-around box. That leaves me with a VMWare installation which I'm futzing around in now.
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Apr 16, 2008 17:46
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Is there some easy way to remove a lot of packages without typing out pkg_delete [package] a million times? My first thought was to go back into the ports collection and do make uninstall but that doesn't work at all (feels like it should though).
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Apr 23, 2008 02:13
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CrzyDTpBoy posted:You can always try pkg_cutleaves. It's basically a script that cycles through the ports tree, asking whether you want to delete each package that it finds that nothing else depends on. When one loop is done, it cycles back through with any new "orphaned" packages it finds. Now that's how I imagined a make uninstall from within the ports tree would work, more or less. Thanks for the link.
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Interestingly enough, it looks like setting up FreeBSD to do the same things my Arch Linux box does now is going to be way the hell easier than how I did it with Arch to begin with. So I think I'll do that. EDIT: Also, I'm curious. What exactly would one use NetBSD for, compared to Free or Open? Like if you had some obscure platform you needed BSD for and the others wouldn't work? Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at 22:51 on May 19, 2008 |
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I'm happy to report that my file server is now running FreeBSD and I'm listening to my music as if I had never left Arch Linux. Up next: Gateway/NAT functionality.
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Here's a rather subjective question: Do people tend to use the software that's installed in the base more than anything you can get for ports? For example, if I wanted to set up a FTP server, should I bother using the built-in one or should I get something like ProFTPD from ports?
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Jul 5, 2008 02:36
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timb posted:vsftpd I don't remember what I did (probably a typical install) but I'll look for a minimal option next time I do. And I'm fairly sure I've heard of VSFTP before so I'll check that out.
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Perhaps I should be asking what the criteria are for inclusion in the FreeBSD base then.
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SmirkingJack posted:Long story short, running them in parallel and continously synced so one will automatically pick up when the other fails would be ideal, but isn't going to happen. Forgive me for being a newbie at FreeBSD/the slight derail, but isn't failover essentially what CARP is for? Or is there some other issue precluding you from using that? 
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Jul 10, 2008 23:27
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EvilMoFo posted:that is for the (pf) firewall and not for a webserver Ah, gotcha. I got confused because it said "In some configurations, this may be used for availability or load balancing." Carry on.
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I seem to be having trouble with a NFS mount between my FreeBSD server and my Ubuntu laptop. My entry in /etc/exports on FreeBSD is: code:My Ubuntu laptop gets the following command: code:I missed something stupidly easy here, didn't I? This is my first attempt at trying NFS.
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Ninja Rope posted:A couple of NFS notes: 1) It would appear that the UID and GID on my FreeBSD machine is 1003 whereas it's 1000 on my Ubuntu laptop. So that appears to be a start to fixing the problem. But I'm not entirely sure on how to change those values. Off to  I suppose.2) Would invoking the mount via sudo cause a problem like this? Believe me, I don't want to use the root user over NFS if I don't have to. I'll look into the maproot exports option just in case though. Thanks.
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So from the sound of it, it can be a fairly big, complicated problem to keep all these UIDs in sync if you're running multiple *NIX machines.Ninja Rope posted:
Both are free so I'm going to change the Linux machine around. Hopefully this fixes the problem. EDIT: Somehow, I get the feeling that if both machines were Linux or both were FreeBSD, this wouldn't have come up, right? Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Aug 6, 2008 |
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I finally got around to changing my user's ID on my laptop and now my NFS mount works perfectly. Thanks to everyone who helped.
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If I wanted to put FreeBSD on my laptop (not going to at the moment, but just for the sake of discussion), is it possible that I can NFS mount my server's ports tree so I can update that only once and have my FreeBSD laptop access it or would that cause issues somehow?
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It seems the FreeBSD foundation put up a set of official forums: http://forums.freebsd.org/. Also, I've been kind of interested in DragonFly BSD and was wondering if anyone had any experience with it and that Hammer filesystem.
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In addition, I found the 7.1-RELEASE release notes.
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It would appear that ZFS version 13 got committed to FreeBSD 7-STABLE. So yeah, have at it those of you who are using it.
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vlack posted:rtorrent frontend troubles I tried to do this a while ago too. For some reason, I wasn't able to get the SCGI module loaded in Apache. If I get some time this weekend, I think I'll have another go at it, since I don't think I'll be moving away from Screen + rTorrent anytime soon.
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vlack posted:Did you ever make this work? I got loving nothing. Haven't had time to try it, sadly. Getting ready to transition to a new job can suck away all the free time you have. EDIT: What I really should do, if I get a large chunk of time, is reinstall Apache under a jail. I'll see about getting MOD_SCGI working first. Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at 13:45 on Dec 4, 2009 |
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Is PC-BSD out of the running?
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DragonFly BSD version 2.6 is released. I need to fire up my virtual machines for all the BSDs and get them updated.
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porkface posted:You know you don't need to cultivate live samples, right? I thought you couldn't make new VMs with just VMWare Player? EDIT: Holy Hell in a hand basket, when did they add that? I must have been on an old-rear end version of VMWare Player. Sergeant Hobo fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Apr 6, 2010 |
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