Questions tagged [freebsd]
FreeBSD is a free Unix-based operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX.
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vim on FreeBSD does not react on arrow keys correctly and other vi-like behaviours
I tried to use vim on FreeBSD (via ssh on Linux xterm-compatible terminal). However vim behaves similar to vi out-of-box. For example it does not react on delete key, insert F character instead of ...
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How do I recursively apply PKGREPOSITORY when calling make package-recursive in FreeBSD?
I'm trying to create a package of Apache and its dependencies:
sudo make package-recursive \
__MAKE_CONF=~/make.apache22.conf \
PKGREPSOITORY=/usr/home/gvkv
Everything works fine; Apache and its ...
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What does 'mergemaster' do that 'make distribution' doesn't?
After calling make installworld (or make world), there are two ways of updating source files in the new world: calling mergemaster -p or make distribution. I know that mergemaster calls make ...
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How do I connect a serial terminal to a KVM instance?
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding what KVM is capable of, but the ability to add/remove hardware on the VM seems to imply I can add a serial port that then acts as a terminal.
So, my questions are:
Which ...
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FreeBSD: How to fix "ping: sendto: No buffer space available"?
I'm trying to ping a remote host, but I get an error.
# ping 192.168.80.1
PING 192.168.80.1 (192.168.80.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: No buffer space available
ping: sendto: No buffer space ...
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What is using this network socket?
I'm trying to use NTP to update the time on my machine. However, it gives me an error:
host # ntpdate ntp1.example.org
10 Aug 12:38:50 ntpdate[7696]: the NTP socket is in use, exiting
What does the ...
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How can I use DD to migrate data from an old drive to a new drive?
I am upgrading the internal SATA hard drive on my laptop from a 40G drive to a 160G drive. I have a Linux/Ubuntu desktop which has a SATA card. I would actually like to do the same thing for a couple ...
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