Questions tagged [freebsd]
FreeBSD is a free Unix-based operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX.
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sdl gui based app on remote connection via x11vnc
am trying to open sdl gui based program in freebsd system from remote connection via x11vnc.
there is no display connected to the pc therefor i used a dummy driver.
keep getting this error
libGL ...
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GPU usage monitor for FreeBSD?
I am using FreeBSD on a personal desktop computer, and a nvidia GTX 1650 GPU.
In my gnome system monitor (similar to task manager of MS Windows), I am able to monitor all the resources, including all ...
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Failing distribution checksum during FreeBSD automated install (bsdinstall)
I'm using the following installerconfig to automate the installation of FreeBSD (13.2-RELEASE):
export PARTITIONS=DEFAULT
export DISTRIBUTIONS="kernel.txz base.txz"
export HOSTNAME=freebsd
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How to access files shared from Windows on FreeBSD?
I have a desktop with windows 10 on it, and I have another desktop with FreeBSD on it. No virtualization.
I have shared some folders on Win desktop, which I can access on LAN with other Win10 laptops.
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What hardware problem does a video signal shift on hard lock imply?
I'm running a pfsense router on a PC architecture desktop system (AMD FX-8120 CPU with 16GB RAM). It's running version pfsense version 2.7.0, which is based on FreeBSD v14.
Every day or two the router ...
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Mac Cannot unmount Disk Images that are mounted from Samba Shares
I am on a Mac OS 12.6.8.
I have gotten Samba to work great with TimeMachine and general sharing of directories off the server which is running FreeBSD 13.2 with Samba Version 4.16.10.
The one issue I ...
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How is this exec command supposed to work in this context?
I'm working through a textbook on UNIX system administration. Chapter 3 of "Unix Third Edition" by a Syed Mansoor.
Chapter 13 has the following example of exec usage which is straightforward ...
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AWS Lightsail: cannot connect to FreeBSD instance created from snapshot
I have an amazon Lightsail instance running FreeBSD. As I initially chose the lowest performance instance, I wanted to upgrade and thought this would be easy: just create a snapshot and create a new ...
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NFS mount mixing up ctime and mtime
I have an NFS mount served from a Linux server to a FreeBSD client. If I use touch to set the atime and mtime of a file on the FreeBSD client,
tavianator@muon $ touch -at "199112140000" ./...
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How to burn correctly the FreeBSD 7.2 ISO image in a USB stick
I've found that FreeBSD 7.2 should have kqemu,so I want to try how much good it was. I've written the iso image to my USB stick ( /dev/sdj ) with this command :
xzcat 7.2-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso | dd ...
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Remove lines matching pattern, plus any lines following it matching a different pattern
Let me preface I am not sure if this question has been asked before, I have been Googling for answers but came up short.
I want to use standard Linux/Unix commands (running this on FreeBSD) to exclude ...
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python script as rc service on freebsd
I have a python script that I would like to run in a Freenas jail. It works without the service daemon, but I would like to start it as a service.
I have created the following service script /etc/rc.d/...
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Is it safe to delete GNUSparseFile.0 directory?
While looking through some filesystems to see what consumes disk space I found out a directory called GNUSparseFile.0. I can't easily find out if its contents are used. Can it be some temporary ...
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ZFS - Why do compressed files show disk usage of nearly double the apparent size?
Using FreeBSD 11.1-STABLE, I have a ZFS dataset configured with gzip-9 compression, as well as a recordsize of 8K. (This volume is for archiving of small files, not speed.)
zfs get all pool02/...
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Adding 10 whitespace characters using sed
I have written a script that replaces a string, but I need to add the 10 whitespace characters back. I can add it back by pressing space 10 times, and that works, but this looks hideous in my script.
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