configuration

I've installed FreeBSD 11.2, and i've installed samba too, I use pkg install samba command. When the setup is completed, it says 'your configuration is on /usr/local/etc/smb4.conf'. But when I go to /usr/local/etc directory, I can't find smb4.conf file. I go to /etc and i t same the file is...

Hi all, I wonder if it is possible to define automatically starting services in /etc/jail.conf? I can set an IP address for a jail, define the NIC to use, give a hostname and other variables. I couldn't start apache24 using exec.start, I assume, because this service isn't enabled in the jail's...

Hi, I'm using lightdm with lightdm-gtk-greeter, and after an hour configuring it, I didn't found a way to have the users list displayed at startup. BTW, dbus and hald are started, greeter-hide-users is false. Cheers

I write this with the objective of talk about security and viruses in FreeBSD. Once i read in a page about this OS the steps for installing an antivirus. Since that i started to think: how much security this system have? But, if we consider that this system could be configurable to be more...

Hi, I am building firewall using pfsense 2.4.0-BETA (11.0-RELEASE-p11) on Dell E6330, with Microsoft USB Ethernet adapter. Even though it is not on the compatible HW list, I am able to bring it up as LAN interface, and the firewall works properly with multiples PCs on the LAN. However, the...

Hi guys, I'm new FreeBSD user, and in my job has a FreeBSD running as router, and I need to "copy" all configuration to a new computer running another FreeBSD version. How can I do it??? Current Version: FreeBSD 9.1 New Version: FreeBSD 11.0

Hi there, Can you help me find which exact kernel configuration and X11 options I need to optimize my system for FreeBSD? My hardware is an Acer Extensa 2509 with these components Intel Celeron N2930 2 GB RAM DDR3-1600 Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail) 820 MHz igdumdim64 Seagate Momentus Thin...

How can I prevent core dumps of user programs from going to kernel log messages? At the moment if I am programming and happen to make the common error of segmentation fault, it ends up getting emailed to root like this: kernel log messages: +pid 75441 (ds2-test), uid 1001: exited on signal 11...

Hello Forum, I think I may have enabled too many security features that prevent me from adding any user account to groups wheel and others during the installation. I am not sure of how to get these back to not enabled post-installation. At least enabling the superuser account privilege for a...

I didn't see any other threads dedicated to this so thought I'd post, plus scottro offered so here we go! I went through several web pages on the subject but the (custom) build is not working. here's what I did: Pulled the dwm source to my build directory using git. Copied config.def.h to...

Port emulators/playonbsd depends on emulators/i386-wine-devel and emulators/pipelight depends on emulators/i386-wine-staging. So when I want to install pipelight pkg asks me to uninstall playonbsd. Does it mean playonbsd is incompatible with pipelight? Are two versions of wine really necessary...

Hello. I created the config file as a non-privileged user and then as a root user, soft linked this file into /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf. Later on, I compiled the kernel with make buildkernel KERNCONF='name-of-new-conf-file'. It went straight ahead without flagging any error or anything. As...

I've just installed databases/mysql57-server on a new server, but can't see the example config files in /usr/local/share/mysql or anywhere to copy to run the server. I've used: $ sudo find / -name "mysql*" 2>/dev/null and /usr/local/share/mysql/ has: my-default.cnf mysql-log-rotate...

Hi dudes, so no I have a big problem with my dedicated server... It was working perfectly, but then, I run the command /etc/rc.d/netif restart and my server falls... My service provider has no experience with FreeBSD and provided me access to KVM / IP. I need put this in configuration: IP...

Hello! I have Intel HD graphics 3000 integrated in core i5 2540m CPU and no other graphics subsystems. FreebsdFreeBSD-10.0 RELEASE. I've followed handbook to have a display manager and installed a pre-compiled version of xorg (through pkg install xorg) and tried startx for auto-configuration...

Hi everybody, I'm a newcomer at world of FreeBSD, for years I used Debian and Gentoo GNU/Linux, and now my new computer have a FreeBSD desktop with XFCE, and I'm very glad with this OS. My question is for /etc/rc.conf and the option hald_enable="YES", in my readings over installing and...