Get the existing OS to date with both Kernel and packages. freebsd-update fetch install pkg update & pkg upgrade Initial commands, to record what’s currently installed and tidy up caches etc portmaster –list-origins > ~/installed-port-list-`date “+%Y-%m-%d-%H%M%S”`.txt portsnap fetch update portmaster -ty –clean-distfiles portmaster –check-port-dbdir portmaster -Faf Upgrade the OS This bit takes a while, about… Read More »
FreeBSD equivalent of netstat The command you want is sockstat. Use sockstat -4l to see just IPv4 listening sockets
WARNING: Its really important you do not run portdowngrade from within the /usr/ports directory. Doing so really fucked up my server and I needed to delete all ports and reinstall into them from a list I had available. First install ports-mgmt/portdowngrade and rehash to update cache Then OUTSIDE OF THE PORTS TREE (cd ~ is a… Read More »
pkg check -d for dependencies, pkg check -B for shared library issues pkg check -s for invalid checksum issues. pkg check -d && pkg check -B && pkg check -s https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/upgrading-to-9-3-and-php-apache.50419/
If SVN not installed (on the older servers) install by doing… portsnap fetch update cd /usr/ports/devel/subversion && make install clean If svnlite is already installed do… ln -s /usr/bin/svnlite /usr/bin/svn Once installed checkout our repos mkdir /scs cd /scs/ svn checkout https://svn.spectrumcs.net:9443/svn/freebsd-scripts/ svn checkout https://svn.spectrumcs.net:9443/svn/freebsd-preferences/
Query a particular DNS Server for a hostname dig @ ns1.namecity.com helpdesk.spectrumcs.net host helpdesk.spectrumcs.net ns1.namecity.com Query for MX records dig mx helpdesk.spectrumcs.net host -t MX helpdesk.spectrumcs.net Query for MX records dig NS spectrumcs.net host -t NS spectrumcs.net Reverse DNS dig -x 109.169.47.183 host 109.169.47.183 Possibly useful flags -a Make a verbose query of type… Read More »
Need to make sure the php5-curl module was installed.
Needed to have the php5-mbstring module installed
Getting Fatal error: Call to undefined function geoip_country_name_by_name() ? Install /usr/ports/net/pecl-geoip # cd /usr/ports/net/pecl-geoip && make install clean # “/usr/local/www/awstats/cgi-bin/awstats.pl” -update -config=account.ptiexpress.com -configdir=”/usr/local/etc/awstats/” Error: Plugin load for plugin ‘geoipfree’ failed with return code: Error: Can’t locate Geo/IPfree.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Geo::IPfree module) (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/mach/5.18 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.18/mach /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.18 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.18/mach… Read More »
Error logs were filling up with these…. [core:notice] [pid 1282] AH00052: child pid 29796 exit signal Segmentation fault (11) Web visitors where shown… — No data received Unable to load the web page because the server sent no data. Error code: ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE — Tracked the issue down to the fact php5-extentions port was compiled with zip… Read More »
Common synlink’s you do. ln -s /usr/bin/svnlite /usr/bin/svn ln -s /usr/local/share/munin/plugins/scs_directory_size_v3_ /usr/local/etc/munin/plugins/scs_directory_size_v3___var___db___mysql ln -s [SOURCE FILE / DIR] [CREATE SYM LINK HERE]
Change shell to sh # chsh -s /bin/sh <username> Change shell to nologin # chsh -s /usr/sbin/nologin <username> Change shell to scponly # chsh -s /usr/local/bin/scponly <username> Quickly checking which users have non nologin shells # grep –invert-match ‘nologin’ /etc/passwd
ln -s /usr/bin/svnlite /usr/bin/svn
For a list of plugins that will probably work run /usr/local/sbin/munin-node-configure –suggest If this is a fresh install run /usr/local/sbin/munin-node-configure –shell | sh -x to install the plugins automatically
You probably either don’t have security/ca_root_nss installed or it was installed with ETCSYMLINK enabled. /usr/ports/security/ca_root_nss/
https://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_newguest_tools_freebsd.html http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=10185 Click VM -> Guest -> Install / Upgrade VMware Tools (which inserts the virtual CD) # mkdir /mnt/cdrom # mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt/cdrom # cd /tmp/ # tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz # umount /mnt/cdrom # cd vmware-tools-distrib # ./vmware-install.pl If compat6x is not installed you’ll receive the following error once /usr/local/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl is run for you… The… Read More »
# portmaster -DaG ===>>> Starting check of installed ports for available updates ===>>> The databases/db47 port moved to databases/db48 ===>>> Reason: Superseded by databases/db48 ===>>> Launching child to reinstall db47-4.7.25.4 ===>>> All >> db47-4.7.25.4 (1/1) ===>>> The databases/db47 port moved to databases/db48 ===>>> Reason: Superseded by databases/db48 ===>>> Currently installed version: db48-4.8.30.0_2 ===>>> Port directory:… Read More »
Updating ports and getting this… ===>>> Currently installed version: p5-Version-Requirements-0.101020_1 ===>>> Port directory: /usr/ports/devel/p5-Version-Requirements “Makefile”, line 25: Malformed conditional (${PERL_LEVEL} < 501001) “Makefile”, line 29: if-less endif make: fatal errors encountered — cannot continue “Makefile”, line 25: Malformed conditional (${PERL_LEVEL} < 501001) “Makefile”, line 29: if-less endif make: fatal errors encountered — cannot continue ===>>>… Read More »
A pretty conclusive document about keeping FreeBSD up to date. http://www.zytrax.com/tech/survival/freebsd-update.html
/var/db/ports rm -Rf /var/db/ports/*
portmaster -o mail/postfix mail/postfix28
Use the command ifconfig bge0 mtu 1500 and NOT ifconfig bge0 192.168.0.1 mtu 1500 ias explained in http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/freebsd-jumbo-frames-networking-configration/ if trying to chage the MTU remotely via SSH. If you specifiy a a IP address FreeBSD seems to “reset the stack” and loses the default gateway
Unsure of the future implications of this but as it’s been a few days and there are no signs of a upgrade I’m taking a flyer… Download and extract spamassassin from Website cd ~ fetch http://apache.mirrors.timporter.net//spamassassin/source/Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.0.tar.gz tar -zvxf Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.0.tar.gz cd Mail-SpamAssassin-3.4.0 Create make file perl Makefile.PL Make SpamAssassin make make install SpamAssassin no longer comes with… Read More »
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/installation.html Recommend running commands 1-5 at the bottom of this page prior to updating to avoid receiving errors like “pkg: Warning: Major OS version upgrade detected. Running “pkg-static install -f pkg” recommended” thousands of times 🙂 Upgrading Using “FreeBSD Update” The freebsd-update(8) utility supports binary upgrades of i386 and amd64 systems running earlier FreeBSD releases. Systems running 8.[34]-RELEASE, 9.[01]-RELEASE, 9.2-BETA[123], or 9.2-RC[1234] can… Read More »
To test… kldload vesa vidcontrol -i mode (will list the available modes) vidcontrol MODE_279 To make permanant Edit /boot/loader.conf and add vesa_load=”YES” Edit /etc/rc.conf add allscreens_flags MODE_279″ (for example)