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FreeBSD – Upgrade Perl Version

Posted on April 17, 2016 by admin

To upgrade the version of Perl installed on a FreeBSD server: vi /etc/make.conf Add this line (adjust for Perl version): DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=perl5=5.22 Execute on command line (adjust for Perl version): pkg…

FreeBSD ZFS Settings On i386 Hardware

Posted on June 5, 2011December 27, 2011 by admin

[ad 3] AMD64 Kernel FreeBSD machines are good about autotuning. i386, on the other hand, needs to be adjusted manually. 1. Rebuild your kernel a. Disable/wipe all drivers you are…

FreeBSD LAGG rc.conf

Posted on May 31, 2011November 20, 2012 by admin

[ad 3] This is what your rc.conf should contain to configure LAGG with FreeBSD: ### LAGG NFS Interface ### ifconfig_bce3="mtu 9000 up" ifconfig_bce0="mtu 9000 up" cloned_interfaces="lagg0" ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto roundrobin laggport bce3…

ZFS Replication on FreeBSD

Posted on May 31, 2011December 27, 2011 by admin

[ad 3] This script will replicate a ZFS pool to another FreeBSD machine. The sync process is quick, after the initial copy, and depending upon how much data changed. Download…

ZFS + List all snapshots

Posted on January 12, 2011December 27, 2011 by admin

zfs list -t snapshot Example Output: nas1# zfs list -t snapshot NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT nfs/datastore@rep-init-20110113013713 18K - 21K - nfs/datastore@rep20110113013825 311M - 311M - nfs/datastore@rep20110113015314 0 - 68K…

FreeBSD LAGG / LACP Uneven Distribution

Posted on December 28, 2010December 27, 2011 by admin

If you have setup LAGG on FreeBSD and are noting that one NIC is getting all of the traffic. Switch to roundrobin and check results. The primary ("MASTER") NIC will…

FreeBSD + HAST + CARP + NFS

Posted on December 26, 2010December 27, 2011 by admin

FreeBSD recently introduced a disk replication setup: HAST. This is FreeBSD's answer to DRDB for Linux. Some very good blog posts, with scripting, can be found here: FreeBSD + HAST…

spamass-milter + FreeBSD

Posted on September 22, 2010December 27, 2011 by admin

exit 255 at /usr/local/bin/spamd line 2588. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd: WARNING: failed to start spamd The above error can be resolved by typing: sa-update [ad 3]