Archive for the ‘FreeBSD’ Category
Nagios check_mem Plugin for FreeBSD
I’ve been using FreeBSD on and off for several years, in conjunction with several flavours of Linux. Occasionally I run into compatibility issues between the two. Today the issue I ran into was with a Nagios plugin used to determine the amount of available memory.
The check_mem script bundled with Nagios uses the ‘free’ command to get its numbers, which isn’t available on FreeBSD. Read on to see my workaround.
Can’t install rar on Freebsd 7 AMD64
Earlier tonight I was attempting to install ‘rar’ onto my FreeBSD system. unrar was already installed. Weird how I had one but not the other. Anyway, when I attempted to install the port, I got an error!
October 27th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
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Apache Benchmark Broken on FreeBSD 7
If you’re using FreeBSD 7, and trying to make use of ‘ab’, the Apache Benchmark tool, you’ve likely seen a lot of this error: apr_socket_recv: Connection reset by peer (54). I kept seeing it, and did a quick Google search to find the fix. Here it comes!
Updating your FreeBSD Ports Tree
I’ve returned to using FreeBSD after a many year hiatus, and it appears that the process for upgrading the ports tree has slightly changed! Read on to see the new way to do it…
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:33 pm
| Posted in Discoveries, FreeBSD |
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