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How to disable daily run output email?

How to disable daily run output email from "Charlie &"? Googled couple of pages, but there is no clear answer. I use ssmtp instead of sendmail
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user disappeared during update error

I did a upgrade to FreeBSD 9 a few weeks ago and just started using it, and when I try and create a new user, I get the follow: pw: user 'todd' disappeared during update adduser: ERROR: There was an error adding user (todd). I first noticed this…
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What's the difference between the three FreeBSD versions? (CURRENT, STABLE and RELEASE)

What is the difference between the three FreeBSD versions (CURRENT, STABLE and RELEASE)?
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How can I tell which of my ports I compiled myself and which I installed from pre-compiled binary packages?

I have two FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE systems and I'm trying to set up the second to be almost identical to the first. I don't wish to use ZFS snapshots for this task; I would just like to select, install, and compile the same software versions. During…
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pkg: fail to extract pkg-static

I am running FreeBSD 10 on an ASUS M50VM series laptop. I was following along with the handbook to the point at which it gets into using pkg to find software. Every time I run pkg, with or without options or arguments, I get the following output: $…
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Keep a daemon running on FreeBSD

Please note this is a FreeBSD question and not a Linux question. Please don't answer with how it would be done on Linux or systemd or any of that. I have a situation where memcached is crashing. It's not that repeatable and I'll eventually figure it…
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Upgrading to the latest FreeBSD

I have a server running FreeBSD 11.0. I have full backups, and would like to update to the lastest 11.1 release. How to do it?
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How to install GNU make on FreeBSD 10?

I have this error configure: error: GNU make is required! and I can't change into /usr/ports/devel/gmake/ $ cd /usr/ports/devel/gmake/ cd: /usr/ports/devel/gmake/: No such file or directory How can I install GNU make on FreeBSD 10?
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How do I find where a port is?

If I want to find out which directory under /usr/ports contains a port like "gnome-terminal", how can I do that? Is there an easy command? At the moment I use things like echo */gnome-terminal but is there a website or guide which tells you this…
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FreeBSD11: Hanging from time to time

I’m running FreeBSD on my beaglebone black headless server and everything looks perfect, however, after some time idle (no user interaction) it stops responding to any incoming connection (ssh/http) but if I ping it, I get an answer back. It was not…
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Verbose shutdown messages

I am using BSD at the moment and think I have an X compatibility problem where my computer doesn't shut down. It can cause problems because I have to turn off the power manually while there is no display (so I don't know what stage the system…
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Is there a simple way to install the pkg-tool noninteractively

I'm fairly new to FreeBSD. I write a script to automate unattended installation. I understand that right tool for this job is bsdinstall Right now I write the setup-script for bsdinstall. I test this script standalone, not with bsdinstall. Since pkg…
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Invalid greeting from server

I'm trying to csup and i'm getting "Invalid greeting from server" su-3.2# /usr/bin/csup -z -h cvsup.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile Connected to 72.233.193.64 Invalid greeting from server su-3.2#
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Insert a new directory path to PATH in .cshrc file fail

I want to add a additional directory to PATH in .cshrc in my home directory . But after I put the path to it ,It still not working . I don't know what's the problem ... After I add this directory to .cshrc I type the name of program to use it , But…
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Nas4free (freeBSD) wont make it past bootloader without keyboard?

I've got an old Compaq machine re-purposed as a Home NAS using Nas4free. I've had it connected up to a monitor and keyboard (PS/2) for a while, (which boots fine, no issues) but I would like to have it boot and run with no peripherals. However when…
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