Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
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For some reason I think that this project is really awesome! I was definitely interested in it because I'm familiar with Debian and want to learn more about FreeBSD. I tried is as a desktop, but ended up setting it up as a server.
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debian:/var/www# uname -a GNU/kFreeBSD debian 7.0-1-686 #0 Thu Mar 6 05:01:23 CET 2008 i686 i386 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 215 @ 1.33GHz GNU/kFreeBSD
I had heard many great things about FreeBSD 7 it was a great pleasure to see the kernel in the repository.
$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 9.7G 3.5G 5.5G 39% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0 100% /dev linprocfs 4.0K 4.0K 0 100% /proc
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD i386 Package Results
I'm testing out the debian-ports.org packages on Debian/kFreeBSD:
| kFreeBSD 7 i386 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Package | Version | Results |
| Apache2-mpm-worker | 2.2.8-3 | Installs and runs fine |
| libapache2-mod-fcgid | 1:2.2-1 | Installs and runs fine |
| phpsysinfo | 3.0~rc3-1 | Installs and runs, without any useful output |
| phpmyadmin | 4:2.11.5.2-1 | Installs and works OK, I used a symlink to get access to the apache2 directory |
| iceweasel | 3 | Installs, works! |
| libnss-ldapd | 0.6.1 | Installs and works |
| libpam-ldap | 184-4 | Installs and works, I feel like the configuration of both this and libnss-ldapd was more than usual though |
| unfs3 | 0.9.20+dfsg-2 | Installs and works fine |
| acpitool | 0.4.7-1.4 | Seems like this system lacks ACPI support or else /proc/acpi is not the place to look for ? |
| mysql-server-5.0 | 5.0.51a-3 | Installs and runs, init script has issues... hangs on stop. See MySQL on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD |
| php-pear | 5.2.5-3 | Installs and runs fine, many pear packages are working fine as well. |
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD amd64 Package Results
I'm testing out the debian-ports.org packages on Debian/kFreeBSD:
| kFreeBSD 7 amd64 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Package | Version | Results |
| iceweasel | 2.0.0.14-2 | Installs, doesn't work |
Problems / Bugs / Questions
update-binfmts
Sorry, update-binfmts currently only works on Linux.
inotify
debian:/var/log# grep -r 'notify' ./* ./apt/term.log:Selecting previously deselected package libnotify1. ./apt/term.log:Unpacking libnotify1 (from .../libnotify1_0.4.4-3_kfreebsd-i386.deb) ... ./apt/term.log:Setting up libnotify1 (0.4.4-3) ... ./apt/term.log:* Can't start Hardware abstraction layer - enable inotify support in your kernel ./apt/term.log:* Can't start Hardware abstraction layer - enable inotify support in your kernel ./apt/term.log:* Can't start Hardware abstraction layer - enable inotify support in your kernel ./dpkg.log:2008-03-25 16:51:21 install libnotify1 <none> 0.4.4-3 ./dpkg.log:2008-03-25 16:51:21 status half-installed libnotify1 0.4.4-3 ./dpkg.log:2008-03-25 16:51:21 status unpacked libnotify1 0.4.4-3 ./dpkg.log:2008-03-25 16:51:21 status unpacked libnotify1 0.4.4-3 ./dpkg.log:2008-03-25 16:51:56 status unpacked libnotify1 0.4.4-3 ./dpkg.log:2008-03-25 16:51:56 status half-configured libnotify1 0.4.4-3 ./dpkg.log:2008-03-25 16:51:56 status installed libnotify1 0.4.4-3
Kernel Modules
Can't seem to get this to work right:
debian:/lib/modules/7.0-1-686# kldload umodem debian:/lib/modules/7.0-1-686# kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name kldstat: can't stat file id 1: Invalid argument kldstat: can't stat file id 2: Invalid argument kldstat: can't stat file id 3: Invalid argument kldstat: can't stat file id 4: Invalid argument debian:/lib/modules/7.0-1-686# kldload joy debian:/lib/modules/7.0-1-686# kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name kldstat: can't stat file id 1: Invalid argument kldstat: can't stat file id 2: Invalid argument kldstat: can't stat file id 3: Invalid argument kldstat: can't stat file id 4: Invalid argument kldstat: can't stat file id 5: Invalid argument
Custom Kernels
Is it possible to configure and compile your own kernel with Debian/kFreeBSD?
Where is syslog?
I'm unable to get syslog-ng to work, so factors like mysql logging to syslog is a bit of a problem. Aha! I finally got it working, thanks to bsdzone:
I had to change a few things, mainly:
source src { unix-dgram("/var/run/log");
unix-dgram("/var/run/logpriv" perm(0600));
internal(); file("/dev/klog"); };
sysctl
I'm used to /sysfs and /procfs on linux, but in FreeBSD its all about sysctl.
# sysctl -a | grep random kern.arandom: -239096387025170742 kern.randompid: 0 kern.random.yarrow.gengateinterval: 10 kern.random.yarrow.bins: 10 kern.random.yarrow.fastthresh: 192 kern.random.yarrow.slowthresh: 256 kern.random.yarrow.slowoverthresh: 2 kern.random.sys.seeded: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.ethernet: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.point_to_point: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.interrupt: 1 kern.random.sys.harvest.swi: 0 net.inet.ip.portrange.randomtime: 45 net.inet.ip.portrange.randomcps: 10 net.inet.ip.portrange.randomized: 1 net.inet.ip.random_id: 0