BSD sleep

2013-05-28 Thread Kenta Suzumoto
Hi. Is there no built-in way of making sleep sleep in increments of minutes, hours, etc? The GNU sleep can be invoked like sleep 1h for an hour. The FreeBSD one's manpage leads me to believe we can only use seconds, which is kind of annoying. Is there an undocmented or missing feature here?

Per-IP Bandwidth Monitoring

2013-06-08 Thread Kenta Suzumoto
Hello. I'm running a FreeBSD machine with 5 IP addresses, each of them attached to a specific jail. I'm wondering if there is an easy way to monitor the bandwidth usage of each of them individually. Upon googling, I ran into a lot of suggestions like bandwidthd. I gave it a try and it seemed

Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-13 Thread Kenta Suzumoto
Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk? I have one directory of data that I want to keep. I can boot from the installer and rm every directory except that (/bin /boot etc), but how could I install the OS from there? I've done ZFS on root installs with the shell and