Platform Notes (FreeBSD)

Port Status

FreeBSD is a Tier 1 Port

Verified Releases

• FreeM 0.62.2 (23 Mar 2025)
• FreeM cvs-current
• FreeM 0.62.1

Testing Details

• Bare-metal amd64 system
• FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p2 amd64
• gcc 13.2.0
• autoconf 2.72
• automake 1.17

Required Kernel Tuning

Coming soon

Starting Daemon Automatically

• Copy scripts/freebsd-rc/freem to /usr/local/etc/rc.d
• Type the following commands with root privileges:

# pw group add freem
# pw user add freem -m -g freem
# sysrc freem_enable="YES"
# chmod +x /usr/local/etc/rc.d/freem

• For each user who needs to run FreeM, type the following command:

# pw group mod freem -m username

• Reboot

Port Challenges

None.