---
title: open /compat/linux/proc: no such file or directory error on FreeBSD
description: The system metricsets rely on a Linux compatibility layer to retrieve metrics on FreeBSD. You need to mount the Linux procfs filesystem using the following...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3016/reference/beats/metricbeat/freebsd-no-such-file
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---

# open /compat/linux/proc: no such file or directory error on FreeBSD
The system metricsets rely on a Linux compatibility layer to retrieve metrics on FreeBSD. You need to mount the Linux procfs filesystem using the following commands. You may want to add these filesystems to your `/etc/fstab` so they are mounted automatically.
```sh
sudo mount -t procfs proc /proc
sudo mkdir -p /compat/linux/proc
sudo mount -t linprocfs /dev/null /compat/linux/proc
```