Archive for the ‘FreeBSD’ Category.
June 3, 2009, 8:52 am
There are a number of things I like about FreeBSD, more than any Linux distribution I’ve ever used. Some of those are advantages shared by no Linux distribution I’ve used, and some are advantages shared by a few Linux distributions but not others — but no Linux distribution shares all of these advantages (even discounting things no Linux distribution has, like a BSD-licensed kernel).
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June 1, 2009, 8:04 am
FreeBSD comes with different utilities, which can be use to gathered the information as per your needs. uname command is use to print system information. dmesg command is use to print kernel ring buffer information. sysctl command is use to configure kernel parameters at runtime as well as to read hardware information.
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April 26, 2009, 12:52 am
After a fresh install, it is important to harden the security on a server before it hits your network for use. Not only making configuration changes aid in the security of your box, but there are some practical rules to abide by. These are some hardening tips to make your FreeBSD box more secure and will apply to both the 5.x and 4.x branches, but I will assume you are running 5.x. If a 4.x change is different, I will note it.
Note: Please do not apply these changes carelessly on a production server. Make sure you test, test, test on a separate box to note the effects of the changes.
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April 25, 2009, 6:14 pm
The FreeBSD ports tree is the most common method of installing software. With the latest 6.x releases of FreeBSD, the old method of keeping your ports tree updated is now considered obsolete. This guide will teach you how to install and maintain your ports tree using the built-in portsnap utility.
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April 25, 2009, 3:16 pm
It is hard to deny that Adobe’s Flash Player had become more then an option when you surf the web. Not long ago we found most of the websites just based on html, css and eventually animated gifs. Video clips were just on subpages and most of us didnt really miss the obtrusive advertisment, often displayed on the banners on commercial websites like magazines.
While you can eventually ignore video websites like Youtube you find more and more pages you cannot even access—you have to skip over a Flash intro to enter the website, click through Flash-created menues, click on Flash animated maps where your current location is and other, often annoying tricks.
There were many FreeBSD users who tried to move Adobe to release their Flash Player plugin not only for Mac OSX, Linux and Solaris but simply to compile a BSD binary what we can use on BSD workstations. Not much of a reaction yet..
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April 22, 2009, 2:10 pm
Software installed and functioning by the end of this walk through :
- FreeBSD 7.1
- Apache 2.2
- PHP 5.2.8
- MySQL 6.0.9
First off grab a copy of FreeBSD 7.1 from http://www.freebsd.org/where.html
Once you have FreeBSD installed we can start.
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November 18, 2008, 8:15 am
This mini HowTo will describe in quick and clear steps how to enforce a chroot environment for regular user ftp sessions with the default ftp daemon that comes with the base system, and how to compile
ftpd with internal ls.
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November 14, 2008, 11:41 pm
In this tutorial we look at ZFS filesystem management, including creating new filesystems, destroying them and adjusting their properties.
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November 14, 2008, 11:39 pm
ZFS is an open source filesystem used in Solaris 10, with growing support from other operating systems. This series of tutorials shows you how to use ZFS with simple hands-on examples that require a minimum of resources.
In this tutorial I hope to give you a brief overview of ZFS and show you how to manage ZFS pools, the foundation of ZFS. In subsequent parts will we look at ZFS filesystems in more depth.
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October 16, 2008, 12:29 pm
Ipfirewall (ipfw) is a FreeBSD IP packet filter and traffic accounting facility.
IPFW is included in the basic FreeBSD install as a separate run time loadable module. The system will dynamically load the kernel module when the rc.conf statement firewall_enable=”YES” is used.
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