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About this site	FreshPorts	Networks	SCSI
Advocacy	FrontPage	New Computers	Security
AMD	ftp	Newbies	serial consoles
Apache	gmirror	News	Sharity Lite
Backups	inetd	NFS	Shells
Bacula	Installation	Non-related topics	Sound
Benchmarks	IP Filter	nrpe	ssh
Cable	IPsec	OpenVPN	Star Office
Cats	Jails	Operating Systems	stunnel
CD-ROM	KDE	Opteron	syslog
CD-RW	Kernels	Performance	System upgrades
Conventions	Laptops	pf	tcp wrappers
cvs	Linux	Phorum	The Dual XEON box
cvsup	Mail	PHP	Time sychronization
databases	Mailing Lists	Ports	Upgrades
DHCP	Mailman	Postfix	UPS
Disk Cloning	Majordomo	PostgreSQL	vinum
Disks	make world	PPP	Virus scanning
DNS	Mirrors	Printing	Windows
Errors	mySQL	procmail	Wireless
File Systems	Nagios	Proxies	WWW
Firewalls/Gateways	NAT	RAID	X-windows
floppies	NetSaint	samba	ZFS
FreeBSD	Network monitoring	screen


About this site
	Time for a break 18 Nov 1998 Why the ads? 21 Jan 1999 New look introduced 15 Feb 1999 New look finished 20 Feb 1999 the box is down 1 Mar 1999 the box is up 3 Mar 1999 Who is this guy? 25 Mar 1999 Links to FreeBSD Handbook may be broken 4 Apr 1999 Links should be OK now 7 Apr 1999 Get your stuff published here 9 Apr 1999 The Diary takes a holiday 29 Jul 1999 Service outage - my apologies 19 Aug 1999 The Diary takes a holiday (continued) 8 Sep 1999 Website changes coming soon 24 Dec 1999 The new websites - what's going on? 1 Jan 2000 Not much new here. What's going on? 14 Jan 2000 Welcome to the new website! 22 Jan 2000 A brief history about the site 22 Jan 2000 Site shutdown 1 Mar 2000 FreeBSD Diary news feeds 8 Mar 2000 How to get the most out of the forum 9 Mar 2000 The Polls - oh no! how slashdottish.... 26 Mar 2000 Some Diary news feeds are behind the times 30 Mar 2000 My computers have been seized 1 Apr 2000 Are you good at graphics? 22 Apr 2000 "blank" pages 27 Apr 2000 The Diary Template 5 Jun 2000 FreeBSD Diary mailing list is now automated 9 Aug 2000 freebsddiary.cx domain no longer used for testing 10 Aug 2000 hardware donations please 25 Sep 2000 A backlog of mail 28 Sep 2000 hardware donations - an update 30 Sep 2000 Is the Diary or FreshPorts useful to you? 3 Oct 2000 I'm away at BSDCon 2000 7 Oct 2000 USA certainly doesn't make it easy 13 Oct 2000 Contributions 12 Nov 2000 What do you think are the top 10 articles? 28 Dec 2000 Diary update 1 Feb 2001 Job search 19 Feb 2001 The Linux Diary 1 Apr 2001 It's all true! 2 Apr 2001 Massive website changes 16 Apr 2001 latest changes ready for testing 18 Apr 2001 New website goes live 22 Apr 2001 It is time for a move.... 25 Apr 2001 The trip north 13 May 2001 New city, new LAN, new Laptop 19 May 2001 The Diary gets ready for colocation 30 Jun 2001 Upcoming changes 30 Jul 2001 News feeds 1 Aug 2001 Welcome to the new box 2 Aug 2001 View all article feedback 23 Aug 2001 Americans are not alone 16 Sep 2001 cvsup bug fix and upgrading to 4.4 21 Sep 2001 Pictures of the Ottawa machines 31 Dec 2001 New stuff coming soon 1 Apr 2002 Installing and configuring Phorum using cvs 22 Jul 2002 I'm looking for a job 25 Jul 2002 Amazon, OSW, and my thanks 21 Jan 2003 Oh what a week I've had! 7 Feb 2003 Donations sought for SATA drives 23 Jul 2006


Advocacy
	BSD Advocacy in a Linux-centric Environment (by Lou Rinaldi) 30 May 1999 FreeBSDCon'99 - what happened there? 29 Oct 1999 Putting the Daemon into Windows 25 Jan 2000 FreeBSD Diary news feeds 8 Mar 2000 BSDCon 2000 15 Mar 2000 FreeBSD Virtual Memory 24 Apr 2000 Have you seen FreshPorts yet? 14 May 2000 FreshPorts goes offline 5 Jul 2000 newbie learning experience 7 Aug 2000 So you like FreeBSD? 14 Sep 2000 hardware donations please 25 Sep 2000 FreeBSD 4.1.1-RELEASE 26 Sep 2000 Do you have any pets? 29 Sep 2000 hardware donations - an update 30 Sep 2000 Is the Diary or FreshPorts useful to you? 3 Oct 2000 Contributions 12 Nov 2000 Helping others 5 Dec 2000 Which BSD site is sending out spam? 28 Feb 2001 BSDSearch spam followup 2 Mar 2001 News feeds 1 Aug 2001 My first Linux User Group meeting 2 Nov 2001 There is room to improve 8 Apr 2002 Tell your story, help others 7 Jan 2003 Amazon, OSW, and my thanks 21 Jan 2003 Open Source Weekend - conference report 28 Jan 2003 FreeBSD/NetBSD to merge 1 Apr 2003 Someone tried to defraud FreshPorts users 5 Dec 2003


AMD
	Make the keyboard work on a headless server (read also about t-shirts!) 17 Dec 2001 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005 Freeze during reboot 28 May 2006


Apache
	Redirecting port requests 12 Jul 1998 installing www server (apache) 2 Aug 1998 Apache web server (again) 1 Sep 1998 Where are my Apache FrontPage extensions? 17 Sep 1998 Upgrading Apache to 1.3 18 Sep 1998 Apache - virtual hosts 26 Sep 1998 Apache - who can publish what? 26 Sep 1998 Apache - making a group for it 27 Sep 1998 Apache - starting/stopping 22 Oct 1998 Apache - virtual hosts (continued) 22 Oct 1998 FrontPage 98 - publishing problems 22 Oct 1998 Virtual websites - what non-HTTP/1.1 compatible browsers will see 1 Jan 1999 Apache logging has been added to the virtual hosts topic. 10 Feb 1999 Installing a new virtual web with FP extensions 18 Feb 1999 Protected Apache directories 18 Feb 1999 Linking to other directories with Apache 20 Feb 1999 analog - "The most popular logfile analyser in the world" 30 May 1999 My first CGI script (uptime.pl) 22 Jul 1999 Installing Apache with FrontPage/SSL 23 Dec 1999 Installing a new virtual web with FP2000 extensions 23 Dec 1999 403 Forbidden - You don't have permission to access / on this server. 23 Dec 1999 Installing and configuring mySQL 2 Jan 2000 Apache port - php3/FrontPage/SSL 2 Jan 2000 Protected Apache directories - added more detail 3 Jan 2000 My first CGI script (uptime.pl) - an update ==> better, faster, smaller! 7 Jan 2000 Apache - rotating log files 11 Jan 2000 404 - what to do about missing www documents 16 Jan 2000 Virtual web sites and and older browsers 18 Jan 2000 Rewriting URLs within Apache 19 Jan 2000 Redirecting URL requests with Apache 19 Jan 2000 favicon.ico 24 Jan 2000 Apache - rotating log files - a better solution found 26 Jan 2000 Blocking apache access by host 27 Jan 2000 Apache - rotating log files - ouch, don't compress those logs! 29 Jan 2000 Apache - with DSOs for PHP, FrontPage, and SSL under FreeBSD 4.0-S 6 May 2000 Letting people know the web server is off line 11 May 2000 Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000 SSI - a quick guide 28 Jun 2000 Apache with SSL 11 Nov 2000 Client Authentication with SSL 12 Jul 2001 Managing an IP address change 3 Sep 2002 Managing an IP address change - part 2 4 Oct 2002


Backups
	Backing up FreeBSD onto a Windows NT Workstation 7 Nov 1999 How to restore from a tape backup if your hard drive dies 29 Mar 2000 drive to drive backup 8 May 2000 rsync - synchronizing two file trees 15 Dec 2000 Backups and serial console servers 22 Sep 2003 Bacula: Cross-Platform Client-Server Backups 1 Feb 2004 Bacula - Sony SDT 10000 1 Jun 2004 Bacula fund raising for encryption 26 Jul 2005 Bacula - Digital DLT MiniLibrary - TL891 25 Feb 2006 How I test tapes and tape drives 27 Feb 2006 Bacula - Transport Layer Security (TLS) 23 Jan 2007 Using newsyslog to rotate backups 26 Oct 2009 Tape Libraries & Bacula 18 Jan 2010 Integrating the Tape Library with an existing Bacula installation 19 Jan 2010 Replacing a DLT drive - selecting the right drive 3 Nov 2010 The new tape labels are in! 15 Nov 2010 Testing the DLT 16 Nov 2010


Bacula
	Bacula: Cross-Platform Client-Server Backups 1 Feb 2004 Bacula - Sony SDT 10000 1 Jun 2004 Bacula fund raising for encryption 26 Jul 2005 Bacula - Digital DLT MiniLibrary - TL891 25 Feb 2006 How I test tapes and tape drives 27 Feb 2006 Bacula - Transport Layer Security (TLS) 23 Jan 2007 Tape Libraries & Bacula 18 Jan 2010 Integrating the Tape Library with an existing Bacula installation 19 Jan 2010 Where is my SCSI card? 30 Aug 2010 The new tape labels are in! 15 Nov 2010 Testing the DLT 16 Nov 2010 Bacula: RunBeforeJob on Storage Daemon 24 Nov 2010 Bacula - copying a job 17 Dec 2010 Bacula - copying a job; doing it better 5 Feb 2011


Benchmarks
	rawio - testing device performance 10 Aug 1999 hint - A scalable benchmark for testing CPU and memory 15 Aug 1999 ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010 ZFS Benchmark - the initial run; no tuning 9 Jan 2011


Cable
	DSL/Cable modem references 7 Nov 1999 FreeBSD @home -- setting up your cable modem 20 Feb 2000 Quick CableNet Connections with FreeBSD (by Leon Dang) 7 Aug 2001 Everything got owned 27 Nov 2006


Cats
	OK, OK, enough prompting! I've written something about the cats! 21 Jan 2000 The cats - part 2 24 Sep 2000 Do you have any pets? 29 Sep 2000 Two more cat pictures 22 Dec 2000


CD-ROM
	CD-ROM saga (a funny story) 9 Jul 1998 quickly mounting the CD-ROM - an addenda to the CD-ROM saga. 25 Oct 1998 Shortcut for compiling from CD-ROM 18 Mar 1999 Mounting a SCSI CD-ROM 10 Jun 1999 FTP from a CD-ROM 10 Jun 1999 mounting an ISO image 2 Sep 2000 Already scanned directory - mkisofs problems 6 Mar 2003 Burning CDs on an IDE CD-RW 23 May 2006


CD-RW
	cdrecord - writing your own CDs 14 Dec 2000 cdrecord - writing multiple sessions 31 Dec 2000 Burning CDs on an IDE CD-RW 23 May 2006


Conventions
	FreeBSDCon'99 - what happened there? 29 Oct 1999 BSDCon 2000 15 Mar 2000 BSDCon 2000 - the arrival 15 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - Monday 16 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - Tuesday 17 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - Wednesday 18 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - Thursday 19 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - Friday 20 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - the wrap up 22 Oct 2000 BSDCon 2000 - the trip home 8 Nov 2000 San Jose bound... 11 Jun 2001 Open Source Weekend - conference report 28 Jan 2003 Linux World Expo 2004 - Part 1 16 Jan 2004 Linux World Expo - my schedule 19 Jan 2004 Linux World Expo - The drive to NYC 21 Jan 2004 Linux World Expo - Day 1 22 Jan 2004 Linux World Expo - Day 2 23 Jan 2004 Linux World Expo - Day 3 24 Jan 2004 BSDCan - my photos 25 May 2004 USENIX'04 ATC 23 Jun 2004 BSDCan 2005 - are you going? 12 Apr 2005 NYCBSDCon 2005 23 Aug 2005 New York City BSD Conference 11 Sep 2005


cvs
	cvs - create your own repository 25 Apr 2000 cvsweb - graphical interface to cvs 1 Oct 2000 Accessing a cvs repository 16 Feb 2001 stunnel - encryption and security 10 Mar 2002 Installing and configuring Phorum using cvs 22 Jul 2002


cvsup
	Staying current with FreeBSD - using CVSup to upgrade FreeBSD 14 Jan 1999 Updating the ports collection 17 Jan 1999 Restarting cvsup 29 Jan 1999 Setting up a FreeBSD mirror site has been completed. 14 Feb 1999 Installing cvsupd 6 Aug 1999 When cvsup'ing your ports, remember the base distribution 20 Jan 2000 How to refuse stuff using cvsup 28 Jan 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000 The make-world script 30 Jul 2000 Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE - things to watch out for 30 Jul 2000 How long does it take to upgrade via cvsup? 15 Aug 2000 Creating your own cvsupd server 17 Dec 2000 cvsup bug fix and upgrading to 4.4 21 Sep 2001 ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! 16 Feb 2002 stunnel - encryption and security 10 Mar 2002


databases
	Phorum - how to install and customize it 1 Jan 2000 Installing and configuring mySQL 2 Jan 2000 Apache port - php3/FrontPage/SSL 2 Jan 2000 Accessing a mysql database from perl 9 Apr 2000 Keeping mysql passwords secure 19 Apr 2000 PostgreSQL - installation and configuration 5 Sep 2000 Adding procedural language support to PostgreSQL 24 Dec 2000 PostgreSQL and Perl 26 Dec 2000 Samba authentication through PAM with MySQL (by Randall S. Ehren) 31 Jan 2001 Introduction to C++ API for mySQL (by Murat Balaban) 25 Mar 2001 PostgreSQL 7.2 upgrade and crypto 23 Feb 2002 PostgreSQL - removing foreign keys 6 Dec 2002 Upgrading PostgreSQL 21 Dec 2009


DHCP
	resolv.conf is being modified, and not by me (a DHCP problem) 29 Jul 1998 DHCP (again) 22 Aug 1998 NAT rules - for IP Filter 12 Jan 1999 Everything got owned 27 Nov 2006


Disk Cloning
	Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999


Disks
	Using your floppy 16 Jan 1999 Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 Adding more swap space 22 Jun 2000 Adding more swapfiles 6 Oct 2000 Concatenated Disk Configuration 31 May 2001 Adding a new drive via the serial console using dump/restore 15 Oct 2002 Monitoring your HDD using SMART and Nagios 13 Mar 2010 ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010 ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010


DNS
	The DNS problem which was an natd problem 10 Jul 1998 sample zone files 26 Jul 1998 Getting local names to resolve (DNS) (named - the name server) 26 Jul 1998 installing nslint - debug your DNS 27 Jul 1998 enabling DNS again 29 Aug 1998 finished Name Server Lint installation 1 Sep 1998 DNS - the dynamic way - hosting a site from home 18 Sep 1998 DNS - the dynamic way - client software 1 Nov 1998 Secondary name servers - how to be a backup DNS for someone else 31 Dec 1998 DNS - restricting zone transfers 31 Dec 1998 httpd/dns - adding new domains to your system 1 Jan 1999 ndc - how to see lots of DNS information 1 Jan 1999 dnswalk - a useful DNS tool 1 Jan 1999 lame name servers 11 Jan 1999 samba - using non-standard host names 12 Jun 1999 How to reload your zone files 28 Jun 1999 Private DNS 8 Jul 1999 DNS Resources 22 Jul 1999 Dynamic DNS - detecting and updating - DragonK script update 29 Oct 1999 Adding a new domain - a simple example 30 Oct 1999 Dynamic DNS problems prompt move to cucipop 18 Nov 1999 Upgrade your DNS server - bind8 security issues 20 Nov 1999 Returned mail: Data format error (Sender domain must exist) 4 Mar 2000 What version of bind are you running? 3 Apr 2000 Secondary name servers 17 Jul 2000 installing bind8 from ports 28 Mar 2001 Managing an IP address change 3 Sep 2002 Managing an IP address change - part 2 4 Oct 2002


Errors
	fetch: illegal option -- A 19 Mar 1999 Could not find /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk 19 Mar 1999 Command not found 19 Mar 1999


File Systems
	Samba - connecting FreeBSD to Microsoft 18 Oct 1998 swap files - how to get more swap space 1 Nov 1998 Samba - more on passwords/logon and shares 3 Nov 1998 Sharity-Light - connecting Microsoft to FreeBSD 3 Nov 1998 NTFS Driver for FreeBSD 8 Jan 1999 Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999 Using your floppy 16 Jan 1999 Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999 Mounting a SCSI CD-ROM 10 Jun 1999 Allowing anonymous FTP 10 Jun 1999 Filesystem is not clean - run fsck 20 Jun 1999 out of inodes 5 Jul 1999 vinum - A simple install to improve performance 10 Aug 1999 rawio - testing device performance 10 Aug 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 symbolic links which are difficult to remove 18 Jan 2000 NFS - sharing file systems across a network 19 Feb 2000 Stripping ^M from your files 4 Mar 2000 drive to drive backup 8 May 2000 Unexpected busfree in Message-out 10 May 2000 Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000 Changing the owner of your ports tree 21 Jun 2000 Adding more swap space 22 Jun 2000 NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered 27 Jun 2000 Quotas - installation and configuration (by James) 23 Jul 2000 file system full 1 Sep 2000 mounting an ISO image 2 Sep 2000 Adding more swapfiles 6 Oct 2000 uptime, w, and who show nobody logged in 2 Nov 2000 Setting up an encrypted file system (by Niklas Saers) 6 Jan 2001 Concatenated Disk Configuration 31 May 2001 Growing your filesystem with growfs (by Will Andrews) 19 Aug 2002 Adding a new drive via the serial console using dump/restore 15 Oct 2002 mknod - create the device, then mount 5 Jan 2004 What RAID-1 setup should I use for FreeBSD 6.0? 29 Dec 2005 Card reader for FreeBSD 10 Apr 2006 Converting a system to RAID 7 Feb 2007 c partition goes away in FreeBSD 8 22 Nov 2009 ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010 ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010 ZFS Benchmark - the initial run; no tuning 9 Jan 2011


Firewalls/Gateways
	natd Network Address Translation (IP masquerading, IP aliasing) 21 Jun 1998 Firewalls, filtering, ipfw, and FTP clients 11 Jul 1998 Firewalls / ipfw - protect your subnet 20 Oct 1998 IP Filter - an alternative firewall and NAT to ipfw/natd 23 Oct 1998 Firewall rules - some more work 23 Oct 1998 Firewalls - converting from IP filter to natd/ipfw 29 Oct 1998 Gateways - installing natd/ipfw 29 Oct 1998 Firewalls - an overview 29 Oct 1998 IP Filter - second time around 4 Nov 1998 fetch - and how to use it behind a firewall 4 Jan 1999 NAT rules - for IP Filter 12 Jan 1999 make - and how to use it behind a firewall 13 Jan 1999 IP Filter won't load - what I did when IP Filter didn't load 19 Jan 1999 using sysctl to monitor connections * 24 Jan 1999 I was probed! The security worked. 2 Feb 1999 Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999 Installing IP Filter 3.3.3 23 Nov 1999 A good start for a gateway box 23 Nov 1999 Installing IP Filter 3.3.4 4 Dec 1999 IP Filter 3.3.5 - a patch for ipmon 27 Dec 1999 IP Filter - using rule groups for blocking IP blocks 27 Dec 1999 Letting people know the web server is off line 11 May 2000 Purging ipf from FreeBSD 10 Jun 2000 Everything got owned 27 Nov 2006


floppies
	mounting fd0 without a floppy gives a GPF 29 Jul 1998 Using your floppy 16 Jan 1999 Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999


FreeBSD
	Why I wanted FreeBSD before I knew it existed 11 Feb 1998 How I found FreeBSD 11 May 1998 The installation 11 Jun 1998 upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998 a new hard drive 14 Aug 1998 Screen savers - and how to load stuff after changing rc.conf` 14 Oct 1998 Upgrading FreeBSD - installing a new version 7 Jan 1999 Staying current with FreeBSD - using CVSup to upgrade FreeBSD 14 Jan 1999 Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999 Updating the ports collection 17 Jan 1999 Restarting cvsup 29 Jan 1999 Setting up a FreeBSD mirror site has been completed. 14 Feb 1999 User Friendly - a cartoon strip 24 Mar 1999 System tools - toys I have found - the z-tools 20 Nov 1999 FreeBSD Diary news feeds 8 Mar 2000 BSDCon 2000 15 Mar 2000 USB Mouse support under 4.0 Release 20 Mar 2000 Directing mail to a program 20 Apr 2000 FreeBSD Virtual Memory 24 Apr 2000 Tips for Linux users (by Liz) 2 May 2000 New server - installing FreeBSD 6 May 2000 FreeBSD 3.5-stable is born 20 Jun 2000 FreshPorts 1.1 30 Jun 2000 FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE schedule 22 Feb 2001 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005 PC-BSD 17 Dec 2007


FreshPorts
	FreshPorts 1.1 30 Jun 2000 FreshPorts goes offline 5 Jul 2000 New FreshPorts release brings interesting challenges 1 May 2003


FrontPage
	Where are my Apache FrontPage extensions? 17 Sep 1998 Apache - who can publish what? 26 Sep 1998 FrontPage 98 - publishing problems 22 Oct 1998 FrontPage 2000: What you NEED to know! 3 Dec 1999 Installing Apache with FrontPage/SSL 23 Dec 1999 Installing a new virtual web with FP2000 extensions 23 Dec 1999 Front Page Extensions - security considerations 7 Jan 2000 FrontPage doesn't like RewriteRule 27 Jan 2000 FrontPage 2000 - installing the extensions 19 Mar 2001


ftp
	Firewalls, filtering, ipfw, and FTP clients 11 Jul 1998 Creating an FTP Mirror site 14 Feb 1999 Allowing anonymous FTP 10 Jun 1999 FTP from a CD-ROM 10 Jun 1999 Installing an ftp server - getting FreeBSD into an NT/Linux house. * 29 Oct 1999 installing an alternative ftp daemon - proftpd 10 Nov 1999 virtual ftp servers - proftpd 10 Nov 1999 upload files via http 15 Nov 1999 proftpd and FreeBSD 7 Dec 1999 installing an alternative ftp daemon - proftpd - added a bit on non-anonymous users and a common problem. 26 Jan 2000 Creating a chroot ftpd 27 Jan 2000 How to copy files around without anyone seeing them 27 Mar 2000 ssh - authorized keys and chmod 5 Apr 2000 Anonymous FTP server (by Kim Scarborough) 30 Nov 2001


gmirror
	Adding gmirror to an existing installation 24 Jun 2008 gmirror - recovering from a failed HDD 30 Aug 2008 ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010


inetd
	auth/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated 29 Jul 2000


Installation
	Installing FreeBSD on a Windows 95 machine 14 Mar 1999 Installing PPP 15 Mar 1999 Installing FreeBSD to replace Windows 95 20 Mar 1999 Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999 Installing PPP - alias 24 Mar 1999 Creating boot floppies for FreeBSD 23 Apr 1999 Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999 Installing 3.2-release [the hard way] 20 Jun 1999 How to build a gateway 5 Jul 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 FreeBSD on a laptop (by Chris Silva) 12 Jan 2000 Installing FreeBSD via PLIP - (the parallel port - good for laptops) 23 Feb 2000 Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.0-Release to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable 6 May 2000 Installing cvsup 6 May 2000 New server - installing FreeBSD 6 May 2000 Unexpected busfree in Message-out 10 May 2000 Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000 The make-world script 30 Jul 2000 Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE - things to watch out for 30 Jul 2000 Installing via wireless NIC 21 May 2001 Checklist for a new box 12 Jan 2002 Your Makefile has been rebuilt. 16 Jan 2002 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 PC-BSD 17 Dec 2007


IP Filter
	IP Filter - an alternative firewall and NAT to ipfw/natd 23 Oct 1998 Firewall rules - some more work 23 Oct 1998 Firewalls - converting from IP filter to natd/ipfw 29 Oct 1998 Firewalls - an overview 29 Oct 1998 IP Filter - second time around 4 Nov 1998 NAT rules - for IP Filter 12 Jan 1999 IP Filter won't load - what I did when IP Filter didn't load 19 Jan 1999 Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999 Installing IP Filter 3.3.3 23 Nov 1999 Installing IP Filter 3.3.4 4 Dec 1999 IP Filter 3.3.5 - a patch for ipmon 27 Dec 1999 IP Filter - using rule groups for blocking IP blocks 27 Dec 1999 IP Filter 3.3.8 released 1 Feb 2000 Installing IP Filter 3.4.1 9 May 2000 Letting people know the web server is off line 11 May 2000 Purging ipf from FreeBSD 10 Jun 2000 nfs and ipf with IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK 24 Nov 2000 new ipfilter option is really cool! 13 Mar 2001


IPsec
	VLAN with pipsecd 7 Jul 2000 IPsec 27 Dec 2000 Setting up a FreeBSD IPSec Tunnel (by John J. Rushford Jr) 7 Jun 2001 Secure Your Wireless with IPsec 6 Dec 2004 Configuring IPsec on your XP Professional laptop 22 Dec 2005


Jails
	Using a jail as a virtual machine 1 Sep 2004 Jails under FreeBSD 6 8 Mar 2007 Creating multiple jails 10 Sep 2007 ezjail - A jail administration framework 6 Jul 2008 Problems starting a jail with ezjail 23 Jan 2010 Renaming a jail 9 Jun 2012


KDE
	an ATI XPERT 128 patch for XFree86-4 26 Dec 2001 VNC - allowing remote access to graphical desktops 16 Aug 2002 Xplanet - improve your background 21 May 2004 IBM ThinkPad T41 15 Jun 2004 PC-BSD 17 Dec 2007


Kernels
	Adding a second network card (and compiling a kernel) 29 Aug 1998 compiling a kernel on another machine 19 Mar 1999 Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999 Kernel Configuration Options 16 May 1999 Installing 3.2-release [the hard way] 20 Jun 1999 SMP - using more than one CPU 5 Nov 2000 Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001 Get your name in the kernel! 20 May 2001 ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! 16 Feb 2002 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005


Laptops
	FreeBSD on a laptop (by Chris Silva) 12 Jan 2000 Last Netgear's FA410TX pcmcia ethernet card and FreeBSD 4.x (by Marc Fonvieille) 12 Aug 2000 Installing via wireless NIC 21 May 2001 San Jose bound... 11 Jun 2001 Laptop stolen 22 May 2004 Stolen laptop - used on MSN? 4 Jun 2004 IBM ThinkPad T41 15 Jun 2004 5.* on an IBM ThinkPad T41 16 Jul 2004 Secure Your Wireless with IPsec 6 Dec 2004 Configuring IPsec on your XP Professional laptop 22 Dec 2005 IBM ThinkPad T41 - going from ipw(4) to ath(4) 8 Mar 2006 IBM ThinkPad T41 - a second battery 26 Jun 2006 IBM ThinkPad T41: Upgrading RAM and HDD 1 Aug 2007 IBM ThinkPad T41: Upgrading RAM and HDD - pictures 6 Aug 2007


Linux
	Tips for Linux users (by Liz) 2 May 2000 ppp [for Linux users] by a Linux user (by Liz) 4 May 2000


Mail
	Reading my mail from NT1 (qpopper) 15 Jul 1998 fetchmail - run your own mailserver * 10 Aug 1998 python - needed for fetchmail * 10 Aug 1998 notes on qpopper 11 Aug 1998 installing qpopper (a POP server) 31 Aug 1998 upgrading sendmail 11 Jan 1999 hendrix.mc - the template used to create sendmail.cf 13 Jan 1999 Error correction for sendmail.cf template 31 Jan 1999 Installing a mailing list server - majordomo 6 Feb 1999 Forwarding mail in one mailbox to another 6 Feb 1999 Join the FreeBSD Diary mailing list 6 Feb 1999 Setting the default reply-to address in a majordomo mailing list 17 Feb 1999 Upgrading to sendmail 8.9.3 18 Feb 1999 Clearing out your sendmail queue 17 Mar 1999 Block the Melissa virus 29 Mar 1999 Verifying an email address 1 May 1999 Dynamic DNS problems prompt move to cucipop 18 Nov 1999 allowing sendmail to relay mail - a trouble shooting tip 24 Nov 1999 virtual hosting with sendmail 27 Nov 1999 installing qmail (by rtroy@springsips.com) 29 Nov 1999 unwanted email from tcpd 26 Dec 1999 Returned mail: Data format error (Sender domain must exist) 4 Mar 2000 Directing mail to a program 20 Apr 2000 turning sendmail VRFY off 8 Aug 2000 webmail - Endymion Mailman 13 Nov 2000 procmail - a simple example 8 Dec 2000 Setting up Spam Bouncer 5 Jan 2001 qpopper with APOP 30 Mar 2001 Using smtp from remote locations 7 Apr 2001 Postfix - virtual domains 6 Nov 2002 Is your ISP blocking port 25? Here's a Postfix solution. 10 Feb 2006 Fighting spam with pf 9 Jul 2007 Virus scanning 9 Jul 2007 IMAP - getting Dovecot running 9 Dec 2007


Mailing Lists
	Installing a mailing list server - majordomo 6 Feb 1999 Setting the default reply-to address in a majordomo mailing list 17 Feb 1999 majordomo and virtual mailing lists 3 Apr 1999 Creating a digest and archive for a majordomo mailing list 6 Nov 1999 hypermail - creating an www interface to a mailing list archive 7 Nov 1999 redirecting majordomo mailing lists 9 Nov 1999 Allowing non-member submissions on closed mailing lists 23 Mar 2000 Creating a majordomo mailing list for a virtual domain 12 Apr 2000 majordomo problems and solutions 7 May 2000 majordomo and 'hostile' addresses 27 Jul 2000 Mailman - a mailing list manager 1 Mar 2006 Mailman - additional virtual domains 14 Apr 2006 Removing dead mailing lists from Mailman 5 Oct 2008


Mailman
	Mailman - a mailing list manager 1 Mar 2006 Mailman - additional virtual domains 14 Apr 2006 Removing dead mailing lists from Mailman 5 Oct 2008


Majordomo
	Installing a mailing list server - majordomo 6 Feb 1999 Setting the default reply-to address in a majordomo mailing list 17 Feb 1999 majordomo and virtual mailing lists 3 Apr 1999 Creating a digest and archive for a majordomo mailing list 6 Nov 1999 redirecting majordomo mailing lists 9 Nov 1999 Creating a majordomo mailing list for a virtual domain 12 Apr 2000 majordomo problems and solutions 7 May 2000 majordomo and 'hostile' addresses 27 Jul 2000


make world
	The make-world script 30 Jul 2000 Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005


Mirrors
	Creating an FTP Mirror site 14 Feb 1999 Setting up a FreeBSD mirror site has been completed. 14 Feb 1999 Installing cvsupd 6 Aug 1999 Specifying alternative port download sites 5 Jun 2001


mySQL
	Installing and configuring mySQL 2 Jan 2000 Accessing a mysql database from perl 9 Apr 2000 Keeping mysql passwords secure 19 Apr 2000 Samba authentication through PAM with MySQL (by Randall S. Ehren) 31 Jan 2001 Introduction to C++ API for mySQL (by Murat Balaban) 25 Mar 2001 Phorum - installation, upgrade, and conversion from MySQL to PostgreSQL 13 Jul 2003


Nagios
	Monitoring your HDD using SMART and Nagios 13 Mar 2010 3Ware Nagios plugin 3 Sep 2010 NRPE: Unable to read output - The followup 15 Oct 2010


NAT
	natd Network Address Translation (IP masquerading, IP aliasing) 21 Jun 1998 The DNS problem which was an natd problem 10 Jul 1998 Adding a second network card (and compiling a kernel) 29 Aug 1998 getting natd to run again 29 Aug 1998 NAT rules - for IP Filter 12 Jan 1999 Getting DCC to work with natd 31 Jan 1999 ADSL - changing the modem 10 Mar 1999 Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999


NetSaint
	NetSaint - a network monitor 10 Sep 2001 NetSaint - creating a plug-in for RAID monitoring 11 Aug 2006 NetSaint plugin for 3Ware RAID card 18 Aug 2006


Network monitoring
	Big Brother is watching you (and your network) 18 Feb 2000 NetSaint - a network monitor 10 Sep 2001 Monitoring your HDD using SMART and Nagios 13 Mar 2010


Networks
	connecting to the network 29 Aug 1998 Adding a second network card (and compiling a kernel) 29 Aug 1998 ADSL - changing the modem 10 Mar 1999 DSL/Cable modem references 7 Nov 1999 Backing up FreeBSD onto a Windows NT Workstation 7 Nov 1999 New NIC was causing network problems 12 Feb 2000 Big Brother is watching you (and your network) 18 Feb 2000 ed0 does not like 0x280 16 Apr 2000 VLAN with pipsecd 7 Jul 2000 Setting up FreeBSD as an NIS client (by Eric Anderson) 23 Dec 2000 Setting up a FreeBSD IPSec Tunnel (by John J. Rushford Jr) 7 Jun 2001 Quick CableNet Connections with FreeBSD (by Leon Dang) 7 Aug 2001 Creating a VPN using PPTP 26 Apr 2002 VNC - allowing remote access to graphical desktops 16 Aug 2002 Managing an IP address change 3 Sep 2002 Managing an IP address change - part 2 4 Oct 2002 Home networks are everywhere 31 Mar 2003 IPv6 - getting your LAN connected 5 Feb 2006


New Computers
	The dual XEON box takes shape 7 Nov 2000 The XEON assembly story 9 Nov 2000 The XEON lives! 13 Dec 2000 More dual XEON pics 20 Dec 2000 XEON gets a new cable which should improve disk speed 29 Dec 2000 Building a new box from scratch 1 Apr 2004


Newbies
	sending a HUP to a program (kill, killall) 11 Feb 1999 how to untar/tar 11 Feb 1999 Stuff for newbies 11 Feb 1999 changing your default editor 4 Mar 1999 newbie learning experience 7 Aug 2000


News
	installing a news server 3 Dec 1999


NFS
	NFS - sharing file systems across a network 19 Feb 2000 NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered 27 Jun 2000 nfs and ipf with IPFILTER_DEFAULT_BLOCK 24 Nov 2000 Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001 NFS Portmap: RPC: Program not registered - a solution 27 Feb 2001 Dual-homed NFS servers 24 May 2001


Non-related topics
	CD-ROM saga (a funny story) 9 Jul 1998 notes on rebooting and IP numbers 28 Jul 1998 mounting fd0 without a floppy gives a GPF 29 Jul 1998 installing DES - encryption 2 Aug 1998 nmap - the port scanner 10 Aug 1998 dhclient.conf - moving a file to the web server. changing owners (chown) 16 Oct 1998 "There are stopped jobs" - what does this message mean? 9 Nov 1998 distributed.net - the fastest computer on earth 4 Jan 1999 Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999 Why the ads? 21 Jan 1999 Join the FreeBSD Diary mailing list 6 Feb 1999 Setting up a FreeBSD mirror site has been completed. 14 Feb 1999 New look introduced 15 Feb 1999 Responses from readers 21 Feb 1999 changing your default editor 4 Mar 1999 Links to FreeBSD Handbook may be broken 4 Apr 1999 Links should be OK now 7 Apr 1999 Get your stuff published here 9 Apr 1999 Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999 Diary is now reversed 18 Jul 1999 The Diary takes a holiday 29 Jul 1999 Creating patch files 4 Aug 1999 The Diary takes a holiday (continued) 8 Sep 1999 periodic - using it to run shell scripts 9 Nov 1999 how to start things at boot time 5 Dec 1999 Website changes coming soon 24 Dec 1999 The new websites - what's going on? 1 Jan 2000 Happy New Year - Y2K 1 Jan 2000 Reader Forum 1 Jan 2000 Stripping ^M from your files 4 Mar 2000 The Hauppauge TV Card (by Chris Silva) 5 Mar 2000 BSDCon 2000 15 Mar 2000 USB Mouse support under 4.0 Release 20 Mar 2000 man pages - they are searchable 28 Mar 2000 Epson PhotoPC 650 (by Chris Silva) 23 Apr 2000 cvs - create your own repository 25 Apr 2000 The dual XEON box takes shape 7 Nov 2000 NIC blows up 10 Feb 2001 Customizing Console Fonts 27 Mar 2001 IRC Hints 28 Mar 2001 My travels with a computer 6 Apr 2001 Make the keyboard work on a headless server (read also about t-shirts!) 17 Dec 2001 Changing your keyboard mapping 20 Sep 2002


nrpe
	Monitoring your HDD using SMART and Nagios 13 Mar 2010 NRPE: Unable to read output 4 Oct 2010 NRPE: Unable to read output - The followup 15 Oct 2010


OpenVPN
	OpenVPN - getting it running 27 Nov 2008 Creating your own Certificate Authority 27 Nov 2008 OpenVPN - creating a routed VPN 29 Nov 2008


Operating Systems
	Why is Linux Successful? - An Opinion. 3 May 1999


Opteron
	Dual Opteron server 15 Jun 2006 Dual Opteron Server - the drives 22 Jun 2006 More dual opteron images 9 Jul 2006 Dual Opteron - Raptor Installation 10 Aug 2006 CLI for 3Ware 9550SX-8LP 14 Aug 2006 NetSaint plugin for 3Ware RAID card 18 Aug 2006 Dual Opteron - better SATA cables for the Raptors 19 Aug 2006 3Ware - Manage your RAID arrays via http 28 Aug 2006 Restoring an INOPERABLE 3Ware unit 12 Feb 2012


Performance
	vinum - A simple install to improve performance 10 Aug 1999 rawio - testing device performance 10 Aug 1999 hint - A scalable benchmark for testing CPU and memory 15 Aug 1999 nice - making things run slower 6 Dec 2000


pf
	Fighting spam with pf 9 Jul 2007 spamd-setup gives 404 24 Nov 2009


Phorum
	Phorum - how to install and customize it 1 Jan 2000 Upgrading Phorum from 3.0.x to 3.1 22 May 2000 Installing and configuring Phorum using cvs 22 Jul 2002 Phorum - installation, upgrade, and conversion from MySQL to PostgreSQL 13 Jul 2003 Phorum Installation 25 Aug 2003


PHP
	My first CGI script (uptime.pl) 22 Jul 1999 Apache port - php3/FrontPage/SSL 2 Jan 2000 Apache - with DSOs for PHP, FrontPage, and SSL under FreeBSD 4.0-S 6 May 2000 Cacti remote injection exploit 12 Jan 2007


Ports
	All the ports - how to save time if you have the disk space 22 Aug 1998 Building a port - background info on make 4 Oct 1998 fetch - and how to use it behind a firewall 4 Jan 1999 Updating the ports collection 17 Jan 1999 Ports or Packages? 6 Jun 1999 What is installed? 6 Jun 1999 using make to upgrade your ports 19 Nov 1999 Installing a port without installing the ports 14 Jan 2000 When cvsup'ing your ports, remember the base distribution 20 Jan 2000 distfile sharing via anonymous FTP 25 Feb 2000 Have you seen FreshPorts yet? 14 May 2000 Changing the owner of your ports tree 21 Jun 2000 FreshPorts 1.1 30 Jun 2000 FreshPorts goes offline 5 Jul 2000 Keeping up with the ports - pkg_version 5 Aug 2000 Diary update 1 Feb 2001 installing bind8 from ports 28 Mar 2001 Specifying alternative port download sites 5 Jun 2001 Got ports? Here is THE way to upgrade them! 11 Dec 2001 pkgdb - packages database tool 28 Dec 2001 And one port to install them all! 14 Jan 2002 Removing Firefox 2 19 Oct 2009


Postfix
	Postfix - virtual domains 6 Nov 2002 Using foo+bar@ email addresses with Postfix and procmail 11 Apr 2003 Postfix - virtual domains (part II) 21 May 2003 Is your ISP blocking port 25? Here's a Postfix solution. 10 Feb 2006 Postfix - setting up two outgoing mail servers 7 Jun 2006 Virus scanning 9 Jul 2007 Obscuring smtp auth headers 2 Dec 2008 mailwrapper exited on signal 11 30 Nov 2009


PostgreSQL
	PostgreSQL - installation and configuration 5 Sep 2000 Adding procedural language support to PostgreSQL 24 Dec 2000 PostgreSQL and Perl 26 Dec 2000 PostgreSQL 7.2 upgrade and crypto 23 Feb 2002 PostgreSQL - removing foreign keys 6 Dec 2002 PostgreSQL - analyzing a query to improve speed 1 Mar 2003 Phorum - installation, upgrade, and conversion from MySQL to PostgreSQL 13 Jul 2003 Upgrading PostgreSQL 21 Dec 2009


PPP
	Installing PPP 15 Mar 1999 Installing PPP - alias 24 Mar 1999 Configuring FreeBSD for dial-in service * 3 Apr 1999 PPP filters - stop xntpd from keeping the connection alive 9 Apr 1999 Someone else finished Configuring FreeBSD for dial-in service 10 Aug 1999 ppp [for Linux users] by a Linux user (by Liz) 4 May 2000 PPPoE (by Daniel Bretoi) 2 Oct 2000 Oh what a week I've had! 7 Feb 2003


Printing
	Setting up a printer (by Roy Miller) 7 Apr 2000 CUPS (Common UNIX Printing System) - installation and configuration (by Gerard Samuel) 13 Nov 2002 Setting up a printer 26 Jan 2005


procmail
	procmail - a simple example 8 Dec 2000 Using foo+bar@ email addresses with Postfix and procmail 11 Apr 2003


Proxies
	Installing an IRC Proxy * 31 Jan 1999


RAID
	vinum - A simple install to improve performance 10 Aug 1999 rawio - testing device performance 10 Aug 1999 Implementing Hardware RAID on FreeBSD 9 Dec 2004 What RAID-1 setup should I use for FreeBSD 6.0? 29 Dec 2005 CLI for 3Ware 9550SX-8LP 14 Aug 2006 3Ware - Manage your RAID arrays via http 28 Aug 2006 Converting a system to RAID 7 Feb 2007 ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010 Restoring an INOPERABLE 3Ware unit 12 Feb 2012


samba
	Samba - connecting FreeBSD to Microsoft 18 Oct 1998 Samba - more on passwords/logon and shares 3 Nov 1998 Making Samba win browser elections 18 Mar 1999 samba - using non-standard host names 12 Jun 1999 Samba 2.0.6 - shares are printers 22 Apr 2000 Samba authentication of Windows users (by Rick Oliver) 6 Aug 2000 Samba authentication through PAM with MySQL (by Randall S. Ehren) 31 Jan 2001 Samba - updating my old version 13 Sep 2002


screen
	screen - how to detach a session from your window 22 Feb 1999 screen - how to remove "remote or dead" sessions 17 Apr 1999


SCSI
	Where is my SCSI card? 30 Aug 2010


Security
	improving security * 11 Aug 1998 su - how to become a super user. avoid using `root` 18 Oct 1998 changing the pre-login text - also known as /etc/issue 6 Jan 1999 tcp wrapper - monitoring telnet requests, permit deny connections, etc. 9 Jan 1999 upgrading sendmail 11 Jan 1999 Staying current with FreeBSD - using CVSup to upgrade FreeBSD 14 Jan 1999 Before the disaster 14 Jan 1999 I was probed! The security worked. 2 Feb 1999 Upgrading to sendmail 8.9.3 18 Feb 1999 nologin - Refuse a login to a user, and make a note of it in syslog 9 Mar 1999 telnet fails - tcp_wrapper is out of date 18 Mar 1999 ssh - much more secure than telnet 25 Apr 1999 Private DNS 8 Jul 1999 toor - and why you should keep it 23 Jul 1999 ssh2 - when ssh won't do 13 Aug 1999 Changing the pre-login text - also known as /etc/issue - more info 22 Aug 1999 Upgrade your DNS server - bind8 security issues 20 Nov 1999 watch - making it work 29 Nov 1999 Installing OpenSSH - less restrictive than ssh 5 Dec 1999 logcheck - who is checking your logs? 19 Dec 1999 identd problems - patch 19 Dec 1999 unwanted email from tcpd 26 Dec 1999 PortSentry - a port watcher 1 Jan 2000 Front Page Extensions - security considerations 7 Jan 2000 Blocking apache access by host 27 Jan 2000 Big Brother is watching you (and your network) 18 Feb 2000 finger and how to supply something different 24 Feb 2000 How to copy files around without anyone seeing them 27 Mar 2000 What version of bind are you running? 3 Apr 2000 ssh - authorized keys and chmod 5 Apr 2000 Keeping mysql passwords secure 19 Apr 2000 passphrases are your friend 6 Jul 2000 VLAN with pipsecd 7 Jul 2000 turning sendmail VRFY off 8 Aug 2000 mindterm - ssh connections via web browsers 14 Nov 2000 IPsec 27 Dec 2000 Setting up an encrypted file system (by Niklas Saers) 6 Jan 2001 installing bind8 from ports 28 Mar 2001 qpopper with APOP 30 Mar 2001 Using smtp from remote locations 7 Apr 2001 Setting up a FreeBSD IPSec Tunnel (by John J. Rushford Jr) 7 Jun 2001 San Jose bound... 11 Jun 2001 Client Authentication with SSL 12 Jul 2001 ssh exploit - how to avoid it 14 Nov 2001 stunnel - another way to avoid plain text passwords (by Mike Miller) 16 Nov 2001 Anonymous FTP server (by Kim Scarborough) 30 Nov 2001 PostgreSQL 7.2 upgrade and crypto 23 Feb 2002 stunnel - encryption and security 10 Mar 2002 Creating a VPN using PPTP 26 Apr 2002 scp tricks 7 Mar 2003 Using a jail as a virtual machine 1 Sep 2004 Secure Your Wireless with IPsec 6 Dec 2004 Configuring IPsec on your XP Professional laptop 22 Dec 2005 Putting sshd on a higher port 4 Dec 2006 Cacti remote injection exploit 12 Jan 2007 Bacula - Transport Layer Security (TLS) 23 Jan 2007 Fighting spam with pf 9 Jul 2007 Virus scanning 9 Jul 2007 Creating your own Certificate Authority 27 Nov 2008 Obscuring smtp auth headers 2 Dec 2008 Removing Firefox 2 19 Oct 2009 logcheck - a log file scanner 29 Nov 2009 cssh - cluster ssh 26 Jan 2010


serial consoles
	Serial Consoles can be very useful 20 Sep 2002 Adding a new drive via the serial console using dump/restore 15 Oct 2002 Backups and serial console servers 22 Sep 2003


Sharity Lite
	Sharity-Light - connecting Microsoft to FreeBSD 3 Nov 1998


Shells
	Changing the shell (bash) 26 Jul 1998 su - how to become a super user. avoid using `root` 18 Oct 1998 Changing your bash prompt 6 Jan 1999 screen - how to detach a session from your window 22 Feb 1999 nologin - Refuse a login to a user, and make a note of it in syslog 9 Mar 1999 ssh - much more secure than telnet 25 Apr 1999 ssh2 - when ssh won't do 13 Aug 1999 periodic - using it to run shell scripts 9 Nov 1999 Installing OpenSSH - less restrictive than ssh 5 Dec 1999 Changing your tcsh prompt 14 Jan 2000 Changing the shell for existing users and new users 11 Aug 2000 grep, sed, and awk for fun and profit 9 Aug 2011


Sound
	Sound with FreeBSD - A How-To Guide 14 Jul 1999 Sound Blaster Vibra16 (by Chris Silva) 27 Jan 2000


ssh
	ssh2 - when ssh won't do 13 Aug 1999 Installing OpenSSH - less restrictive than ssh 5 Dec 1999 Incoming ssh is being refused 20 Jan 2000 ssh - authorized keys and chmod 5 Apr 2000 mindterm - ssh connections via web browsers 14 Nov 2000 ssh exploit - how to avoid it 14 Nov 2001 Putting sshd on a higher port 4 Dec 2006 cssh - cluster ssh 26 Jan 2010


Star Office
	Getting and Setting Up StarOffice 5.1a (by Chris Silva) 27 Jan 2000


stunnel
	stunnel - another way to avoid plain text passwords (by Mike Miller) 16 Nov 2001 stunnel - encryption and security 10 Mar 2002 Upgrading to stunnel 4 17 Oct 2002


syslog
	unknown priority name - /etc/syslog.conf and syslogd 12 Nov 1998 nologin - Refuse a login to a user, and make a note of it in syslog 9 Mar 1999 syslog.conf - putting stuff where you want it 2 Apr 1999 Apache - rotating log files - ouch, don't compress those logs! 29 Jan 2000


System upgrades
	upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998 upgrading to 3.1-Release 21 Feb 1999 mergemaster - a great tool when upgrading 4 Mar 1999 /etc/rc.conf changes for 3.1 6 Mar 1999 Saving and using the kernel change information 20 Mar 1999 Upgrading from 3.1-Release to 3.1-Stable 23 Mar 1999 Starting stuff at boot time 5 May 1999 Kernel Configuration Options 16 May 1999 Adding ipnat to FreeBSD 3.* 16 May 1999 Ports or Packages? 6 Jun 1999 What is installed? 6 Jun 1999 Creating patch files 4 Aug 1999 Swapping boot drives around 13 Aug 1999 Upgrading from 2.2.* to 3.* 13 Aug 1999 how to start things at boot time 5 Dec 1999 Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE 6 Dec 1999 proftpd and FreeBSD 7 Dec 1999 unwanted email from tcpd 26 Dec 1999 Tranferring websites/users from one box to another 21 May 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 Crypto problem fixed 11 Jul 2000 Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001 Your Makefile has been rebuilt. 16 Jan 2002 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005


tcp wrappers
	tcp wrapper - monitoring telnet requests, permit deny connections, etc. 9 Jan 1999 telnet fails - tcp_wrapper is out of date 18 Mar 1999 Good utilities provided with tcp wrappers 30 Apr 1999


The Dual XEON box
	The dual XEON box takes shape 7 Nov 2000 The XEON assembly story 9 Nov 2000 The XEON lives! 13 Dec 2000 More dual XEON pics 20 Dec 2000 XEON gets a new cable which should improve disk speed 29 Dec 2000


Time sychronization
	Time synchronization - xntpd 2 Aug 1998 reinstalled time server 1 Sep 1998 Daylight saving time - how time is stored, how to change it 4 Oct 1998 Windows time synchronization clients 21 Feb 1999 PPP filters - stop xntpd from keeping the connection alive 9 Apr 1999 Creating an NTP server with a cheap clock (by Harald Schmalzbauer) 10 Mar 2001


Upgrades
	upgrading from 2.2.5 to 2.2.7 6 Aug 1998 upgrading to 3.1-Release 21 Feb 1999 Installing FreeBSD to replace Windows 95 20 Mar 1999 Upgrading from 3.1-Release to 3.1-Stable 23 Mar 1999 Installing 3.2-release [the hard way] 20 Jun 1999 Upgrading from 2.2.* to 3.* 13 Aug 1999 Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE 6 Dec 1999 Upgrading from FreeBSD 4.0-Release to FreeBSD 4.0-Stable 6 May 2000 installing FreeBSD 4.0-Release 6 May 2000 FreeBSD 3.5-stable is born 20 Jun 2000 FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users 4 Jul 2000 The make-world script 30 Jul 2000 Upgrading to 4.1-STABLE - things to watch out for 30 Jul 2000 4.1-STABLE - fetch now going just fine 2 Aug 2000 How long does it take to upgrade via cvsup? 15 Aug 2000 Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box 6 Feb 2001 cvsup bug fix and upgrading to 4.4 21 Sep 2001 ERROR: version of config(8) does not match kernel! 16 Feb 2002 Cross compiling on AMD64 14 Oct 2005 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 - yes, I know this is late 28 Dec 2005 mailwrapper exited on signal 11 30 Nov 2009 ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010


UPS
	apcupsd - Configuring a UPS daemon 16 Jun 2006


vinum
	vinum - A simple install to improve performance 10 Aug 1999 Growing your filesystem with growfs (by Will Andrews) 19 Aug 2002


Virus scanning
	Virus scanning 9 Jul 2007


Windows
	Windows time synchronization clients 21 Feb 1999 Installing FreeBSD on a Windows 95 machine 14 Mar 1999 Installing FreeBSD to replace Windows 95 20 Mar 1999 Backing up FreeBSD onto a Windows NT Workstation 7 Nov 1999 Putting the Daemon into Windows 25 Jan 2000 Putting the Daemon into NT 21 Apr 2000 Configuring IPsec on your XP Professional laptop 22 Dec 2005


Wireless
	Installing via wireless NIC 21 May 2001 Home networks are everywhere 31 Mar 2003 Configuring IPsec on your XP Professional laptop 22 Dec 2005 IBM ThinkPad T41 - going from ipw(4) to ath(4) 8 Mar 2006 Wireless changes under FreeBSD 8.x 13 Nov 2009


WWW
	Installing the Lynx port from the Internet 19 Mar 1999 upload files via http 15 Nov 1999 Strange NetScape bug 11 Jan 2000 Google blocking searches from unknown browsers 10 May 2003 Removing Firefox 2 19 Oct 2009


X-windows
	Setting up an ATI Rage Pro 3D (by Chris Silva) 27 Jan 2000 True Type fonts and XFree86 (by Jim Weeks) 15 Jul 2000 VNC - allowing remote access to graphical desktops 16 Aug 2002 IBM ThinkPad T41 15 Jun 2004 Using two monitors with X.org 17 Mar 2008


ZFS
	ZFS: do not give it all your HDD 1 Aug 2010 ZFS: Resizing your zpool 4 Aug 2010 ZFS upgrade 20 Sep 2010 ZFS: promote 22 Sep 2010 ZFS Benchmark - the initial run; no tuning 9 Jan 2011