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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


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


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


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