Linux and FreeBSD label hard drives and partitions after two differents schemes. This section explains the main differences between the two schemes. In fact the FreeBSD labelling scheme is an adaption of the traditional BSD labelling style ported to live within the PC’s fdisk partitions. Thus it is very similar to other BSD-based Unix systems [...]
I installed VNStat and the PHP GUI to be able to view basic information regarding incoming and outgoing traffic per interface. I am using FreeBSD 7 with PHP4, as I had problems setting the GUI up with PHP5. If you can get it to work in PHP5, please do let me know.
To install PHP4, type [...]
Setting up a LAMP server is a common task for systems administrators, and FreeBSD is one of the most reliable and stable operating systems available. Why not combine both LAMP and FreeBSD to build a fast and reliable Web server?
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This tutorial shows how to set up a FreeBSD based server that offers DNS services. This tutorial is written for the 64-bit version of FreeBSD, but should apply to the 32-bit version.
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Wordpress is one of my favourite blog engines because it’s easy and
supports many plugins. Wordpress also available in multi-user mode
which means a single Wordpress installation will cover many users with
their own subdomain. This howto will show the steps taken to install
Wordpress wpmu on a server running FreeBSD 7 stable.
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AtMail Open, I just know if atmail have free version.
Being curious on how it goes in FreeBSD box, I give it a try as my campus interface.
As usual I try to record it in notepad plus screenshot for guide, perhaps useful
1. Download latest version
mail# wget http://atmail.org/download/atmailopen.tgz
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FreeBSD 7.0 has already been released. If you are a real hacker, the best way to jump in and learn it is hacking together an introductory kernel module. In this article I’ll implement a very basic module that prints a message when it is loaded, and another when it is unloaded. I’ll also cover [...]
Reset MySQL password in FreeBSD
by alamster in June 2nd, 2008
Database Tags: change root mysql db, login to 127.0.0.1 in mysql db, reset mysql password
Just another post for my archive
One our sandbox accidently delete root account with host ‘localhost’. We need to recover the account by grant new root account [...]
This is a disection of the FreeBSD BootCD. To learn how it all works and how to modify things. The cd that I’m going to be using is 7.0-RELEASE-i386-bootonly.iso
Topics will be:
1)Opening the iso
2)Reading the boot options
3)Working with mfsroot
4)Customize the boot up
5)Burning a new CD to boot from
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FreeBSD is a Unix-like free operating system. You can install to choose third party software on FreeBSD from the Ports Collection. Many services such as POP3 server daemons, IMAP, etc. could be started using the inetd.
However, networking can be stop or started using special script located in /etc/rc.d/ directory. This directory includes script to stop [...]