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Here are some links to FreeBSD howto articles published this week. This may be of interest to those who don’t mind “getting their hands dirty”.

Building a router with pfSense (video)

Do you have extra computers lying around the house? In this episode, Matt shows us how to convert an old computer into a home network router.

Link (wideopenmind.com)

Installing A FreeBSD 7.0 DNS Server With BIND

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.

I want to say first that this is not the only way of setting up such a system. There are many ways of achieving this goal but this is the way I take. I do not issue any guarantee that this will work for you!

Link (howtoforge.com)

How To Patch / Upgrade BIND 9.x Under FreeBSD Operating System

BIND 9 is part of core FreeBSD 7.x. How do I apply BIND 9 security patch under FreeBSD 7.x? Do I need to fetch entire source (buildworld) to patch BIND 9? How do I patch up recent BIND 9 DNS cache poisoning bug?

Link (www.cyberciti.biz)

FreeBSD Install Logwatch Tool For Log Analysis and Monitoring

How do I watch, monitor system log under FreeBSD systems and generate summery of critical UNIX log files via email?

Link (cyberciti.biz)

FreeBSD Install and Configure Webmin Web-based Interface ( Control Panel )

Q. How do I install webmin control panel for my FreeBSD server?

Link (cyberziti.biz)

ezjail - A jail administration framework

I want to set up some jails. They will each be very similar. They will each be used to test a slightly different configuration of Bacula. My tool of choice is ezjail, available in the ports tree.

With ezjail, I can:

create a jail flavour, upon which the creation of other jails can be based

centrally update the jail’s ports tree

Link (freebsddiary.org)