Tag Archive | "Howto’s"
FreeBSD quick news and links (21/07/2010)
I Super-accurate computer clock created A free pies of software that allows computers to keep phenomenally accurate time has been developed by researchers in Melbourne. The software, called RADclock, should improve everything from Skype conversations to the tracking of subway trains. For computers to communicate effectively keeping accurate time is vital. Every application or service that relies [...]
Continue reading...HOWTO: Create a FreeBSD 8 i386 Xen PV domU
Monday, May 10, 2010
Aprogas has put together a very useful howto showing how you can create a FreeBSD Xen PV domU. “Xen is virtualization software, which lets you run multiple operating systems on the same physical machine. The goal of this guide is to show you how to create a FreeBSD 8 installation that will run as a guest [...]
Continue reading...Monitoring your HDD using SMART and Nagios
Monday, March 29, 2010
“Monitoring of your computer systems is a good idea. There are many tools that let you verify that specified services are running, and available for clients. I use Nagios. You can check that Apache is still running, Postfix is still accepting mail, and various other things. If you can write a test, Nagios can monitor [...]
Continue reading...Restore and backup FreeBSD (howto)
Friday, January 22, 2010
PsyberMonkey has written a post on how to restore/backup FreeBSD using FreeBSD installation & fixit CD. Restore and backup FreeBSD
Continue reading...Upgrade FreeBSD 7.2 to FreeBSD 8 using csup (howto)
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
How to upgrade FreeBSD 7.2 to FreeBSD 8 stable using csup source code method including all ports? csup is a general-purpose network file updating package. It is extremely fast program. Make sure you backup all data, MySQL / PGSQL database, and configuration file before attempting upgrade procedure. Source-based upgrades from previous versions are well supported and recommend [...]
Continue reading...Creating A jail with VNC Server on FreeBSD
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
This article on howtoforge.com explains how you can run a VNC server from within a jail on FreeBSD.
Continue reading...Download ports simultaneously with multiple connections (howto)
Thursday, October 1, 2009
We have already referred to a very useful FreeBSD tip (How to use Meta Ports to install group of ports) on psybermonkey.net before, and there’s another great howto: Download ports simultaneously with multiple connections By default, ports uses 1 connection to download and thus unbearably slow when a server rate limit the connection. Alternatively, we can tell ports [...]
Continue reading...VirtualBox: how to move FreeBSD to a new hard disk
Monday, September 7, 2009
Georges has written a post showing how to move a VirtualBox FreeBSD system to another, larger, VirtualBox drive: “Let’s say that, like me, you once created a fixed-size virtual disk in VirtualBox, and installed FreeBSD on it. Now you’ve run out of disk space and you’d like to move your FreeBSD to a bigger-sized virtual disk. [...]
Continue reading...FreeBSD as a WiFi Access Point
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
At a recent Linux users’ gathering Ivan Voras temporarily saved the day when a WRT router was not working. He set up his Acer Aspire One netbook as a wireless access point on FreeBSD 8.0. It had wired connectivity to the Internet from one side and offered WiFi via its Atheros card on the other [...]
Continue reading...Setup FreeBSD Jail with ezjail
Monday, June 15, 2009
PC-BSD has the Warden GUI to install and maintain jails. Setting these up can also, and I’m sure many would prefer this way, be set up from the console. Cyberciti.biz has published a useful and extensive guide: How do I setup operating system-level virtualization that allows me to partition my FreeBSD-based server system into several independent [...]
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010
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