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bFreeBSD/b questions: how to create tbz package in bfreebsd/b

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Mon, 10 Nov 2008

How to install FreeBSD Stable from the Internet

This is my first time installing FreeBSD, and I read the Handbook but I want to install the latest Stable version of FreeBSD. I have the bootonly CD, so I need to install from the internet. How would I go about installing the Stable ...

Wed, 1 Oct 2008

HowTo: Setup a NFS server on FreeBSD

On a previous post I went through the needed steps to enable NFS client operations on FreeBSD 7.0 so now lets wrap up with the need steps to setup a NFS server. Lets begin:. $ su; # echo 'nfs_server_enable="YES"' >> /etc/rc.conf ...

Thu, 11 Sep 2008

Howto update ports FreeBSD

I'm running FreeBSD 7 64 bit on AMD server. How do I upgrade all ports installed under /usr/ports?

Tue, 26 Aug 2008

How to run Clam AntiVirus on FreeBSD

Hi, I have installed ClamAV on my FreeBSD machine. Is there any command on how to scan the files for viruses.

Wed, 13 Aug 2008

Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD, 2nd Edition

Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition is your complete guide to FreeBSD, written by FreeBSD committer Michael W. Lucas. Lucas considers this completely revised and rewritten second edition of his landmark work to be his best work ever; ...

Fri, 18 Jul 2008

How to upgrade ports in FreeBSD 7.0

In this little tutorial I will teach how to upgrade ports in FreeBSD 7.0. Install and use cvsup to sync the ports collection; Create / Copy the supfile and use portsdb to update the database INDEX.db; Use portversion to find which all ...

Mon, 14 Jul 2008

How to delete user configured options for a port in FreeBSD

... you try to run make install one more time just to discover that the menu isn't there any more, and it just runs install one more time with your compiled options. Q: How do I delete configured options for a port in FreeBSD? ...

Thu, 5 Jun 2008

FAMP - FreeBSD Apache2 MySQL PHP5 Tutorial

Well start this tutorial on a fresh FreeBSD 7.0 install, first step is updating our ports. portsnap fetch (if you’ve never run portsnap before you’ll want to run portsnap extract after fetch finishes) portsnap update ...

Fri, 16 May 2008

How to check whether pf is enabled or not - FreeBSD

# pfctl -si | grep Status.

Fri, 16 May 2008

How to fetch and install packages for old FreeBSD releases using ...

If you do not have a source of local packages (such as a FreeBSD CD-ROM set) then it will probably be easier to use the -r option to pkg_add(1). This will cause the utility to automatically determine the correct object format and ...

Fri, 16 May 2008

Article: HowTo: Building a firewall with Freebsd and IPfilter

For anyone who's ever been on the internet, even for as little as five minutes, knows that you can't play in the great big world wide web anymore without some kind of protection. Typically this comes in the form of either simple NAT ...

Wed, 14 May 2008

FreeBSD Tip: How to delete all IPv6 address in an interface

You can delete all IPv6 address in an interface using the following command (vanilla Bourne shell): while i="`ifconfig le0 | grep inet6 | grep -m 1 -v '%'`"; do ifconfig le0 $i delete ...

Fri, 25 Apr 2008

Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD

Absolute FreeBSD, 2nd Edition is your complete guide to FreeBSD, written by FreeBSD committer Michael W. Lucas. Lucas considers this completely revised and rewritten second edition of his landmark work to be his best work ever; ...

Tue, 22 Jan 2008

how to mount freebsd partition from Debian GNU./Linux. (etch-4.0)

/dev/sda1 1 1912 15358108+ a5 FreeBSD 1.freebsd is installed on /dev/sda1 2.ufs support is activated with kernel 2.6.18-5-686 on Debian etch4.0. i tried this mount -t ufs -o ufstype=44bsd /dev/sda1 /bsd and it gives an error like this ...

Mon, 10 Sep 2007

Howto setup a dynamic dns (DDNS) server on FreeBSD by combining ...

A DNS server comes installed with FreeBSD. All we have to do is set it up. Since the handbook covers this excellent here , so I’m not going to repeat this. All I’m going to cover is the specific configuration needed for our goals. ...

Tue, 24 Jul 2007

Howto Setup FreeBSD firewall

Ipfirewall (ipfw) is a FreeBSD IP packet filter and traffic accounting facility.IPFW is included in the basic FreeBSD install as a separate run time loadable module. This small howto covers building and installing a custom kernel with ...

Tue, 24 Jul 2007

How to move Linux /etc/passwd in to FreeBSD

Subject: How to move Linux /etc/passwd in to FreeBSD Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:58 pm (GMT 5) Topic Replies: 0 AOA Dear All ! I am running a mail server on Fedora Core 4, running Mail server, web interface (openwebmail). ...

Sat, 30 Jun 2007

How to instal FreeBSD 6.2

Subject: How to instal FreeBSD 6.2 Posted: Sat May 26, 2007 8:42 am (GMT 5) Topic Replies: 0 Salam. I just downloaded FreeBSD 6.2 iso images and burned them on CD's, now i dont know any thing about BSD, and want to know how to install ...

Sat, 26 May 2007

Comment on How to create IP-IP tunnel between FreeBSD and Linux by jr

Very good, I’ve tested just the linux part and it works fine. MAny Thanks.

Fri, 25 May 2007

how to configure mail server by freebsd 4.11

freebsd-hackers: how to configure mail server by freebsd 4.11.

Wed, 2 May 2007

absolute bsd the ultimate guide to freebsd ebook-bbl

Misc > Ebooks Seeds: 0 Peers: 18 Filesize: 7.77 MB.

Sat, 28 Apr 2007

How to add new architecture support in FreeBSD

freebsd-questions: How to add new architecture support in FreeBSD.

Fri, 20 Apr 2007

Absolute BSD The Ultimate Guide To FreeBSD eBooK-BBL

Seeds: 0 Leechers: 5 Filesize: 8.05 MB.

Tue, 17 Apr 2007

Tutorial - FreeBSD Installation and Configuration

Tutorial: FreeBSD Installation and Configuration.

Tue, 17 Apr 2007

No Starch Press - Absolute BSD: The Ultimate Guide to FreeBSD ...

FreeBSD is a powerful, flexible, and cost-effective UNIX-based operating system, and the preferred server platform for many enterprises. Includes coverage of installation, networking, add-on software, security, network services, ...

Mon, 16 Apr 2007

How To Set Up A FreeBSD Wireless Access Point (27 Mar 2007)

This guide explains the process of setting up a FreeBSD system that will act as a wireless router (as well as a wired router) that takes advantage of the ported version of OpenBSD's PF packet filter.

Tue, 27 Mar 2007

How To Set Up A FreeBSD Wireless Access Point

I prefer Atheros-based cards, whatever FreeBSD supported card you have is fine, though (wifi_if). In this How-To it will be ath0. Yours may differ. * Optionally, an additional wired network card (int_if) for wired LAN access (via ...

Sun, 25 Mar 2007

LXer: Guide to Deploying a FreeBSD 6.2 Server

Forum: Syndicated Linux News Posted By: LXer Post Time: 03-13-2007 at 05:16 PM.

Tue, 13 Mar 2007

New FreeBSD 6.2 guides posted

Installing FreeBSD 6.2. Deploying a FreeBSD 6.2 Server; Deploying a FreeBSD 6.2 Desktop. read more.

Sat, 10 Mar 2007