Written by coolest and last updated on 12/30/2007 - [ freebsd ]

At work we have a few Linux machines that are used for various things like dns and firewalling. It is a pain to log into each one of these machines when you have to troubleshoot something.

Written by Jared Barneck and last updated on 02/19/2007 - [ freebsd ]

This guide explains how to mount a floppy image and/or a CD-Rom ISO using mdconfig.

Written by Jon LaBass and last updated on 01/25/2007 - [ freebsd | openbsd | netbsd | macosx ]

Sometimes processes can take time to complete, thus tying up your console session. What if you want to run multiple processes in the background on the same shell session? With the built-in job control, you can. There are three main conditions a job can be in: Running, Stopped/Suspended, or Terminated. To control them, we'll use the fg and bg commands.

Written by ShadowBumble and last updated on 10/20/2006 - [ freebsd ]

This guide details how to set up user accounts with disk allocation. Let's say you want to limit each user to a specific size disk usage -- 100 megs each. You will need to set "user quotas." Here we go!!

Written by Jon LaBass and last updated on 08/09/2006 - [ freebsd ]

The FreeBSD ports tree is the most common method of installing software. With the latest 6.x releases of FreeBSD, the old method of keeping your ports tree updated is now considered obsolete. This guide will teach you how to install and maintain your ports tree using the built-in portsnap utility.

Written by and last updated on 02/11/2006 - [ freebsd ]

Using FreeBSD, Apache-modSSL, MySQL, PHP, Sendmail and CuCiPop, you can setup an open source solution that will have you serving dynamic web pages and email quickly, reliably, securely, and efficiently without any out-of-pocket expense.

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Written by Jared Barneck and last updated on 08/13/2005 - [ freebsd ]

This guide will walk a user through updating his source to follow FreeBSD's stable branch. Please make a full backup of the current system before following this guide.

Written by Jared Barneck and last updated on 12/18/2006 - [ freebsd ]

This guide demonstrates the ease of installing Xorg and KDE on FreeBSD 5.x.

Written by James Cornell and last updated on 06/15/2005 - [ freebsd ]

Many people using or wanting to use FreeBSD are not clued on to the fact that, by default, CD burning does not work on either 4.x or 5.x. This tutorial was designed to help users get their IDE CD Writing devices working under FreeBSD 5.

Written by Jared Barneck and last updated on 07/15/2005 - [ freebsd ]

KDE can place icons for specific devices such as CD-Roms, DVD-Roms, Cameras, etc. The idea is to click on this icon and the device will automatically be mounted and Konqueror will open showing the contents of the mounted device. By default only the root user, or superuser, has the ability to mount filesystems. Regular users need to be given the ability to mount if they are going to use the KDE Device Icons.

Written by Jon LaBass and last updated on 09/10/2005 - [ freebsd ]

Coming from a Linux or Windows background, many people begin to wonder where to get and how to install applications on FreeBSD. Well, with FreeBSD most applications can be installed from the Internet so you don't have to find the tarballs. There are two different installation methods to choose from and they both do a great job dealing with dependancies.

Written by Jon LaBass and last updated on 11/08/2004 - [ freebsd | openbsd | netbsd | macosx ]

A useful administrative tool is to see what users are logged onto the server. Another tool not only shows who is logged on, but it also shows what programs they are running.

Written by configure and last updated on 11/03/2004 - [ freebsd | openbsd | netbsd | macosx ]

Right then, vi. "Oh no! vi! That's command based, can't use that!" Oh come on, it's not that difficult! Really... First, I shall explain a little about vi. vi (now mostly vim) is one of the oldest text editors for *nix. It can be found on many systems, both UNIX and Linux, and is usually the default editor. vim (VI iMproved) is beginning to take over from the older vi, but essentially, they function the same way.

Written by configure and last updated on 11/03/2004 - [ freebsd | openbsd | netbsd | macosx ]

In this short tutorial I shall explain the basics of BASH prompt customization. I won't cover the more advanced aspects, and probably won't cover colours, but just enough to make your prompt display the information that you want to know.

Written by Jan-Willem Regeer and last updated on 01/07/2004 - [ freebsd ]

This guide will let you know how to manage FreeBSD accounts using pw, a critical application which can manipulate a lot of things that have to do with the /etc/passwd file and /etc/groups file. It can also set certain things like how long the account can be active, until what date it is active and other cool things. The easiest way to learn how to use pw is to play with it on a test install.

Written by Jon LaBass and last updated on 11/01/2003 - [ freebsd ]

Cron is the *nix program that runs scheduled tasks that are read from /etc/crontab. This guide will teach you how to make a scheduled process by using cron.

Written by Jon LaBass and last updated on 11/14/2004 - [ freebsd | openbsd | netbsd | macosx ]

You've downloaded them, you've extracted them, you've liked them. But how do you create them? This guide will show you how to quickly and easily create a compressed archive in the form of *.tar.gz and *.tar.bz2.

Written by Jon LaBass and last updated on 11/28/2004 - [ freebsd ]

FreeBSD doesn't have a very graphical installer like various Linux distributions. This makes installing FreeBSD a bit trickier for beginners. With this guide, you will learn how to get FreeBSD installed with a vanilla install with the mini-ISO.