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FreeBSD Splash Screen

support@bsdguides.org — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:28:25 GMT

Should you like to use more than one splash image, you may find the following port useful -- http://www.freshports.org/sysutils/bsd-splash-changer/ -- It will randomly choose from as many boot splash images as you provide it with.

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Making Your IDE CD Burner Work On FreeBSD

support@bsdguides.org — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:42:00 GMT

Well. . . cdrecord reports 1,1,0. And camcontrol reports pass0,cd0. However, dmesg reports the following: acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x64 ascq=0x00 (cd0:ata1:0:1:0): READ(10). CDB: 28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 (cd0:ata1:0:1:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (cd0:ata1:0:1:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (cd0:ata1:0:1:0): ILLEGAL REQUEST asc:64,0 (cd0:ata1:0:1:0): Illegal mode for this track (cd0:ata1:0:1:0): Unretryable error (cd0:ata1:0:1:0): cddone: got error 0x6 back It's an older PlexWriter CDRW (PX-W2410A). I've used it before on Freebsd 4.11 & 5.3 with great success. Any ideas? -Thanks :-)

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Build a Home-Office Router Using FreeBSD and PF

support@bsdguides.org — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 16:12:58 GMT

Shaolin, Not sure if you already found the answer, but... Use a macro to specify your bittorrent port(s): bittorrent = "{ 6881, 6882 }" Then create a rule to allow the bittorrent macro: pass in on $ext_if inet proto tcp from any to ($ext_if) port $bittorrent flags S/SA keep state You may have to experiment some with the port ranges. John

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Build a Home-Office Router Using FreeBSD and PF

support@bsdguides.org — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 05:13:09 GMT

any ideas how I would go about opening ports in pf.conf for bittorrent? thanks for your help in the past jdferrell!

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djbdns dnscache

support@bsdguides.org — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:59:36 GMT

neomaximus2k: You can empty the cache by restarting the services. Nothing is ever written to disk.

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Virtual FTP Users + SSL

support@bsdguides.org — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 07:17:08 GMT

I'm having a very starnge problem. Every thing is working very well, it is just that I can loginto my server using my web browser(firefox, IE). Even when I try "ftp://localhost" on BSD box nothing happens. Any suggestions

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Setting Up .screenrc

support@bsdguides.org — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:50:48 GMT

I would also add:

# general
autodetach on
vbell           off
shelltitle      sh

# enable SHIFT-PGUP / SHIFT-PGDOWN scroll
termcapinfo rxvt ti@:te@

# change window with ALT-Q and ALT-W
bindkey "^[q" prev
bindkey "^[w" next

# status // change first %{= M} --> %{= kM} to display status on black background
hardstatus alwayslastline '%{= M} %H%{= G} %l %= %{= w}%-w%{+b r}%n*%t%{-b r}%{w}%+w %= %{c}%d %D %{B}%c '

how does it looks: http://vermaden.go.pl/gfx/shots/vermaden-2007.10.14.png if you also want the status: user: 1.5% | nice: 1.5% | system: 0.0% | interrupt: 0.0% | idle: 97.0% add this to ~/.screenrc:

# add CPU idle/sustem/user/interrupt stats
backtick 100 5 5 tail -1 /var/tmp/vermaden-stats-top
caption always '%{= wk} %= %100` %='

and use uniload.sh script to generate /var/tmp/vermaden-stats-top:


#! /bin/sh

STATS_FILE=/var/tmp/vermaden-stats-top

bsd_top_stats () {
  top -s 1 -d 2 0 
  | grep -m 1 CPU 
  | tr -d ','     
	| awk '{ print $4": "$3" | "$6": "$5" | "$8": "$7" | "$10": "$9" | "$12": "$11 }'
}

lin4_top_stats () {
  top -n 1      
  | grep -i cpu 
  | head -1     
  | sed s/,//g  
  | awk '{ print $4": "$3" | "$6": "$5" | "$8": "$7" | "$10": "$9 }'
}

lin6_top_stats () {
  top -n 1      
  | grep -i cpu 
  | head -1     
  | sed s/,//g  
  | awk '{ print $3": "$2" | "$5": "$4" | "$7": "$6" | "$9": "$8" | "$11": "$10" | "$13": "$12" | "$15": "$14 }'
}

case $( uname ) in
  FreeBSD) OS=bsd ;;
  Linux)   VERSION=$( uname -r | awk -F. '{ print $1"."$2 }' )
           case ${VERSION} in
             2.4) OS=lin4 ;;
             2.6) OS=lin6 ;;
               *) OS=lin4 ;;
           esac ;;
  *)       OS=bsd ;;
esac

while true; do
  for I in $( jot 128 ) ;do
    eval ${OS}_top_stats >> ${STATS_FILE} 2>&1
    sleep 4
  done
  sleep 1
  :> ${STATS_FILE}
done

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Qmail with smtp-auth, vpopmail, binc-imap and qmailAdmin

support@bsdguides.org — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 11:43:21 GMT

20071009: AFFECTS: users of mail/vpopmail AUTHOR: roam@FreeBSD.org The vpopmail port has been upgraded to version 5.4.20. There are several important changes that may affect your vpopmail installation and may need you to handle manually: - THE MYSQL CONNECTION INFORMATION IS NO LONGER DEFINED AT COMPILE-TIME! The WITH_MYSQL_{USER,PASSWD,SERVER,DB} variables should NOT be defined when you build the port; place that information in the vpopmail.mysql file after vpopmail has been installed! - the default domain is also no longer defined at compile time - you need to place it in the defaultdomain file after the installation. - the defaultdomain and vpopmail.mysql files are no longer blindly removed on deinstallation, they are only removed if they have not been modified - in vpopmail 5.4.18, the database schema was changed - some fields were extended from 64 to 96 characters. If you do not apply those changes to your database, as explained in the vpopmail/doc/UPGRADE file, your vpopmail installation may silently fail or lose the trailing portions of domain names and usernames. - in vpopmail 5.4.19, the upstream authors integrated large parts of Alex Dupre's SpamAssassin support, without the SPAM_THRESHOLD part. If you use vpopmail along with the SpamAssassin FreeBSD port support, take extra care to ensure that your installation still processes e-mail messages in the same way. - vpopmail 5.4.19 added support for maildrop as a mail delivery agent. This is available in the FreeBSD port if WITH_MAILDROP is defined. There is also a new user-limit flag for maildrop delivery. - vpopmail 5.4.19 added support for MySQL connections via Unix sockets instead of TCP sockets to the server. To do that, change the second value (the port number) in vpopmail.mysql to the full pathname of the MySQL socket (e.g. /tmp/mysql.sock). - vpopmail 5.4.20 extended the LDAP support; please see README.ldap for more information, and specify the LDAP connection information in the vpopmail/etc/vpopmail.ldap file after the installation.

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