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This Howto is for installing SVN on FreeBSD using FreeBSD’s ports. SVN is much like CVS and those who have used CVS will be familiar with some of the concepts. I use FreeBSD 6.2 in this guide and create the repositories using the filesytem (fsfs) backend. Mainly this is because I’ve seen errors with the [...]
I have separated the log files for all virtual hosts, now it’s time to install a log analyzer. I used to use offline software, but as the website growing, a faster and more convenient way is a online program.
1. Install Awstats from ports
# cd /usr/ports/www/awstats
# make install
It seems that “make install” only did a download.
Wordpress is among my preferred web log engines as it’s easily and backups a lot of plugins. Wordpress as well usable in multi-user style which way a individual Wordpress installation will cover many users with their own subdomain. These howto will show the steps taken to set up Wordpress wpmu on a server running FreeBSD.
Download [...]
Have you ever forgotten your MySQL root password? It’s one of those things that just happens despite the numerous precautions one might take. As a result, you are locked out of your database server. You can’t create new databases and are left with little control over the state of your database server. In such situations [...]
I think we all know what a terrible feeling it is to be locked out of our home or auto. It’s even worse when you have forgotten the root password to your unix box.
No need to worry. It can be recovered.
With FreeBSD 5.4 and above the booting procedure is slightly changed. Under ilder version of [...]
At work, we currently have deployed apps that run on JBoss under Windows 2003. No big deal really, apart from other services on the Windows servers tend to kill the entire box now and again - quite a pain in the backside. So I’m trying to convince them to move to a more stable OS, [...]
SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a widely used protocol for monitoring the health and welfare of network equipment (eg. routers), computer equipment and even devices like UPSs. Net-SNMP is a suite of applications used to implement SNMP v1, SNMP v2c and SNMP v3 using both IPv4 and IPv6.
Any system administrator knows just how much malicious traffic is on the internet. If you run a sshd facing the internet on the standard port 22 you no doubt have failed login attempts that are not you. Heres a good way to block them using pf. In this article i will be using FreeBSD 7.0. [...]
