Updating your Pi.
There is a lot of development going on in the Linux and Raspberry Pi world. Bug can run into bug and other issues if you do not periodically check for […]
Samba Errors and ZFS
I have been working on cleaning up a lot of errors that I am seeing on my samba install. It appears that ZFS needs all the extended ACL support installed
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FreeBSD ZFS mirror/raidz
This how-to documents how to setup ZFS and install FreeBSD 9.1 into it. ZFS is a great modern file system (invented by SUN Microsystems) to use under FreeBSD. It is
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ICMP Limits in FreeBSD
FreeBSD limits ICMP and UDP packets that come in on an interface in order to avoid a number of DoS attacks. The Default limits are good for 100Mb/s links but
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Working with the Postfix Queue
Postfix has a great array of tools to check and manipulate the mail queues. The postfix queues can get email stuck or backed up in them. This can happen for
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Encrypted Backup and Restore
I currently backup my FreeBSD servers using tar. Tar works very well for backups but does not have encryption capabilities built into the client. I now have a need to make sure that
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Configure VLAN’s in Trixbox
My network in my house has a few VLAN’s to help devide the traffic up into logical segments. I have a Voice VLAN that is used for VoIP so I
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Change sshd port in Trixbox
Recently there has been a number of attacks against the ssh port (TCP port 22). My version of ssh is currently patched up but it is still a pain to
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Multiple Extensions with a Common Mailbox
Create all the extensions on the trixbox as your normally would and create mailboxes for each of them. It doesn’t care what you set for each mailbox as we will
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Screen Status Line
Screen is a great program for running multiple virtual terminals from the command line. It also gives you the ability to start a process, disconnect, and then come back to it
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