Port or Package Installation Date
There are a number of times that I need to find out when a port or package was last upgraded or installed. This comes in very handy every time I need to upgrade all my ports and I can’t remember […]
Installing Pear on OS X (Maverick)
PEAR is a poplular PHP package manager, it doesn’t come by default on OSX, how to install PEAR on OSX 10.9 Mavericks and earlier versions of OSX.
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 very fast and will give you the same features available […]
Upgrading Perl from the Ports Collection
Upgrading perl has always been a difficult task. As with other large projects or software packages, it can have a large number of modules or libraries installed that you are using. All these modules have to be re-installed again after […]
Creating a FreeBSD install DVD
FreeBSD distributions usually have 2 CDs. I wanted to have both CDs combined into one DVD. There are several good reasons to do this. Convenience: It is easier for me to keep track of 1 DVD. Speed: I get at the […]
Installing Clamav Milter in Sendmail
ClamAV is a very good open source virus detector. It can detect virus’ from the command line but the best part of it is that you can plug it into Sendmail or most other MTA’s and use it to check […]
CDBakeOven on FreeBSD
CDBakeOver is a CD/DVD burning tool that will work under KDE and FreeBSD. It is quite good and works similar to Nero. FreeBSD’s security by default will not allow CDBakeOver to work under a regular user account. The user has to […]