FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 – yes, I know this is late This article was originally finished on about Oct 18, but I never published it (for no particular reason). Although 6.0 has now been released, I thought I’d publish it now, just in case it helps. The original article follows. FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 came out on Oct 11. …
Cross compiling on AMD64 – the teaser Cross compiling is the act of compiling for one platform (e.g. i386) when on another (e.g. AMD 64). Why is this interesting to me? I have an AMD 64 3000+ with 1GB of RAM running on an ASUS A8V Deluxe1. It’s acting as my gateway right now. Needless …
Your Makefile has been rebuilt. Yes, I’ve been butt-ass stupid. But at least you get to hear about it. I don’t worry about admitting my mistakes. I’ve been trying to track down the cause of a build world problem for a couple of days. I’ve been suspecting hardware errors, -stable errors, etc. I have swapped …
Build world on your fast box, install on your slow box The build world process is used to upgrade FreeBSD from one version to another (e.g. 4.2-RELEASE to 4.2-STABLE). This process involves downloading source code, compiling it, installing it, and resolving any configuration file issues, although not necessarily in that order. The best place to …
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FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users This problem has now been fixed. Skip to the last section of this article. I found out the hard way that FreeBSD 4.0-stable is not working for international users. Now that’s an overstatement, but the problem has added 48 hours to the time it will take me …
FreeBSD 4.0-stable crypto is fuggered for international users This problem has now been fixed. Skip to the last section of this article. I found out the hard way that FreeBSD 4.0-stable is not working for international users. Now that’s an overstatement, but the problem has added 48 hours to the time it will take me …
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Tranferring websites/users from one box to another When I was setting up my new web server, I had to copy the files from one box to another. But if you just do a tarball and ftp, you won’t get what you expect. Specifically, the permissions may be fuggered. So here’s what I did to …
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unwanted email from tcpd tcpd was emailing me each time it detected something. That’s not what I want. The problem I had recently upgraded my system to 3.3-stable. It was then that I started getting emails like this: Date sent: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 17:18:36 +1300 (NZDT) From: Charlie Root <root> To: root Subject: …
proftpd and FreeBSD This article describes how I got proftpd to work with FreeBSD 3-3 STABLE. Background I recently upgraded a box from 3.3-RELEASE to 3.3-STABLE. In the process, I encountered problems with proftpd. Specifically, anonymous login worked, but regular users could not log in. The error message was: Dec 6 23:00:15 synergy proftpd[346]: …
Upgrading to 3.3-STABLE I have a 3.3-RELEASE box which is destined to become an http/ftp server for a client (see Installing an ftp server). That should go active next week. But first I want to upgrade this box to 3.3-STABLE. This is how I did it. Note that I am doing a binary upgrade. You …