Install 2nd Drive in FreeBSD
This article will document the procedure to setup a second UFS filesystem on a second drive and have it added into your FreeBSD server. Installing a second drive into FreeBSD […]
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Resize a FreeBSD UFS Boot Drive
Resizing the boot drive on a FreeBSD server can seem a little daunting since that if the drive that FreeBSD is running on. This post will show that it is
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ZFS Bare Metal Restore
This article documents the procedure to do a full bare metal restore of a FreeBSD ZFS system that has been backed up with ZFS send.
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Using sockstat to look at open ports in FreeBSD
If you need to know what ports are open and listening on your FreeBSD servers, you can use a few commands. Netstat -An used to me my goto command for
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Convert Certificates from PFX to PEM
This artice shows how to extract all the certificates and key file from .pfx file using openssl and remove any password if required.
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Let’s Encrypt Certificate – Synology NAS Howto
I own a Synology NAS and it now supports the free certificates from Let’s Encrypt. The only problem with Synology’s implimentation is that they only allow the web (HTTP-01) method
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MySQL: Search and Replace
There are a number of times when I have had to change one string to another in a MySQL table. In the past I would do a MySQL dump, edit
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Setup OpenVPN on FreeBSD 12.1
This acticle will go through the install and configuration to use FreeBSD as your OpenVPN server and how to create the client config files.
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Adding a Second Drive
This article documents how to add a second drive to your FreeBSD system and format it as UFS. If you have a system that allows hot-plugging (like the Dell line
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Stop PHP files from executing.
If you are a maintainer of a websiter or CMS, don’t always trust the built in security. If the user can upload images or stories to the web site then
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