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.
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.
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 pulling up a list of ports that are listening but […]
This artice shows how to extract all the certificates and key file from .pfx file using openssl and remove any password if required.
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 of certificate verification. This means that I have to map […]
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 the file, and then import it back in. This worked […]
This acticle will go through the install and configuration to use FreeBSD as your OpenVPN server and how to create the client config files.
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 of servers) then this can be done live without shutting […]
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 a hacker may be able to upload script or code […]
Wondering what SSL encryption and protocols a site is using. Cipherscan is free and work well. You can find it here: Cipherscan
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 […]