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.
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Operating Systems
Apache/PHP on OS X 10.9
I have a MAC Book pro and wanted to setup a web development environment. This requires Apache, PHP, and MySQL. Doing a quick search on the net revealed a few
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DHCP and resolv.conf
DHCP on FreeBSD updates your DNS information in /etc/resolv.conf. This works great for workstation and other systems that only have one interface but what about systems that are connected to
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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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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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FreeBSD as an iSCSI SAN
ISCSI SAN’s are on the rise and a number of data centers are installing them. The cost for a good iSCSI SAN is not expensive in comparison to a fiber
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