FYI, new install of FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 with docs, src, ports,, (basic standard full install) ended up using 2.5g HD space. The new installer defaults entire drive to / slice, in fact the entire installer is quite different that previous versions, much easier it seems. portsnap fetch portsnap extract portsnap upgrade (after that just 'portsnap fetch update' to get latest ports) whereis portupgrade cd /usr/ports make quicksearch name=portupgrade cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade; mak...

Nice how2 on the /etc/network/interfaces http:www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-an-network-interfaces-file/ Start the GUI network administration/configuration tool by typing redhat-config-network (Red Hat 9 and Enterprise 3.0) or system-config-network (Fedora) at a shell prompt. Make sure your network interface (typically eth0) is highlighted and click the Edit icon. Select the Automatically obtain IP address settings with dhcp radio button. Check the Automatically obtain DNS information from pr...

Overview of the nfs server options I choose See man exportfs and http:www.troubleshooters.com/linux/nfs.htm for NFS server option details. Also CentOS docs are great for NFS client/serve details http:www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-nfs.html secure server must be started by root because it will use ports lower than 1024 rw enable read and write sync data must be fully synced to disk, this prevents corruption if a server crashes no_wdelay I use this because my nfs re...

<p>This document describes a small portion of iptables and how to setup a basic firewall using iptables. There are many huge books on iptables so I cannot go into any sort of detail here. If you want to create a more advanced firewall, then I suggest installing shorewall and reading the documentation <a class="urlLink" href="http://www.shorewall.net/Introduction.html" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank'); return false;">http://www.shorewall.net/Introduction.html</a> about setting it up. I generally use shorewall on my systems and configure them using <a class="urlLink" href="http://www.webmin.com/" onclick="window.open(this.href, '_blank'); return false;">http://www.webmin.com/</a>.</p>

See LXF 114 p48, 'Banish Your Daemons' Runlevels are defined levels in which a linux operating system can start. Daemons (or services) are scripts/programs that run in the background constantly (like apache or mysql are services that are always running) and are usually executed at startup by the defined runlevel. Runlevels are identified by a number from 0 - 6, but each linux distribution may use those numbers a bit differently. Basically a runlevel determines which daemons to execute at startu...