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FreeBSD allows for the configuration of a splash screen to replace the text displayed while booting. Often an image is preferred over plain text. Adding a splash screen will not eliminate the text that would have been displayed while booting. This text is always available by running dmesg.
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This guide will outline the basic steps for building a home-office router for use with a cable modem or DSL line using FreeBSD and Packet Filter (PF). It will cover updating FreeBSD, building a new kernel, and installing and configuring a DHCP server and DNS server to support a small internal network.
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Basically I want to help you out with 2 areas in this article. The first is to get apache and php chrooted while working with a chrooted mysql. And the second, I hope you can figure out from this how to chroot your own processes.
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The FreeBSD ports tree is the most common method of installing software. With the latest 6.x releases of FreeBSD, the old method of keeping your ports tree updated is now considered obsolete. This guide will teach you how to install and maintain your ports tree using the built-in portsnap utility.
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Postgre is a very powerful SQL server that's known for it's reliability, scaleability, and ability to deliver. I felt it necessary to dig deeper in to the other SQL servers out there; PostgreSQL ended up impressing me the most.
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FreeBSD doesn't enable the sound by default. However it is simple to detect and enable your sound card.
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If you are a point-and-click kind of person and have to manage one or more MySQL servers, you may find this web-based utility to be a goldmine.
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There may be two main reasons as to why you would want a custom kernel on your system: 1) You want to add some functionality to your system such as audio support, or 2) you may want to remove some unused drivers to conserve memory.
Either way, making a custom kernel will help your machine to be a faster box rather than using the GENERIC kernel.
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Postfix is an attempt to provide an alternative to the widely-used Sendmail program. Postfix attempts to be fast, easy to administer, and (hopefully) secure, while at the same time being sendmail-compatible enough to not upset your users.
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There may be times you would want to run perl scripts as non-root users. This offers more security to your system and this guide will show you how to enable perl to use setuid.
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