I've been wanting to get a little deeper with Jails so I can learn the Jails system better - nothing wrong with Warden, but to learn more I need to "bypass the GUI". I went ahead and installed vanilla FreeBSD 9.2 and this is what it took to get the …

Hi all,

Today I'm moving things forward a bit.

I love VirtualBox and as it's evident by my old posts I've been using it almost exclusively for all testing, but I got tired of the slow performance of guests.

I tried firing up the VT extensions but I realized my …

Hi all,

So those are my quick notes on setting up NFS on FreeBSD 9.1.

This is based on the handbook and partly on the FreeBSD Diary.

Server Side

On the server side, add the following inside /etc/rc.conf:

rpcbind_enable="YES"
nfs_server_enable="YES"
mountd_enable="YES"
mountd_flags="-r"

Now …

In my previous post, I went through a basic Nagios installation on FreeBSD 9.1, but didn't go into adding new hosts.

We'll look into this here.

This tutorial assumes you configured Nagios from ports as in my previous post.

1. Modify the Nagios configuration (slightly!)

Let's first create a …

Nagios should need no introduction :) It's the most common open source solution for monitoring servers and other hosts.

I'll describe here the steps I took to install Nagios.

Disclaimer- This post heavily relied on 'How to install and configure Nagios in FreeBSD' by unixmen.com. I found some steps to …

WordPress needs no introduction.

It's simply the most popular blogging software at the moment.

Here's how I got it installed on FreeBSD 9.1

Requirements:

• FreeBSD ports
• Some understanding of MySQL (create a database and a user, although it's also outlined here)

Brief outline of the procedure: 1. Install packages …

I've been wanting to try out Cassandra for a while now, ever since I heard how easy replication is. Let's start with the basics:

• Cassandra is a part of Apache Hadoop

• Cassandra is a NoSQL database

• Cassandra needs Java

• Cassandra has two ways to manipulate data - The thrift language and …

Hi all,

Kinda torn between Jruby and Groovy, so I figured I'll write down the steps I took to get Jruby working on FreeBSD 9.1.

Prerequisites:

• OpenJDK 7 installed (follow steps 1-4)

1. Make sure bash is installed - it looks like Jruby needs it even if you don't actually …

Just decided I wanted to get into programming with Groovy again so I took a look to find out how hard would it be to install this on FreeBSD 9.1. Did a little research online and as it turns out, not too hard :)

First you'll need Java installed - there …

Hi all,

Following my 2 last posts on SSH and using Cygwin with Console2 for a much superior terminal experience the next logical step is key-based authentication.

There are 2 ways to authenticate over SSH - passwords (that you type) and key-based authentication. For the second method to work you generate …