http://www.freebsdguy.co.uk freebsd guides from freebsd users Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:11:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whenever you install a port, you might see this: ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found That's because ports have the ability to be automatically checked for vulnerabilities as they are built.  To enable this functionality, we need to install portaudit. Portaudit maintains a database of port vulnerabilities.  It can be used to ... http://www.freebsdguy.co.uk/2008/12/30/avoid-vulnerabilities-with-port-auditing/ CVSup - slow, painful, annoying (imho, prove me wrong!). For the last year or so I've exclusively used Portsnap.  From the handbook: Portsnap is a system for securely distributing the FreeBSD ports tree. Approximately once an hour, a “snapshot” of the ports tree is generated, repackaged, and cryptographically signed. The resulting files ... http://www.freebsdguy.co.uk/2008/10/16/rip-cvsup/ Sharing media over the network using iTunes media sharing is easy, but it's even better when you can set up FreeBSD as  your backend media library server.  We can achieve this by using mt-daapd and mDNSResponder. Start with my favorite 2 commands: portsnap fetch portsnap update Install daapd: cd /usr/ports/audio/mt-daapd/ make install clean cp /usr/local/etc/mt-daapd.conf.sample /usr/local/etc/mt-daapd.conf Edit /usr/local/etc/daapd.conf ... http://www.freebsdguy.co.uk/2008/04/07/sharing-media-via-itunes-daapd/ Last year I bought a Mac Mini with the intention of using it as the front end for a media centre solution. For my plan to work, I needed to share my media from the FreeBSD server to the Mac. Considering both of these operating systems are *nix based, I ... http://www.freebsdguy.co.uk/2008/03/22/share-files-with-os-x-using-nfs/ Last night a friend (on right) of mine tipped me off about an excellent X server for Windows. I got fed up using the cygwin so decided to try it out. Xming is a cool name too! Here is what you need to get: Root Access Xorg installed SSH Access to the FreeBSD machine ... http://www.freebsdguy.co.uk/2007/12/29/xming-server-bring-xorg-to-windows/ As I work in a large corporation who have all their satellite offices (like my own) connect to the Internet through a central structure, I decided I didn't want some IT nerd reading all my IM's. SSH wasn't good enough - I wanted a robust solution that didn't take ... http://www.freebsdguy.co.uk/2007/12/13/openfire-jabber-server-and-im-gateway/ Installing Java can be a pain in the ass. You have to download the files manually for licensing purposes :( cd /usr/ports/java/diablo-jdk15 make install clean You'll see the notes regarding downloading the files. Access the urls with a browser, accept the agreements and download the two files it wants. Note: you need ... http://www.freebsdguy.co.uk/2007/12/13/java-jdk-15/ RTIR is an incident response module for RT, so clearly we had to take a little peek at the goods. This is really meant for incident responmse / network operations teams. RTIR is built on RT, but provides different functionality. Read here for more information regarding the usefulness of ... http://www.freebsdguy.co.uk/2007/12/12/rtir-request-tracker-incident-response/ A friend of mine is installing RT for use in the company he works for. I thought I'd give it a spin to see what the fuss was about. Here's what happened! This was based on http://wiki.bestpractical.com/index.cgi?InstallationGuides and the README distributed with RT. What we need: root Perl MySQL (Although you can use ... http://www.freebsdguy.co.uk/2007/12/12/rt-request-tracker/ As a precursor to researching Apache replacements for work, I decided to look at lighttpd at home. I already have php5 installed (incluing fast-cgi support). Here is how I installed lighttpd in my setup. These steps were carried out as root. cd /usr/ports/www/lighttpd make install clean I had to make ... http://www.freebsdguy.co.uk/2007/10/21/replacing-apache-with-lighttpd/