Randi Harper has a new little guide to getting Flash working under FreeBSD. You should definitely check it out here. Flash is one of those things that is just a pain to get working sometimes so help like this is much appreciated.
Jul
23
Thought that my squid proxy might be out of date so I did the usual portsnap and noticed there was squid30. It’s not done, but I compiled it anyway to see what’s up.
First impression - all the same as before, except now I’m getting an odd ‘Invalid URL’ error whenever I try to browse. Seems like it’s cutting the domain name off the beginning of the URL it’s trying to fetch.
So eh, I’m confused. I did notice that http_port needs the ‘transparent’ option on that line, it’s there and still no luck. But it work when I set the proxy address manually in the browsers! That’s a start!
After messing about some more, going away, coming back, recompiling a couple of times, it was figured out.
It turns out, if you want to use Squid3 and PF transparently, you have to also compile in support for IPFW transparent proxying (something to do with getsocketname() retuning the original destination).
May
24
Fancy increasing your ssh security? Worried people could login remotely as you if they steal your password? Want to remove the need to type a password at all?
Well, you’re in luck because you have the option of using public and private keys! What you do to generate these keys really depends on which operating system your client is running. I’ll approach this from my usual connection setup, from Windows XP to FreeBSD using Putty.
Apr
26
FreeBSD Update actually rocks hard for binary patching your system. Easy to use with 1 command line, and also comes as part of the 6.x branch if I’m not mistaken!
james@clarkee.co.uk /usr/home/james# freebsd-update fetch install
Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors… 1 mirrors found.
Fetching metadata signature from update1.FreeBSD.org… done.
Fetching metadata index… done.
Inspecting system… done.
Preparing to download files… done.The following files are affected by updates, but no changes have
been downloaded because the files have been modified locally:
/etc/rc.d/jailNo updates needed to update system to 6.2-RELEASE-p3.
No updates are available to install.
Apr
26
I installed freebsd on a laptop last night (Dell Latitude D600 if you care) and went about configuring some desktop software.
The only thing I was shocked to learn was that flash still doesn’t work reliably. After reading Randi’s post (freebsdgirl.com) and several others, I still wasn’t getting anywhere. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr
25
OnLAMP Postfix Guide is probably the best guide i’ve found for setting up postfix on freebsd. The Onlamp site is pretty handy for lots of basic, need to know guides on freebsd and *nix platforms. Check it out if you haven’t already.