Articles about freebsd

1. Updating to FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE

   Updating my desktop to 8.1-RELEASE from 8.0 was pretty straightforward. I used the following steps

   • Made a …

2. Enlarging networking buffers

   In the hope of increasing networking performance, I’ve set the following sysctls in /etc/sysctl.conf;

   # Increase send/receive …

3. Defining command completions for tcsh

   The default interactive shell is tcsh. Recently I discovered that this shell also has the ability to complete your command-line …

4. Creating a virtual server on FreeBSD with a jail

   After Virtualbox crashed my machine, I decided to try my hand at building a virtual server using FreeBSD’s jail …

5. Using the rc scripts to start a virtual server in a jail

   In the previous item, we saw how to build, start and stop a jail. The rc scripts allow us to …

6. Breaking and repairing Xorg

   By accident I managed to break X11. The symptoms were that Xorg could not open new programs, and after restarting …