Testing FreeBSD 8-CURRENT

After reading What’s cooking for FreeBSD 8? I’ve decided to install it (better say upgrade a 7-STABLE version to 8-CURRENT) in order to make a few tests on a test box. Now I have FreeBSD 8 on a PIII machine to play with :)

FreeBSD phantom.localdomain 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Jun 20 12:45:09 EEST 2009     root@phantom.localdomain:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PROTOS  i386

Now I need to upgrade the old jails (in which a web server, a name server, an email server are running) in order to play with Jails V2’s new exciting features.

I plan on installing it on a Quad Core box later next week.

I’ll get back soon (I hope) with a review.

Wordpress 2.8

Finally I found some time to upgrade Wordpress to 2.8. Everything went smooth (as always). I’ve also upgraded all the out-of-date plugins and removed some of them which weren’t that useful.

Traffic graphs with mrtg in FreeBSD

A few days ago I was asked by a fiend to provide him a solution which would provide traffic graphs for two Ethernet interfaces on a router. Here’s how I did it:

cd /usr/ports/net-mgmt/mrtg
make install clean

After installing mrtg I have edited /usr/local/etc/mrtg to look like this
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Transparent proxy : squid + havp + clamav

A few months ago I posted a tutorial explaining how to make a transparent proxy using squid and pf. In the mean time (because of the need of minimising virus infections) I’ve made a few changes and added havp + clamav in the current configuration. The whole process was quite simple :

cd /usr/ports/www/havp
make install clean

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Wordpress update and facelift

After a (long) break, I finally found the time to update my wordpress and also change the default theme I was using before (not that there was anything wrong with it but I had a chat with an old fiend regarding web design and decided that it’s time for something as simple as possible).

I hope one of these days (depending on my free time, which I don’t have lately) I will post some new stuff.

The website is down

This is how tech support is done. Believe me, been there, done that (I admit, I’m not proud of it but …. ) :-)

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