http://www.freebsdindia.com FreeBSD Community India Sat, 10 Jan 2009 07:35:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just found this wonderful site for UNIX including FreeBSD, www.unix.org.in It is a usenet archive of all unix and freebsd related posts, you can find answers to almost all your question in it, so check it out http://www.freebsdindia.com/2009/01/10/unix-usenet-archives/ We would like to thanks to Sh3lls.net for providing us with free web hosting and shell accounts for hosting our site and doing tests. Sh3lls.net provides rock solid hosting, whether it's web hosting or freebsd based irc shell account or shoutcast hosting or ssh tunnel hosting or vpn hosting, they are ... http://www.freebsdindia.com/2008/12/31/recommended-freebsd-based-irc-shell-account-hosting-company/ 1) Use ifconfig command as follows: ifconfig interface inet IP Example(s): ifconfig fxp0 inet 192.168.1.5 Note fxp0 is Ethernet interface name can be Obtained using ifconfig -a command. 2) To setup up ip permanently open file /etc/rc.conf ; add/modify network entries: vi /etc/rc.conf And setup values as follows: hostname=”box1.freebsd.org.in” ifconfig_fxp0=”inet 192.168.1.6 netmask 255.255.255.0″ Note ifconfig_fxp0 is Ethernet interface name can ... http://www.freebsdindia.com/2007/06/12/how-to-change-ip-address-or-setup-new-ip-address-to-existing-nic-in-freebsd/ FreeBSD allows you creat alias or assign multiple ip address to single NIC (network interface card) My setup: fxp0 - IP : 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 fxp0 alias - IP : 192.168.1.5/255.255.255.255 Note: Netmask must be diffrent otherwise you will get an error ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists A) From command line use ifconfig command as follows: # ifconfig ... http://www.freebsdindia.com/2007/06/12/how-to-add-multiple-ip-to-a-single-nic-in-freebsd/ We have now launched FreeBSD India Forum. You can visit our forums at http://forums.freebsdindia.com Please register yourself in forums and do post in it. http://www.freebsdindia.com/2007/06/10/freebsd-india-forums-launched/ Setting up proxy on a FreeBSD server is very easy and helps to create a secure environment for your network, and also allows your whole network to access internet using a single internet connection. Privoxy is a good proxy server. It's very easy to use and worked well. Installation # cd /usr/ports/www/privoxy # make ... http://www.freebsdindia.com/2007/06/09/installing-a-proxy-server-on-freebsd-privoxy/ 1) Install "mpd" from ports: cd /usr/ports/net/mpd make install 2) Once it's done edit the sample configuration file in /usr/local/etc/mpd: cd /usr/local/etc/mpd vi (or your favourite editor) mpd.conf 3) Add this to your mpd.conf: default: load pptp1 pptp1: new -i ng0 pptp1 pptp1 set iface disable on-demand set iface enable proxy-arp set iface idle 0 set iface enable tcpmssfix set bundle ... http://www.freebsdindia.com/2007/05/31/setting-up-vpn-on-freebsd-using-mpd/ When trying to serve a directory mounted with mount_smbfs on FreeBSD with the Apache 2.0.x server, large files (over 100K or so) won’t transfer correctly. To fix this problem use the EnableSendfile off directive within your Global, Directory or VirtualHost config. http://www.freebsdindia.com/2007/05/30/errors-with-mounting-directory-using-smbfs-in-freebsd-with-apache/ To install portupgrade : # cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade/ # make install distclean Backup your package database before you start! # cd /var/db # tar cvfz var.db.pkg.tgz pkg Fix Duplicate package or dependency: # /usr/local/sbin/pkgdb -F Updating All Ports: # # /usr/local/sbin/portupgrade -ra http://www.freebsdindia.com/2007/05/30/using-portupgrade-in-freebsd/ The ports are mounted with mount_nullfs. M=”/sbin/mount_nullfs -o rdonly /jailsata/PORTS/ports ” $M /afs1/JAIL/Somejail1/usr/ports In all jails there is a /etc/make.conf with in it # jail WRKDIRPREFIX = /var/tmp PORTS_INDEX = /var/tmp/INDEX DISTDIR ... http://www.freebsdindia.com/2007/05/30/using-portupgrade-inside-jails-with-readonly-ports-mounted/