Good FreeBSD book on sale

An excellent FreeBSD book is on sale at the great online tech book merchant, BookPool. In fact, their entire line of O'Reilly books are 43% off!

In this particular case, it is Greg Lehey's Complete FreeBSD, 4th edition, which is a great book on installing and using FreeBSD, for both the beginner and the expert. Obligatory connection note - I'm actually mentioned as a reviewer of the manuscript and I made lots of comments on it, and thus I got my copy for free. But I really really liked the 3rd edition alot, which is why I volunteered to help out on the 4th. For a mere US$25, this is a great buy.

Bookpool: Complete FreeBSD, The

MySQL notes

Some notes for MySQL on FreeBSD. I'm going to have to upgrade from my 3.x to the 4.x Real Soon Now, as I'd really love to have the better searching that 4.x has.

MySQL Manual | 2.12.4.1 FreeBSD Notes

Get out of Jail free

Jail is something I probably should look into a little more, especially because I do have some outside users who access my server. It creates a nicely segregated "machine" that keeps folks really really away from your important, secure places. Here's a nice description of how to use it.

JMC Research - Juan M. Casillas Web Site

Long time

Long time no "see", eh? I've been real busy and my server has been real nice, so there hasn't been much to talk about. But now, that isn't true, sigh. Some how, my server got turned off (darn front buttons!) and when I turned it back and and rebooted, all hell broke loose.


The main thing was that apache wouldn't load. There was some kind of complaint about php not loading because of a missing library. I eventually got php working, so apache could load, but now I don't seem to have MySQL support.

Reading /usr/ports/UPGRADING, I see I need to make the extensions seperately. I think I may also have messed things up by installing PHP5, when I had PHP4 installed before. So now I'm trying to get PHP5-extensions installed. And it let me pick MCVE support (whatever that is), even though the port is marked as broken for PHP5. One step at a time, I guess.