Ports help

Ports Tricks by Dru Lavigne -- One of FreeBSD's biggest benefits is its ports collection. You can go years without learning more than just make install clean, but there are dozens of features built into the ports tools. Dru Lavigne demonstrates several of these tricks to simplify your life.

BSDForums

bsdforums.org - FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MacOS X, Darwin, Linux, Unix forums, message boards, discussions and news.


Cool looking discussion site for all forms of BSDen.

syslog info

Yes, I'm reading the FreeBSD Questions mailing list again. It is amazing how much good info you can get from there, even if the traffic is heavy:

lists.freebsd.org Mailing Lists

This time, it lead me to a cool command:

FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages: newsyslog

This command has a config file that lists all the log files that syslogd creates. You can control how often the log files are rotated. One neat thing is just seeing all the various log files listed. You can also find more syslog info in the man entry for syslog.conf.

Drive testing utility

Hitachi Downloads - Some free utilities from Hitachi. Most important is their Drive Fitness Test. You download an installer (either Windows or Linux) that creates a bootable floppy. You boot this floppy and run the test. Looks quite useful.

What is the 'toor' account

A short answer in the BSD FAQ to the question about that weird user in your passwd file called 'toor':

Security

Updates - or lack thereof

Sorry about the lack of updates. I've been busy in the real world, and my FreeBSD server has been running all too smoothly, so I haven't really had to pay all that much attention to it:-) I went away for a week and got 5000+ messages from the FreeBSD Questions mailing list, so I did the only prudent thing - I deleted them all!

Live CD site

A simple site that does one thing really well - provide a copy of the "Live" (ie., bootable and runnable FreeBSD) CD:

FreeSBIE - Free System Burned In Economy