How to use FreeBSD Questions

Greg 'Groggy' Lehey's excellent FAQ for the FreeBSD Questions list. He's the author of the excellent FreeBSD Handbook book.


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Terse sysctl.conf doc

A terse text document that gives a quick overview of many (most? all?) the variables that can be set in /etc/sysctl.conf :


sysctl descriptions



You can find more docs on sysctl, although not much more, in the man pages:

FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages: sysctl

Another blog and "Content Management"

Another man's weblog, mostly about Linux with a smattering of tech notes and other personal things. A cool example of blogging, using this same Movable Type system we use here:

Mark's Weblog

In addition, he mentiones both Zope and a CMF (Content Management Framework) that sits on top it it called Plone, both of which are, of course, available in ports (see www/zope and www/plone). I'm not exactly sure where something like Movable Type ends and a CMF like Zope/Plone begins, but it is something I've been meaning to investigate further.

Port description for www/zope


Port description for www/plone

apachetop - realtime apache stats

I was just browsing the sysutils ports:

FreeBSD Ports: Sysutils


and I read about apachetop, which purports to show a real-time (a la top) display of the current apache session; something I've been thinking I needed. So I'm going to give it a try.

Port description for sysutils/apachetop

webmin

A port to admin Unix (and, of course, FreeBSD) systems via the web. I'm going to give this a try, as I do not run any graphical interface on my FreeBSD box. I do everything via the command line; the shell in emacs to be exact. This might be a nice thing to admin the system from my other interior system, via a local web connection.

Port description for sysutils/webmin

dig - find DNS info

Cool little command line tool I just found out about:

FreeBSD Hypertext Man Pages: dig

You can get all kinds of neat info about a domain names (dig stands for Domain Information Groper) and DNS servers. Ask them about your domain name, get info on mx records, etc.

phpbb - forum software

phpbb is a PHP-based bulletin board system. I"m thinking of installing something like this on my system, just to try it out.

Port description for www/phpbb

phpBB.com :: Creating Communities