Ruminations and Random Contrived Thoughts ….
How many times have you ssh into your server, only to have your connection interrupted and your terminal session abruptly closed? This can be problematic especially if processes are running in the background or you are compiling large programs with many dependencies. The solution – use tmux, the terminal multiplexer. Continue reading “Tmux – the Terminalator”
Panic mail is a great utility to capture kernel panics and report them to the FreeBSD developer community. Although I rarely receive a kernel panic running standard release installations of FreeBSD, it is installed on all my production servers. We owe many thanks to Colin Percival for this utility. Continue reading “Panic Mail”
Just the other day, the following message appeared on my FreeBSD 10 virtual machine when first booted up:
root@bsd:~ # sMay 5 07:47:24 bsd ntpd[743]: time correction of 18001 seconds exceeds sanity limit (1000); set clock manually to the correct UTC time. Continue reading “Manually adjust date and time in FreeBSD”
Ever installed a port from the ports collection only to find out it pulled-in an unwanted version of a dependency?
Make.conf is used to provide flexibility in the process of compiling sources, documentation and applications. It provides the user a means to override the default values or variables. Continue reading “My make.conf”
Ever found yourself making mistakes/changes in rc.conf or other configuration files then only to find the server boots up and the file system is read-only with the following message: Continue reading “I rebooted and now the file system is read-only, now what?”
Just as in Shakespeare’s Hamlet, “To be or not to be, that is the question – Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer“, do you suffer whether or not to include src, docs, and ports when performing a fresh install of FreeBSD 10? Continue reading “To src or not to src, docs and ports are the question!”
