In FreeBSD, sshd by default gets started quite late in the boot process, about the same time a console will show the login prompt. There’s quite a few services that can make trouble and hang before that. Annoyingly, you can’t fix a stuck system via ssh, since it’s not started yet. But as it turns [...]
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I like bash, mostly for its interactive features over FreeBSD’s standard Bourne-compatible shell, ash. Setting bash as the default shell for the root user however has a big downside: if you ever break bash or any of the libraries it depends on, you can’t log in as root anymore to fix it. I’ve tried quite [...]
For the longest time, I couldn’t get CUPS configured on my FreeBSD server successfully. Between CUPS access rules, foomatic drivers and avahi announcements, I had terrible trouble making heads or tails of the nondescript error messages I was getting. Spurned on by the arrival of an iPad, I finally sat down and worked through configuring [...]
Getting started with IPv6 on FreeBSD with Hurricane Electric’s free Tunnelbroker service is really straightforward. Since I’m behind a residential ADSL connection, my IPv4 address changes every 24 hours, so whenever that happens, the Tunnelbroker needs to learn my new address. We’ve put up a quick how-to on the wiki on how to do that.
How to fix a ppp problem when trying to establish a connection via a Huawei E169 UMTS USB stick.
I have to admit that I didn’t follow developments too closely for the last couple of years, but I was rather surprised today to find that Safari 4, Firefox 3.5 and Internet Explorer 6 to 8 support downloadable TrueType fonts in a compatible and useful manner. Slashdot post, linked Slate article, nice overview page. A [...]
