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uplcom, ucom and itegno on FreeBSD 7

04.29.2008 · Posted in Unix

New Itegno 3000 has arrived, plug it in my Windows XP working well. I wanna try in FreeBSD 7 server. Here’s the steps : 1. Detection Modem Activate uplcom monitor# kldload uplcom See detected modul in kernel: monitor# kldstat Id Refs Address    Size     Name  1   13 0xc0400000 9118d4   kernel  2 ...

Install FreeBSD 6.3 stable and 8.0 current inside FreeBSD 7 Stable

04.27.2008 · Posted in Unix

Time is up, I must set a server for my staff for their learning needs, they want root account. Not sudo After seeing more in internet I came across to jail solution. See in internet for more practical examples and put them in a list here. Due to limited hardware I install new machine with ...

Custom Printing in MS Excel 2007

04.26.2008 · Posted in Software

My bad, I always ask my staff about custom printing in Ms Excel 2007. I make this post  for case when I forgot I can refer to this post 1. Click Page Layout Tab 2. Click Size 3. Click On ‘ More Paper Size‘ 4. Finally, I got ‘Adjust to’. I need it to shrink ...

101 FreeBSD jails

04.25.2008 · Posted in Unix

I just love ‘jail’ in FreeBSD, so many possibilty I can achieve with jails. I try to collect some links that I think useful : 1. Creating and Managing A Jailed Virtual Host in FreeBSD 2. djbDNS using FreeBSD jails 3. Jails and EZJail 4. Creating a FreeBSD Jail 5. Jailing MySQL and PostgreSQL on ...

Updating My 6.3 release box

04.21.2008 · Posted in Unix

Use src for many times make me get surprised when using freebsd-update for fix is very easy. Simple though. mail# freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors… 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org… done. Fetching metadata index… done. Fetching 2 metadata patches.. done. Applying metadata patches… done. Inspecting system… done. Preparing to ...

OpenSSH X11-forwarding privilege escalation

04.20.2008 · Posted in Unix

Just update the box with this issue : FreeBSD-SA-08:05.openssh Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: OpenSSH X11-forwarding privilege escalation Category: contrib Module: openssh Announced: 2008-04-17 Credits: Timo Juhani Lindfors Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD Corrected: 2008-04-16 23:58:33 UTC (RELENG_7, 7.0-STABLE) 2008-04-16 23:58:52 UTC (RELENG_7_0, 7.0-RELEASE-p1) 2008-04-16 23:59:35 UTC (RELENG_6, 6.3-STABLE) 2008-04-16 23:59:48 UTC (RELENG_6_3, ...

LinuxSuse, count me in …

04.19.2008 · Posted in Linux

With recent version of linux suse 11 I got surprised to see big enhancement after my friend show me two books about OpenSuse. 1. openSUSE Linux Unleashed Review from amazon : [amazonify]067232945X:right[/amazonify]openSUSE Linux Unleashed presents comprehensive coverage of the community version of SUSE Linux, one of the most popular and most complete Linux distributions in ...

The Best of FreeBSD Basics

04.16.2008 · Posted in Unix

[amazonify]0979034221:right[/amazonify] Simple still simple, hide complex  things within  sleek  procedure is great  Thats main reason why I use FreeBSD, as review in Amazon : For over seven years, computer networking and security instructor and consultant, Dru Lavigne, meticulously documented her learning experiences with FreeBSD administration and open source software usage in a series of over ...

Downgrade FreeBSD ports

04.15.2008 · Posted in Unix

I used to use FreeBSD ports in all related server job. I don’t remember what ports that might behave strangely in my  mail server until I remember last portupgrade job. I upgrade dovecot to latest version. I think if I downgrade dovecot ports I’ll get my stable mail server back Here’s my steps to downgrade ...

Reset Cacti Password, step by step

04.13.2008 · Posted in Linux, PHP, Unix

My other staff  ask me password for username admin. Yes, its administrator level in cacti. After hardy trying to remember I gave up, I decide to reset it to other value but how? I try to find out using database approach : Here’s my steps : 1. Checking for cacti location and see db setting. ...

Problem with file(1) and maia mailguard solved

04.09.2008 · Posted in Unix

I just install new FreeBSD server using 7.0 release. In this stage I found file(1) problem not detected by maia mailguard properly. mail# /var/amavisd/maia/scripts/configtest.pl Application/Module      Version   Status ======================================================================== Perl                 :    5.8.8 : OK file(1)              :      N/A : NOT INSTALLED (required by Maia Mailguard) Archive::Tar         :     1.38 : OK Archive::Zip         :     1.23 : OK Trying to ...